Myth: Eating ice cream will make your cold worse.
Reality: If you’re home sick with a cold, you can totally go ahead and comfort yourself with some ice cream. frozen dairy…
Myth: Eating food within 5 seconds of dropping it on the floor is safe.
Reality: Myth busting tests show that moist foods attract more bacteria than dry foods, but there’s no “safe duration.” Instead, safety…
Myth: Organic food is pesticide-free and more nutritious.
Reality: Farmers who grow organic produce are permitted to use chemicals that are naturally derived — and in some cases are actually…
Myth: Eating chocolate gives you acne.
Reality: For one month, scientists fed dozens of people candy bars containing 10 times the usual amount of chocolate, and dozens of…
Myth: Milk does a body good!
Reality: Some studies have even shown an association with higher overall mortality, and while that doesn’t mean that milk consumption itself…
Myth: Common belief in the Middle Ages was the Earth was flat, but it’s really a perfect sphere
Reality: Surprise! Both parts of this myth are false. Scholars have known the Earth is round for thousands of years.…
Myth: Ostriches bury their head in the sands.
Reality: The birds would die of suffocation if they actually stuck their heads underground when scared. Instead, they actually lie with their head and neck…
Myth: Goldfish have three-second memories.
Reality: Fish are smarter than you thought. One study found the freshwater fish African Cichlids could remember the feeding zone of…
Myth: Earth is the only planet with water
Reality: H2O isn’t unique to Earth. Dark streaks that change on Mars suggest there isn’t just ice on the Red Planet—liquid salt-water likely…