5 FACTS YOU ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT ARE FALSE

  Growing up, and some way or another there are several facts we must have heard or come across which we all believed to be true. Going deeper into research, it has been found that those facts are in fact false. Here is a list of five facts you always believed which happens to be false.

•   CHAMELEONS CAMO

We must have heard these famous facts and maybe even passed on the news, but contrary to what most people think, Chameleons do not change their colors to suit the environment which they are found. Instead, the color change is as a result of the chameleon’s body temperature or its mood or the angle at which it is hit by light. So, the chameleon did not turn bright yellow to suit the color of the flowers on the tree, rather bright yellow is a color used to signify its anger. Maybe you saw it turn 5 colors within a short time, then it’s probably because it wants to mate so it decides to change into various color to attract its mate.

•   ALBERT EINSTEIN FAILED MATH

I know we have heard this so many things and even used it as consolation to ourselves for failing math. After all ‘Albert Einstein’ failed math’, right? Wrong. According to his biography, Albert received high math grades in class although his teacher saw him as not so remarkable. But, he was actually an okay math student and not totally dumb in math to the extent of failing out. You can read his biography here, so next time you hear that you can prove how false it is.

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•   THERE ARE FIVE SENSES OF THE HUMAN BODY

No, there are not five senses. Someone somewhere probably summarized the senses and made them five. But asides the usual feel, sight, hear, taste and smell, there are about 15 other senses in the human body including the sense of balance. Check out the rest senses here.

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•   SHAVING YOUR HAIR AT FIRST IS NO GOOD

We may have at one point or another experienced the fear of our first shave of hair on any part of the body as we have heard countless times that after you shave for the first time, the hairs only come back thicker. You can stop sharing the ‘fact’ now. According to the scientific American, the hair is no thicker than it was before you trimmed it, this feeling is all a perception. Due to the nature of the human hair, when the tip is sliced away, it may appear that the remaining hair is thicker, but it is actually the same texture as it was before it was sliced.

•   YOUR TONGUE’S TASTE

We all learnt from school or some health practitioners that the tongue has different parts which can detect different tastes. Like the tip tastes sweet things, the sides tastes salty things and the back tastes bitter things. This was taken into further research and has been proved false. All parts of the tongue can detect all tastes.

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