Common Myths That Have Been Debunked By Science

Humans Have More than Five Senses

The classic senses that we all know are really just the foundation of the human sensory experience. Humans can also sense balance, temperature, time, spatial awareness, pain, and many more things. Honestly, everything you feel can be considered a "sense."

Eating Carrots Doesn't Help You See Better At Night

Vitamin A is a strong nutrient that does benefit your eyes massively, however, there is no amount of vitamin A that a human being can consume to counter biological evolution. Keep that in mind though, because eating carrots has been proven to assist those who have poor vision. 

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The More You Know

  • Pilots and their co-pilots are required to eat different meals before flights so that they don’t both end up with food poisoning.
  • A pack of chihuahuas once terrorized a town in Arizona.
  • Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.
  • The Catholic Church considers the Theory of Evolution to be "virtually certain", and believes that intelligent design "isn't science even though it pretends to be."
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.