Oh What A Shame!

My love for useless facts has caught up with me once again. I cannot help it I just adore knowing information that I know will not help me anything. So how excited was I went to logged onto AOL today and I saw 6 myths that even your doctor believes, so of course I read this, and since I feel no knowledge should go unshared I am sharing this with all of you that are good enough to read my blog.
Myth One: You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day.
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The truth is actually that it does not matter how much water you drink because the actual study from the 1940s that people use as a reference to this fact said that you should drink 2.5 liters of water but it included FOOD in that as well. So the water from a piece of fruit totally counts. While they say this is not true I am sorry but it maybe a myth but I love drinking water all day. In fact I feel better as I continue to drink it, and while there is no proof I still say that drinking more water makes me feel better about me.
Myth Two: We use only 10 percent of ourhttp://media.bonnint.net/slc/126/12671/1267198.jpg
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This one was a shock to me because I have repeated this one over and over to people. There is no proof of anyone not using the other 90 percent that we are told are dormant all the time.
Myth Three: Fingernails and hair grow after death.
We have all been told that our nails and hair grow up to what like three weeks after we die. I never understood this myth but I so bought into it. Well turns out that they do not grow at all but our skin does shrink when we die thus making it appear that our hair and nails have grown. So our eyes are just playing tricks on us, meanies.
Myth Four
Shaved hair grows back faster, coarser and darker.http://www.cosmogirl.com/cm/cosmogirl/images/leg-shaving-med.jpg
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How many times have your shaved and heard this myth being told. I wax solely because I have been told shaving makes the hair grow thicker and darker. The real reason it appears that way is because the new hair has not hit the sun yet, and thus looks darker than the one that was their before.
Myth Five: Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight.
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My parents stand by this myth forever, heck someone told my dad that its better to have the light on the left side and he refuses to sit with it on his right now. I knew this was not true. I always read in the dark and I can see perfect up close, far away that's a different story.
Myth Six:Eating turkey makes you drowsy.
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This is another fun one. I am a vegetarian but I have always heard that the reason people get tired on Thanksgiving is because of all the tryptophan in the turkey. Turns out there is no more in a turkey than there is in beef and chicken. It is actually pork and cheese that have more and make you want to sleep. So a ham a cheese will have a bigger impact on your sleeplessness than anything. I figure wanting to sleep after thanksgiving is because of eating a lot of everything.

**I honestly think these are fun and interesting but since I love unless facts I wanted to add a few more...
* There is a military myth that taps came about in the civil war from a song in the pocket of a solider during the civil war after fighting his dad. This is NOT true.
* You cannot get pregnant from spree in a pool.
* US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen
* On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.
* There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
* “101 Dalmatians” and “Peter Pan” are the only Disney animations in which both of a character’s parents are present and don’t die during the movie.
* Rats and horses can’t vomit.
* All polar bears are left-handed
* Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
* An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
* A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
* America's favorite Crayola crayon color is blue.
* According to legend, tea originated in China when tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

Enjoy!