• Freeman@feddit.de
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    “We only use x% of our brain.”

    Simply not true as shown since years by neurology

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      This reminds me of the “you eat X amount of spiders in your sleep every year”. It’s also been debunked so many times and I see it popping up from time to time.

      Even more ironic, this was created by some professor (?) to prove that starting fake viral facts was easy or something…

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        If you just add the words on average, suddenly it sounds more realistic, because who knows if there’s a guy somewhere sleepwalking in a spider infested place

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        Man, I always thought that one was suspect. If I eat 10 per year and have been alive 40+ years, then surely one of those times I would have woken up.

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        Oh, and X% of dust is dead skincells. There is a good Veritasium video on this clai.

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        As an epileptic married to a monitor tech, we both had a good laugh when I shared this.

        Thanks stranger.

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      I’ve almost never heard anyone quote that, but I’ve heard numerous people arguing against that statement. So much that I’m wondering it it has mandela-affected people to think it’s a more common misconception than it really is.

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        I do remember it being more common back when I was in high school, and also there was a movie which mentioned that which could have helped with that

        I also havent heard it being said seriously for years though

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          Right, it was the plot for the movie Lucy, where the protagonist increased the brain capacity beyond 10% and upon reaching 100%, she turned into an USB drive. I remember that now.