• Freeman@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    “We only use x% of our brain.”

    Simply not true as shown since years by neurology

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      1 year ago

      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…

      • MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        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.