Science Myths

The 10% brain myth, bat-people on the Moon, lemmings that never jumped off cliffs.

13 stories

• Göbekli Tepe: The Temple Built Before Farming, Writing, or the Wheel
• The Myth That You Only Use 10% of Your Brain
• The Warship That Never Actually Teleported to Norfolk
• Spontaneous Human Combustion: The Myth That Refused to Burn Out
• The Newspaper Hoax That Put Bat-People on the Moon
• The Park Ranger Struck by Lightning Seven Times
• The Petrified Giant That Was a Fake of a Fake
• The Lemmings That Never Jumped Off the Cliff
• The Million-Dollar Space Pen Myth — and the
  28.89 Pencils NASA Actually Bought
• The Bathtub That Took 24 Hours to Drain to Test a Myth
• The Chess-Playing Machine That Beat Napoleon (With a Man Hidden Inside)
• The Astronomer Who Saw Canals on Mars That Weren't Real
• The Baghdad Battery: The 2,000-Year-Old 'Battery' That Probably Never Held a Charge

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