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Quite informative information, which destroys many of the known myths. Read more, really interesting.

Most of the diamonds formed not out of compacted coal. They are "born" at a depth of about 150 km, and coal deposits are usually located at a depth of about three kilometers.





Bats are not blind. Yes, they are oriented in space using echolocation, but it is pretty good seeing.



Blondes and redheads in time disappear. Recessive genes that are responsible for hair color, can be transmitted from generation to generation through non-blondes and non-red.



Hair and nails do not continue to grow after death. This impression arises from the fact that the skin of a dead person shrinks.



The color of snot can not be determined, bacterial or viral disease. The color of this substance can range from transparent yellow to dark-green in patients with different diseases.



Clean water - not a very good conductor of electricity. The reason that a person can get an electric shock through the water - its content of minerals, dirt and other particles that conduct electricity.



From frogs and toads can not catch the wart, but shaking hands with a person who has warts - is even possible. Warts in humans originate from HPV, which is only found in humans.



Ostriches do not hide their heads in the sand, even when frightened. If they feel threatened, you tend to fall to the ground and pretend to be dead.



From the lack of oxygen the blood does not turn blue - on the contrary, it becomes a darker red. Vienna just seem blue, prosvechivaya through the skin.



Saharan children do not become hyperactive. In several studies have shown that the activity of the children was the same with the consumption of soda with and without sugar.



By clicking knuckles can irritate colleagues, but arthritis is not earn. The real causes of osteoarthritis - age, trauma, obesity and genetic predisposition.



If a product is natural does not mean that there are no pesticides. However, the level of pesticides in organic, not organic food is too small to worry about it (at least, this assures US Department of Agriculture).



Stress does not play a big role in the development of chronic hypertension. High stress can cause a temporary rise in blood pressure, but in general it is not the main cause of hypertension. Much greater role played by genetics, smoking and poor diet.



Lightning can strike the same place twice. In some tall buildings, it beats up to 100 times a year.



Lemmings do not commit mass suicide. However, during periods of migration, they do occasionally fall from the cliffs, if the terrain is unfamiliar to them.



Man is born with all the convolutions, which has in adulthood. There is evidence that at least some parts of the brain during adulthood and continuing the formation of neural tissue.



Many people call depicted in this picture of a dinosaur Brontosaurus - not even Michael Crichton in "Jurassic Park." In fact, it Apatosaurus. The myth about the brontosaurus was born 130 years ago, during the so-called "Bone Wars" when two paleontologist use any means in the competition when searching for resources.



One gene - not the same as one protein. Many genes form a variety of different proteins, depending on how the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) of the gene located in the cell. Some genes do not form proteins.



Goldfish have a pretty good memory. They can remember certain things for a few months.



Most likely, the person is not HIV is transmitted through sexual contact and the ape man, but because of the fact that the monkeys were hunted for their meat, which involves contact with the blood of animals.



Dogs and cats do not distinguish shades of gray. But they perceive different shades of blue and green. The field of view is wider in dogs than humans, but they can not see as far ahead as we are.



That people supposedly used "only 10 percent" of the brain - is not true. We use the whole brain - just different areas in different periods.



Only a small percentage suffer from Tourette syndrome involuntarily shout swear words. In fact, the disease can manifest itself in different ways - involuntary movement, or different kinds of ticks. Impulsive uttering vulgar or obscene words called coprolalia.



Even at the dawn of the Middle Ages almost all the scientists knew the Earth was round and not flat. The myth of the dark Middle Ages people who were convinced that the earth - flat pancake, launched in the 1940s, members of the Historical Association (association of leading historians in Britain).



The sharks get cancer. The rumor is that these fish are not susceptible to cancer, dismissed William Lane, who was selling shark cartilage as "an effective anti-cancer agent».



Great Wall of China - is not the only man-made structure that can be seen from space. Depending on the distance from the Earth, and you can either see the Great Wall of China, and other large structures, or do not see any sort of facilities. On the Moon, for example, are only visible lights Earth.



No "photographic memory" does not exist - only a very good memory. But even people with an exceptional memory can not reproduce the visual details that can compare with the photograph.



The radiation in a microwave oven can not cause cancer - it merely heats the food. In fact, the cancer may cause only certain types of radiation, but it all depends on the dose. For example, a surplus of sunlight can actually cause skin cancer, but if you do not overdo it with a tan, it will only help the body in the development of needed vitamin D.



Shaving hair, you do not make them thicker, just for a while they will appear rough - it's because the tips of the hair is not tapered like a regrown hair, a blunt end cut.



It is not true that swallowed chewing gum is digested for seven years. In fact, it takes the body a few hours.