Famous Facts That Were Never True

Famous facts that were never true: ostriches burying their heads, the tongue map, sugar making kids hyper, and seeing the Great Wall from space. We checked ten of the most repeated "facts" and gave each one a verdict. In about 11 minutes: -Where each famous fact came from (some are 2,000 years old) -What's actually true, with the study or source behind it -One that's only half wrong, and one that sounds fake but is completely true Sources: Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book X; San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Ostrich Hänig (1901); Boring (1942); Chandrashekar et al. (2006), Nature Jacobs, Deegan & Neitz (1998), Visual Neuroscience Zanotto (1998), American Journal of Physics Wolraich, Wilson & White (1995), JAMA; Hoover & Milich (1994), Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology Vreeman & Carroll (2008), BMJ; Pretorius et al. (2006), Journal of Applied Physiology Encyclopaedia Britannica, Napoleon I; Roberts (2014), Napoleon: A Life Aristotle, De Anima; Macpherson (2011), The Senses NASA Earth Observatory, Great Wall of China; China State Administration of Cultural Heritage (2012) Encyclopaedia Britannica, Pyramids of Giza and Cleopatra; NASA, Apollo 11 Chapters 0:00 Let's check 0:42 Ostriches bury their heads 1:48 The tongue map 2:50 Bulls hate red 3:37 Glass is a slow liquid 4:46 Sugar makes kids hyper 5:46 Most heat leaves through your head 6:37 Napoleon was tiny 7:31 You have five senses 8:32 The Great Wall from space 9:59 Cleopatra and the Moon landing