Contrary to popular belief
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An internal talk I gave at Madgex, 2011. A simple presentation written whilst attending some internal presentation training.
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Contrary to popular belief
- 1. Contrary to Popular Belief...
- 5. Vikings Alcohol kills brain cells
- 7. Vikings Bulls and the colour red
- 9. Vikings Thomas Edison & the light bulb
- 10. Thomas Crapper
- 11. Vikings Drowning
- 12. Vikings Humans have 5 senses
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- Wikipedia:Unusual_articles - Centralia, Pennsylvania - A town that's been on fire since 1962.\nCross Cafe - A Hitler-themed Indian restaurant, formerly known as "Hitlers' Cross".\nPercussive maintenance, also known as percussion therapy or a technical tap, is a term used to describe the malediction of an ill-behaved device to make it work, that is to say, swear at it and hit it.\n\nList of common misconceptions\n\n
- There is no evidence that Vikings wore horns on their helmets.\n\n
- Alcohol does not in fact make one warmer.[124][125][126] The reason why alcoholic drinks create the sensation of warmth is that they cause blood vessels to dilate and stimulate nerve endings near the surface of the skin with an influx of warm blood. This can actually result in making the core body temperature lower, as it allows for easier heat exchange with a cold external environment.[127]\n\n
- It's a common misconception that alcohol kills brain cells.\n* According to Queensland Brain Institute, there is no evidence drinking alcohol leads directly to the death of brain cells.[128] In fact, alcohol has positive health benefits when used moderately[128][130] and new brain cells are generated on a daily basis.[128]\n*Alcohol can lead indirectly to the death of brain cells in chronic, heavy alcohol users whose brains have adapted to the effects of alcohol, where abrupt cessation following heavy use can cause excitotoxicity leading to cellular death in multiple areas of the brain.[131]\n\n
- Eating less than an hour before swimming doesn't increase the risk of experiencing muscle cramps or drowning.[176]\n\n
- Cattle are red-green color-blind. It is not the color of the cape that angers the bull, but rather the movement of the fabric that irritates the bull and incites it to charge.[198][199]\n\n
- There is no evidence that Jesus was born on December 25.[215] The Bible never claims a date of December 25, but may imply a date closer to September.[215] The date may have initially been chosen to correspond with either the day exactly nine months after Christians believe Jesus to have been conceived,[216] the date of the Roman winter solstice,[217] or one of various ancient winter festivals.[216][218]\n\n
- Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb.[234] He did, however, develop the first practical light bulb in 1880 (employing a carbonized bamboo filament), shortly prior to Joseph Swan, who invented an even more efficient bulb in 1881 (which used a cellulose filament).\n\n
- Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet;[233] it was invented by Sir John Harrington in 1596. Crapper, however, did much to increase its popularity and came up with some related inventions, such as the ballcock mechanism used to fill toilet tanks. He was noted for the quality of his products and received several Royal Warrants. He was not the origin of the word crap, but his name may have helped popularize it.\n\n
- A person who is drowning does not wave and call for help, as in fictional depictions of drowning. The instinctive drowning response prevents a person from vocalizing or raising their arms.[177]\nSpeech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled, before speech occurs. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function.\n** Breathing must be fulfilled, before speech occurs.\n** It is the number two cause of accidental death in children, age 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents) – of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult.  In ten percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening.\n\n
- Humans have more than five senses. Although definitions vary, the actual number ranges from 9 to more than 20. In addition to sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, which were the senses identified by Aristotle, humans can sense balance and acceleration (equilibrioception), pain (nociception), body and limb position (proprioception or kinesthetic sense), and relative temperature (thermoception).[111] Other senses sometimes identified are the sense of time, itching, pressure, hunger, thirst, fullness of the stomach, need to urinate, need to defecate, and blood carbon dioxide levels.[112][113]\n\n
- Photographic or eidetic memory refers to the ability to remember images with extremely high precision – so high as to mimic a camera. However, it is highly unlikely that photographic memory exists, as to date there is no hard scientific evidence that anyone has ever had it.[193] Many people have claimed to have a photographic memory, but those people have been shown to have good memories as a result of mnemonic devices rather than a natural capacity for detailed memory encoding.[194]\n** Stephen Wiltshere MBE\n** In May 2005 Stephen produced his longest ever panoramic memory drawing of Tokyo on a 10-metre long canvas within seven days following a short helicopter ride over the city.\n\n\n
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