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[โ€“] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

"We only use x% of our brain."

Simply not true as shown since years by neurology

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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...

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Oh, and X% of dust is dead skincells. There is a good Veritasium video on this clai.

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