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If you were cold then you would catch a cold.
You had to wait an hour after eating because if you swam after eating then you would sink.
Carrots will allow me to see in the dark if I eat enough of them.
If you did a bad thing then the universe would make a bad thing happen to you.
If you dropped food on the ground and picked it up quick enough it didn't have germs.
There is a startling amount of people here (most people I know) that believe this. I work in healthcare and we constantly have arguments about the AC in summer for that exact reason. Yeah cold weather can make it easier to catch a cold but it's interesting to see how many people believe that you need to get warm to avoid catching a cold.
Partially true. If you're vitamin A deficient, your night vision worsens and carrots can help with that. But you won't get Minecraft night vision
The carrot thing came out of world war ii propaganda which was intended to keep radar gunsites secret.