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"  Myths"    

A  traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events, and it comes from the word Mythology. Mythology can refer either to the collected myths of a group of people. 

 

Myth Sentence Examples:

 

  • At last, with the change of times, the myth ceased growing.

  • The stories of the greek heroes are myths.

  • My blond friend thinking- Ha! that's a myth!

  • The thought that shoes bought in a size too small will magically stretch to fit the wearer is a myth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elephants Are Really Afraid of Mice 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 1. It is impossible to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon. 

 

    Yes, someone did this successfully in the MythBusters experiment but um, be careful.

 

 2. Dropping a penny off the side of the Empire State Building could kill someone.

 

    No, it couldn’t. A penny is not big enough or dense enough to do this, even factoring  in the     distance it would fall. The MythBusters team even fired a penny  out of a rifle and  it’s fall         was still not deadly.

 

 3. Quicksand sucks you underground until you die

 

    This is an invention of the movies and our imaginations, fortunately. Real quicksand would      be even more buoyant than sand we’d float to the top.

 

 4. Opening an umbrella while falling from a skyscraper will slow your fall and you can survive.

 

     Only in cartoons, unfortunately. Opening the umbrella would slow your fall                                slightly, but you would still die.

 

 5. If you drop a piece of food on the floor, you should apply the 5 second rule.

 

     If you’re willing to eat food that’s been on the floor, it really doesn’t make a difference if it        was there for 5 seconds or five minutes, the amount of yucky stuff that’s collected on it is          going to be the same.

 

 6. You could stay alive underwater while breathing air from your car’s tires.

 

     Only in movies. In the experiment the tester could not get enough air from a hole he cut in       the tire to be able to breathe it in.

 

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