10 Facts That Everyone Gets Wrong

How many times has it happened that you know you're right but nobody believes you? You know you can prove it, but you're getting embarrassed and stumbling over your words. 

Well, your day is finally here. Let out a deep sigh of relief, because now the world will finally see that you've been right all along. Here are 10 facts you know are correct that everybody else has wrong

Tae Kwon Do is only around 60 years old

There is a lot of misinformation because Korea wants the world to believe TKD is an ancient art. Some people think I'm saying tae kwon do isn't based on older martial arts. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying tae kwon do is NOT based on taekkyon or other so called "ancient" arts from Korea and is fact based on karate and a little chuan fa. I lay this all out in great detail in my thesis.
- Fett2

A Car Is Safe In A Lightning Storm

A car is safe during a lightning storm because the metal frame will conduct the electricity around you. The tires have nothing to do with it.
- keyes777

Cracking Your Knuckles Won't Give You Arthritis

I know that cracking your knuckles does nothing detrimental to the joints, but everyone tells me I am going to get arthritis. Can someone provide reliable sources that demonstrate how cracking knuckles reduces grip strength?
- Spiderdan

There's a doctor who cracked the knuckles on one hand but not the other for 60 years, earning him an Ig Nobel prize (he did it to prove his mother wrong).
- cheerfulstoic

We don't only use 10% of our brain

I don't know if anyone really believes this, but since it was like the crux of that Bradley Cooper movie, we don't only use 10% of our brain.
- polarlicht

Skunked beer doesn't really exist

Unless taken to extremes (like almost freezing), allowing beer to go from room temp to refrigerator temp to room temp will not cause it to skunk, spoil or otherwise go bad. Beer goes through somewhere between three to five temperature swings between the time it's brewed and the time it arrives in the beer cooler at your local store. If moderate temperature swings had any effect, the beer would all be ruined before the store even received it.
- hopstar

Fans Can't Kill You

Well, I live in Korea, but literally every Korean I have ever had this conversation with believes that fans can kill people under the right circumstances. It's not a once or twice thing; it has been probably 30/30 people, with one girl admitting that she wasn't 100% sure. It blows my mind.
- rumple_skillskin

Hold Your Head Forward When You Have A Nosebleed

To hold your head backward when you are having a nosebleed. Tilt itforward, my friends, and hold just above the bridge of your nose.
- ACHollywood

EMT here. Absolutely true. My parents knew about this when I was younger and always had me tilt my head forward. Made things confusing when the school nurse said to do the opposite.

EDIT: I didn't see the part about holding above the bridge of your nose. If ACHollywood is referring to the hard tissue at the top (the part that is resistant to bending), I don't know how effective that is. I always held my nose along the compressible inferior part.
- xfargox

Belly Dancing Is Not A Dance Of Seduction

Belly dance was not a dance of seduction, and wasn't done by harem girls for the sultan. It's a community folk dance with a rich and long history, done by both men and women during family celebrations and gatherings. The two-piece costume was invented by early Hollywood and adopted by Egyptian dancers in nightclubs to cater to Western tourists. The term belly dance was invented at the 1893 World's Fair by Sol Bloom because it sounded salacious, would attract scandalized Victorian patrons and sell a boatload of tickets. 
- Delirious5

Toilets don't flush clockwise vs. counterclockwise as a result of being on one side of the equator or another

This fact is so engrained into our public consciousness that even shows likeThe Simpsons get it spectacularly wrong, and we've almost all had teachers cite this in class while explaining the Coriolis effect. The thing is, it's balderdash. To get a sink or toilet to drain in different directions is much more a matter of drain shape, the motion of the water when the container was filled and so on. You literally need to leave a big reservoir of water sitting for days to be able to get it to behave in a manner that's observably changed by Coriolis forces, and that's after protecting it from wind, sun, vibration, etc, and using a special drain and tub.
- Chairboy

Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer

There is a difference between how tough something is and how hard it is.
- halfblood_stud

Diamond Swords vs. Metal Swords
So as I'm assuming iron and steel are much tougher than diamond, would it be correct to say a sword made of diamond would be useless when clashing with a standard metal sword? This myth seems greatly perpetuated by many video games in which diamond weapons and armor are among the highest class.
- IkananXIII

Not as useless. The force between the two has to overcome the peak stress of the diamond sword. The metal sword would bend and the diamond sword shatter like glass.
- ImZoidberg_Homeowner

how to become successful manager

An effective manager pays attention to many facets of management, leadership and learning within organizations. So, it's difficult to take the topic of "management success" and say that the following ten items are the most important for management success. I will, however, suggest seven management success skills without which I don't believe you can be a successful manager.

The most important issue in management success is being a person that others want to follow. Every action you take during your career in an organization helps determine whether people will one day want to follow you.

A successful manager, one whom others want to follow:

·                        Builds effective and responsive interpersonal relationships. Reporting staff members, colleagues and executives respect his or her ability to demonstrate caring, collaboration, respect, trust and attentiveness.

·                        Communicates effectively in person, print and email. Listening and two-way feedback characterize his or her interaction with others.

·                        Builds the team and enables other staff to collaborate more effectively with each other. People feel they have become more - more effective, more creative, more productive - in the presence of a team builder.

·                        Understands the financial aspects of the business and sets goals and measures and documents staff progress and success.

·                        Knows how to create an environment in which people experience positive morale and recognition and employees are motivated to work hard for the success of the business.

·                        Leads by example and provides recognition when others do the same.

·                        Helps people grow and develop their skills and capabilities through education and on-the-job learning.

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Quotations About Success in business

NEW "Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment." --Stephen Covey

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." --Henry David Thoreau

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." --G. K. Chesterton

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." --Thomas A. Edison

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" --Robert Schuller

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing." --Abraham Lincoln

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." --Norman Vincent Peale

"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him." --Henry David Thoreau

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." --John Maxwell

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

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Right, or wrong that task and it is really hard to get past
I really think philosophy will help with possibilities
Guessing is such a silly game and at times it drives me insane
How much fun could there be in philosophy
To PHILOSOPHY! 


Oh I never really knew how sneaky philosophy can be, others point things out that we couldn’t see.
Rational thinking really is the key to philosophy. 

What is right and what is wrong and what is wrong and what is right?
Really when you think about it things get rather tricky, but there’s lots of enjoyment in philosophy.
Out with the wrong, they say, and in with the right! But if we were wrong and right we might be dim not dark or light.
No, things are not as black or white as they seem
Great things come out of doing types of philosophy.

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