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100 Common Myths & Misconceptions: The world's most widespread falsehoods - debunked
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100 Common Myths & Misconceptions: The world's most widespread falsehoods - debunked (Original Post)
Mosby
Sep 2017
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True Dough
(22,831 posts)1. Make note of this one:
Cracking Knuckles
Cracking one's knuckles in good health doesn't cause arthritis or other issues. The cracking sound comes from a gas bubble forming when the joints separate.
Cracking one's knuckles in good health doesn't cause arthritis or other issues. The cracking sound comes from a gas bubble forming when the joints separate.
Now quit telling me to stop cracking my knuckles!!

I get that it grosses some people out. I had a buddy in high school who could tilt his head to the sides and cause his vertebrae to crack. It was a bit unsettling.
VMA131Marine
(4,960 posts)2. It's probably a vacuum bubble not a gas bubble
That you get when you crack your knuckles.
Mosby
(18,403 posts)3. The sound is caused by gasses rapidly leaving the synovial fluid in your joints.
VMA131Marine
(4,960 posts)5. Which is caused by what exactly?
If the joint is pulled apart slightly, the fluid can no longer fill the space and a vacuum bubble will form. This will make a noise when it collapses. The process is very similar to cavitation in propellers that move liquids.
Warpy
(113,267 posts)4. The only one I found interesting was the 7 supercontinents
I'd only known about four.
Mosby
(18,403 posts)9. I think the one about memory is wrong
There are a handful of people in the world who can remember everything that they experienced, even when a baby.
Warpy
(113,267 posts)10. I was a little like that, could repeat whole conversations years after they'd happened
Fortunately for everybody around me, senility has long since set in.
progressoid
(51,317 posts)6. Shaving Thickens Hair
That's one I still hear often.
Mosby
(18,403 posts)8. the one I keep hearing is about sugar.
Many people are convinced that it makes kids hyper. I try to explain the Hawthorne effect to no avail.
Also learning styles.
murielm99
(31,862 posts)7. George Washington't teeth!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,784 posts)11. Left brain/right brain.
It's very annoying that so many people buy that one.