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5 fake things you had believed

Our collective imaginary is made up of endless ideas and stories that we all share for the simple fact of living in the same time and in the same cultural place, which today, in many cases, it is the "world".Many times we don't even question them .We hear, see and believe it without analyzing or going further.If they manage to be part of this collective imaginary ideas that are totally false .Today we bring you five of these «urban legends» or «myths» that are surprisingly false.

5 false things that you had believed

1.Adan and Eva ate an apple

FALSE! If you review the Genesis at no time does it speak of an apple , an apple tree or any specific fruit.God speaks of the "tree of knowledge of good and evil", and Eva tells the snake that they cannot eat "from the tree in the center of the garden." There are no apples in the text.Apparently, this is a myth created by Christianity .

5 fake things you had believed

Adan and Eva Tintoretto 1550-1553

come from a Latin pun between "bad malum" and "malum" apple, or under the influence of painters who shaped the scene in their paintings.

2.The twins Fred and George Weasley of the Harry Potter films are redheads

FALSE! You can see it in the photo, they are brown-haired .

5 fake things you had believed

That carrot tone that looks in the movies of the Harry Potter saga was had.

3.In Groucho Marx's grave he says: Excuse me for not getting up

FALSE! In the Grouxo Marx tomb , at the Eden Memorial Park Cementery in Los Angeles, California, there is no phrase .

5 fake things you had believed

A star of David and the dates of birth and death is the only thing we will see.The urban legend has its origin in Grouxo himself.He once expressed the desire to have that epitaph appear in his grave.No one took it into account.

4.Napoleon was very short

FALSE! According to the autopsy performed on his corpse average 1’69 m .Although he was not a tall man, the average of the French men of the time was 1'64 m .Which puts him above the average.

5 fake things you had believed

Fragment Jacques-Louis David-The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries

If you think of him as a short man, it is because he demanded that the members of the Imperial Guard , who always surrounded him , measure at least 1.78 m .

5.The camels keep water in their humps

FALSE! The camels do not have their humps full of water , as if they were deposits, for use in the desert.In the bumps of camels and dromedaries what is fat .

5 fake things you had believed

The water is stored in the stomach , where it can be more than 24 hours after drinking it.

We hope that this article has been useful to deny some claims in the that many of us believed without questioning them.If you liked this article, you may want to know false myths about our ancestors.

Images: Niccolo Caranti, Jerrold Bennett

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