What was the biggest misconception you had when you were a child?

 Many are there gonna share some cause they are funny.

Answered by an 90’s Kid :

• Kissing a girl makes her pregnant/going into room with milk and switching off lights gives childbirth

This is because Indian Movies.

Let’s take an example :

Scene : Random Indian aunt advices something to the heroine and sends her in the room.

She is seen with milk and sweets.

Scene : Husband dude waits and they off the light and bammmm!!! in nine months a baby was born.

Just by turning off the light.

But found what happened when biology staffs took reproduction class.

90’s Kids listening to that class be like :

• If you sleep under a tree in night, ghosts will catch you and you will die

This is the funniest one. Of course I believed in ghosts, because I was a little kid. There were some instances where people have died by sleeping under the trees.

It was again in bio class where I learnt plants release Co² during night and this causes death.

• People with maruti omni are kidnappers and they may kidnap you anytime

This is again because of Indian movies where the villans use the Maruthi Omni to kidnap peoples.

• The lorry will definetly kill you if you go behind this and it’s a ghost vehicle

• If I speak lies, god will take my eyes away.

This is one of the reason I don't speak lies. My mom used to warn me when I spoke lies. I was shit scared when she said this. But later on, I realized that only lies will help you to stay alive and god will punish people who speak truth.

• Shit I ate the seeds, my stomach will now house the plants.

Another misconception. When I ate watermelon or any other fruit and swallow the seeds, I was shit scared that they will grow as a plant in my stomach. But later biology taught me about excretion system.

• Keeping Peacock feather inside my notebook so that they will reproduce new ones.

Worst kind of thing !! Peacock feathers don't have a life and I thought this will happen so I kept those inside by book.

There are many but not gonna make this answer so big to bore you.

Share if you have any in the comments.

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What were some of the biggest lies told about Hitler and Nazi Germany?

 Six Myths about Hitler that continue to Deceive people.

Much of what is held about Hitler is false. History feels safer with these myths yet one does not see the actual danger of how power functions.

1. The “Broken Body” Myth

Jokes about Hitler having a micro-penis or physically deformed were wartime jokes. Britain made them make him appear weak. There is no abnormality in medical records. The fact is even more frightening: he was physically normal.

2. The “Afraid of Cats” Story

No evidence to show that he was afraid of cats. He just liked dogs and even wanted to appear nice in society with his dog, Blondi. The rumor about cats lives due to the fact that people like to think about the evil leaders and their strange fears.

3. The “He Didn’t Know” Excuse

This is false. Hitler was aware of the holocaust. He developed a system in which the officials responded to his wishes without written directives. It was no mistake, it was deliberate.

4. The “Simple Life” Image

Hitler was not poor or modest. He got lots of money in form of image royalties and secretly rewarded loyal generals. Corruption was disguised propaganda.

5. The “Sudden Takeover” Belief

The Nazi domination did not occur in one day. It came in steps. Certain individuals felt secure initially which prevented resisting. It was already too late when the fear came.

6. “He Loved Germany”

Hitler commanded the demolition of Germany when it was hopeless. In case the country was not victorious, he felt that it had no right to exist.

That wasn’t love. It was obsession.

What is the biggest myth about outer space?

 The biggest myth about outer space is in the name: Space.

Everyone thinks it’s empty.

I mean, why wouldn’t they? It says right there. Outer. Space.

So, why wouldn’t anyone think it’s anything but a vacuum!

Well, it’s not!

It’s teeming with a lot of stuff and activity. Just not as much as on Earth or any heavenly body, but enough to matter (no pun intended).

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So, What’s Filling Up the Space?

Well, some of the things are familiar to us – atoms, dust, plasma, radiation, and so on.

Of course, when you leave the Earth and enter outer space, the matter density drops to negligible levels. There’s no question about that.

But, even in that seemingly vacuous space, there’s quite a bit of stuff, although not in any meaningful quantities for us to bother about it.

Think of it like this: On Earth, you have a high density of matter. As you fly into outer space, the density keeps dropping until you exit the atmosphere, when it hits negligible levels. Then, as you approach another planet, the density increases from negligible levels to a meaningful degree.

But, The Density Changes Too

Stars like the Sun have a kind of bubble or sphere of influence that can extend for light-years.

Within this halo, you’ll find an abundance of solar storms, coronal mass ejections, and other activity adding to that density.

So, matter density within this heliosphere is usually higher than what it is in the space between stars, which is even more sparse.

Things get really interesting between galaxies.

This is where matter density is the least. Lower than what’s in both interstellar and stellar systems’ space.

In short, intergalactic space is the least dense, followed by interstellar space within galaxies, and finally the stellar system space.

In general, there’s about 1 atom per cubic centimeter of interstellar medium. The intergalactic medium has an even lower average density of 1 atom per cubic meter.

And, There are Exceptions

So far, we’ve discussed only the regular baryonic matter that makes up the things we know – planets, air, water, life, etc.

But that’s not everything.

There’s the more exotic stuff you won’t easily find on Earth: cosmic rays, dark matter, neutrinos, and dark energy. Dark matter is present within galaxies, and sometimes, outside too.

And every square inch of space is bombarded with hundreds of billions of neutrinos per second, especially in stellar systems.

And the ever-present quantum fluctuations don’t relent just because you are in outer space.

Vacuum energy, or zero-point energy, pervades the space, even in regions with the lowest energy density.

In a Nutshell

Think of outer space as an extremely low-density region with a lot of activity happening in it.

It’s not some inert, empty vacuum. It’s bubbling with activity, especially within galaxies.

What are some of the biggest career mistakes of Bollywood stars?

 1. When Saif Ali Khan went all out against his film Humshakals and said that 'it was a mistake'. In a report by the Times of India, he was reported as saying:

“The film was very regressive. In fact, while watching it, I asked myself what I was doing in it. I knew I had let my fans down and underestimated their intelligence. I've been introspecting a lot and will never repeat a mistake that was Humshakals.”

2. When Emraan Hashmi said that 'kuch filmein kitchen chalane ke liye bhi karni padti hain', hinting at his movie Good Boy Bad Boy. He further added.

“Good Boy Bad Boy toh aisi movie thi ki kitchen hamesha ke liye band ho jaaye.”

3. When Shahid Kapoor said he wished he hadn't done Shaandaar, Chup Chup Ke and Vaah! Life Ho To Aisi. Elaborating on the third, he said:

“I think it was trying to be an international film and we didn’t have the kind of expertise to do that kind of computer graphics.”

4. When Ajay Devgn critiqued Sajid Khan's way of making Himmatwaala, a movie he said he knew will be a flop.

“I thought the film (Himmatwala) will be shot the way Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai was shot in retro style. What Sajid did is he took 80s film and shot it in 80s style only. Himmatwala would have worked if it would have been made in today's styling and punch lines but it went back in time.”

5. When Govinda said he took up the role in Kill Dil only because his family said he'll be left behind.

“I asked my wife and my children about it. They very honestly told me that I didn't have much of a choice. The kind of roles I wanted to do were not coming my way and I wasn't keen on the kind of offers I was getting. My family told me to take up the offer, or I'll be left behind.”

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What major movies have the biggest plot holes?

 One of the most stupid films in terms of plot holes is the 1997 Bollywood film Hero no 1 (a fairly enjoyable but utterly illogical movie), a mix of DDLJ and Bawarchi.

So, the heroine tops the college and gets a trip to Europe (which college and University and this in India). The grandfather doesn't allow her. After a lot of persuasion he does allow her to go, but with her Bua (who paid for her expenses. The film showed that out of the three brothers, one is a college lecturer, another a failed Insurance salesman and third a struggling musician, so who exactly paid for her trip).

Now, the girl checks in a private luxury hotel (did University paid for it?) where our hero, the son of a rich man is also staying. The heroine does nothing academic in her whole trip, and we don't know what the trip was about till the end. She ends up romancing the rich hero and the bua facilitates her.

Back in India, there is some misunderstanding among the father of the boy and the grandfather of girl and the proposed alliance is called off. Now our hero plans to win the hearts of the girl's family by pretending to be a cook.

When our heroine decides to pursue further studies she is shut down and sent to her room to cry. Except for the fact that she was shown carrying 3 books with her going to college. When did she get admission for higher studies? Which books are she carrying because she apparently has not taken admission anywhere?

In Bawarchi, there was a reason why the cook knew cooking, mathematics, philosophy, music and dance etc. In Hero no 1 there is no reason and makers gave no reason whatsoever. Nobody even cared to know how their prospective groom looked like so nobody could identify the hero disguised as cook.

He sings with the girl “Main Tujhko bhaga laya hun tere Ghar se tere baap ke dar se” (I have eloped with you away from your home, for the fear of your father) when clearly the girl’s parents died years ago.

Even though the grandfather hated the boy’s father badly he apparently couldn't recognise him when he came in a disguise with a beard (tough competition to Rab ne Bana Di Jodi).

Even though the salesman brother of the family got insurance worth of many lakhs because of boy’s father’s company he didn't care to know why all his clients came from the same company.

Even though the second brother got saved from getting transferred to remote area due to boy's father he never cared to know how and why the education minister recommended him.

What country is way bigger than what the average person thinks it is?

 It's Russia. It's way too big. Let's see some intresting facts.

1. Russia is the only country in the world where you can have 11 consecutive New Year parties, birthdays, or Christmases because it spans 11 time zones! When the sun rises in the west of Russia, at the same time it’s setting in the east.

2. Russia has been the biggest country in the world since the 16th century when Russian Cossacks conquered lands on the other side of the Ural Mountains in Siberia and the Far East. These regions account for 77 percent of Russia’s total area.

3. Russia is not so big as it is often shown on geographical maps. The Mercator projection used to show the surface of the Earth on a flat sheet of paper distorts the size of the land mass as the latitude increases from the Equator to both poles. So Russia is almost twice (53 percent) smaller than shown on maps.

4. People from Kaliningrad can watch the President’s New Year address to the nation on YouTube 9 hours before New Year starts – when the President addresses people of Kamchatka. That’s the span of territory and time zones in Russia.

5. Russia borders more countries than any other country in the world: 18. Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, China, Mongolia, North Korea (water border). Japan (water border), and the U.S.(water border).

6. It takes about six days to travel by Trans Siberian railroad from Moscow to Vladivostok. The current length of this railroad is 9,288 km. Before railroads appeared in Russia, it took approximately six days to travel from Moscow to St. Petersburg (now, it only takes three hours by Sapsan train).

7. Russia is the biggest country in the world, with 17,125,191 km2. Its Asian part makes it the largest country in Asia, and its European portion makes it the largest country in Europe.

8. Russia can accommodate India five times, France - 26 times, Germany - 47 times, England - 70 times. Also, Russia’s area is bigger than the surface of Pluto (which is just 16.6M km2).

9. Russian land makes up 10.995 percent of the world’s landmass.

It's too much big.

What are the biggest ironies in India?

 In India, in Hinduism, elephants are revered as God and as incarnation of the Hindu god Ganesh. I am not a religious person but even I like Ganesh because he seems like a jolly good fellow and easy to please kind of God and his face definitely helps. He is not depicted as a god that needs some serious anger management therapy unlike some other Hindu gods like Kali or Durga or others. Seems very kid friendly God too who doesn’t give kids nightmares lol

Ganesh has his own festival and from what I reckon, he likes to eat tasty food as well like sweet momos.

But here is the plight of Indian elephants and this is especially in Hindu temples.

Every big Hindu temple in India seems to have some elephants and in the state of Kerala, there are multiple elephants in every temple and I heard some even have upto 50 elephants.

And yet, every temple elephant in India looks like a prisoner in a Super Max prison. Chained up and shackled all over restricting their movement and they are like slave labourers in temples

The process of making these elephants docile and obedient is very dark and animal cruelty at its worst. And temple elephants are just the tip of the iceberg. There are thousands of elephants in India in tourism industry as basically sweatshop labour.

So nobody, especially Hindus, see the irony in this?

I refuse to ride elephants or support any industry that uses and exploits elephants as slave labour. There are national parks in India that offer Elephant safari’s and I have seen them in Kaziranga and Manas national parks in Assam and we avoided elephant safari’s and instead preferred the jeep safaris.

So if India really likes this God

they will free every elephant from the sweatshop industry and temples and maybe let them live out their lives in sanctuaries without chains.

Elephants deserve to roam free in the wild.

Like these elephants.

Tourism and chained up temple elephants are a terrible sight.

Don’t support any industry that exploits elephants and stop giving them any money. The industry will die if you stop supporting them and Elephant slavery industry is one I would gladly see die.

And teach your kids not to ride them. Elephants don’t like you to ride them.

Elephants in zoos are ok as long as they have huge spaces to roam and not in chains. Elephants require a lot of territory and even zoo elephants in limited spaces are not ideal but as long as they have large areas to roam and not movement restricted in any way, it’s a fair trade off.

But tourism and temple elephants have got to go. Elephants in chains are an abomination no matter where they are.

Elephants are magnificent animals that deserve to roam free and be enjoyed from a distance. They are not sweatshop labour and elephants in chains are an eyesore.