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Funny True ‘Facts’
Or… How to train yourself to evaluate ‘information’ that you come across.
TL;DR¹
A look at the ‘facts’ that are shared by people as various memes, and whilst I find then ‘interesting’ and sometimes ‘amusing’, they are simply not true.
We are training people to not think about things, even at the smallest level, which makes it easier for the bigger lies to spread and be believed.
Critical thinking is now, more than ever, a pre-requisite for people in today’s society. It is easy to fall for, and by questioning only the little things in life, and understanding how to do this, you are on a journey to start challenging bigger things in life.
Two great resources
- Etymology — The definition and origins of a word: https://www.etymonline.com/
- Snopes — debunking common (and some not so common) myths: https://www.snopes.com/
So what?
When I hear one of these It is all a bit of fun, surely people can take a joke? There isn’t any harm in this. And certainly — when said as a joke — then there is nothing wrong with this, however, I have heard these phrases said many a time, and as they get repeated from person to person — they lose their ‘jokiness’ and the people who repeat them then take it as true.
