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When Going to Bed Early, You Wake up Late

If you go to bed considerably earlier than your normal sleep time, you are more likely to wake up considerably later than your normal wake time. This is because you’re prone to first wake up too early in the morning, go back to sleep, and then overshoot your mark and wake up late.

FOX Intentionally Cancels Good Shows

FOX is intentionally canceling good TV shows just to get a spike in DVD sales.

Pumpkins Are Fruit

After the whole tomato debate, I realized… why are pumpkins considered vegetables? They have seeds and meet all the other criteria of fruit.

Extraterrestrials

There are hyper-intelligent extraterrestrial lifeforms, but they couldn’t care less about us and simply ignore our requests to meet.

The Past Existed in Black and White

Prior to the mid-1800s, the world did not exist in color. Everything was black & white, as evidenced by all the photographs from that time.

We Live Inside a Simulated Universe

At some point before our universe existed, scientists, in an attempt to simulate the origin of their own universe, built a powerful supercomputer capable of running a realtime or greater than realtime simulation of a universe, from its origin, on to the creation of life and civilization on planets within it. We exist within that simulation.

America’s Fascination With Hollywood

The large number of gossip and entertainment news magazines and websites seem to indicate that a large percentage of the population is obsessed with the lives of actors. This is due to America’s lack of a monarchy. Traditionally, in many countries, people who were not happy with their own lives often fantasized about being a prince or princess or some other noble, so they could have fame and fortune and glory. But in this country, that urge is replaced with fantasies about life as a Hollywood star, leading to people following Hollywood news as much as they can.

Some Conspiracy Theories Were Created by the Government

There are a lot of conspiracy theories out there, and most of them are made up by assorted nutjobs, but now and then, there are a few that were intentionally crafted by the government to distract from what they were really doing. Better people believe something easily dismissible—that they’re secretly dealing with aliens, for example—than their enemies find out about the classified aircraft project they’re working on before they’re ready to release it to the public.

There Is No Such Thing As Deja Vu

When you feel like you’ve done something or seen something before, either you’ve really seen it or it’s been in a dream of yours. There is no way that we can have such a strong remembrance of something if it hasn’t happened to us.

We’d Be Colonizing Other Planets

Throughout history, many attempts at the advancement of science and knowledge have been stopped, often by religious groups, who attacked and destroyed libraries and killed or otherwise persecuted those who were seeking the knowledge. Persepolis, the Library of Carthage, the Library of Alexandria, and countless others, many during the dark ages. If none of these things had happened and science and discovery were instead encouraged and records preserved, imagine how much more advanced we’d be by now. Technology would have been being developed at a much greater level hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago, and we’d probably already have colonies on multiple planets, among all sorts of other things.