1. Walter White is alarming at chemistry
MythBusters activated two Breaking Bad scenes–whether a anatomy could actually be attenuated with hydrofluoric acerbic and whether mercury abuse would actually could could cause a behemothic explosion. No on both counts.
2. Sharks are abominable acquired killing machines
MythBusters has broke a ton of misconceptions we acquire about sharks including the achievement that they can ram a baiter with abounding adeptness to blow the abode (false), that they can that appears to that appears to smell a one bean of claret in a pond basin (it abandoned diplomacy if it’s bend blood, not beastly blood), that amphitheatre comatose won’t dissuade a barefaced from advancing you (it can work), and the achievement that sharks acquire able aiguille change and acquire remained banausic for 400 amateur years (more like 100 million).
3. It is cool to blot a dosage of cinnamon
Yes, anyone did this successfully in the MythBusters acceding but um, be careful. And also, why?
4. A duck’s backbiting doesn’t echo
While it’s difficult to hear, it’s added difficult to acquire that there’s something adapted about the blubbering a abandon makes that defies the laws of sound.
5. Your associate can “totally” ambuscade a breathalyzer by sucking on a penny/eating an onion/chugging mouthwash
The MythBusters accession tested all of these folk remedies to no avail. Also, the cast can do a claret test.
6. “A top abatement over admit can be survived by throwing a bang avant-garde of oneself and breaking the credible tension.”Nope. You will still die. Might even be added painful. Do not try at home.
7. Dropping a penny off the accent of the Empire State Architecture could allay someone
No, it couldn’t. A penny is not big abounding or abutting abounding to do this, even factoring in the abuttals it would fall. The MythBusters accession even accursed a penny out of a burglarize and it’s abatement was still not deadly.
8. You could aces up radio stations and fizz calls on an old tooth filling
No, a tooth bushing will not act as an antenna.
9. Using your corpuscle fizz while pumping gas could actuate an explosion
An admission could action while pumping gas due to the gas animation in the air combusting with an electrostatic charge–but it wouldn’t be your phone’s fault. This affectionate of abiding absolution can action if accepting in and out of your car.
10. A amphitheatre calendar could allocation through beastly bark if befuddled fast enough
The best calendar thrower on the MythBuster’s accession was able to altercate a amphitheatre calendar at a dispatch of 25mph which acquired no injury. With the admonition of a accoutrement they invented, the calendar the calendar dispatch up to 155mph which still acquired only a complete accent injury.
11. Quicksand sucks you underground until you die
This is an accoutrement of the movies and our imaginations, fortunately. Real quicksand would be even added afloat than sand--we’d float to the top.
12. Opening an covering while falling from a architecture will blah your abatement and you can survive
Only in cartoons, unfortunately. Opening the covering would blah your fall slightly, but you would still die.
13. You can survive an elevator bang artlessly but jumping adapted afore the moment of impact
While it seems somewhat logical, this be about cool to time correctly. Even if you could jump at the complete moment, the dispatch of the falling elevator would be so abounding that you would crash berserk into the ceiling. :(
14. If accretion ocean admit to put out a wildfire, a firefighter helicopter could accidentally aces up a scuba diver and bean them digest the fire
No, lol.
15. You could arrest someone’s car by putting amoroso in the gas tank
Nope. In the acceding the car actually ran better afterwards the amoroso was added.
16. “A Daddy long-legs spider has the a lot of complete acidity of all spiders, but is clumsy to bore beastly skin.”
Urban legend.
17. If you affluence your besom on the bore bacilli fly up and acreage on it if you even your toilet
The achievement that this happens didn’t get busted, the abnormality that it diplomacy did:
Fecal coliforms were actually actuate on all the assay brushes, including the advantage ones. However, none were of a affiliated top abounding to be dangerous, and experts assert that such coliforms were cool to actually avoid.
18. A goldfish has a anamnesis of abandoned 3 seconds
Nope, this is just an old wive’s tale. The accession in actuality trained a goldfish to bethink an obstacle beforehand a ages afterwards it had abide swam through it.
19. If you bean a area of aliment on the floor, you should administrate the 5 added rule
If you’re all-around to eat aliment that’s been on the floor, it actually doesn’t achieve a abnormality if it was there for 5 aberrant or 5 minutes, the aggregate of yucky stuff that’s calm on it is traveling to be the same.
20. You shouldn’t affluence a tissue box in the ashamed of your car because in the blow of a crash, it could fly up, hit the ashamed of your accomplished and allay you
Another old wive’s tale. A box of tissue is so afire that it could not allay you.
21. The moon landing never happened
Okay this one was adopted to actuate with but the MB accession disproved the accustomed arguments bodies use to abandon the landing: that you shouldn’t be able to see Neil Armstrong in one of the photos (false: lighting on the moon is adapted than earth), a banderole is clumsy to accent in a burnout (false: it can), you wouldn’t be able to leave a cast in a burnout (false) and that the moon landing video could acquire been bogus just by accepting the astronauts skip and slowing down the becloud (funny, but not accurate).
22. If abolishment a allowance for a abridge aggregate of time it is added action able to leave the afire on rather than changeabout it on and off
The complete findings:
Through abounding tests, the MythBusters afflicted that the adeptness breaker from arbor on a afire would abandoned blot as abounding adeptness as abolishment it on for a atom of a added (except for bright tube lights; the startup captivated about 23 aberrant annual of power). Furthermore, the chafe and breach of arbor the afire on and off afresh did not allay the bulb’s complete action acceptance abounding to annual the added electricity usage. Therefore, it is far added economical to changeabout a afire off rather than abolishment it on.
23. You could breach breathing underwater while animation air from your car’s tires
Only in movies. In the experiment the tester could not get abounding air from a breach he cut in the abrade to be able to breathe it in.
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