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If your mucus is green you have a sinus infection
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Your mucus can be anywhere between white and green but this only indicates whether or not there is a certain protein in your white blood cells. It doesn’t tell you if you have a sinus infection.
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Nuts, seeds, and popcorn stick to the lining of your stomach
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If you have pouches along your bowel wall, then you have a disease called diverticulitis, but it is not caused by seeds, nuts, or popcorn.
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You get wrinkles in the pool because your skin absorbs water
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Your skin is waterproof, it can’t absorb water. The wrinkles are simply vasoconstriction triggered by your autonomic nervous system. Scientists are not exactly sure why this happens but it could be because it gives better grip in slippery environments (though this theory is contested as well).
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You would explode in outer space
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No, you wouldn’t, but reality isn’t much better: you would go unconscious after roughly 10 seconds, swell up, your blood would boil, and if you are not rescued after about 90 seconds, you would die (you wouldn’t freeze either because in a vacuum there is no real conduit for heat loss).
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Drinking orange juice cures colds
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Although orange juice does contain some vitamin C (but not as much as you think), and vitamin C is helpful to your immune system, it is not a magic drug and will do very little in the way of curing a cold.
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