FACTS EVERYONE STILL BELIEVES

The world of today is dynamic and complex.

Everyone has things to do, people to see, and bills to pay; most people simply don't have the time to look up random information on the internet and confirm that they are accurate.

Fortunately for you, all I have is free time!

Prepare to have your world completely turned upside down because what follows are some untrue facts that you might actually believe!

Naturally, the moment you give this vision any thought, it disintegrates. Being a stealthy, covert assassin is difficult when you're wearing a conspicuous costume."Hey Mike, what do you think of the new guy?"

See what I mean? "I don't know, for some reason I don't really trust the"

Ninjas actually wore whatever was the least noticeable that they could find.

This indicated that rather than wearing a cool veil, they were considerably more likely to be dressed like a farmer or peasant.

However, masks that covered their faces were undoubtedly helpful.

As a result, it's possible that ninjas pretended to be rice paddy farmers with wide hats or komusou monks donning enormous straw caps, or tengai, as a symbol of modesty.Though I doubt it would be simple to scale a wall in that situation.

So where did the conventionally elegant ninja attire originate?

All right, it's a fascinating tale.

Prop handlers in traditional Japanese kabuki theatre were responsible for assembling and disassembling various props and background components throughout a performance.

What did these prop handlers wear? They had to work fast and didn't want to draw attention away from the action.

Yes, all black pyjamas from head to toe!

The audience learned to disregard people dressed in this manner by suspending their disbelief.

According to legend, a director in the sixteenth century came up with the incredibly meta notion of having one of these prop handlers kill a key character by revealing a knife in the middle of a prop change.If this is accurate, the theatre would have been groundbreaking for the time, breaking the fourth wall in a way that was unimaginable.

Because of the nature of the work, audiences continued to associate the uniform with dexterity and sneakiness whether or not this particular story was true. This is where the association with ninjas originates.

Maybe in the future, ninjas would dress like me if I assassinated one of my viewers out of the blue.

What's that behind you, hey?

Bird Puffs

Imagine that you are a newlywed couple.

The most wonderful day of your life—until a pigeon bursts into flames in the middle of slicing the cake, ruining your immaculate tux, dress, or bathrobe.

Look, you can wear anything you want to your wedding.

This urban legend is wholly false, which should come as no surprise.

When birds eat rice, they don't explode—in fact, they don't even become ill.

Even pigeons' stomachs break down rice far too quickly for them to absorb other liquids due to their digestive acids.

Additionally, rice actually expands in size less than bird seed does, and we don't often see birds exploding after consuming food from bird feeders, do we? Even if it could stay in the stomach for long enough to significantly absorb liquid.

Some people think that grumpy church members created this myth after too many people at weddings slipped on rice.

But this plausible-sounding explanation is likewise untrue.

Actually, we only have to thank one person for its dissemination: Mae S. Schmidle, a former state representative from Connecticut.

She proposed a bill in 1985 that would have fined people $50 for throwing rice at weddings.

At the time, she was told it was all false, but the publicity gave the rumour legs—or perhaps I should say, wings.

Thus, feel free to throw that rice directly into the bride's eyes the next time you're at a wedding!

Detonating Problems

Explosions are among the coolest things in the world, so it stands to reason that fleeing them unobserved elevates one's coolness level.