What are some popular cultural myths?

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What are some popular myths / urban legends about various foods?

Closely related to What are some cooking myths that, in real life, don't help?, but I'd like to know more myths about specific foods themselves, nutritional or otherwise, not just pertaining to cooking. Jonas M Luster's excellent answer to Cooking: What...

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In Brazil some people avoid mangoes and milk at the same time because they believe this causes death...

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What do you mean by myth? As in something that is not real (like not breaking a mirror or don't say...

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Common Misconceptions: What are the some popular myths among the people?

I want to know some popular myths among the people all over the world. Example. The Great Wall of China is the only manmade structure visible from space

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'If you pluck a white hair then the neighboring black hairs will turn white.' An absolute myth which...

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What do you consider to be the most popular myths of history promoted by atheists & theists respectively?

For example, on R&S some of the more ubiquitous fallacies of pseudo-history posted by atheists involve the "Children's Crusade" of the Middle Ages (as if toddlers were recruited to free the Holy Land from Muslims) while Bible-defending...

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I've never heard of anyone stating that the Children's Crusade was made up of toddlers. You can't make...

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What are some popular Ancient Greek Myths and where can I gain more information?

My school is doing a production of the play Metamorphoses and we need some myths that can be simply acted out as transitions between scenes

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Orpheus and Eurydice is my fav. He loves her but she gets bitten by a snake and dies. He goes down into...

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Why have the Abrahamic myths become so popular? What is different about them?

There have always been bible-like myths, at least since bronze-age Mesopotamia.

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Well for approximately the last 3000 years, you ran the risk of being killed, ostracized or tortured...

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What are some of the most popular myths about IITians?

IITians are seen as a nerdy community by the general ignorant(?) public. Although, with my interaction with some IITians, I happened to realize, that they were people with the broadest perspective I had ever met and were not even close to being nerdy...

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That IITians know everything about everything...i have encountered many people who think that, mostly...

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What are the major myths and dreams of the early digital age?

Myths and dreams:  Things we want and need to be true, that we keep working at because they have cultural meaning. Early digital age:  this time in history. Related on Quora The Internet is imploding the myths of the TV age. What are the myths of the...

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That most of the start-ups where true garage operations (maybe before funding but almost never afterwords...

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Debunking some myths about ethnic sterotypes ? ( joke )?

A man boarded an aircraft at Heathrow and took his seat. As he settled in, he noticed a very beautiful woman boarding the plane. He realised she was heading straight towards his seat and bingo! She took the seat right beside him. Eager to strike up a...

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What a surprise , lool! :D

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Bulfinch's Mtholoogy dot com or whatever. The definitive text. Trust me.

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