Your Brain on Facts

For The Last Time... (ep. 73)

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Einstein didn't flunk math, people in Columbus's time didn't think the earth was flat, and lemmings don't fling themselves off cliffs.
Why is it the false facts spread so quickly and dig in so deep?
02:10 Everything you think you know about pirates
08:00 Ellis Island name changes
13:05 Sharks don't get cancer
20:50 Alpha wolves 
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