We use only 10 percent of our brains.

You should drink eight glasses of water a day.

Shaving hair causes it to grow back faster and darker.

We’ve all heard and said these. I myself used the last one on my 14-year-old son the other days when he asked me if he could shave the wisps of hair under his nose.

Well, it turns out that these, and a bunch of other quasi-medical “facts”–hair and fingernails grow after death–are unfounded and/or completely bogus. Check out this enlightening article from BMJ.com 

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