From "you'll go blind" to "don't sit too close to the TV," every generation had its fair share of questionable parenting advice. While some warnings came from good intentions, many turned out to be nothing more than folklore.
People have always been cautious about their health, sometimes to a fault. It is surprising how many common assumptions about what is unhealthy have turned out to be incorrect.
Advertising has always had one goal — to sell. In that pursuit, many brands blurred the lines between fact and fiction, turning exaggerations into widely accepted truths.
The stories we hear as children often feel magical and harmless. However, digging deeper reveals that some childhood myths carry shadows far darker than their surface suggests.
Here's a list of 16 popular childhood myths we all believed until growing up and facing the facts.
These 12 widely believed quotes are often repeated, but the people they’re attributed to never actually said them.