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HankHank

Pepper jack cheese is yellow

I'll go with pepper jack cheese.

Pepper jack cheese is predominantly white with colored pepper flecks. Even Max, who wanted cheese to be a pick, looked it up and the first color listed was orange, not yellow.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I used to think that if you dug a deep enough hole in the ground, you would eventually reach China

If you dug deep enough you could reach China. I honestly thought that I could... every kid and I I was probably is is that wrong? ... I looked this up a couple months ago. It's actually embarrassing how shallow the deepest hole ever dug is.

Physically impossible due to the Earth's core and the fact that digging straight down from the US would lead to the Indian Ocean, not China.
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HankHank

I used to think that kissing was the same thing as having sex

Kissing equals sex... that I thought for a long time. That's a really good one. That's how you thought babies were made... whether you say sex or go, they're kissing. I was like, oh, they're naked kissing... because you would watch a movie and they would [kiss] and then whatever.

This is a factually incorrect childhood understanding of biology and human behavior.
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Big CatBig Cat

I used to think that jumping at the last second in a falling elevator would save your life

If you're an elevator and it falls and you jump at the end, you survive... I just looked it up. It's not true. It's not true. You would die.

The physics of a free-falling elevator mean jumping would not significantly reduce the force of impact. Big Cat correctly identifies that his past belief was wrong.
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Big CatBig Cat

I used to think my testicles were made of Play-Doh and that eating actual Play-Doh would make them grow bigger

I thought my balls, my testicles were Play-Doh. So when my parents told me don't eat Play-Doh, I thought they were trying to be like, Hey don't eat Play-Doh because your balls will just get bigger because it will just go right to your balls... You just don't know what they are when you're a little kid and you start touching 'em, you're like, this is weird. I'm like, oh, it must be Play-Doh.

Testicles are not made of Play-Doh, and eating modeling clay does not increase their volume.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I used to believe that all adults were smart and understood exactly what was going on

I honestly used to think that every adult was smart. I thought if you were grown up, you knew what was going on. And then you grow up and you're like, we're all dumb. No, we're all really fucking dumb. I was probably smarter when I was a kid than I am now.

The claim that adults are universally 'smart' is demonstrably false and a matter of maturing perception.
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HewyHewy

Chocolate milk comes from brown cows

I thought chocolate milk came from brown cows... I was up north driving past a brown cow and I pointed to my cousin, I said, you know, chocolate milk comes from those things.

Chocolate milk is white milk with cocoa/sugar added; the cow's color is irrelevant.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Titties are a type of meat

Titties is meat. Great choice. ... They're made out of meat. ... Is it the Mount Rushmore meat that you eat? Fact or fiction. ... I enjoy looking at the meat.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Biologically they contain fatty tissue and muscle, but they are not 'meat' in a culinary context. It was eventually removed from his list under protest.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The female orgasm is a myth created by 'Big Orgasm'

The female orgasm. Not real. Big orgasm has been lying to you guys. Girls don't come. They just do it because they like to make us feel bad for coming too quick. Exactly... let's be honest, let's get real honest here. That shit's not real.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
The female orgasm is a biological reality.
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Big CatBig Cat

Shark attacks are not real and people just overreact to minor injuries

I don't think shark attacks are real. I just don't think they're real. I think someone hits their leg on like a coral reef or something. I don't believe them. I do not think they're real. I think someone... you're a bad swimmer. You probably stubbed your toe and then overreacted.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Shark attacks are documented medical and biological events.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Wright Brothers are technically responsible for every aviation-related tragedy in history

[The Wright Brothers] are also responsible for 9/11. I mean, it was flying. It started there. ... You're also taking responsibility for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
This is a logical fallacy used for comedic effect.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

I learned how to run before I learned how to walk

I learned to run before I learned to walk.

This is biologically almost impossible, though Billy maintains his 'freak' status.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Men evolved beards as a form of physical armor to protect their throats in combat

I actually read this crazy thing that men developed beards because it prevented them from getting their throat slashed in combat. It was an extra like thing of Armor.

Mainstream evolutionary biology attributes human beards to sexual selection (intra-sexual competition and mate attraction) rather than mechanical protection from bladed weapons.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

60% of bank robberies go unsolved

My theory about bank robbers is I think you get away with robbing banks way more than we're told... I think like 60% of bank robberies go unsolved. It's a great business model.

According to the FBI, the clearance rate for bank robberies is typically around 50-60%, meaning PFT's claim that 60% go *unsolved* is roughly the inverse of reality.
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HankHank

A silverback gorilla could defeat an elephant by choking it out

I'm going to go elephant versus silverback gorilla. If the elephant can fucking get on his back and get him in a chokehold... [A] gorilla can tap out an elephant.

Physically impossible for a gorilla to apply a chokehold to an elephant's neck due to size differential.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

I could probably choke out a teenage polar bear

[Big Cat: Billy, could you choke out a teenage polar bear?] I'd get pretty cut up, but maybe.

A teenage polar bear still weighs several hundred pounds and possesses lethal claws and bite force; an unarmed human choking one out is virtually impossible.
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HankHank

The Pyramids of Giza were probably built by aliens

I'm going to go with the real pyramids, Pyramids of Giza... the greatest structural engineering ever done, probably done by aliens.

Archaeological evidence confirms the pyramids were built by ancient Egyptians, not extraterrestrials.
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Big CatBig Cat

Animals likely understand everything we say but are collectively choosing to ignore us

What if all the animals actually understood what we were saying but just just ignoring us... like the minute they figure out that we know shit's gonna get crazy and they can't talk back.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Biologically incorrect, though it makes for great comedy.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I will break my wrist if I attempt to ride a skateboard during the tandem bike tour

I'm bad at balancing in general. So I've always wanted to surf or skateboard can't do it. If I get on a skateboard, I guarantee you within probably less than a second, I will break my wrist very bad.

The tandem bike ride occurred, but PFT did not break his wrist while attempting balance-related activities on the show.
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Big CatBig Cat

I could take a boa constrictor in a wrestling match

I think I could take a boa constrictor. I don't think a boa constrictor could take down like a fucking well... I just punch it in its brain over and over. I would you kick a boa constrictor up doesn't have to take down a boa constrictor our python an anaconda might get you.

A large boa constrictor or python is biologically capable of killing a human, making this a very risky claim.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I honestly think I could fly a plane in an emergency based on flight simulators and 'Top Gun'

I honestly think I could fly an airplane... if the pilot becomes incapacitated during the flight. I'm going to raise my hand and be like, I have flown numerous flight simulators. I played the Top Gun video game. I've seen Top Gun like 10 times. I think I could get the plane close to landing.

OpinionLifeMediumSarcastic
While untested, it is highly unlikely a civilian with only simulator experience could safely land a commercial aircraft without professional guidance.
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HankHank

I can catch a fish with my bare hands in a river in Alaska

If I had a day on a river in Alaska, I could catch a fish with my hands. ... I've been watching a lot of Planet Earth. Their method is not that crazy. ... Give me enough time in Alaska.

Catching wild salmon by hand is notoriously difficult for humans without specialized skills or bear-like reflexes.
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Ryen RussilloRyen Russillo

Blue suits will be out of style in two years

I think in two years, everybody's been looking at their closet going, why do I have seven different blue suits? So I would get out of the blue suit game right now.

Blue/navy suits remain the most common staple in men's formalwear years after this prediction.
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Chris LongChris Long

The United States should build an Autobahn with no speed limits

I think we're missing out on an Autobahn, and there's a lot of places that you could put it and just do away with the speed limit.

There is no federal no-speed-limit highway in the United States.
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HankHank

The national drinking age should be lowered to 18

I'd make the drinking age 18... Because everyone's drinking when they're 18 anyway, so why not just make it legal?

The drinking age remains 21 in the United States.
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Big CatBig Cat

The 'breaking the seal' phenomenon is real and causes your bladder to refill faster.

What the fuck happens when you break the seal? Why do you then have to piss? When you have all the pee in your balls and then you break the seal and then your balls fill up with pee again really quickly, what's with breaking the seal?

Pee is not stored in the balls. 'Breaking the seal' is a physiological myth; alcohol is a diuretic that suppresses ADH, meaning you will pee more regardless of when you start.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Masturbation makes you gay

This is a life advice that I've gotten. I don't know if it's true. Okay. But I was once told that masturbation makes you gay.

Biologically and psychologically false.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The sun is scientifically cold because space is cold

Where do you land, by the way, on our theory that the sun is, in fact, cold? I'm a fan of the space that just seems to shut everybody down. Space is cold and everyone just... When you said you were willing to hear it out, I was just going to say space is cold. That's it.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Scientifically, the sun is an extremely hot star.
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HankHank

Stephen Hawking has been dead for years and his public persona is an AI government puppet

Stephen Hawking died a long time ago, but the government has kept up the illusion that he's alive in order to get their space propaganda out there to the nerd community. He's literally dead, and it's artificial intelligence that's talking.

Stephen Hawking was alive at the time of this episode and lived until March 14, 2018.
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Big CatBig Cat

We cannot trust the theory of gravity because Isaac Newton was a virgin

The fact that we're trusting gravity with a guy who never had sex seems a little suspicious. Doesn't know how woman on top feels.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
A scientist's personal life has no bearing on the mathematical and physical validity of the laws of motion and gravitation.
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Big CatBig Cat

I used to think my testicles were made of Play-Doh and eating more would make them bigger

My number one, I used to think that your testicles were Play-Doh. So I thought if you just ate more Play-Doh, you'd have bigger balls. I used to eat Play-Doh. For sure. I mean, it's kind of like the Bruce Arians drinking paint there. You got to try all things if you want to have bigger balls.

The biological claim that testicles are made of Play-Doh and grow via consumption is factually incorrect.
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Big CatBig Cat

If you eat tuna fish before you go swimming, you will drown

The old wives' tale, if you eat tuna fish before you go swimming, you'll drown. I really, really thought that. I used to think it, for some reason, specifically tuna fish... basically it was mixing, you know. It makes no sense. You consume a fish to get better at swimming.

Eating tuna before swimming does not cause drowning.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I genuinely thought I was an elf for two years because of my pointy ears

When I was a kid I actually I thought I was an elf for a while. Because I had pointy ears, right? They're super pointy. It was the pointy ears... this is all inside my own head. And I never told anybody about it. And then like two years later, I was like, oh, thank God, I guess I'm not an elf.

PFT Commenter is a human, not an elf.
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Big CatBig Cat

Diversify your investment by buying scratch tickets in multiple states to become a millionaire

On a road trip, little pro tip, you buy scratch tickets or lotto tickets at every single stop in multiple different states. It's called diversifying your investment. And you will then become a millionaire.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Buying lottery tickets is statistically unlikely to make one a millionaire, regardless of how many states they are purchased in.
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HankHank

Apple purposefully sells iPhone chargers that break so you have to buy more

My number one [minor inconvenience] is buying iPhone chargers from, like, a gas station, and then when you plug them in, they just don't work... [Steve Jobs] basically has made a charger that cannot be duplicated... They have chargers that you can charge your iPhone once and it's just charged forever. They just won't sell them to us.

While planned obsolescence is a debated topic, the claim of a 'forever' charger is factually unfounded.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The years AD 614 to 911 did not actually happen

The phantom time hypothesis. So there are a bunch of people out there that truly believe that the years AD 614 to 911 didn't happen... They were all made up by the church. So like that's 300 years of human history that we just were taught about, but they don't happen.

The phantom time hypothesis is a fringe theory with no scientific or historical backing; the years definitely occurred.
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Big CatBig Cat

The 1969 moon landing was faked

I also don't think the moon landing was real, but that's, again, those are more facts, not conspiracy theories.

The moon landings are verified historical facts.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Yellowstone supervolcano is 100,000 years overdue for an eruption that will end the world

The Yellowstone Super Volcano... we are way overdue for an eruption. We're 100,000 years past due for it. So, you know, live like there's no tomorrow because it probably isn't.

While the volcano is active and will erupt again, geologists generally do not consider it 'overdue' in a predictable way.

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