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Big CatBig Cat

Get in shape before age 30 or you'll be stuck in that shape forever

Getting back, getting in good shape before 30, because once you hit 30, you're in that same shape forever. I'm like a fucking walking poster child that I haven't been able to get back in shape in five years.

While it's biologically possible to change shape after 30, it is scientifically proven to be significantly harder due to metabolic and hormonal shifts.
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Big CatBig Cat

A King Cobra bite would kill an adult male African buffalo

One half of a king cobra bite would kill an adult male African buffalo. ... The fucking African buffalo cannot ... I'm actually looking it up right now. I just Googled it.

While King Cobra venom is extremely potent and can kill an elephant, specific 'half-bite' stats are hyperbolic.
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Big CatBig Cat

Learn how to dunk before you turn 30, because you won't be able to after

Learn how to dunk. Like, you're not going to be able to dunk when you're over 30. Because, I mean, if I had tried to dunk, I never tried to dunk under 30. So I don't even know if I could have dunked. I probably could have. Now it's too late.

For non-athletes, the window for peak vertical leap does indeed close significantly in the 30s.
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HankHank

Swallowing gum is completely normal and no different than eating candy

I'm trying to educate the world that it's not, you can swallow [gum]. It's the same thing as candy. It's the same thing as a Tootsie Roll. It's the same thing as a piece of licorice. Once the flavor goes away, you swallow it.

While not fatal, medical consensus is that gum is not meant to be swallowed as it's indigestible, though it does pass through the system.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

DNA is just the human body's way of cloning itself

It's [DNA] a human body's way of just cloning itself. [On genes being passed down]

DNA is a template for replication, but sexual reproduction involves recombination, not true cloning (which would be identical).
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Mutts have stronger genes than purebred dogs because they possess the best traits of all other breeds

Mutts get no respect. Come on. Here's a fun fact about mutts. Their genes are so much stronger because they've got all the best traits of all the other dogs, so they don't ever get sick.

While mixed-breed dogs generally have a broader gene pool and can be less prone to specific inherited diseases common in purebreds, the claim that they 'don't ever get sick' is a massive exaggeration.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Koalas mostly have chlamydia and can transmit it through their urine

You know that koalas have chlamydia? Most of them have chlamydia, and if they pee on you, they'll give you chlamydia.

While Chlamydia is a major epidemic in koala populations, it is generally not transmissible to humans through urine in the way Billy describes (though handling them can pose risks).
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Big CatBig Cat

Mormon soaking is a real practice where couples stay still to avoid technically having sex

The soak is you're not allowed to have sex before you get married... You are allowed to soak. What does that mean? You just put it in. Don't move. Just lay there. You soak it. Just put it in... with no friction.

Soaking (or 'marinating') is a well-documented urban legend and rumored practice within the LDS/BYU community to bypass religious prohibitions against premarital sex, though its widespread reality is difficult to verify.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Steam rooms have been proven to boost your natural human growth hormone

Steam rooms have been proven to boost your natural human growth hormone. It just helps your body repair itself. Anything that shocks your central nervous system causes your body to change.

Hyperthermic conditioning (heat stress from saunas or steam rooms) has indeed been linked in some studies to temporary spikes in growth hormone, though the 'proven' degree and long-term efficacy are often debated.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The 2017 solar eclipse is a shadow designed by scientists to get us excited about space

I think it's something that's designed by scientists to get us excited about space, but it's actually pretty lame. Well, you know what an eclipse is? It's a fucking shadow.

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While it is scientifically just a shadow, the 'designed by scientists' part is purely comedic.
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Randy MossRandy Moss

Irish War Cry is the logical favorite to beat in the Belmont Stakes

If [Irish War Cry] runs his best race, he's a daylight winner. You can't say that about any of the other horses in the race. So even though he's the favorite, I think he's the horse to beat.

Irish War Cry finished 2nd, losing to Tapwrit, whom Moss also highlighted.
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Jim HarbaughJim Harbaugh

Drinking massive amounts of milk built strong bones and made me taller than the rest of my family.

I literally was able to drink as much milk as I could hold. ... The proof being that nobody in my family is over six foot. My brother, John, and my dad... are right at six foot. I got to six three. ... Milk builds strong bones. ... It does do a body good.

While Jim is indeed taller than his brother and father, his belief that milk was the primary driver is scientifically anecdotal, though milk does support bone growth.
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Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

Employers have much more legal leeway if they don't pay their interns

If they're not getting paid, all right, and they're not employees, right? Well, you better stop [paying them] right away... you have a lot more leeway if you're not paying them.

Internship laws are complex, but generally, unpaid interns have fewer protections under the FLSA than employees, though the 'leeway' is often overstated.
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Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

I am currently on a hot streak of fixing things around the house

For 42 and a half of those years, I couldn't fix anything. But all of a sudden, in the last year or so, I got hot. I was touching things, and instead of breaking them, I was fixing them. And I even amazed myself.

This is a personal anecdotal claim that his wife immediately disputes by saying he only changed a lightbulb.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

White people are technically 'people of colors' because white is a combination of all colors

White is a combination of all the colors. So we are people of colors. We're people of colors. Why y'all always got to have advantages? More privilege. There you go. You got colors.

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In additive color theory (light), white is the combination of all colors; however, the social term 'people of color' is not a scientific classification of light.
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Kyle WiltjerKyle Wiltjer

Adam Morrison has an apocalypse bunker and is fully equipped for the end of the world

The guy is fully equipped if there was an apocalypse. He's got food stashed in the way, everything. So he could survive anything. He's got guns... He's got a bunker, everything. He's a pro.

Adam Morrison later clarified on the show that he does have survivalist interests and supplies, but the 'bunker' part was somewhat exaggerated myth-making.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Society needs to invent dual-temperature comfort zones for living rooms and beds

How has human society not reached the point where we have like dual comfort zones for living rooms? We have them in cars. Would it kill you to put one like in a bed? Like have one side of the bed set to a certain temperature, the other at a different?

Dual-zone climate control for mattresses (like Sleep Number or Eight Sleep) exists now, though living rooms remain difficult without separate pods.
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Big CatBig Cat

Barack Obama will admit that aliens exist before he leaves office in 2016

In 2016, as we switch presidents, the current president is going to admit that there are aliens out there which will probably spurn a world government because we'll all have to get together and be like, it's bigger than just us.

Obama did not officially admit to the existence of extraterrestrial life before leaving office in January 2017.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

You don't actually have to pay campus parking tickets if you don't plan on graduating from that college

I know one thing about colleges and tickets on cars... You don't have to pay those tickets. It doesn't matter. If you don't plan on graduating from that college, you don't have to pay.

While schools primarily use transcripts as leverage, unpaid tickets can often be sent to collections or prevent future enrollment/services.
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Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

Apple purposefully sabotages old iPhones to force consumers to upgrade

Once Apple starts coming out with the new phones, they make the old phones break by playing Beach Boys, doing all these kinds of things. It's brilliant, but it's total disregard for the consumers.

While Apple was later fined for slowing down older iPhones (batterygate), they did not do it via playing Beach Boys music.
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Big CatBig Cat

Buying a Pardon My Take shirt makes you a part-owner of Larry the Goldfish

If you buy a Pardon My Take shirt, you are an owner of Larry [the Goldfish] like the Green Bay Packers, except you actually own something, not fake own it.

The 'ownership' is symbolic/satirical for marketing purposes and does not grant actual legal ownership of the goldfish or its winnings.
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Danny BarrettDanny Barrett

No one on the West Coast cares about lacrosse

No one on the West Coast is lacrosse. Play lacrosse, that's about it... They're never going to.

Lacrosse has seen growth on the West Coast since 2016, but it remains heavily concentrated in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Drinking a mix of Pedialyte and vodka all night prevents hangovers

If you want to not have a hangover, here's what you do. You take Pedialyte and then you mix it with vodka or rum and then you just drink that all night so you don't get hungover to begin with. That's a pro's move.

While Pedialyte provides hydration, mixing it with alcohol doesn't negate the physiological effects of ethanol, making this 'partially' helpful but flawed advice.
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L. Ron MexicoL. Ron Mexico

Marlins Man Is Not A Man, A Fan, Or A Veteran

You not a man, a fan or a veteran. So fight me bitch, or let it be.

Marlins Man is technically a man and clearly a fan. The 'honorary soldier' designation from his verse is not equivalent to being a veteran. 1 out of 3.
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Blake BortlesBlake Bortles

Forty percent of women experience male pattern baldness

Hey, but also, small spoiler, 40% of women experience it... male pattern baldness.

While women experience hair loss (androgenetic alopecia), it is by definition not 'male pattern baldness', and the 40% figure usually refers to hair thinning by age 50, not identical pattern loss.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Wins are like eggs inside of a woman; once you use too many of them, they're gone

I always like to say that wins are like eggs inside of a woman. And once you use too many of them, they're gone and you can't get fertility treatments. Like push-ups, ovums, that type of thing.

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The 2016 Warriors did indeed 'run out of wins' in the Finals, losing after leading 3-1. However, the logic is biologically and statistically nonsensical.
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HankHank

Viagra creates 'robotic' boners that feel like a lead pipe in your pants

I've heard they're robotic boners. I hear you have a lead pipe in your pants. I'm curious to see if it's something that happens.

While 'robotic' isn't a medical term, Viagra is known to produce unnaturally firm and persistent erections.
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Big CatBig Cat

Every single person in the state of Indiana takes Carb Day off to drink all day

Friday is Carb Day, which... they described to me. They said every single person in the state of Indiana takes a day off and comes and drinks all day.

While a massive portion of the local workforce may take the day off, 'every single person' is a rhetorical exaggeration.
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Big CatBig Cat

I am on a hot streak of fixing things around the house

In the last year or so, I got hot. I was touching things, and instead of breaking them, I was fixing them... I've even amazed myself. And you know what the key to it is? It's like anything else. When you get a little more confident, I'm willing to take a chance that I won't break what I'm trying to fix.

His wife immediately counters that he only put in a light bulb, making the 'streak' somewhat subjective.
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Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

I have become a whiz at the computer recently

I've become a wizard at the computer. I really have. I turn it on. I can shut it off. I did something because I'm up at five o'clock in the morning and I bet neither one of you would realize that I have Wi-Fi in this condo.

Operation of a power button and basic Wi-Fi usage does not qualify one as a 'wizard' by general standards.

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