This is a cool infographic about frequent erroneous beliefs which linger on in our collective memory. For example, you can’t see the Great Wall of China from space (think about it–it’s the same width as a highway. Can you see I-35 from space?) and Napoleon wasn’t short (by the standards of his day he was average). And we don’t have five senses–we have twenty. You already know taste, touch, vision, smell, and hearing. But there are fifteen more. For example, if you close your eyes and raise your right arm up, you know exactly where it is. But you don’t figure that out by looking at it, or feeling it bump into something. It’s called “proprioception,” and in the rare instances where someone loses it, they have to dedicate tremendous attention to walking, clapping, and so forth.

I think I have two or three more senses, including “scotch radar” and a mild psychic awareness of nearby redheads. These powers mostly lead to trouble.

Learn More: Common Mythconceptions