2008-07-02, 08:06 PM
DitOwnsYou Wrote:You know, humans actually use way more of their brain than 10%.
It's just when that was quoted in the 90's, it became distorted and what they were really saying was that scientists and neurologists only knew what 10% of your brain did, not that it only used 10%.
Thats not where that "fact" came from. When the internet started, there were skeptical websites dedicated to debunking stupid "fun facts". A couple of these sites had a contest amongst themselves how stupid of a thing they could get people to believe.
Source: NESS The Sketics Guide to the Universe Podcast, HEAVILY paraphrased.

