facts that aren't true

With endless resources at our fingertips nowadays, you'd think it would be much more difficult for folks to get away with passing off fiction as fact. And yet, myths and misconceptions are just as prevalent today as they were in a pre-internet world.

Take the knuckle-cracking myth, for instance: Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, a majority of us still hold on to the belief that cracking your knuckles will lead to arthritis. (It won't.)

And somehow a shocking number of people still think that it's fine to eat food that dropped on the floor if it's only been there for five seconds—as if somehow bacteria are too slow to jump on board that fallen French fry.

And there are plenty more common myths that permeate society today.

Whether they're the result of twisted truths over centuries or rumors blindly accepted as reality, these are the well-known "facts" almost everyone believes are true but they're actually fiction.

And for more wrongs you probably need to right, check out the 25 Objects You Didn't Know You Were Using Wrong.