Common Myths That Have Been Debunked By Science

Humans Did Not Evolve From Chimpanzees

Humans and chimps share 98.8% of our DNA, but that's not an indicator of what evolution actually does. Evolution works through incremental genetic changes over the course of many generations. So, while it is likely that humans and chimpanzees shared an ancestor close to 10 million years ago, we did not directly evolve from them.

The More You Know

Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort.
People don’t sneeze in their sleep due to their brain shutting down the reflex.
Coca-Cola once bought all the website URLs that can be read as ahh, all the way up to 62 h’s.
M&M stands for Mars and Murrie.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.