The other day we were watching Dirty Jobs
and without going into a full recap, I'll just tell you that an
orinthologist (that's a bird scientist) said it's a myth that touching
a baby bird will cause its mom to reject it. She even said lots of baby
birds die that way. Now of course, my mom told me never to touch baby
birds, and if it wasn't for Dirty Jobs, I would have told my
kid the same. And it made me realize that we parents are just liars.
Now Mom Squawk has another one: apparently if you swallow your gum, it doesn't take years to digest. Oh, my world is crumbling!
Of course this is just the tip of the big lie iceberg.
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