The Ostrich Head Burial

    By now, you probably know that I don't really confirm much of anything. I kinda gave up on the whole verdict thing. Actually I just forgot to put that in. Eh. Well, the whole ostriches burying their heads in the ground is just NOT true.

The whole thing probably started when Pliny the Elder wrote that the ostriches' "stupidity is... remarkable; for although the rest of their body is so large, they imagine, when they have thrust their head and neck into a bush, that the whole of the body is concealed. " 

He may have been right about many facts about the ostrich, but this just wasn't one of 'em. But, I guess it's not hard to see why he'd think this though. After all, the brain of an ostrich is pretty small in proportion to its body, and people tend to automatically assume a smaller brain means less intelligence. Plus, they also dig their nests into the ground, so when they flip or move their eggs around, it looks like they're burying their heads into the ground. 

Sorry Mr.Pliny sir, you are wrong.

When an ostrich DOES sense danger, it can run away, or try to scare off the danger if it's a predator by making itself look scary. But sometimes, if it's bold enough, it'll just straight out beating the peace outta whatever scares it!
Or you know, utterly fail and run away:

Well, that's all I had to say! GoodBye 

Verdict: FALSE

When you sleep, your Brain takes a break

​Well, this is sorta true. You see, when you're awake, your brain is constantly working to understand​ what is going on around you. When you sleep, you aren't aware of your surroundings because your brain is "refreshing" so to speak in order for you to fell ready to go when you wake up. This doesn't mean your brain completely shuts down though. If that happened, you'd die in your sleep! After all, your brain "still controls many body functions including breathing" while you dream (sleepfoundation.org). As you sleep, you eventually enter REM sleep, in which "dreams occur, breathing and heart rate increase and become irregular, muscles relax, and eyes move back and forth under the eyelids" (sleepfoundation.org). In order for all this to happen however, your brain must be working and at least somewhat active to allow for movement. So there. Your brain is active when you sleep.

Blue Pool Pee

Try saying that 20 times fast! Yup. You may have heard about this myth from your parents or even some movie. You also may have heard of the variation of the myth in which pee turns red (ew). Either way, legend has it that in some select pools, owners dump a urine indicator dye to discourage people from peeing in them. It also helps catch who and when does pee in the pool and warns others where the pee is to avoid it. At least, that's what the myth says it's for. But does it really exist? Nope. Sorry.  A professional named "Alan" at the Aqua Clear web site says: "There is no chemical that can function as an indicator for urine in a pool." So there. It's official. It does NOT exist.