Everyone loves urban legends, we've heard some urban stories to a greater or lesser extent, or we're experiencing some urban stories as well. From dead animals, dead people and living dead people, to animals that become ingredients, humans have strange feelings that are intimidated by these stories. Today, the Diamat brings with it the legends of nine of the most famous cities abroad, which are still in progress today.
Top9 Cryogenic Cryo-Resurrection Technology: This urban legend seems to have originated in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when people became interested in the future science of frozen corpses. People in the 1960s promised that the humanity never die described in science fiction would soon become a reality.
It is said that after the death of Disney, who was known as a technological innovator at the time, his body was placed in a liquid nitrogen bucket so that when scientists discovered a technology that could resurrect a person. Other versions of this story even tell us that Walter's Frost Bucket is hidden under the Pirates of the Caribbean attractions at Disneyland! Sorry to tell you, this is completely wrong. On December 15, 1966, Walt Disney died of complications from treatment for lung cancer. At Disney's will, his family cremated him (a fact they have since confirmed) and his ashes were buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, which you can visit today. Cryonic resurrection techniques, at least so far, have not been possible.
Top8 Santa Claus was invented by Coca-Cola: In the 1930s, Coca-Cola was always looking for ways to expand its business empire in the winter – traditional sodas sold slowly in the winter. So Coca-Cola hired Haddon Sandblom, a highly regarded commercial illustrator who began creating a series of Coke images associated with Santa Claus.
The illustrations painted became the Coca-Cola Company's regular annual exhibition, which helped inspire people to buy Coke in the winter. In fact, this skilled illustrator created Santa Claus very well as the 1920s. The New York Times reported on this in 1927: "The standardized Santa Claus appears in front of the children of New York. Height, weight and figure are almost completely standardized, as are red clothing, Christmas hats and white beards. Full toys, rosy cheeks and nose, thick eyebrows and flexible thigh effects were also essential components, becoming the template for Santa Claus later.
Top 7 McDonald's shakes are made from animal fats: This rumor is so popular on the internet that many people believe that the liquid poured into the shake machine (and the ice cream machine) is fat that is reconstructed from pigs or chickens. But today, fast-food restaurants like McDonald's are required by law to provide consumers with the full nutritional information of their products.
Previously, McDonald's list of ingredients in public shakes includes: whole milk, sucrose, cream, skim milk solids, corn syrup solids, monoglycerides and diglycerides, guar gum, vanilla flavor, carrageenan, cellulose gum, vitamin a palmitate. Admittedly, some of them sound incomprehensible, but they are all absolutely safe for human consumption and are not animal by-products, of course, a reasonable diet is the most important. By the way, carrageenan is a type of seaweed (also known as Irish moss) – used to control the refrigerant in milkshakes – and if this seaweed is not used, the shake becomes solid.
Top6 Cruel Movies: Cruel Movie Legends refers to the legend that a person was murdered during the filming process during the filming of the movie, and the camera recorded the whole process. This legend may be saddled with other rumours about cannibalism, ghouls, and necrophilia. In recent years, films such as 8mm (starring Nicholas Cage) have been seen as templates.
But in fact, no cruel films have ever been found. Every investigated report in foreign media proves to be false. There's even a strange bounty: anyone who can come up with a brutal film for commercial sale can even get a million dollars in rewards. However, rewards have been offered for many years, and no one has ever received a bounty.
Top5 Magical Religions: A dozen years ago, a strange rumor began circulating on the internet abroad – if enough people wrote "jedi" as their religion in the national census, the government would be forced to list it as an official religion in the next census. The reality was from the 2001 UK Census, followed by the results of the Australian and New Zealand Censuses. The government does not recognize the legalization of religion through such acts, at least not on the surface.
And in Australia and New Zealand, a fine of $1,000 could be imposed for falsifying census results. Not only are you at risk of fines, but census information is used to determine the distribution of tax funds, and falsifying census results can also harm the rights and interests of citizens of other societies.
Top4 forced lemmings to jump off a cliff for filmmaking: The urban saga had a terrible beginning, with the film crew forcing a group of lemmings off a cliff in the 1958 Disney documentary White Wasteland to document their alleged suicidal behavior. The film was actually made in Canada, and the lemming mice used for filming were sold by the Eskimos.
Lemmings are photographed under various artificial interventions, then placed on cliffs and then pushed to the edge to simulate migration. Whether Disney knew about the crew's behavior is unclear, but one thing is for sure, the lemming didn't fall off a cliff.
Top3 Long-legged Spiders: For some time, there have been rumors that long-legged spiders are the most poisonous spiders, but their poisonous fangs are not enough to pierce our skin to kill humans.
There's a small difficulty here: Thanks to the protests of the International Moral Condemnation Group, others can't easily test spiders for toxicity. In fact, the most venomous spiders are the Brown Hermit and the Funnel Web Spider.
Top 2 Who Invented the Flushing Toilet: Contrary to popular belief, it was not Thomas Clapper who invented the flushing toilet. Clapper, best known as a Victorian plumber, came up with the idea of flushing the toilet. This claim actually comes from a 1969 book by Wallace Rayburn: Impulses with Pride: The Story of Thomas Clapper. Interestingly, the author also wrote The Story of Otto Titsling and the Development of the Bra.
Clapper was indeed a plumber, and he did get a number of patents related to plumbing at the time, but none of them were used for flush toilets. In fact, Alexander Cummings was considered the inventor of the outstanding gadget of Flush Matt in 1775.
Top1 U.S., Made in Japan: Someone may have heard it: The Japanese renamed a town in Japan to the United States so that they could legally export goods to the United States and mask its origin. In the consciousness of Americans after World War II, "Made in Japan" became synonymous with cheap and inferior goods, a statement that most Americans subconsciously agree with. However, in order to develop its economy, Japan had to find some ways to improve its post-war economic level.
At first, the Japanese thought that U.S. Customs ignored the import of obviously misleading products, but in fact U.S. Customs returned a large number of goods. An interesting addition to this story is that Sony deliberately narrowed its "Made in Japan" label so that Americans wouldn't realize it was a Japanese company. But U.S. customs officials rejected Sony's bulk shipments because the label was smaller than the prescribed label.