So I got to play the "Tell me ~I’m wrong~” game with my mentees! And we had lots of fun!
And they are now very happy to tell me I’m wrong in perfect synchronicity!
And beforehand, I polled some of my friends for pre-prepared false statements, just in case I had moments where I couldn’t come up with something! So here’s a ~list of awesome lies~ if you want to play the game yourself!
And speaking of moons, moonrocks are an amnestic! They make you forget about gravity, and that’s why you can ~jump so high~ when you’re on one of the moons!
~Green is the default Amentan hair color~! This is because hair is actually an endosymbyote which originated from moss!
And if you eat too many bananas while pregnant, the carotenoid pigments will be absorbed into the infant’s bloodstream, and so your child’s hair will be yellow no matter what caste you were originally!
Did you know doors were only invented a few hundred years ago? But the inventor of doors was ~so sneaky~ during installation that everyone just assumed they'd always been there!
Formal wedding robes used to be made entirely out of stitched-together rose petals, in order to imitate silk at a lower cost!
Drinking 5 cups of milk a day for a period of seventeen months is a ~reliable cure for hypersensitivity~!
And limes are just unripe tomatoes!
Fried eggs contain the chemical friedeggamine, which gives them their fried-egg-like flavor!
Calado is the country with the statistically highest quality of life!
No one actually lives in Voa. The place we call Voa has always been empty. The country was made up as a theoretical one day by a policy green, and the blue they were talking to ~mistook it for real~! And they've been pretending it’s real ever since, in order to avoid the embarrassment of admitting they got fooled!
And Ereith isn't real either. But not the geopolitical entity this time! The ~landmass of Ereith is fake~! It's really just a bunch of barges tied together with a tarp on top!
~And so-called “polar bears” are really just a slow-flowing liquid~!
Like most megafauna, horses went extinct a long time ago! Really, all horses are just ~tiny tractors in horse costumes~!
And dogs are a particularly large and fuzzy variety of lizard!
“Ice cream” got its name from the fact that it’s made by creaming ice repeatedly in a blender!
Slime molds aren’t real! One time, a scientist spilled something gooey, and didn't want to admit it, so they made something up! And mycologists have been discussing the elusive “slime mold” ever since!
Did you know you can save on heating bills by turning the air conditioner on full blast in winter? Because once the temperature outside gets cold enough, the value on the thermostat rolls over!
Shian Epechi is one of only two living actors capable of juggling! This is because Shian Epechi has ~secret grey~ ancestry she’s been hiding all along!
[Thank you to Arete/Stars, Grace (Lissë), zamboni-whisperer,
Moriwen, and MaggieoftheOwls for their help in making up a plethora of excellent lies!]
