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Here is a nice article about medical myths including:

• People should drink at least eight glasses of water a day
• We use only 10% of our brains
• Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death
• Shaving hair causes it to grow back faster, darker, or coarser
• Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight
• Eating turkey makes people especially drowsy
• Mobile phones create considerable electromagnetic interference in hospitals.

Well, nice to know:

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/335/7633/1288

This article adds, that spinach, will not make you strong. Essentially this myth is based on the high amount of iron, which was overestimated by a factor of ten resulting in spinach being on the same level as broccoli. Oh, well:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/mythen-in-der-wissenschaft-die-grosse-spinat-verschwoerung-1.985098-3