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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying

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We were all taught as children that honesty is the best policy. Sometimes the truth hurts, but lying is much more harmful. So we do our best to be upfront and honest with everyone we meet, occasionally bending the truth to spare someone’s feelings. Until one day we realize just how many lies have been surrounding us our entire lives…

From misleading statements companies tell to gain their customers' trust to propaganda governments spread to keep their citizens in line, Reddit users have recently been sharing some of the biggest lies that have been told in human history. So enjoy reading through this list, pandas, and be sure to upvote the lies you’ve heard far too many times!

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#1

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying > …there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! The late, the great George Carlin.

BestCaseSurvival , Ann Larie Valentine Report

Final score:

203points

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#2

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Vaccines cause autism. F**k those gullible idiots.

Low-Celery-7728 , FRANK MERIÑO Report

Final score:

162points

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#3

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the above Terms and Conditions."

SuvenPan , Alena Darmel Report

Final score:

159points

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#4

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Tax cuts for the rich will benefit everyone.

Ok-Cantaloupe7160 , Kebs Visuals Report

Final score:

138points

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#5

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying America stands for freedom and liberty.

I don't think there is a decade in US history where there wasn't someone somewhere being cruelly oppressed by the US or by someone heavily supported (i.e. controlled) by the US.

GravityTracker , Karolina Grabowska Report

Final score:

118points

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#6

Your religion is the correct one. Lol the “main reason” why “most people” believe what they believe is because they were born into part of the world in which the religion is popular.

CallMeBroncoBrock Report

Final score:

113points

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#7

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying You can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

Affectionate_Yam251 , Julia M Cameron Report

Final score:

106points

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#8

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "Your call is important to us."

TwoDrinkDave , Karolina Grabowska Report

Final score:

101points

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#9

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying “The war won’t last long.”

Cephalobara , Alena Darmel Report

Final score:

94points

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#10

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying If you're a good person, good things will happen to you.

SpykeATA , Liza Summer Report

Final score:

94points

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#11

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying There are hot singles in my area dying to meet me.

anon , Timcompound Report

Final score:

93points

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#12

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying We are a family and care about our employees.

Irondaddy_29 , RDNE Stock project Report

Final score:

90points

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#13

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Looks don’t matter.

hollowbutt3rfly , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

89points

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#14

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying You don’t need a union. We will take care of you.

Logical-Unlogical , Sora Shimazak Report

Final score:

88points

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#15

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Money won't make you happy.

OkOwl2339 , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

Final score:

84points

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#16

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying God. Pick a religion, any religion.

meaneggsandscram , Rodolfo Clix Report

Final score:

82points

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#17

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying " If elected... "

Pluperfectt , Asad Photo Maldives Report

Final score:

77points

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#18

Superior races based on melanin content.

Guccimayne , Lukas Report

Final score:

77points

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#19

"It's noble to die for your country."

FUThead2016 Report

Final score:

76points

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#20

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "Yes, I will remember to cancel the subscription just before the free trial ends."

Impossible_Donut_418 , Alex Koch Report

Final score:

73points

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#21

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Your baby is beautiful.

iamscyrus , RDNE Stock project Report

Final score:

70points

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#22

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying That anyone can become rich in a society that is ruled by people who need poor laborers to keep the wheels of commerce grinding.

countdoofie , Tahavvul Report

Final score:

67points

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#23

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "Everything happens for a reason."

Samoderzhets , Michael Burrows Report

Final score:

67points

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#24

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "Push Flap to Open" on the Kraft Mac and Cheese box.

ZeroSequence , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

65points

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#25

Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq: The claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was used as a justification for the 2003 invasion by the U.S. and allied forces. This turned out to be false and had a profound impact on global politics and led to significant loss of life.

thebullshitters Report

Final score:

64points

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#26

Not necessarily a lie, but people have the misconception that Europeans invented slavery in the 15th century.

Slavery is something that has existed across the world, for millenia.

And there were large scale slave trade networks established by other powers, such as the Trans Saharan slave trade established by the Islamic caliphate after their conquest of North Africa.

Final score:

57points

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#27

Diamonds are rare.

Kubrick_Fan Report

Final score:

56points

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#28

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "You won't always have a calculator."

Jack_Bartowski , RDNE Stock project Report

Final score:

55points

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#29

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "The customer is always right." I want to know who came up with that. They are wrong.

lugarius1990 , Clem Onojeghuo Report

Final score:

54points

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#30

Men are better than women.

former_human Report

Final score:

53points

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#31

I feel like the most recent one is this idea of “the American dream”, that anybody from the lowliest street sweeper can be a successful billionaire if they just work hard enough.

The older I get the more transparent that becomes as a veiled attempt to propagate capitalism by keeping the fast food workers and trash collectors of the population scurrying about working as hard as they can to serve the higher classes…It’s so obvious when you think about it for more than a few minutes, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that the lucky few to have actually achieved this are the exceptions, not the rule.

peanutismint Report

Final score:

49points

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#32

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying The Banks are too Big to fail.

King_Elrod , Brett Sayles Report

Final score:

46points

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#33

“The Native Americans worked with the early settlers to create Thanksgiving”

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45points

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#34

Youll get arthiritis by cracking your knuckles.

MadTeaCup_YT Report

Final score:

44points

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#35

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Fat makes you fat.

web-quake , Monstera Production Report

Final score:

42points

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#36

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "Capitalism isn't perfect, but it's the best system we've got." If that were true, how come we spend so much time worrying and paying people to [take out] and destabilize every democratically elected socialist government? The Military Industrial Complex is basically a money grab fueled by having to fight the right wing dictators we put into office, and making new weapons to compete with the ones that we sell to our enemies.

MissionofQorma , Aaron Kittredge Report

Final score:

40points

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#37

That we are free. We live on a paradise of a planet that is essentially a prison. Very few are actually free.

Goldeneye365 Report

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38points

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#38

The serving sizes on bags of chips.

Electrical_Age_336 Report

Final score:

36points

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#39

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Carrots make you see in the dark. i ate so much and turned orange for nothing.

microscopicwheaties , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

36points

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#40

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying No strings attached.

Few-Independence3935 , Canva Studio Report

Final score:

34points

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#41

They, by being unlike you, are inferior.

jasonkylebates Report

Final score:

19points

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#42

Interview ends. "Thank u, we'll call u soon."

-Honeymoon Report

Final score:

18points

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#43

"They are your enemy."

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Final score:

16points

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#44

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying If you work hard, you'll have a good happy life.

It's more about where you put the effort every day. You can put in half the effort of someone and end up 10x better than them.

Bitmap37 , Olha Ruskykh Report

Final score:

14points

#45

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "Please listen carefully as our menu options have recently changed."

dextroz , RDNE Stock project Report

Final score:

12points

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#46

"We're just doing this to keep you safe."

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Final score:

12points

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#47

That there isn’t enough resources for everyone.

Final score:

12points

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#48

It takes 7 years to digest gum.

MadTeaCup_YT Report

Final score:

11points

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#49

To live forever in complete happiness, all you have to do…

Arctic_Scholar Report

Final score:

9points

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#50

That you have to do things. You don’t. We made the rules. They’re all made up. All the borders are just lines we scribbled on maps after fighting over it. All the laws are just things we kinda agreed sound good. You have choices about so many more things than you realize.

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Final score:

7points

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#51

Santa Claus.

Anthroman78 Report

Final score:

6points

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#52

I’m from the government and I’m here to help you!

Krazybob613 Report

Final score:

2points

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#53

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "I'm sorry to hear that."

streakermaximus , Liza Summer Report

Final score:

1point

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#54

Jet fuel can melt steel beams.

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Final score:

-24points

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Adelaide Ross

Howdy, I'm Adelaide! I'm originally from Texas, but after graduating from university with an acting degree, I relocated to sunny Los Angeles for a while. I then got a serious bite from the travel bug and found myself moving to Sweden and England before settling in Lithuania about two years ago. I'm passionate about animal welfare, sustainability and eating delicious food. But as you can see, I cover a wide range of topics including drama, internet trends and hilarious memes. I can easily be won over with a Seinfeld reference, vegan pastry or glass of fresh cold brew. And during my free time, I can usually be seen strolling through a park, playing tennis or baking something tasty.

Howdy, I'm Adelaide! I'm originally from Texas, but after graduating from university with an acting degree, I relocated to sunny Los Angeles for a while. I then got a serious bite from the travel bug and found myself moving to Sweden and England before settling in Lithuania about two years ago. I'm passionate about animal welfare, sustainability and eating delicious food. But as you can see, I cover a wide range of topics including drama, internet trends and hilarious memes. I can easily be won over with a Seinfeld reference, vegan pastry or glass of fresh cold brew. And during my free time, I can usually be seen strolling through a park, playing tennis or baking something tasty.

Ieva Pečiulytė

I'm a Visual Editor for Bored Panda. I’m also an analog collage artist. My love for images and experience in layering goes well with both creating collages by hand and working with digital images as an Editor. When I’m not using my kitchen area as an art studio I also do various experiments making my own cosmetics or brewing kombucha. When I’m not at home you would most definitely find me attending a concert or walking my dog.

I'm a Visual Editor for Bored Panda. I’m also an analog collage artist. My love for images and experience in layering goes well with both creating collages by hand and working with digital images as an Editor. When I’m not using my kitchen area as an art studio I also do various experiments making my own cosmetics or brewing kombucha. When I’m not at home you would most definitely find me attending a concert or walking my dog.

What do you think ?

John Harrison 1 year ago

#55 BP has "authors"

8points

Poppy 1 year ago

The most frequent lie I tell is 'I'm fine'

8points

IDK_Something 1 year ago

It's ok to not be ok. Hugs 🫶🏼

2points

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David A Paterson 1 year ago (edited)

The biggest lie of all. "Russia is a threat to America". It's taken me a long time to realise that Russia was never a threat to America. Not militarily or through communism. During the cold war, Russia expected a US first strike with a 99% loss of the Russian military, hoping that the remaining 1% was enough for token retaliation. The US military frequently and flagrantly spin doctored the figures to grab more government funding.

2points

The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)

The Russian premiere insisting, "We will bury you" had nothing to do with the US "paranoia." Or the fact that Russia was ready to roll troops across Europe based on the outcome of a US presidential election. I won't even mention which one, because people will think I cite it for partisan purposes; if you're curious it's easy to Google.

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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)

Elephant dung, Ivan. Russia still has more missiles than the US. Not that is makes much of a difference, killing everyone ten times or just once.

2points

John Harrison 1 year ago

The token retaliation would have come in the form of thousands of MIRVs turning our cities, military, infrastructure and population to radioactive rubble. So can we maybe say, "A little bit of a threat"?

1point

Sara Wilson 1 year ago

Work hard and obey the rules and u will succeed

1point

notlikeyou1971 1 year ago

The story about George Washington and the cherry tree is a lie. They just rold that story to try to make kids not lie using a former president so kids will follow a historical figures example

1point

Adam Zad 1 year ago

The 2020 election was stollen.

-1point

John Harrison 1 year ago

#55 BP has "authors"

8points

Poppy 1 year ago

The most frequent lie I tell is 'I'm fine'

8points

IDK_Something 1 year ago

It's ok to not be ok. Hugs 🫶🏼

2points

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David A Paterson 1 year ago (edited)

The biggest lie of all. "Russia is a threat to America". It's taken me a long time to realise that Russia was never a threat to America. Not militarily or through communism. During the cold war, Russia expected a US first strike with a 99% loss of the Russian military, hoping that the remaining 1% was enough for token retaliation. The US military frequently and flagrantly spin doctored the figures to grab more government funding.

2points

The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)

The Russian premiere insisting, "We will bury you" had nothing to do with the US "paranoia." Or the fact that Russia was ready to roll troops across Europe based on the outcome of a US presidential election. I won't even mention which one, because people will think I cite it for partisan purposes; if you're curious it's easy to Google.

4points

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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)

Elephant dung, Ivan. Russia still has more missiles than the US. Not that is makes much of a difference, killing everyone ten times or just once.

2points

John Harrison 1 year ago

The token retaliation would have come in the form of thousands of MIRVs turning our cities, military, infrastructure and population to radioactive rubble. So can we maybe say, "A little bit of a threat"?

1point

Sara Wilson 1 year ago

Work hard and obey the rules and u will succeed

1point

notlikeyou1971 1 year ago

The story about George Washington and the cherry tree is a lie. They just rold that story to try to make kids not lie using a former president so kids will follow a historical figures example

1point

Adam Zad 1 year ago

The 2020 election was stollen.

-1point

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