Mythbusting, Disney edition.

Those of you who are fan of Walt Disney might have stumbled across articles or biographies that state that he had his head (or body) cryonicallly frozen, and that it has been stolen.
That’s one of the several myths revolving around his person: sure Disney was an eccentric (and very wealthy) individual, but he was actually cremated whole, and his ashes are buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. The first cryonic freezing happened a month after the death of Walt Disney, too late for him to make such a decision.

Long live lefties

It is commonly believed that right-handed people live averagely up to 9 years longer than left-handed. The myth started with a paper published in 1988 based on a statistical artefact, and recent studies proved that left handedness has nothing to do with mortality.

Happy holidays (or at least, suicide free)!

It is commonly believed that most suicides occur around the holidays, but that’s just a myth: in fact, statistics prove the opposite.

Mythbusting: guillotine edition

Everybody knows that the most popular method of execution during the French Revolution was the guillotine: there are though quite a few urban legends about it that the majority of people accepts as true.

Joseph Guillotin, for example, did not invent the device at all, he only persuaded the officials to use it as a painless and efficient means of execution, and he was in fact against death penalty.

It is also a myth that he died by the guillotine: a guy named Guillotin was indeed executed at some point, but it was a doctor from Lyons not related to Joseph at all.