10 Bizarre Things We Used To Believe

Many of the beliefs in this list have long since been disproven. Many of us who learn about these practices now can look back at past generations and mock their ignorance. Some of us however were alive to remember the Y2K scare. So that's kind of embarrassing.

No other entry on this list has such a defining moment of debunking as Y2K, the panic over which was eliminated in a single second.

Y2K, or the Millennium Bug, came into the public consciousness in the late 90s. The problem stems from the fact that digital software typically displays dates by using the last two digits of the year. There was a concern that when we got to the year 2000 computers everywhere would believe the year was actually 1900.

Also that this misappropriation of years would somehow cause the end of the world.

Planes would fall from the sky. Cities would lose power. The global economy would crumble. All of these were considered potential results of 99 turning into 00.

Updates to millions of systems worldwide were implemented and when the big day came... nothing.

The updates and checks worked and the world kept spinning. It's never been fully reported if any systems actual crashed, burned or summoned the four horsemen.