Bats aren't blind, sharks get cancer, and your tongue isn't divided up into different areas for each taste - all of your taste buds can sense bitter, sour, salty, sweet, and umami flavors.
Over at Information is Beautiful, data journalist and designer David McCandless has created a graphic showing 52 of the world's most common misconceptions, illustrating mistaken beliefs about
We've republished the graphic here with permission. Did you know all these things weren't true?
