#25: Defying Gravity
We hate to say it, but many adults have no idea what they’re talking about. Kids should still respect their elders, but they don’t have to take everything an adult says as fact. This person had a substitute teacher who claimed that bumblebees defy the laws of physics. Our storyteller believed this random substitute for most of their childhood.
It seems this misleading substitute might have been fooled himself. The physics-defying flight of the bumblebee is actually a myth. The truth is, scientists didn’t know how bumblebee’s wings carried their large bodies. Just because humans don’t know something doesn’t mean that it defies the laws of nature. We simply didn’t know, but now we do. There’s no law-defying magic here.