The Reality Check Episode 33

Who has more sex? + King Tut's Curse + JFK Was a Donut?

King Tutankhamun's Tomb

Part 1: 

Do men have more sexual partners than women? On average, in a closed heteral sexual population, do you think men or women have more sexual partners? 

More people think that men have more women sexual partners than women have men sexual partners. This have been observed in quite a lot of tests and analysis. It's not all the same number for all the research, but generally men have more women sexual partners. There are some cases which women have more men sexual partners in some areas of the world. 

The actual answer is they are equal. Mathematically speaking, it's suppose to be the same. Why? It's actually a trick question, because when a woman gets with a man, it also means the man gets with the woman. It's actually both ways around, so it's equal. 

This was first pointed out by David Gale, who is a mathematician at Berkley, in a New York Times article. 

Why do people think men have more sexual partners than women? It's because of the media once again. Things such a prostitutes makes people think that men have more sexual partners than women. Another thing is the men exaggerate and women understate. And people also have different definition if it counts or not. 

Part 2: 

In 1922, Howard Carter and his team discovered King Tutankhamun's tomb, which is notable for a tomb of a pharaoh and it was completely intact, not robbed at all. It is the only tomb that we have discovered that hasn't been robbed. However, there is a curse that effected every single person who went in the tomb. One of the members of a team is a king of a small land, and he died of a mosquito bite two weeks after the discovery of the tomb. A large number of the group died of strange early deaths. Many scientists today think that when the explorers went in the tomb and breathed the air inside, they breathed in some kind of toxic mold that built up by the rotting organs. But there are still many people who disagree with the explanations. 

So, what is the truth? Was there really a curse? We say that the people who are involved in the expedition are all cursed. But there are many debates whether this person counted or this person didn't count. It's all very fuzzy and unclear. And if we just take the 22 main people that did experiments to the tomb, their average lifespan is 72 years, which is quite a long time for the people back then. 

Even the main person, Howard Carter, himself lived up to 62 years old. 

In conclusion, there was no curse. 

Science Myth of the Week:

It was said that JFK made a mistake during his speech in Germany, in June 26, 1963. 

They said that he should have said: "I'm a citizen of Berlin". But what people said he said was: "I am a jelly donut".  

But, he actually didn't, he was just speaking in a bad accent. And some people are just weird to think about it.