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the only crime that requires the victim to believe you first
means The act of saying something you know to be false with the intent to deceive.
from From Old English 'lyge' (a falsehood) and the verb 'lēogan' (to deceive), a word with deep Germanic roots — cousins survive in German 'lügen' and Dutch 'liegen.' Note the trap English sets: this 'lying' (the falsehood) shares its modern spelling with the 'lying' of lying down, which comes from an entirely different Old English verb, 'licgan' (to recline). The truth-twister and the rest-taker only became spelling-twins much later.
- daily count
- average person lies one to two times a day
- hot brain
- frequent lying physically blunts the brain's guilt response
- micro tells
- true emotions flash on faces in under a second
- kids start early
- children begin lying around age two or three
- longest nose
- pinocchio's nose was never meant to grow at all
pinocchio — fictional character whose nose grows when he lies, created by carlo collodi in 1881
george washington cherry tree — famous apocryphal story where young washington admits he cannot tell a lie, debunked by historians
lance armstrong doping case — cyclist who lied about never using performance-enhancing drugs for 13 years until 2013 confession