TIL that the saying 'blood is thicker than water' may have once been 'the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb', meaning that friends are actually more important than family

http://www.thedirtpsychology.com/the-dirt/common-mistakes-advice-hindsight-bias



Submitted February 22, 2015 at 03:46PM by fauxreal3 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2wr031/til_that_the_saying_blood_is_thicker_than_water/