Maplestory Myths - know any?

Here's a few that are either myths or I'm just curious about it (but doesn't really warrant a thread in the Q&A).

Killing a monster while it is being knocked back into the edge of the screen causes it to drop nothing. (prevalent in PQs)

Potential stats are determined as soon as it receives a pot or cubed (ie: the Lens themselves don't determine the stats; using better lens don't give you "better" lines or higher chance of ranking up).

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I think those are actually true but does anyone have anything to concretely support/disprove it? o-o

That is actually based in reality. Not a myth. Back in the beta days or the early 0.1x days you had to avoid kiling King Slime at the edge of the screen because the drops would fall off the map making the PQ impossible. It was a real problem. This was fixed by having the edge of the map act as a wall too, so the drops would bounce off the wall and back into the map.

As for potential stats, that's patently false. The item, if it has a potential at all, is determined when its dropped, not when it has a lens used on it. The proof for this is a hack that was prevalent a while ago where hackers could see the potential stats of an item before requiring a reveal.