The telephone was actually invented by Antonio Meucci, not Alexander Graham Bell.
It's said that Henry VIII had just two wives, not six.
Some neurologists say that human beings have at least nine senses, not just five.
Water is actually blue, not "transparent".
The universe is beige, not black with silvery bits.
Jesus wasn't born in a stable.
The largest living thing is a mushroom.
Reindeers wre the first animals to be domesticated, and Rudolph the red nose reindeer must have actually been a girl, despite the song saying "his nose so bright".
Columbus thought the Earth was pear-shaped and about a quarter of its actual size.
Interesting? I think so. There are loads of strange facts in The Book of General Ignorance, by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.
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