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Germany started the first world war
Napolean was unusally short
Chameleons change colour to suit etheir background
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo
Human’s evolved from monkeys
Henry VIII had 6 wives
Vikings wore horns on their helmets
Christopher Columbus discovered America
Mary Antoinette said “let them eat cake”
Coca Cola invented the modern image of Father Xmas
Lemmings chuck themselves off cliffs
daddy longlegs teeth are too weak to bite
blood is blue
hair & fingernails continue to grow after you die
Buddha was a bit of a chubber
Sherlock Holmes & “elementary my dear watson”
nero fiddled whilst Rome burntSome biblical misconceptions:
Jesus was born in a barn/stable
he was visited in the barn/stable by 3 wise men
Adam & Eve were expelled from Eden for eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good & evil
The animals went into Noah’s ark 2 by 2
Moses was given 10 commandments by God
Jesus’s mum got pregnant by immaculate conceptionThere is a misconception that you can find correct information from Wikipedia ;)
Well I was going to pick him up on that,as I was looking for misconceptions that we come across on our own from time to time or ones that have been lodged in the old grey matter for eons !
Well I was going to pick him up on that,as I was looking for misconceptions that we come across on our own from time to time or ones that have been lodged in the old grey matter for eons !Lodged in the grey matter for eons? What I had for breakfast today isn’t lodged in my grey matter
Well I was going to pick him up on that,as I was looking for misconceptions that we come across on our own from time to time or ones that have been lodged in the old grey matter for eons !In all honesty the only one of those off that list which were gleamed wholly from a quick internet search (& none from Wikipedia) were the daddy longlegs, buddha, adam & eve, noah’s ark & the immaculate conception ones
cheating on 5 out of 23 aint bad – we’re not all morons you know!! ;)
Many were gleamed from watching QI & the others just coz I’m a reet clever bastard
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