Common Misconceptions

What is the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything?

Don't stress over ulcers.

Betsy Ross gets all the credit but she didn't make the flag and other truths about our origin stories.

Vernacular or colloquial, some words just don't get no respect.

Matadors have been fighting bulls with red flags forever...why red?

It's hot. it's cold. Near and far. WTF.

Think only IT dudes and dudettes have to worry about viruses on their devices? 

Was life nasty, brutish and short in the middle ages? Were they all stinky as all get out? 

Does the mars rover really play happy birthday to itself every year?

Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the greatest leaders of the modern age despite his lack of stature. Was La Petit Corporal really diminutive?

What do carrots have to do with eyesight and WW II?

Black Holes Don't suck...they're just very attractive.

When was Christ born? Was it in December?

Is X really meant to take Christ out of Xmas? Or was there a more mundane reason we write Xmas?

Did Ancient Romans use a vomitorium to purge during feasts so they could back and eat more?

Henry Ford. Racecars, assembly lines and mass production oh my.

Just goes to prove some people will believe anything...all evidence to the contrary...

Genghis Khan and his army conquered everything from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea and all points in between. That's not the really amazing part.

Did Benjamin Franklin really want a turkey for the symbol of the US?

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