Complete Lies
As many as 30% of cats in South America aren't actually cats, but cat beetles: an insect that has evolved into a near-perfect mimic of a cat. It was only discovered in the mid-Eighties when some scientists were engaged in a project to map the feline genome.
Cormac McCarthy's middle name is "Hogwart".
The Antarctic has no land under its ice, which is free-floating on the ocean surface. The only reason Antartica doesn't float away is a series of tethers on its underside which hold it to the sea floor. No one knows where the tethers come from.
Rabbis don't sneeze.
Wainscotting is named for Wayne Scott Lawson, 15th Earl of Derbyshire, who invented the paneling as a way to reinforce walls that could not support the weight of paintings, frames, and chandeliers.
John Wilkes Booth is generally considered to have been shot in the neck while hiding in a barn that had been set on fire. In reality, Booth suffered spontaneous combustion whilst in the barn, igniting it. The Union soldiers then shot him as a mercy.
In a statistical anomaly, no one from the town of Heidelberg, Germany, was injured during World War II. Soldiers and civilians either died or survived the war unscathed.
A small minority of people are actually allergic to fossils. Some may only be allergic to certain kinds of fossils, while others react to them all. The most common reactions are hives, redness, and swelling.
Cormac McCarthy's middle name is "Hogwart".
The Antarctic has no land under its ice, which is free-floating on the ocean surface. The only reason Antartica doesn't float away is a series of tethers on its underside which hold it to the sea floor. No one knows where the tethers come from.
Rabbis don't sneeze.
Wainscotting is named for Wayne Scott Lawson, 15th Earl of Derbyshire, who invented the paneling as a way to reinforce walls that could not support the weight of paintings, frames, and chandeliers.
John Wilkes Booth is generally considered to have been shot in the neck while hiding in a barn that had been set on fire. In reality, Booth suffered spontaneous combustion whilst in the barn, igniting it. The Union soldiers then shot him as a mercy.
In a statistical anomaly, no one from the town of Heidelberg, Germany, was injured during World War II. Soldiers and civilians either died or survived the war unscathed.
A small minority of people are actually allergic to fossils. Some may only be allergic to certain kinds of fossils, while others react to them all. The most common reactions are hives, redness, and swelling.