Get ready for your mind to be blown this Friday afternoon. Wikipedia has a
page of common misconceptions, and as we all know whatever we see on Wikipedia has to be true. Here are some of my favorites:
- There is no evidence that iron maidens were invented in the Middle Ages or even used for torture. Instead they were pieced together in the 18th century from several artifacts found in museums in order to create spectacular objects intended for (commercial) exhibition
- Marie Antoinette did not actually use the phrase "let them eat cake" when she heard that the French peasantry was starving due to a shortage of bread.
- George Washington did not have wooden teeth; the dentures were made of gold, hippopotamus ivory, lead, and human and animal teeth (including horse and donkey teeth)
- George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter, though he reputedly discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more for soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes.
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