The Great Wall of China is not visible from space. No astronaut has ever said he could see it.
There is no particular part of your tongue that can taste particular tastes. All taste buds across the surface of your tongue can taste salt, sugar, bitterness and sourness.
A bumble bee's flight is not inexplicable. A few scientists a long time ago guessed they could not fly, with flawed techniques. The flight of all insects is well understood.
The colour red does not anger bulls, it is the flapping fabric that incites them. The colour red is chosen to mask the bulls blood after, and indeed before, the fight. Healthy bulls are rarely used, and they are nearly always bleeding before the fight even starts, to give the bull fighter (Materdor) a better chance of killing it.
Jihad does not mean holy war. It simply means "struggle" often in a spiritual sense.
Nowhere in The Bible does it say that the fruit consumed by Adam and Eve in The Garden of Eden was an apple, it is merely portrayed as such in western culture. Jewish tradition states it was most likely a fig.
Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb. But he did produce the first practical light-bulb in a partnership with Joseph Swan.
Joel Hollands is not a murderer or a drug addict, he just likes wearing black and is quite approachable and friendly.
Scources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions http://www.sciencechatforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=8662 http://ask.yahoo.com/20030724.html, http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/edison/lightbulb.shtml
Joel's friends.
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