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* The so-called "Tom Brady Rule" (which prohibited a defensive player from hitting quarterbacks below the knee) was wrongly attributed to Tom Brady after his season-ending knee injury during the 2008 NFL season. It's unofficially called the "Carson Palmer Rule" (which Brady calls his knee injury in a [http://itiswhatitis.weei.com/sports/newengland/football/patriots/2011/09/19/transcript-of-tom-brady-on-dc-i-wont-ever-say-that-again-about-drinking-before-games/2011 interview with WEEI radio]), which was passed back at the start of the 2006 season after Cincinnati Bengals QB Carson Palmer suffered the same injury during the 2005 playoffs against the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]]. The actual "Brady Rule" (or amendment) updated the existing "Palmer Rule" by stating that a defender ''who's already on the ground'' can't hit the QB below the knees.

* The general consensus on the 2007 [[Scandalgate|Spygate]] scandal is that the New England Patriots are cheaters. In actuality, the Patriots were found guilty of recording the New York Jets' defensive signals ''from an illegal location'' (i.e., the sidelines). Also, Super Bowl-winning coaches Jimmy Johnson, Bill Cowher, Dick Vermeil, and Mike Shanahan admitted to doing the same thing.

* The [[wikipedia:Tueller Drill|Tueller Drill]] is about the average distance at which someone with a '''holstered''' gun can successfully draw and shoot before an assailant with a melee weapon can reach him. Somewhere along the line, it somehow (d)evolved into the notion of a melee attacker being able to invert [[Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight]] at a distance below that. It definitely does not say anything about trying to close with an active shooter, but from the way the story has mutated, one could be forgiven for thinking it did.

* The [[wikipedia:Tueller Drill|Tueller Drill]] is about the average distance at which someone with a '''holstered''' gun can successfully draw and shoot before an assailant with a melee weapon can reach him, and by corollary, the distance at or below which a melee assailant can close to land an attack before said would-be gunman can make his. Somewhere along the line, it somehow (d)evolved into the notion of a melee attacker being able to invert [[Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight]] at a distance below that; given that there is still a high likelihood of being able to complete the draw-and-shoot despite injury and that [[No Range Like Point-Blank Range|a gunshot will still do at least as much damage up close]], this is not the case. It definitely does not say anything about trying to close with an active shooter, but from the way the story has mutated, one could be forgiven for thinking it did.

* King Tutankhamun's golden burial mask (you know, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_of_Tutankhamun this thing]) is one of the most famous and iconic artifacts pertaining to ancient Egypt, but it is also one the media tends to get wrong. Quick, what is on the mask’s forehead? A cobra, right? Well, right! But there is also a vulture next to the cobra, something that, 99% of the time, isn’t there when the mask is depicted in the media. Kind of odd for something so famous.

* The painting depicting King Henry VIII holding a turkey leg - no such painting, contrary to popular belief. In fact, Great Britain has a royal protocol that forbids officially sanctioned art showing a monarch with food. Possibly anyone who claims there is such a painting is confusing it with a scene the 1933 film ''[[The Private Life of Henry VIII]]'', which did indeed establish the popular image of him as an obese, lecherous glutton.