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*** Additionally, the alleged rivalry with Salieri is said to drive Mozart to such poverty that he had to be buried in the common grave. In reality Mozart enjoyed great popularity and was receiving large commissions but was also a big spender. His modest burial was also not the result of his financial standing but of the strict Viennese burial laws and was a ceremony typical for a middle class of his era.

** Ditto for the play and film ''[[Inherit the Wind]]'', which took many, ''many'' liberties in depicting the actual Scopes Trial (and not just the names), but are more or less accepted as historical fact today.

** Lastly, when asked about the [[American Civil War]], most people recall scenes from ''[[Gone With the Wind]]'' which portrayed a very rose-colored picture of the South. ''[[Gone With the Wind]]'' is the result of that rose-colored picture already being popular.

** [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] is always portrayed with a French accent. Yet in actuality, during his lifetime some of his French contemporaries complained that his thick Corsican Italian accent made his French nearly impossible to decipher. (Which may be why a few of his comedic appearances instead depict him as muttering incomprehensibly and needing to have someone else translate for him.) Also, Napoleon was not quite as short as [[The Napoleon|he is often depicted in fiction]].

*** This, despite that a minor celebrity in the U.S. is [http://www.101lifestyle.com/images/celebs/julie_chen/DCELEB-julie-chen-pics-001.jpg Julie Chen], a former newsanchor, host of ''[[Big Brother]]'' and a talk-show host in the off-season.

** Lest we not forget, the world's youngest recorded mother was ''[http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp five years old]'' well before such chemical exposures were likely to have happened; individual differences in this regard are, and have always been, huge. And in any case, minor breast growth can happen even before the puberty kicks in with full force.

** Plus, babies have been known to grow breast buds and secrete [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactorrhea "witch's milk"], i.e. infant lactation, due to exposure of estrogen and other hormones from their mother's womb or breast milk.

* A common complaint about driving games is that a speeding car can easily yank a metal lamp post out of the ground with little loss of speed, while being stopped dead by a humble tree, which makes no sense to most people. In reality, modern lamp posts are intentionally designed to buckle in the event of a car crash as to not harm the passengers, while trees are rooted in the ground and require much more force to uproot. This complaint still has some merit though if a game depicts something like a fast semi truck or tank being unable to damage a thin palm tree.

* [[Adolf Hitler]] embodied so many [[Villain Ball]] [[Contrived Stupidity Tropes]] that [[World War Two]] would never have passed muster as a fiction series. Just the fact that he escaped some 40 plus assassination attempts is probably enough to kill the series. (Even though most of the assassination attempts failed because they were abandoned, or the assassins got cold feet, or a [[Body Double]] was killed, not because of anything Hitler did.)

* Speaking of, the [[Colonel Bogey March]] tune is true- Hitler ''did'' only have one ball.

** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling Quantum Tunnelling] is very significant at the scale at which electronics has shrunk to today. Heck, even the sun and stars wouldn't glow if it weren't truly possible. And that means...

* If [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory string theory] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_dimensions higher dimensions] can actually be verified, than our picture of reality would turn out to be a [[Mind Screw|lot weirder]].

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