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'''Lucy''': After it comes up the wind blows it around so it looks like it's coming down, but, actually, it comes up out of the ground, like grass. It comes up, Charlie Brown, snow comes up.
'''Charlie Brown''': Oh, good grief--
'''Linus''': Lucy, why is Charlie Brown [[Head Desk|banging his head against a tree]]?
'''Lucy''': To loosen the bark so the tree will grow faster. Come along, Linus.|''[[You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Theatre)|You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown]]'', "Little Known Facts"}}
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* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' takes place far in the future. [[Future Imperfect|A lot of knowledge has either been lost or is no longer known commonly.]] After procuring some of Hitler's urine to do drugs to, one person explains to a friend the history of the man.
{{quote|"Who was Hitler?"
"Rock star. He was in Led Zeppelin. [[But You Screw One Goat!|Fucked goats]] and wrote the old national anthem. Blew up Auckland in the Blitz."
"Wasn't all bad, then, was he?"
"History's a wonderful thing, see? We learn from it." }}
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== [[Theater]] ==
* The trope name is a number from the musical ''[[Peanuts|You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown]]'', in which Lucy explains to Linus that fir trees give fur, bugs make the grass grow, and snow comes up out of the ground.
* The Reduced Shakespeare Company's ''[[The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)|The Complete Works of William Shakespeare]]'' starts out by mixing up the biography of Shakespeare's life with that of [[Adolf Hitler]]. They also mix up Eva Braun and Evita Peron, for added giggles.
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Paul: "Well I know it. And I know it well. So it's a well-known fact." }}
* Numerous lists of these "facts" circulate the web. They almost invariably claim "A duck's quack [http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.asp doesn't echo,] and nobody knows why."
** Not only does Snopes address it, ''[[
* ''[[Snopes]]'' has a section of blatantly false "[http://www.snopes.com/lost/lost.asp Lost Legends]" (full title: '''[[Fun with Acronyms|T]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms|he]] '''[[Fun with Acronyms|R]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms|epository]] '''[[Fun with Acronyms|O]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms|f]] '''[[Fun with Acronyms|L]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms|ost]] '''[[Fun with Acronyms|L]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms|egends]]); its [http://www.snopes.com/lost/false.asp purpose] is to demonstrate the danger of relying on a single source without applying common sense. (Ironically, one of the legends was taken for fact by the TV show ''Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed''.)
* [http://undeniablefacts.com/ undeniablefacts.com]
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* In real life, where things don't always have a dramatic purpose, little known facts are used to kill time, or fill unsold ad space, or otherwise apologize for having nothing to say. How many ways have you heard that it's impossible to kiss your elbow, or that glass is really a liquid, or other such anti-wisdom? These "facts" are often equally useless whether they're true or false, and the only good that ever comes of it is the occasional [[
** And I can totally lick my elbow.
** Hey, licking '''isn't''' kissing. Six ex-girlfriends told me that.
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** [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/263/what-are-the-nine-eskimo-words-for-snow "Observe the snow. It fornicates."] [[The Straight Dope|-- Cecil Adams]]
* The notion that a goldfish has a memory of only a [[Viewers Are Goldfish|few seconds]] is false. Actually, goldfish have fairly good memory for fish.
** Also, [[
* [[Wikipedia|The Other Wiki]] has an entire page of [[wikipedia:List of common misconceptions|common misconceptions]].
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