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* [[All Animation Is Disney]]: People who don't know much about animation attribute almost every cartoon to [[Disney]]. In some cases the confusion is not so far-fetched: The films of [[Don Bluth]] could stylistically easily be mistaken for being Disney films.
* [[Captain SNES]]: Alex tries to reassure a giant sandworm (which he thinks is a [[Dune|Shai-Halud]]) that he's got no problem with scientology. Alex (and the author) confused [[L. Ron Hubbard]] with Frank Herbert. The author retcons it by claiming this.
* [[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]
** Homer does this a lot:
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*** In "They Saved Lisa's Brain", Homer confuses [[Stephen Hawking]] with [[Larry Flynt]], presumably because they both rely/relied on wheelchairs to be able to move.
*** After meeting Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]] in "The Regina Monologues", Homer mistakes him for [[Mr. Bean]].
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* [[Christopher Columbus]]: Often called the ''"discoverer"'' of America. Leif Erikson actually discovered the continent 400 years earlier.
** I'm pretty sure the Native Americans that had been living in America for thousands of years will be happy to hear that Leif Erikson ''"discovered"'' America a mere 900 years ago.
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* [[Marie Antoinette]]
* There is no concrete evidence that Saint Francis of Assisi wrote the prayer "Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace"; the prayer's earliest known appearance was in 1912 in the French spiritual magazine ''La Clochette''. The Franciscan Order sort-of [[Old Shame|disassociated themselves]] from the prayer, and one church historian remarked that the prayer, while noble in its sentiments, sounded a bit too [[Out-of-Character Moment|uncharacteristic]] for Saint Francis to have written by way of its self-oriented tone, as he is well known for embracing a life of stark modesty compared to the wealthy lifestyle of his family. To Francis' credit, he did however write "[[w:Canticle of the Sun|Canticle of the Sun]]", which is more in line with his personal theology.
* Despite what textbooks in the Philippines have claimed for a time, the fluorescent lamp was not invented by a certain Agapito Flores (some have went so far as to claim that the lighting technology was named in honour of Flores, though the naming similarity is a mere coincidence); French physicist Alexandre E. Becquerel first proposed the idea of fluorescence and phosphorescence as a practical lighting source in 1857. Thomas Edison filed a patent in 1896, though his implementation used X-rays instead of ultraviolet light, which led to the death of one of his assistants and the project being cancelled. Peter Cooper Hewitt, Edmund Germer, Friedrich Meyer and Hans Spanner later patented their own improved implementations.
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