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* Henry Ford is sometimes believed to be the inventor of the automobile; Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot invented the first self-propelled land vehicle in 1769, intended for transporting artillery, but Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz actually invented the first practical automobile 20 years before Ford. To Ford's credit however, he popularised the assembly line process which streamlined vehicle production and thus democratised automobiles from toys for the affluent to an essential mode of transport.
* [[Marie Antoinette]] never actually said, "Let them eat cake." ([https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette Wikiquote says] that phrase comes from [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]'s ''Confessions'', written when Marie was 11 years old.)
* 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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