A Realisation of Common Misconceptions

From our oldest memories we've been taught about the 50 United States of America!  It's all a lie!

(1) There are actually only 46 states in America.  4 "states" are technically called commonwealths.  They are Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.  After the American Revolution and War of Independence, the former four chose the title of "commonwealth" to emphasize their rule by the people, not the king.  This adoption was never changed.  To this day they are still "commonwealths" and not "states".

(2) Do you know who defeated Napolean most humiliatingly of all his enemies?  However good and logical of a guess it might be, the Duke of Wellington is not the answer.  He may have defeated Napolean most crushingly, but humiliatingly.

Rabbits.  When he signed the Treaty of Tilsit, he proposed a pleasant afternoon hunting bunnies with the Imperial Court.  His trusted chief-of-staff organized the outing, but mistakenly brought tame rabbits to the event, not wild.  Rather than scatter away from the hunters, they ran towards them, eagerly expecting food.  They thought they were going to be fed, not killed!

The legion of hungry rabbits fell upon the front lines of Napolean's court at their top speed of 35 miles per hour!  The shooting party fell into disarray and had no other option than to flee the army of bunnies!  The rodents didn't relent their push, and the emperor was sealed into his carriage as the rest vainly lashed out with horsewhips.  The great conquerer fled shamefully off, having received quite a thorough thrashing.

(3) While I'm destroying some lies here, I might as well also mention that dogs were not the first animals in space.  Fruit flies were!

(4) Nero did not play a fiddle while Rome was burning either!  Fiddles weren't invented until the fifteenth century!

(5) You are more likely to be killed by an asteroid than lightning.

(6) Roman emperors ordered the death of gladiators with a thumbs up, not thumbs down.

(7) 616, not 666, is the devil's number.  It had been mistranslated, however a review of the oldest known copy of the Book of Revelation shows it clearly to be 616.

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