The painter Vincent Van Gogh sliced off his The "story of Hamlet" was created by

ear.
Shakespeare.

Fake!
Although many people think that Van Gogh cut off The story of the vengeful prince and the
his whole ear, it was actually just a portion of the left murder of his father the king, by his uncle, is
earlobe that was removed.
an old Indo-European legend.
Fake!

Einstein was a terrible student and failed Marie Antoinette (Queen of France) said, "Let
mathematics.
them eat cake.

Fake!

Fake!

Albert Einstein actually had perfect report cards. His The first known report of French Queen Marie
reputation for being a terrible student came from his Antoinette having said the now-infamous words,
habit of talking back to his teachers.
didn't appear until many years after her death.

Columbus Discovered the Earth is Round

Dinosaurs looked like reptiles with scaly skin.

Fake!
The shape of the world has been discovered by the Scientists have reported that dinosaurs had
ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, around
feathers all over their bodies, very similar to
2,000 years before the existence of Spain.
chickens!
Fake!

Columbus discovered America

Fake!

Napoleon Bonaparte was a short man.

Fake!
Viking Leif Erikson discovered it first in He was 170cm, which was more or less the
standard height in 1821.
1,000 A.D

Roman Emperor Gaius made his beloved

horse a senator

True!
According to the ancient historian Suetonius, the Roman
emperor loved one of his horses, Incitatus, so much that he
gave the steed a marble stall, a jeweled collar and even a
house

Animals were put on trial in medieval times.

In ancient Egypt, servants were covered with

honey

True!
This was done in order to attract flies away
from the pharaoh.

In the 1960s tobacco was considered good for

your health.

True!
True!
Putting animals in court dates back to at least Before the 1960s tobacco companies had ads
ancient Athens, and it was common in Europe with doctors that said smoking had health
into the 18th century.
benefits.

Denim was invented in France

No one knows Albert Einsteins last words

True!
The cloth was called de Nimes (from Nimes). Nimes is a
city in France were the cloth was invented in 1400.
de Nimes and Denim are pronounced in the same way

True!
When Albert Einstein died, the nurse at his
side didn't understand German.

Baseball was invented in England.

Sliced bread was invented only in 1928.

True!
True!
An 18th-century diary was discovered in 2010 A German jeweller named Otto F. Rohwedder
that described baseball being played in invented the sliced bread, he worked on his
England in 1755.
invention for about 16 years.

Facts taken from:

http://boredbug.com/15-curious-and-bizarre-history-facts/
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_583_33-shocking-facts-that-will-change-how-you-picture-history_p3/
http://thoughtcatalog.com/nathan-scott/2013/03/26-things-we-believe-are-true-but-arent/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/05/history-facts-not-true_n_4696288.html
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/51-historical-facts-that-are-totally-messed-up#.etaYZ2r5W
http://www.cracked.com/article_16101_the-5-most-ridiculous-lies-you-were-taught-in-history-class_p2.html