Busting Popular Myths That You Probably Thought Were Facts

The Invention of Baseball

Rumor has it that US Army General Abner Doubleday claims to have created baseball. That’s not true! Baseball originated from cricket years and years before his heyday.

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The More You Know

  • There's a word for tapping someone on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them.
  • A species of squid has been observed to leap from the ocean by using pressurized water jets to achieve flight, going as far as 98 feet!
  • The Netherlands has the tallest population.
  • The smallest unit of measurement in the universe is the Planck length.
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