num_pages: 334
description: A remarkable book that contains enough information to help you win bets the rest of your life: -- The bagpipe was not a Scottish invention-- Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball at Cooperstown -- or anywhere else in America-- London's Big Ben is neither a clock nor a tower-- Robert Fulton did not invent the steamboat, and the boat he built was not called the Clermont-- Cleopatra was not Egyptian-- Lizzie Borden was acquitted-- Scores of persons had flown nonstop across the Atlantic before Lindbergh-- No witches were burned at Salem-- Edison did not invent the light bulb-- Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson"-- Mark Twain was not born in Hannibal, Missouri-- And, alas, there is no such thing as an aphrodisiac.
language: English
title: Dictionary of Misinformation
publisher: Perennial Library