There is a lake in Massachusetts called Lake Chargoggaggoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaug. When Columbus sailed to America in 1492, most Europeans believed that the earth was flat. The Ancient Sumerians worshipped a deity named Ninkasi. She was the Goddess of Beer. Lewis and Clark claimed to have seen and pursued a living dinosaur on their 1806 expedition to the American West.
Cockroaches can survive for up to a month with their heads cut off.
Sharks do not get cancer. Long-tailed, South American monkeys sometimes cross rivers by clinging to each other in order to form a living monkey chain that stretches between the trees on either side of the river. The laws of physics change over time. Lemmings commit suicide by hurling themselves, en masse, off cliffs. It is documented that the residents of the Ecuadorian village of Vilacabamba live to an unusually long age.