Dictionary of misinformation
by Tom Burnam
Category: Common fallacies

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