Tom Burnam
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.
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Dictionary of Misinformation