Interesting page on Wikipedia:
Christopher Columbus’s efforts to obtain support for his voyages were not hampered by a European belief in a flat Earth. …
Napoleon Bonaparte was not especially short. … 5 feet 6.5 inches in Imperial (British) feet, or 1.686 metres, making him slightly taller than an average Frenchman of the 19th century. …
The notion that goldfish have a memory of only three seconds is completely false. …
Lemmings do not engage in suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating. …
Claims that the number and intensity of earthquakes are increasing are unfounded. The number and intensity of earthquakes varies from year to year but there is no increasing trend. …
Albert Einstein did not believe in God …
Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet, Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb, and Henry Ford did not invent the automobile or the internal combustion engine. …
ENIAC was not the first digital computer. …
… the melting of glaciers contributes far more to raising sea level than the melting of sea ice or floating icebergs. The predicted threat of rising sea levels due to global warming is mainly due to the detachment or melting of inland ice, such as that on Greenland and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in Antarctica, the melting of glaciers, and the thermal expansion of seawater. Melting of sea ice in the Arctic makes only a tiny contribution, by lowering the global average salinity (and therefore the density) of seawater.
The melting of Antarctic ice is not predicted to be the largest cause of rising sea levels in the near future. While complete melting of the Antarctic ice sheet would be the largest of all potential contributions to sea level change, the likelihood of total melting is extremely small. Antarctica may even help offset rising sea level by accumulating more snow. At worst, the partial melting of Antarctic ice is predicted to be only the fourth-largest potential contribution to sea level rise by the year 2100 (−170 to +20mm), after thermal expansion of the world’s oceans (+110 to +430mm), melting glaciers (+10 to +230mm), and melting Greenland ice (−20 to +90mm). …
Rick McCharles 