51 favourite facts you’ve always believed that are actually false

They ate the forbidden “fruit” of the tree of knowledge – nowhere in Genesis does it say it was an apple.

Of the celebs who have died since 1990, only in seven cases did three die in the same five-day period, according to data from the New York Times.

Spiders usually don’t crawl into beds during nighttime wanderings because they offer no prey. You probably swallow zero spiders per year.

Only above sea level. If you measure Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano from its underwater base, it stands more than 33,000 feet tall—4,000 above Everest.

It was just a small piece of lobe, and he did it during a violent spat with Pat Gauguin. Whether Van Gogh then gave it to a local girl remains unknown.

They landed in what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts, and signed the Mayflower Compact there. Plymouth came five weeks later.

“The Internet is a very resilient system,” says Web pioneer Vint Cerf.

“Shutting the whole thing down has not happened [since] it has been in operation.”

Egyptologists say this ancient construction job was a great honour granted only to respected labourers who remain entombed near the site today.

While designing a national seal, Franklin proposed an image of Moses, not a wild turkey, to represent America.

Because blood flow stimulates nail growth, the nails on your dominant hand actually grow faster.