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 ...
Witty and provocative essays and one-liners by a master debunker attack the world's seemingly endless supply of false facts, fictions, tables, and misquotations.
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