List of common misconceptions

I learned today: (A) Napoleon was not short, and (B) air does not take the same time to travel above and below an aircraft’s wing, and (C) people believe a lot of hilarious stuff. The belief that specific tastes only correspond to specific mapped sites on the tongue is psychologically very interesting, as generations after generations of little kids conduct small experiments at school – fail to get any results – and still shut up and follow authority until years later, they’ve internalized the myth so much they even think they proved it in school.