Burnam Tom. The dictionary of misinformation

New York: Perennial Library, 1986. — 334 p. — ISBN: 9780060913151; 0060913150.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.