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1. The Ouija Board is a trademarked product of the American toy company Hasbro Inc. Though the word 'Ouija' is now used to refer to any board that is used to "talk to the spirits", it is actually a legally protected and owned product released as a 'game' by this company. Oh, by the way, they also own G.I. Joe, Monopoly, Transformers, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit and My Little Pony among other things. So, the next time you feel like contacting the dead and demonic entities of the netherworld, maybe you could use the Scrabble Board instead. You know... better spelling and more points?
2. Frankenstein is NOT the name of the monster created by Mary Shelley. It's the name of the doctor who makes the monster. Victor Frankenstein. The name of the monster is Adam. So this Halloween, dress proudly as the horrifying legend... Adam. Ignore the mockery, and focus on the fact that you're right and they are wrong.
3. People outside India should know this for future reference. There is NO language called 'Indian'. India has dozens of languages. And when I say dozens of languages, I am not talking about subtle variations of one language. Nope. I am talking about languages so different that if you speak just the one language, you wouldn't be able to comprehend someone from even the states near you. Oh, and the world and Indians should know that a similar concept applies to China. There is no language called Chinese. The main two languages are Mandarin and Cantonese. Then there are many smaller ones and subdivisions of these two main ones.
4. No apple fell on the head of Isaac Newton prompting the epiphany of gravity in him. That's just a story that became popular later on.
5. People in the middle ages did NOT believe the earth was flat. Columbus apparently thought it was pear shaped. Seriously, even ancient Greeks knew the earth was round. Not just that, evidence actually suggests that many ancient cultures - including Greek and Indian - may have calculated the actual dimensions of the earth itself.
6. Darth Vader does NOT say "Luke, I'm your father." I'm not kidding. Look it up.
7. You CANNOT see the Great Wall of China from the moon. You can barely make out countries, let alone the wall. No matter how 'great' it is, it's still too far away.
8. Human beings did NOT evolve from 'apes'. Great Apes are the species of primates like Gorilla, Chimpanzee and Orangutan. Technically, we are also a great ape. But we did not COME FROM apes. The apes of today and us, the human beings, come from a common ancestor who we don't know much about.
9. Jesus Christ was NOT born in a manger surrounded by barn animals. Blew your mind? What... you don't believe me? The Bible, the oldest versions of it, never mention a manger or a stable or anything like that. There was a word that could have been interpreted as 'manger' during the early translations but that is it. The story we have now with the animals and the nativity play scene - all that started hundreds of years after Christianity was formed.
10. And while we are at it, you should also know that they (or we) pretty much made up the 'Three Wise Men' bit. I mean, there are the Magi who come to see the baby Jesus in the Bible. But Magi stood for, or meant, the Zoroastrian priests. Nowhere does it say in the Bible - the early, original versions - that there were three of them, or that they were wise OR that they were men. Three gifts are given on that occasion, and maybe that caused the confusion which made people think there were three of the Magi.
So yeah. That's the ten popular misconceptions for right now. Stay tuned for more posts, and stay open minded, folks.
The truth is out there.
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