[quantim]

21. Jon Carey was a war hero.

[LdSentinal]

24. Barack HUSSEIN Obama is not a Muslim.

[P.O.E.]

Newton was hit by an apple

Which made him appreciate the fact that there are no watermelon trees.

[flynmudd]

25. The U.S. Constitution is a living document.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

25. Al Gore invented the Internet.

[PzLdr]

Napoleon was never a Corporal. He went from cadet to commissioned officer of the Royal Artillery. He wore the uniform of a corporal of the Old Guard Artillery [Its simplicity made him stand out from his gaudily uniformed Marshals, especially his brother -in - law, Murat].

[Bringbackthedraft]

Elvis Lives!

[proudpapa]

GEorge Washington was really the 16th president.

John Adams was sworn in as Vice-president 4 days before GW was sworn in as President. Thus John Adams was technically president before and after GW.

[RightWhale]

11. Walter Raleigh introduced potatoes and tobacco to England

Right. It's a fib, but the explanation here is also.

[RightWhale]

10. Magellan circumnavigated the world

While his expedition did this, it was not the first. The Ports and the Spanish and the Genoese and Venetians and English were in a highmarking contest by then and the truth is none of them were first.

[RightWhale]

on September 3, 1783. On that day, Britain's George III and US leaders signed the Definitive Treaty of Peace.

The Treaty of Versailles is full of legal holes. England probably still owns all this.

[Bernard]

It was American author Washington Irving, some 500 years after Columbus sailed to America,

That would make it 1992, which is long after Washington Irving's last transcript was published.

[x]

Some of them are only semantically wrong. Edison did, so far as I know, invent the incandescent light. Washington was the first President of the US under the 1789 Constitution. BTW, is the date of Mithras's birth really any more certain than Jesus's?

[Sherman Logan]

Fine, but Cook was actually a Lieutenant when he sailed to the Great South Land.

The commander of a ship is always referred to as Captain, regardless of his actual rank.

[Sherman Logan]

To further besmirch his memory, it should also be noted that he never set foot on mainland America. The closest he came was the Bahamas.

"Columbus, on his fourth and final voyage, landed on the American mainland for the first time near present-day Trujillo, Honduras. The day was 14 August 1502, and he named the place Honduras (‘depths’ in Spanish) for the deep waters off the north coast."

http://www.newint.org/columns/country/2007/01/01/honduras/

[Sherman Logan]

there is no evidence whatsoever, biblical or otherwise, that He was actually ... born in a manger

Luke 2:7 "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn."

Nobody ever said he was "born" in a manger, which would be pretty awkward at best. He was born in a stable, then laid down in a manger.

I give up. These "debunkings of myth" are usually just loaded with inaccuracies.

[Sherman Logan]

Eight years later, as a revered war hero, Washington himself became America's first popularly elected President - but strictly speaking, the FIFTEENTH President!

America has never had a "popularly elected President." Presidents are elected by the Electoral College, or occasionally by the House of Representatives.

[x]

Snopes.com takes issue with the John Hanson as first President myth.

I see nothing here about Catherine the Great and the Horse, or who's buried in Grant's Tomb (that last one stumped me for decades -- I thought the trick answer was "President Grant and Mrs. Grant").