The facts were misunderstood about Napleon, Einstein

The British Times newspaper corrects anecdotal stories about things that almost everyone believes are true. For example, the following:

1. Einstein used to be a special student

Einstein learned very well when he was still in school.

Many students 'notebooks' believe this. They found a reason to comfort: Not their own. 'Stupid' came like Einstein but still got the Nobel Prize later! In fact, at a young age, this genius was very good, excellent in every subject, but excelled in the exact science subjects.

2. Mice love cheese to go crazy

Animated movies in which the character is a mouse all have this detail. Because of the appetite for cheese, how many times mice nearly lost their lives. Actually, mice don't like cheese very much. Their most favorite dish is sweets, then peanut oil and the third is powders. If you combine '3 in 1' like biscuits for example, they like it the most.

3. Napoleon is short

Napoleon is not short, but is over 1m70.

The flattering courtiers who want to find an impressive image to attach to him two words 'great' , immediately call him 'the great dwarf' Bonaparte (the common concept of a martial arts boy must be high but he is not tall. very) Popular features of humor which he happily accepted. The name was used by his enemies and, of course, when he removed the adjective, it was only disparagingly called a 'dwarf' . Everyone thought that he was very short. In fact, Napoleon was the size, better than the size of European men at the time. He is taller than 1.70m.

4. The electric bulb was invented by Thomas Edison

The greatest inventor of the time, Thomas Edison invented dozens of useful objects for life, but none of them had the electric bulb that even his textbook gave him.

The author of the electric bulb was not the Russian scientist AN Ladygin as the Russians often claimed, but of Joseph Wilson Swan, of England, born on October 31, 1828, died on May 27, 1914.

5. People from monkeys born

The author of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and his later unproven monkey supporters turned into people like people still conceived.

In fact, naturalists simply say that all primates have a common ancestor. Among those primates, there is one species (temporarily negotiating as a human-type monkey) that has evolved into a human being today.

6. Viking hats have horns

In books, movies, comic books, Viking warriors - the ancestors of northern Europeans today - going to conquer other lands always wore very distinctive horned hats. This is because when excavating their ancient tombs, animal horns are often seen, so it is believed that the Vikings used horns to decorate the hat.

In fact, the horns buried with the dead in the grave are only things (instead of cups) for them to drink on horseback.

7. Christopher Colombus thought that the Earth was flat

Answering this question, 70% of Americans, 75% of Americans believe that Christopher Colombus thinks so and accidentally finds America. In fact, this great maritime house was not so imaginative, but on the contrary, he believed it was a round earth With that belief, when he found a sea route to go to India, he did not go to the west, but chose the eastern direction in the opposite direction.