100 Common Misconceptions (Part 4: Things you were told you when you were little)

41: You have 5 senses. No, in fact you have many more than five. This misconception stretches all the way back to 600 BC(E) with Aristotle. Although you do have five physical senses, you also have different ones, such as the sense of time, the sense of fear, the sense of weight, and many more.
42: Christopher Columbus discovered that the world was round. In fact, it was discovered by the Greeks hundreds of years before that, and it was commonly accepted around Christopher Columbus's time.
43: Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover America. No, in fact the Vikings were.
44: Your thumb is not a finger. No, actually your thumb, them same as you pinkey,  index, and pointer is also a finger.
45: A pencil's "lead" of  is not Pb, it is actually graphite.
46: Your stomach is the big muscle just below your ribs. No, your stomach is under your ribs.
47: John F. Kennedy never said "I am a jelly doughnut" He said "I am a Berliner" which is a whole different type of doughnut.
48: Sushi does not mean "raw fish" , it means sour rice.
49: The Great Wall of China is not the only man mad thing visible from space, it is not visible from space and there are many man-made things visible from space (namely Light pollution)
50: Ostriches do not hide their heads in the sand when frightened.