Today’s catch is five cases of the record losing an argument with the evidence: a state line that sat 1.4 miles off for a century, a proverb its supposed author never said, a game whose own creator didn’t know it had escaped, a globe that puts the continents where the rocks say they were — and a twelve-year-old who walked to the fish market to find out what a demon’s skin ought to look like.
A birdwatcher's proverb that Audubon never said
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A 19th-century survey error corrected with sub-centimeter GPS
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A 1984 trade-show demo that got away from its author
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Michelangelo's earliest known painting, made at twelve
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Drag your city across a billion years of plate motion
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