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Believe the bird, not the book

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.

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