South America doesn't really exist. It was invented by the Conquistadors as an excuse to explain to their wives why they had been so long getting the milk, and the myth has stuck.

Queen Anne furniture is so called because Queen Anne really had legs that shape.

Paracelsus was right.

Paracelcus used to be known as Paracentigrade.

I just spent a whole morning incubating yoghurt for Toyah Willcox.