Contrary to Popular Belief

Book 45 of my 2018 Reading Challenge

Contrary to Popular Belief

Summary (via the book jacket)
Isn't it time you knew the honest-to-goodness truth? We've all come to believe hundreds of "false facts" - myths that we've blindly accepted as truth, misconceptions that we've ignorantly retold to others. 
Contrary to Popular Belief provides an instant remedy for your pounding head, full of misinformation, giving you quick relief with enlightening and entertaining facts. 

My Opinion
This was an inconsequential way to pass the time.  It's an older book - in current times it would be something along the lines of a Buzzfeed list.  To show how different times are now since this book was published, the author said he verified these facts by "locking himself away in the library, checking and double-checking the facts".  

Some things I didn't even as know as facts to be disputed in the first place, sometimes I wanted to double check his double checking (which is much easier to do now thanks to the Internet), and there were plenty of fun facts I read aloud.

A small point of contention as a non-religious person...there were some religious items (like what day Jesus was born or how many animals Noah took aboard the ark) that I question if they're even "facts" at all to be included, disputed or not.

This would be a good book for the bathroom (again, remembering a time before phones were a distraction on the toilet).