What Most People Get Wrong

By Joseph Hicks

Do you want to know the real stories behind some of the most popular urban myths, popular beliefs and outright falsehoods of today? How about some of the most common grammatical mistakes and how to avoid making them? Then read this book. Go from being one of the majority who doesn't know the facts, to being one of the fewer who does. "What Most People Get Wrong" covers everything from when to use the word "lay" and when to use "lie", to the real story about where the line "Let them eat cake" came from, and why most people don't know what the Immaculate Conception really is. Written in an easy to read format, "What Most People Get Wrong" provides a wealth of information to make everyone just a little bit wiser.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joseph Hicks
• Release date: Sep 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005186890

Joseph Hicks

Joseph Hicks was born in Torrance in 1967. He graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 1990 with a BA in English, and a minor in History. He has worked as a Los Angeles based background casting director since 1997. He currently resides in the South Bay in Southern California.

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WHAT MOST PEOPLE GET WRONG

By Joseph Hicks

Copyright 2021 Joseph John Hicks

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Table of Contents

1 - George Washington’s Wooden Dentures

2 - Blushing after age 30

3 - The Immaculate Conception

4 - Let Them Eat Cake

5 - It’s versus its

6 - Witch Burning in Salem

7 - You and I, You and me

8 - Paper Money

9 - Sunburning behind glass

10 - Cleopatra , Queen of the Nile

11 - Falling coins from the sky

12 - Eyes in the dark

13 - Wars of Religion

14 - Lay down or lie down?

15 - Why 12 Jurors?

16 - The Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression

17 - Big Mama Cass

18 – The Wizard of Oz – was it originally panned?

19 – 3/5 of a person? Not at all.

20 - 3D movies – Were they really that bad?

21 - One final grammar lesson

22 - Bastille Day

23 - Baby Carrots

24 - Walt Disney – a frozen anti Semite?

25 - Vinyl Records sound scratchy

26 - Hyperventilating and Fainting – What’s That all About?

27 - Money is the Root of all Evil? – Not exactly.

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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1

George Washington’s Wooden Dentures

George Washington famously wore dentures made of wood, a sign of the primitiveness of that time period.

False!

George Washington wore dentures made of brass, and human and cow teeth. I can personally verify this because I saw them on display at an exhibit on George Washington at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

They are quite intricate, with springs, levers and the like.

Even some history buffs, such as the television host Bill O’Reilly, who has written a book on George Washington, repeated this myth on his show The O’Reilly Factor.

But now you know.

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2

Blushing after age 30

I’ll bet that Angelina Jolie was blushing with embarrassment!

This statement would be false!

For some unknown scientific reason, adults over the age of 30 lose the ability to blush.

People normally blush when they feel embarrassed or nervous.

Of course, there may be freaks of nature who defy the odds; thus, it may be theoretically possible that a person over 30 can blush, but it would be highly unlikely.

Only fair skinned Caucasians can actually blush, and then only young fair skinned Caucasians.

I can personally attest that