List of common misconceptions


This is a list of common misconceptions. Each entry is formatted as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated. These entries are meant to be concise, but more detail can be found in the main subject articles.

Arts and culture

Food and cooking

Music

Buddhism

having been a prostitute.

Ancient

in Germany. The choice of anticlockwise or clockwise spiral had more to do with convenience than making it harder for right-handed attackers to storm a castle.
, photographed at 14, did not fail mathematics at school.

Astronomy and spaceflight

Vertebrates

. Non-avian dinosaurs died out in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period.