50 Facts You Learned at School That Are Not Real

AN APPLE FELL ON NEWTON’S HEAD

Kids learn in school that scientific pioneer Isaac Newton had his eureka moment about gravity when an apple fell on his head. It never happened. Newton did observe apples falling in his family’s orchard, but there’s no evidence one bonked him on the head and turned on a lightbulb.

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