A few more to add to your collection

Gladiators did not fight to the death. Sure they would fight and sometimes one would die, but they didn’t fight until one of them was dead. Sometimes it would just be until one was injured or one was too tired to go on. Gladiators were too expensive and valuable to have one killed at the end of every fight. –

To add to this one, Gladiators are often depicted in shows like Spartacus, Blood and Sand as being sculpted with 12 pack mid sections. In reality most Gladiators were some what pudgy in the middle like a modern offensive football line man. The extra belly fat actually prevented cuts to the mid section.

Despite what many people believe higher grade and more expensive gasoline does not mean its better. Modern engineering has tuned the vast majority of cars to run on regular grade gasoline. Putting premium gas into a car that does not specifically call for it has no effect whatsoever on the performance or fuel economy. For older cars that sometimes knock, a couple of applications of 3-5 dollar additive will solve that at much less expense that an extra 5-10 dollars a week at the fuel pump.

English versions of the bible place the Philistine Warrior "Goliath" at the equivalent of 9 feet tall. This is a mistranslation from the Greek versions which place Goliath at around 6'10. Considering the average man living back then was around 5'4 Goliath would still have been considered a giant of that time.

The "Dark Ages" were not as dark as people commonly believe. Sharp increases in global temperatures (aka the medieval warming period) brought about more rain which increased food production which in turn led to population increases and a generally higher standard of living for the peasant class than under the Roman empire. It is a known fact that during warmer periods that the strength and diversity of life increases markedly. It is during global cooling cycles that mass extinctions actually occur.

It is a popular belief that the Great Depression of the 1930s was brought about by the stock market crash of 1929-The two are not really connected. By the end of 1929 the stock market had recovered about 1/2 of the losses from the crash and after unemployment spiked at 9 percent it had fallen back to 6 percent by late 1930-with what looked like a slow recovery taking place. Hoover came into office raised taxes and signed into the law the Smoot Hawley tariff which set off a catastrophic trade war which all but shut down manufacturing, triggering the beginning of the Depression. Hoover was a true RHINO, who years earlier FDR had tried to recruit as a Democrat.

Despite all of the news of mass shootings, violent crime nationwide has fallen 51 percent since the 1990s.