They Got It Wrong

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Washington's false teeth were not made of wood, they were in fact ivory. Nor did Einstein flunk math; he actually excelled at math and science—although he was known to skip a lot of classes. There are countless historical tales entrenched in popular belief that are really nothing more than warped reflections of the truth (if not flat-out lies), just as there are scientific "facts" that over the years have been proven to be more like science fiction. Both subjects are given a through sifting in this entertaining omnibus of two popular Reader's Digest books, which separate the truth from the shadows and illuminate how (and why) such falsehoods and wacky theories got passed around in the first place.