CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This incomplete list is not intended to be exhaustive. This list of common misconceptions corrects erroneous beliefs that are currently widely held about notable topics. Each misconception and the corresponding facts have been discussed in published literature. Note that each entry is formatted as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated. 1 Arts and culture 1.1 Food and cooking 1.2 Law, crime, and military 1.3 Literature 1.4 Music 1.5 Religion 1.5.1 Buddhism 1.5.2 Christianity and Judaism 1.5.3 Islam 1.6 Sports 1.7 Words, phrases and languages 2 History 2.1 Ancient to early modern history 2.2 Modern history 3 Science and technology 3.1 Astronomy 3.2 Biology 3.2.1 Vertebrates 3.2.2 Invertebrates 3.2.3 Plants 3.2.4 Evolutio...