History Main / LittleKnownFacts

* For several years, ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' had a section called "Weird Yet True" that contained unusual trivia nuggets.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has DW starting a neighborhood science class where she teaches blatantly wrong facts, such as that [=H2O=] stands for "Hose + Oxygen", hence why water comes out of the hose. Arthur gets so fed up with it that he takes her to the science museum to teach her the proper facts, [[spoiler:where she reveals she had been getting them deliberately wrong so Arthur would take her to the museum, when previously he claimed he never would.]]
* Greg from ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' has a habit of reciting these and adding, [[CatchPhrase "That's a rock fact!"]] (holding up his painted pet rock). He appears to distinguish "rock facts" from actual facts, sometimes.

Compare TheBlindLeadingTheBlind, DontBeRidiculous. If said facts are true, it's not this trope. It's probably RealityIsUnrealistic, or one of its subtropes.

** If you know a certain factoid about ducks, you'll recognize that last "fact" as a particularly sneaky example of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

* Felix Unger on ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'' was doing this all the time: "The opposite of brown is purple", "Millard Fillmore knew less about opera than any other President- except of course for Rutherford B. Hayes".

* Takashi Yamazaki (or [[DubNameChange Zachary]], if you prefer) in ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' was notorious for this.

* ''Literature/PeterPan'' informs young readers that their mothers tidy up their minds at night while they're asleep as if they were folding clothing in drawers. It's more of a tender image than a moralizing depiction, but still seems likely to be ParanoiaFuel for the same kids who fear the watchful gaze of Santa.

* ''Literature/PeterPan'' informs young readers that their mothers tidy up their minds at night while they're asleep as if they were folding clothing in drawers. It's a tender image rather than a moralizing depiction, but still seems likely to be ParanoiaFuel for some members of the audience.

* Many of the "Real Facts" printed on Snapple caps [[https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-dubious-are-snapples-bottle-cap-facts/ fall under this.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' tie-in comic book series's 90th issue had the first story, "Homer's America", involve Homer, chaperoning Lisa's class's field trip, take over driving the bus after driving Otto insane with his singing, and takes them on a tour across the country, telling them history lectures he makes up about the founding of the USA (such as George Washington slaying redcoat vampires and that Mount Rushmore was made to scare off aliens), all of which greatly annoy Lisa. It gets a CallBack in the same issue's second story, a Krusty the Clown-centered store, where at the end Krusty takes off for a vacation and Lindsey Naegle needs a replacement since they're out of reruns (as they used the master tapes to record a ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}'' [[LongRunner marathon]]). Bart's idea for a mid-season replacement is ''Homer's History Corner'', where [[HyperlinkStory Homer tells his made-up history facts to the kid studio audience]], much to their amusement (and to Lisa's annoyance, of course.)

-->-- ''[[Theatre/YoureAGoodManCharlieBrown]]'', "Little Known Facts"

-->-- ''[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown]]'', "Little Known Facts"

* "Or So I Have Read" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants involves the narrator reading from a book of of increasingly bizarre nonsense facts, claiming that barber poles are captured in the wild (and you can determine their age if you count the stripes), clouds are white because they're made of bone (which the narrator believes would explain why there are skeletons living in space), and that mimes are the hybrid offspring of clowns and ordinary humans.

* [[https://youtu.be/_P5mNoSaV3E Teddy Roosevelt: You So Crazy]] was an animated {{mockumentary}} made by Creator/AlexHirsch for [=CalArts'=] "24-Hour Toons" project. The short claims that Theodore Roosevelt had twenty-six split personalities (several of which served on Roosevelt's cabinet), that he attempted to wage war on the sky, and that he was ultimately eaten by William Howard Taft.

* [[https://youtu.be/_P5mNoSaV3E Teddy Roosevelt: You So Crazy]] was an animated {{mockumentary}} made by Creator/AlexHirsch for the "24-Hour Toons" project. The short claims that Theodore Roosevelt had twenty-six split personalities (several of which served on Roosevelt's cabinet), that he attempted to wage war on the sky, and that he was ultimately eaten by William Howard Taft.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' Watch books, Colon is full of these, including how to find a dragon's voonerable spot and that hieroglyphs are a type of mollusk (but you don't get loweroglyphs in these waters, DontBeRidiculous). One of the funniest is his explanation in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'' that your skin is all replaced every seven years but Nobby still has his tattoo because the colored bits were replaced by colored bits off ''other people's tattoos''.

* In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', Mike asks Willy Wonka if other things could be transported via the Television Chocolate setup, such as breakfast cereal. Mr. Wonka is aghast at the mention of cereal: "Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!" (Mr. Wonka being the eccentric [[TheTrickster Trickster]] he is, he may or may not be taking advantage of a child's gullibility here.)