Sadly, very few people are keeping track of the newest tricks in the book.

Weight on the playing field at Melbourne Cricket Ground is not measured in micrograms.

The streets are stained red in the city of Beeturia.

Many restaurants are flooded with requests for the burrito sabanero during December.

The singing of only the first verse of the song 'White Christmas' is banned by Holiday Inn Express hotels.

Boxing Day is not a celebration of Sebastian, patron saint of athletes.

Jacob Marley did not have a brother named Bob.

For colly birds, the days of Christmas are often misinterpreted.

Placing mushrooms into the mouths of nutcrackers is not considered good luck in some countries.

Dunder and Blixem are not brands of elk sausage.

The Ullensaker Coat of Arms features a figure known as ‘Old Glory’.

While it is called Oktoberfest, it actually starts in September.

Arnold Ziffel on ‘Green Acres’ was portrayed by an actor simply known as Anthony the Great.

The Great Folding Wall of China is known as Píngfēng.

Some attic orators actually gave speeches in the basement of their homes.

It was never really confirmed whether 333 silver fire engines really spurted water over 333 silver roofs.

Dorothy Garrod was the first woman to hold an Oxbridge chair but not the first woman to sit in a Windsor chair.

No one in the modern age has baked a cake as fast as he or she can within Pettakere Cave.

The Battle of Porto Bello was not fought to gauge the Pileus Area Index.

It used to cost $5 to see running antelope.

Beware of high schools selling broken Landolt Rings.

John Henry George Lee hung around three times for murder.

Nota bene: al dente penne molto bene.

Greek panel paintings are rumoured to be an ancestor of weatherproofing siding.

The United States 1792 Half Dime was not made of nickle.

Celebrating fifty years of blue diaper syndrome.

Stonehenge is surrounded by over fifty pits, or Aubrey plazas.

Herman Snellen had only one chart success, yet is not considered a one-hit wonder.

Beware the cacophony of colcannon.

Aristotle believed male humans had more teeth than female humans.

Antarctic monkeys are notorious slower and shyer than their northern counterparts.

“La Javanaise” is a popular caffeine spread/covering popular with Beirut.

The seating capacity for standing meetings is determined through the Proof by Exhaustion, or the brute force method.

The program 'Gandy Dancing with the Stars' was canceled due to poor training and inadequate track ballast.

The Mayflower Compact did not contain a powder puff.

Parts of Logan’s Run were not filmed on the Susquehanna River in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.

The micromegas measures the amount of alien space within a work of literature.

Hugo de Groot’s most famous work was not a prequel to Leo Tolstoy’s most famous work.

Peru’s Bridge of Eggs is always sunny-side-up.

Leave it to the Germans in Soest to believe beer was served at the Last Supper.

Lounging Broadway-based livestock began its popularity forty years ago.

Chester Camps sprang up around England to allow for roaming holidays.

Ancient Egyptian cats often wore more ear rings than ancient Egyptian cat owners.

A Synod of the Syracuse Triad occurs yearly outside Lima, New York.

Mispronouncing the word 'shibboleth' is considered culturally offensive in some countries.

Sarbel and Barbe were some of the earliest twin martyrs.

'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' is not the Latin name of Saint Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater.

Fat Man and Little Boy were not originally codenamed Trylon and Perisphere.

No mole ever measured a dead weight.

The Nineteenth Council of Toledo was called on account of rain ending.

Ivy Mike is not the outfield wall recording devices at Chicago’s Wrigley Field.

Inhabitants of Zeeland, the westernmost province of the Netherlands, are called Zeds.

Pi(e)=8.53973422267

Neither white light nor heat was ever seen or felt at Nico Ditch.

Magicians’s don’t pull rabbits our of their hats on the Isle of Portland.

Few animals perform at Britain’s Ludgate Circus.

Neubronner pigeons are known for their photographic memories.

Most chemistry students are given fluorine when caught cheating.

Marvelous Merchiston traveled with a less-spectacular spider and rooster.

No one should vape it all in Wuppertal.

All Saints’ Day is not meant as acknowledgement of female British R&B vocal groups.

Knives are curiously not permitted at the Circleville Pumpkin Show.

Yellow bread and eggs are evident on Thursdays of the Dead.

Moray mementos has nothing to do with collecting dead sand eels.

Samuel Haine was not considered the originator of the turnip lantern.

The city of Pomona, New York is considered the “Little Apple”.

The Public Wars were not about expanding cartilage below the equator.

From Mukumbura, it's a long way around to Tipperary, too.

Snacking, sneezing, or snickering during snooker is considered a snafu.

Within the art of shoe making is the Cult of Insole Invictus, honoring Saint Crispin.

The Eighty Years’ War is historically divided into the Forty Years’ War, the Twelve Years’ Truce, The Thirty Years’ War and a bunch of three-day weekends.

Chrysanthemummers: participants in flowery dramas.

Football star Philip Traum chose to play as 44 in honor of his uncle.

Planck's law does not encourage lying in a face down position.

The sack of Rome was neither paper nor plastic.

Cinnabon’s cimborrio product takes it name and shape from the architectural design of certain churches.

Kaiser salsa is not a usual German condiment.

The Formosa Marmosa is not attracted to Acacia dealbata.

Raoul Island was not discovered on a Sunday.

There is a gap in Pennsylvania roughly around 2.81 square miles in size.

French-cut beans are not advertised by the Green Gisant.

No moon walk has yet boasted a moon walk.

Roman pez dispensers were measured by the foot.

Torquhil Ian Chandler did not become the 3rd Duke of Earl in 1987.

If Dostoevsky had intended the brothers Karamazov to fly he wouldn’t have made them juggle.

Alaşehir cream cheese came from Karaman sheep.

The opera “Omnia” was never completed.

The Halal zone is not a region of the ocean.

Signs announcing "You're Out of Nating!" are not as popular for photographs in the small English village.

The Battle of Towton was thought to have been extremely heavy to dyslexics.

Contrary to unpopular belief, the poem “The Fate of Marvin” featured no character named Ura.

Journalist Stone Phillips is known as “Takalik Abaj” when broadcasting from Guatemala.

The replica of Theodor Geisel’s workroom was known as the Seuss pseudostudio.

White dwarfs, blue stragglers, and red giants are not pieces of cereal marbit.

Sidney Liebowitz has never hosted a variety show on the Laurentian Channel.

To this day Bachman and Turner have not informed the public when it would see something.

A cedilla whose tail is cut is hard to see.

Renoir’s 'Three Girls at the Piano' was re-titled when one insisted on playing in a forte.

Chair massages benefit the chair in no way at all.

No judge may whine about the temperature in the court of master sommeliers.

Poachers in Lincolnshire often listened to radio during their missions.

In addition to his other feats, George Washington invented instant coffee.

There is not a deer buried in the crypt of Salisbury Cathedral.

Andrew hath pict to continuing playing with George, Patrick, and David.

No one ever truly de-evolved from wearing an energy dome.

In Germany, if one is unable to tell tall-tales, it is said the person has a “unfruchtbar münchhausen.”

Numerous artists graduated from Barbizon schools.

Music was more experimental when people were shorter and lived near the water.

The 20,000 martyrs of Nicomedia did wind up as a league of their own.

Mild things make hearts sing, too, but mostly don't enlist good agents.

Long before Nantucket was used as its location, “Wings” was filmed at San Antonio’s Fort Sam Houston.

Pop Tarts were not inspired by the daughter of a Kellogg’s employee placing a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a toaster.

Peter Lorre received top billing for very few scenes and very few lines in 1940’s 'Stranger in the Third Floor.'

US President Rutherford B. Hayes has a holiday, a town, a museum, a car, and a soccer team named in his honor.

Only two miles of Interstate 238 are in California.

Louis the Stammerer was not the first king to sing scat.

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was larger than the Michael Bay Colony.

After perfecting Caller ID in the 1970s, Bell Labs attempted construct of Caller Ego to unrealistic results.

Seamstress Frederique Valk (1917-65) is best remembered for the inaugural gown of Second Lady Mariette Rheiner Garner.

Countess Dolingen of Gratz, Austria, used her position to fight for women’s suffrage and improving the lives of the poor.

Some of the more infamous vulgar fractions include 17/3, 53/9, and 26/75.

Clain Ó Ceallaigh never built a church in a riparian forest.

Richard Poore never thought he was rich enough.

Hamartiology does not equal sinology.

The Beach Boys’ Endless summer was revoked between 1980 and 1985.

Fricative buns are a popular dessert in Portugal.

No pink hierophants have ever paraded anywhere.

Russia does not boast 39 steppes.

Coos County, Oregon, is so named for the large number of migrating birds.

Sam's son, Temple Houston, was not 11 acres.

It was thought John Trumbull ran out of paint between December 1776 and January 1777.

Lot’s wife was the first person ever paid a salary.

William Lambarde was a bencher bench-warmer and draper drafter.

2014 marks the centennial of Alistair and Hetty Tayler’s celebrated book, 'The Book of the Duffs'. Get off yours and read it.

Boston-style banana splits were originally served unpeeled.

Most flying buttresses are firmly grounded.

The Monroe dextrine tried, to no avail, to oppose British gum.

Frank Capra never proved it happened two nights.

The historic Ostrog fortress of Yakutsk, Siberia has been used as a guard tower, steam bath house, and micro-brew cafe.

Saltbox houses with more than two stories can get complicated.

The multi-national corporation Warung, Inc. did not start in two-room Indonesian hut.

Whistler’s mother, Whistler’s neighbor, and a guy who inspired Dracula all posed for arrangements in grey and black.

Titles of painter Johann Peter Hasenclever’s works include such banality as 'The Family Quarrel', 'Stocking Fruit', and 'Forgetting to Shave'.

King Camp never advertised the shaving of King Kong.

Kidz Bop is not a child-friendly sub-genre of hard bop.

Watermelon Snow Cones are not made of kelp.

Michael Jacobson, the father of modern junk food, once sniffed a can of soda.

A passerine bird is one who perches often on porches or porsches.

Hilarius of Poitiers was not the first pagan night club.

The European Bologna Process has nothing to do with the Wienermobile.

Doing your homework will prove Galle and Jessen are not the two guys in the electronic music duo Daft Spunk.

Raser and Teag were not the 8th century-era mascots of the 770s Preservation Society.

Leonard Bloomfield was known to stutter only while speaking Sanskrit.

5% of Americans live their lives with infected coronal sibilants without their knowing.

AuberJinn is the commercial name for bottled eggplant paste.

A solar Lorentz transformation is the linear conversion of sunlight through a reference frame.

Hot-dip spangles are not meant for eating or licking.

There aren't as many 'ayes' in lowjinks.

A long-delayed deesis mosaic in Hagia Sophia eventually was dubbed Christ the Procrastinator.

Red Hawk and Cougar Gold are both high school mascots and types of cheese.

Actress Goldie Hawn is lovingly referred to as the “The Girl” in Swedish theater.

The last rivet fastened in Ohio’s Coraopolis Bridge was made of pure zinc, signifying weakness.

There are fraternities in Southern Asia and Northern Africa dedicated to cumin breeding.

There are usually minor administrative costs to learning Free Jazz.

The union of the Moomins and Tasmanian devil is not considered mumtaz.

Though the Millennium Dome celebrated the third millennium, it has never been called the O3.

Blue is the warmest colour of the French flag according to the Planckian locus.

Unlike Fred Flintstone, Asterix never pitched commercials for Gauloises.

Brigitte Bardot made wearing sauerkraut on one’s head fashionable.

John James Audubon did not have the word “Alouette” tattooed on his left shoulder.

In the mid-1800s a lonely elephant mourned at the site of the Bastille.

John Bobbitt did not cameo in the Broadway musical version of 'Free Willy'.

The pringle-sutras is not an early treatise on Sanskrit paraboloidy.

Serbian Sabretache Tarsòly is created with the first functional purse in the 18th Century.

Carl Sandburg and Pancho Gonzales were not twins.

While it is said Mother Mary Jones was the subject of the song, She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain, there is no documentation as to why she’d want to kill the old red rooster.

Selye: the Greek god of stress.

Turncoat Simon Girty did not distribute poisoned milk to children during the American Revolution.

People disdain items for the birds, and when from the birds, we're not impressed, either.

Brillo pad cannot be used as vigorous musical instruments.

Heinz, Hunts, and other major condiment companies enforce a strict “no horseradish root” in their mayonnaisiums to avoid contamination.

It is said in Indonesia that he who touches the grey-sided flower-pecker has peace and prosperity for a lifetime.

Congratulations. The year’s half over and you still haven’t gotten that one ‘thing’ accomplished yet. Also, it’s 176 days to Christmas.

Belgium was all but wiped off the map in the Great Flood of 1993.

Fibonacci number of the day: 89.

The hotter the Monday does not mean the higher the society.

Homo bonus was not a species of archaic humans with extra parts.

Both genders of Jonica goats may grow horns but only one contributes to caprino (that we’re aware of).

Happy Birthday to the Supermarket Checkout Scanner – and the 9-Items-or-Less line.

Weasel teasing was first prohibited fifty years ago this month.

The three Maltese Falcon props used in the film were named Merlin, Sooty, and Eleonora.

Artificial Food Colouring Dye of The Day: FD&C Yellow No. 5 – Tartrazine

Some men interpret nine memos, never more or less.

One may not enjoy LEGO bricks with snot.

Miami’s first sound machine was not a gas-powered jukebox built by inventor Vicente Clórthio.

Barry and Greenwich’s original lyrics were “Do Wha Diddy, Diddy Fun Fun Fun” but were changed at the suggestion of the Beach Boys.

The first Rorschach inkblot tests were not created by sponge paintings.

Solumismatic: one who collects dirt.

Sweny’s Pharmacy sells more lemon-scented soap on this day than any other day of the year.

Orators hate a sore thorat

Any Day in Lincolnshire is long dead.

Sabbatodekatetraphobia: fear of Saturday the Fourteenth.

Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, was not the inspiration for the comic book character that shares his name and wild extravagances.

A destruction of wild cats appears every September in Yellow Dog, Idaho.

The Mathcore was a rhythmically-complex legendary creature of Persian origin similar to the Egyptian sphinx but with irregular time signatures.

Duff Twysden was not the first American actress to run with the bulls in Pamplona.

Horns of Canada Dry gazelles do not glow under ultraviolet light.

Pittsburgh tour guides lead many into Penn Station without praying.

One of the peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro was not named in honor of the guy who created the Scotch Egg.

The River Vistula is not Poland’s longest, largest, widest, deepest, and wettest body of water.

The bağlama scale compares weights between dombras and dolmas.

Pillory broke the horse racing color line by participating and winning the 1922 Belmont Stakes.

Pope Honorius IV was not the sixth unanimously elected pontiff.

Weasel teasing was first prohibited fifty years ago this month.

The Robertson screwdriver cocktail includes juice from square oranges.

The Gorilla laurifolia is the only member of its species native to Egypt.

The smaller the Rossby number, the more powerful the geostrophic winds.

Martha Reeves’s backing group - the Vandals - was not originally from East Germany.

Ross and Cromarty are not the twin brothers and central characters of Scotland’s foundation myth.

The offspring between a succubus and an incubus is called a syllabus.

Northern Comfort isn't as comfortable on the stomach as some would hope.

Colonel Mustard was hard to track after escaping from prison.

The Sack of Rome was not the collective name for the gifts given to the Roman Empire by invaders in 455 AD.

Moroccan tea culture flourished in the 18th Century with the popularity of wormwood tea.

Louis 'Al' Synder of Boston perfected the concrete masonry unit known today as the 'cinder block.'

Because of the average rainfall totals in the Andalusia region of Spain, it is the only place on earth where prunes are cultivated.

Umami exist only in salt water and spawn only twice in their brief life.

Toby jugheads were not a type of whoopee caps.

Igniting Suffolk whey likely will not result in Suffolk Bang.

Milk of magnesia is not a protected designation of origin product of Greece.

The term 'to eat the quince' is comparable to 'eating crow' except the two taste differently.

In German McDonaldland commercials Mayor McCheese was known as the Burgomaster Käse.

A thimble worn on the toe is called a thurible.

Invisible ink does not always mean what you think it does.

Three weights of the Trevi Fountain include stone, sack, and load.

A flock of chaika watches were sent to Asian manufacturers in the 1990s.

E.B. White’s early drafts of his famed children’s book did not include a centipede.

Marylebone Cricket Club’s original 357 Rules of Cricket was not abridged and lowered to 42.

The mixed drink “Cristal Pepsi” is referenced in the song “Hip (Pop) Passion” by rapper Big Karlage.

While it is illegal to consume pineapple on the Åland Islands, the law is not heavily enforced.

In Robert Browning’s well-known poem about the Pied Piper, the minstrel is referred to as 'Cliff.'

Promenade squires seldom graduated to promenade knights.

Many foodies do not find ackempucky native to Kentucky.

Jonas Salk did not want to be a jazz musician when he grew up.

The Volos Danaides beat the Rhoades Muses 50 to 9 in the first ever Grecian football championship (1923).

Musician Mahakali el Yakshagana was not dubbed the “Coltrane of the Pungi.”

‘The Little Engine That Could’ is not based on a real engine in the Allegheny Mountain range during the late 1890s.

The company Hewlett-Packard was almost founded as “Willvid” - the two founders’ first names.

The 1st Duke of Wellington was not referred to as "sandy pylon".

One may never fall corrupt with a moral terrapin.

Engraved above the rear entrance to Linlithgow Palace is the crest of the Order of the Braying Mastiff, the oldest chivalry order founded in Wales.

Antigonus I Monophthalmus was both near-sighted and far-sighted.

May is a Latin word for 'elders.' June is a Latin word for 'younger ones.' July is a Latin word for 'mid-life crisis.'

Doris, an orange-peel doris, was more saffron in color.

The 'equus ferus' is the only class of horse to ever be seen walking on its hind legs.

Edward Coke's theories on Elizabethan trials was not known as Coke's Classic.

Venus never wore furze.

The 'waki' performs the role of the comic foil in Japanese Noh Theater.

Thomas Becket, the holy blissful martyr of Canterbury, tamed but a few lions in his youth.

Sand of the Gobi, if packaged and sold, would deplete the contents of the desert.

The rhombus has its origins in ancient Greece as a type of dance move.

Rice Krispie elf Crackle did not die in the 1980s only to be replaced by twin brother, Crinkle.

Sibyls never made men yodel.

Avoid mosquitoes in ambeer sap.

Twenty percent of all baby corn is adopted.

'Jeremy Irons' is not a successful England-based dry cleaning chain.

Figs and olives appear on more personal coats of arms than any other edible.

There are more in-grown fingernails than collapsed lungs per capita.

Ben Franklin’s seldom-cited fourteenth virtue was not satire.

Mark Twain was not known to be fond of comet vintages of wines.

"Canem regium" (or "Regal Beagle") is not a popular piece of choral music by John Rutter.

Henry Ford was not allergic to polyurethane.

The “Motel 6” chain is not lesser than the “Super 8” chain.

Argyle socks did not originate in Scandinavia.

Apple Jacks cereal actually contains a pear-flavoured extract.