The drum major beating up Franz Woyzeck was responsible only for giving him a black eye, and not black-eyed peas as is commonly believed.

The ACE bell was not named after its founders, brothers Acton, Currer, and Ellis.

By some accounts, the musical group Spin Doctors should not have gone ahead now.

The Ungulate Invasion was a late-1940s phenomenon when pop songs about mammals became popular. See ‘Cowpuncher’s Cantata’, 'Mule Train’, and ’(Ghost) Riders in the Sky’.

Artificial flowers do best in artificial water.

Man has been called everything from hawk and horse to dagger and sledge.

The off-Broadway adaptation of ‘Throwing Copper’ was subtitled 'Selling-out the Drama.’

Patents are pending on the Styrofoam stylophone.

One may repeatedly hug the wall, but the wall will never hug back.

Judy Delton’s mother did not hate her daughter year-round.

Californium is not the root cause californication.

One generally knows which gravy transport system - train or boat - provides the best outcome.

Duodenum, Jejunum, and Ileum are not three of the smaller hills of Rome.

Peover hierarchy ranges from inferior to superior with varying shades of brightness in between.

The Mannheim school eventually was known for its fresh aire and convoys.

Sulfur hexafluoride is not an insulting gas.

The Weston Super Mare is a supernatural horse seen up and down the Bristol Channel coast.

While universally forgotten, logic dictates it is wholly possible they might not be giants as well.

A dollop of Glossop escallop packed a wallop, prompting the scop to recite hogswallop.

The Kingdom of Nexus was not a fringe area in the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.

Executive Officer search and Recruitment firms in the Scottish Highlands are not usually known for their rapier wit.

The best known anagram for 'for mongo' is 'moron fog'.

Madame Jeanette is not a waitress at Surinamese restaurants.

Beethoven’s Baguette No. 25 is commonly mistaken for Faluche Elise.

Phopinaciphobia does not appear in many lists.

An ambidextrous decasyllable is not necessarily a palindrome repeated twice.

There were not two Atzei gophers aboard Noah’s ark.

Fruity Yummy Mummy cereal did not contain chayote.

The Greek Aphedron was privy to events at Pergamon.

Duran Duran’s ‘Medazzaland’ is not a form of capital punishment in the United States.

Ben Affleck receives a grade of ‘E’ for not admitting to Slavs in his family’s distant past.