35 "Facts" You Learned in School That Are Completely Wrong

As most of us know, Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat for a white passenger. Though it's commonly said that her reason for not getting up was because she was simply tired, her autobiography says otherwise. "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired," she wrote. "But that isn't true. I was not tired physically. . . . No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."