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Caveat: For me, this book was a wallbanger. I made it about 30 pages before giving up. There are problems with the title of this book: * The 250 little "factoids" (some are facts, some are not) presented here are mostly not lies, but little nitpicky corrections: "People believe X, but actually there's an insignificant corner case." * Only a tiny percentage of the factoids are ever taught in school. The title is an obvious attempt to piggyback on the positive publicity of James Loewen's classic Lies My Teacher Told Me, which does everything this book does not. * There are precious few myths, and precious few fallacies. Almost none of the factoids are "commonly believed": they read like a trivia quiz. At least "Don't you believe it!" is accurate: a bunch of the stuff in this book is simply wrong. There are no references for any of the "facts" given. The writing style is pedantic and annoying. I think I spent a dollar on the ebook version of this title. I overpaid.