The world population has quadrupled in my lifetime, so I would be willing to believe the old bit about βmore people are alive now than have ever died.β But itβs bunk. Estimated count of all people ever is 100 billion. There werenβt that many people in the past but our species goes back 50,000 years and that makes it up.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-living-outnumber-dead/
"The days get shorter in the winter."
Actually winter begins on the shortest day of the year so the days are getting longer in the winter.
In Shrek 2 Pinocchio is trying to avoid lying by using double negatives. He knows where Shrek is. He says "I don't know where he's not." This is actually a lie (though his nose doesn't grow). If he knew where Shrek was he would know everywhere Shrek isn't. You can't just randomly throw negatives into a sentence and expect it to be a double negative.
Edit: It was Shrek the Third, not Shrek 2.
I'll have it done by the end of the week
Eskimos have a kabrillion words for snow.
Indigenous Alaskan/north Canadian languages have a few more words for snow than English, but it's not that that much more.
If an object isn't pushed by any force, it'll stop moving. (It'll actually keep moving at the same speed).
Earth is flat!
The pyramids were already hundreds of years old when the last Woolly Mammoth died.
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