Paulo Ferreira - Miscelânea de Factos Essenciais e Curiosidades Inúteis do Senhor Lubbock

Did you know that the oxygen you breathe now has already passed through the lungs of Napoleon and Genghis Khan?
And that the water you drank a moment ago has been in the kidneys of Jesus Christ?
Or that astrology continues to be based on the location of celestial bodies, even though the universe is expanding?

Penicillin was discovered by accident, as was Viagra. And the Post-it note only exists because an attempt to reuse glue turned out to be a failure (and because we all deserved that break in our lives). Newton thought that inventing calculus was important, but more so than studying in depth that eminent science that was alchemy.

It may be for these and other reasons that our brains fill, at all costs, the gaps in our memory with false images and facts that never happened. Speaking of fake news, we can stop debating whether Columbus was Portuguese or Spanish, since the first to arrive on the American continent were the Vikings.