Stuff we get wrong about famous people...

[Archae]

Article at Cracked.com.

http://www.cracked.com/article_23028_8-beloved-historical-figures-youre-picturing-totally-wrong.html

Joey Ramone was a die-hard right-winger.

Karl Marx was a moocher who loved the high life.

Charles Dickens was a grade-A asshole.

Napolean was not short, but he had a little dick.

[Ron Obvious]

1. I knew most of these...

But...

"We've already revealed that the idea of French dictator Napoleon being really short is a demonstrably untrue myth. He was actually slightly above average in height and just took a bunch of photos alongside freakishly tall guards that gave rise to the illusion."

Photos, really? Napoleon died in 1821, and while it is just possible that some sort of early daguerreotype captured his image before he shuffled off this mortal coil, that's several years before the world's oldest known photographs were taken.

[madinmaryland]

2. Bill Cosby was a wholesome family man?