All About Explorers helpfully informs its student readers that Balboa dreamed of being an Olympic fencing champion, De Soto dreamed of being an automobile manufacturer, and de Gama’s career was cut short by the development of air and rail freight transit. Blatant lies? Yes. But for a good reason: to teach kids to think critically about what they read on the web.
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There was an annual (probably more frequently, but I believe it purported to be annual) email that went around listing a bunch of facts. “Did you know that an elephant’s sneeze contains, on average, 5lbs of mucus?” and that sort of thing. I really wanted to make a list that probably had one or two true facts on it, and the rest filled with plausible or implausible lies.
In short: this is fantastic.