31 of the Funniest Lies People Got Away With
‘That the doner meat spinning thing was elephant leg’
In Dungeons & Dragons, a character with high charisma is capable of convincing others to believe things that shouldn’t pass the slightest of sniff tests. You could look at this as fantasy, the same as the setting it occurs in. That, however, would ignore the very real capability of humans to mislead each other.
I think most people have one or two facts, confidently told to them, that they hold as the sterling truth until one earth-shattering moment. Below, the gods of mischief that planted the seeds of those lies admit to their greatest flim-flams. Just hope none of them turn out to teach you anything.