Reel vs. Real History: How Accurate Are Your Favorite Movies?

In the year 192 C.E., Commodus was strangled while bathing — after he'd already consumed poisoned wine. What a way to go.

Zuckerberg left the Ivy League school in 2005, but Harvard gave him an honorary degree 12 years later.

Count Franz von Walsegg, a wealthy aristocrat, commissioned the work after the death of his wife. Walsegg was known for commissioning works and passing them off as his own. Salieri, a fellow composer, had nothing to do with this request. Mozart's Requiem Mass in D Minor was completed after Mozart's untimely death in 1791.

By the way, the young woman's birthname was Amonute; "Pocahontas" was just a nickname.

One contemporary writer said Abraham Lincoln had a "a thin tenor, or rather falsetto, voice, almost as high-pitched as a boatswain’s whistle."

This David Lynch offering tells the tale of a 19th-century Englishman with a severe physical deformity. While the movie calls him "John Merrick," his first name was actually Joseph. In fairness, the first book written about Merrick also called him "John."

That's not to say this movie is accurate. The film blames the crash on a mechanical problem, but it was actually caused by human error on the team's part. Oh, and they didn't really carry the sled across the finish line.

Actually, they left Austria by train. Good thing, too: Crossing the Alps would've taken the family straight to Nazi Germany.

An American socialite, Brown not only survived the sinking but managed to raise $10,000 for her fellow passengers by the time they all reached New York City.

Cash proposed to Carter onstage at a concert in London, Ontario, Canada after a duet of "Jackson." They wed less than two weeks later.