Misconceptions about Crime, Music and Sports

Legislation and Crime

• It is rarely necessary to wait 24 hours before filing a missing person report; in instances where there is evidence of violence or of an unusual absence, law enforcement agencies in the United States often stress the importance of beginning an investigation promptly.^[15] The UK government website says explicitly in large type "You don't have to wait 24 hours before contacting the police".^[16]
• Entrapment law in the United States does not require police officers to identify themselves as police in the case of a sting or other undercover work, and police officers may lie in doing such work.^[17] The law is instead specifically concerned with enticing people to commit crimes they would not have considered in the normal course of events.^[18]
• No one ever claimed in court that Twinkies made them commit a crime. In the murder trial of Dan White, the defense attorneys successfully argued diminished capacity as a result of severe depression. While eating Twinkies was given as evidence of depression, it was never claimed to be the cause of the murder. Despite this, people often claim that the attorneys argued that Twinkies made him do it.^[19]
• The Geneva Convention permits the use of the M2 Browning .50-caliber machine gun against enemy personnel. The belief that it does not may have arisen from restrictions imposed by the U.S. military during the Korean or Vietnam Wars due to ammunition shortages; a similar tactically-based restriction on the use of the M40 recoilless rifle's .50-caliber spotting rifle may also have been erroneously applied to all weapons of that caliber under a belief it was legally mandated.

Music

• The Austrian national anthem is "Land der Berge, Land am Strome" ("Land of the Mountains, Land on the River").^[23] "Edelweiss" is not the national anthem of Austria, but is an original composition created for the musical The Sound of Music.
• "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" was not composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was 5 years old; he only composed variations on the tune, which originated from a French folk song, and at the age of 25 or 26

Sports

• Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball, nor did it originate in Cooperstown, New York. It is believed to have evolved from other bat-and-ball codes such as cricket and rounders and first taken its modern form in New York City.^[62][63] (See Origins of baseball.)
• The black belt in martial arts does not necessarily indicate expert level or mastery. It was introduced for judo in the 1880s to indicate competency of all of the basic techniques of the sport. Promotion beyond black belt varies among different martial arts. In judo and some other Asian martial arts, holders of higher ranks are awarded belts with alternating red and white panels, and the highest ranks with solid red belts

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