Nova Scotia and Banff are much smaller than one might have assumed, with so much being faked by murals, posters, and beef charts.  From Beaver Hill, Teacher's Resource Book by Roenigk, McGauchie & Ohayon, 1975.

Apparently, there was a time when the world went very well.  From The World Went Very Well Then by Walter Besant, 1887.

"A new hat from a pot of beans."  From Improvement Era, 1959.

"The best things happen when you least expect them."  From The Gateway, 1968.

Buddhism has a New Testament, too.  From The New Testament of Higher Buddhism by Timothy Richard, 1910.

They joke when they huddle.  From Purple Parrot, 1936.

Unintuitive advice from Dark Shadows: brandy gets your life in order, tea is restful, coffee calms the nerves, sedatives are called for when there's nothing wrong, and taking your medicine will get people to stop staring at you.  However, gypsy herbs aren't prescribed willy nilly.  From episodes 881, 887, 897, 339, 791, 825, and 466.

You know about live television and radio broadcasts, but in the early 1900s even magazine fiction was presented live and "vitalized."  From Live Stories, 1919.

"She plays it pianissimo."  Two tiny pianos from Together, 1959.

The world's largest typewriter, built in 1915 and displayed at the New York World's Fair in 1939.  Courtesy of UpNorthMemories.

Revealed -- why bubbles burst.  From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 1918.

You may have heard that Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, but it was actually milk and cookies.  From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.

From Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing by Charles Bowden.

The giraffe's neck was lengthened by Father Time's rolling pin.  From How Father Time Changes the Animals' Shapes by Gaylord Johnson, 1939. 

It's not a butterfly's "cocoon" but rather a wishing blanket.  This sort of science is rarely taught anymore ... and look at the state of the world.  From The Bluebird's Garden by Patten Beard, 1915.

From This Book Has Issues by Christian Jarrett and Joannah Ginsburg.

Revealed -- why it's difficult to get dandelions out of the yard.  From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 1918.

Yeast -- how a revolution begins.  From Together magazine, 1968.

From [You Have Lived Before and] You Will Live Again by Brad Steiger, 1978.