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If you find it too exciting watching paint drying...
I think I'd heard about this.
When I was a kid I was told at school and by my dad that glass is liquid. Look how it's thicker at the bottom of old small panes. In fact unlike tar or pitch, glass is not a liquid. The fatter at bottom is because the glass making result in wedge profile cross-section, so they naturally mounted the fatter edge at the bottom.
A pair of weights on a wire will gradually fall through a block of ice (I've seen this) and not because ice is liquid, but the pressure causes the ice to melt and it re-freezes behind the wire.
They told us a lot of "lies" even in secondary school. The glass, lead based additive in petrol a good idea. Red, yellow and blue are primary colours (really Magenta, yellow and cyan are subtractive "primaries" in art). Rugby and cricket good for you. Kennedy told the Germans he was a donut. Cuckoo clocks are Swiss (in the Third Man too, they are a Bavarian idea). The Tudors were good, the Romans were good, the British Empire was good and William of Orange was good (he was an usurper and only entitled to be Prince Consort, with Mary as Queen, if her father James really abdicated).
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