Just so you know

Let's just clear some things up shall we?

• The Telephone

Invented simultaneously by Alexander Graham Bell AND Elisha Gray except Bell was the first to the patent office.

• Apes

Are not the most intelligent animal, porpoise's are

• 'Playing video games rots your brain'

Not scientifically possible unless you play video games in a room full of fungi spores

• Fortune cookies

An american invention

• The seven deadly sins

There are actually eight, they were originally: gluttony, lust, avarice, sadness, anger, apathy, vainglory, and pride

• Brass instruments

Originally made from wood

• 'You're brain is more active when you're sleeping than when you're watching TV'

This is true.  Except that you're brain is equally active when it's sleeping as when you're awake, so an equivalent of this sentence would be 'You're brain is more active when you're thinking/reading/learning than when you're watching TV'

• A Coward

Literally, someone who watches over cows.

• The Mad Hatter

Not fictional, he existed in reality - mercury was used to shine hats which would cause psychosis