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OCR: I MYTHed That One! Page 40 MYTH: We've all heard the phrase 'digging one's way to China' giving us the believe that China is directly opposite the U.S. and one could dig right through the earth and end up there. This is true right? FACT: Nope, not true. Look at any globe and one thing you will notice is that China and the U.S. are both in the Northern Hemisphere thus making it impossible to dig one's way to China from the U.S. Though the idea does make one ask, in China do they believe they can dig their way to the U.S .? MYTH : The parachute was invented for use in an airplane. FACT : The parachute was invented long before the airplane was even thought about. The first parachute can be dated years before the first airplane and was invented in 1783. Louis Lenormand invented the parachute t ...