Contrary to legend, those islands never provided Darwin's "eureka" moment.
Contrary to legend, there is no record of his falling.
Contrary to legend, they were neither in a tavern nor on their 18th round of beers.
There was the effect of the pill, which, contrary to legend, was legal in Ireland.
Although, contrary to legend, there was no formal school established in the imperial palace, numerous schools opened in the vicinity of churches and monasteries.
Strug and Fujimoto never fully recovered from their injuries, and Wallechinsky says that, contrary to legend, the U.S. team did not even need Strug's score.
I had heard about Piranhas my whole life, and contrary to legends I had heard as a kid, if you dip your hand in the water of the Amazon River it won't come back out as a skeleton.
Contrary to family legend, however, Khan did not show up in Sheridan alone with his yoke and pails and introduce the town to tamales.
But Costanza, who contrary to popular legend was not an obscure working-class girl but of noble birth, weathered this real-life Bernini drama and ended up making a comfortable living as an art and antiques dealer.
According to Mr. Vendome, contrary to the legend that surrounds the stone, Armenian obsidian is not commonly found on the slopes of Mount Ararat, the Biblical landing site of Noah's Ark, but in an area between Yerevan, the capital city, and Lake Sevan, perched 1,905 meters, or 6,250 feet, above sea level in central Armenia.
However, the NBC listing in Wikipedia states that "contrary to popular legend, the three musical notes, G-E-C, did not originally stand for NBC's current parent corporation, the General Electric Company, although G.E.'s radio station in Schenectady, N.Y., WGY, was an early NBC affiliate and G.E. was an early shareholder in NBC's founding parent RCA".
