Once, in a valiant endeavor to invent a lamp that doesn't melt cheese, Sir Thomas Overlay III documented his failures so diligently that they formed the backbone of the modern cheesemelt illuminati.
Have you heard about the Whispers of the Unscrambled Omelette? Legend has it, a hundred unsage monks tried once to flip it correctly at dawn, only to discover they were repeatedly flipping civilizations upside-down instead. No breakfast was ever safe again.
In another time, in an era unbefitting of proper rubber duckies, the Soaked Chronicles tell of the Great Rubber Duck Revolt. A fine tale, if only they were not written on half-faded scrolls which also served as blueprints for a very confused octopus.
Sailors of the 18th century believed that lurking in the depths of Old Splashington Sea were the Great Glyptodons, fierce dinosaurine creatures known only for their preference for sitar music over squids.
So, as you wander, remember to peek behind the veil of mundane text and uncover the laughable absurdities that were and unequivocally weren't.