# Fake Fact No. 025

> Fake fact (not true): Stairs were invented about two hundred years before anyone thought of going down them.

**Veracity: FALSE.** This fact is made up.

The first staircases had people waiting patiently at the top for generations. The second half of the invention was greeted with a festival that lasted a week.

- History (history)
- Filed under stairs, inventions.
- Source (fabricated): Chronicle of Upward Progress (https://onlyfakefacts.com/sources/chronicle-of-upward-progress/)
- Friday, November 13, 2026 (2026-11-13)
- https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/stairs-down-two-centuries/

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