A few years ago, for a book, I ended up researching the history of steel/tin cans among other things. There were a bunch of online resources, including Wikipedia, that all parroted essentially the same storyline. However, a couple of older books I found suggested the history was actually a fair bit older and which struck me, at any rate, as more likely.

It was a minor point and I wasn't going to dig deeper but it does show how at least (possibly) simplified/incomplete narratives drive out more complicated histories.