Remember that boy who stuck his finger in a dam and stopped a flood? Hans Brinker?

It’s bullshit. Never happened. It’s from a book. A children’s book, at that.

We pretend like it did and even chose an official spot where it supposedly happened, which is now adorned with a statue, all for dat tourism money, yo.

What started out as a small chapter of a children’s book is now basically the ultimate Dutch tourist trap.