19 Of The Biggest Historical Lies People Somehow Still Believe Despite All Evidence To The Contrary

Recently, a post from reddit Repulsive finger-954 popular Ask Reddit The forum hit me. In them, they people asked, “What is the greatest historical lie that many people believe?” And the answers were both fun and informative. I decided that I have to share; Here are some of the best:

1.“Vikings He didn’t wear a horned helmet. “

–U/Blody__tatws

2.“People believe that Napoleon is an abnormal man. He was 5 years oldThen it was quite average. I’m sure this strange short, weak man painting this kind of smear campaign. “

–U/Financial_island2353

3.“George Washington’s prostheses are not from wood, but rather a combination From slaves, ivory (hippopotamus, moor and/or elephant) teeth, animal Teeth and metals. “

–U/jguacmann1

4.“Paul Revere is usually the only rider to stimulate the colonies of the British, in fact, in fact Five out of On the night of April 18, the riders who warned the colonists were based on confidentiality and did not shout ‘British are coming’! As an expression it would be confusing Still, the natives who see themselves as British. Instead, Revere’s riding network, signal weapons and church bells effectively spread the alarm. “

–U/GMoney-0725

5.People believe that the Nazis have been hated and opposed to the Jewish people since the beginning. There have been many narrative buildings around the idea that the Allies were looking for justice for the Jewish people from the beginning. Only when was it We witnessed the scope of Holocaost That the evil of the Nazis is more common and accepted. “

“Antisemitism was very common in the West before the Second World War, and Holocaust went partly so far because nobody wanted to host Jewish refugees. “

–U/SOME_NUMBER_8516

6.“The idea that people believe in the world is flat. In primary school, it was taught that no one wanted to finance Columbus’s journey because they just thought they would sail. END OF THE WORLD. Totally nonsense. “

“At least since ancient Greece, It was believed The world was a sphere. I mean, you look at the sky at night and you see nothing but other round bodies, it makes sense to assume you are in a round body. “

–U/Postxhumanity

“Eratosthenes He calculated the environment of the world and only 3% was reduced. He did this about 250 years before Christ’s birth. Really remarkable. “

–U/Postxhumanity

7.“People believe Thomas Edison invented the bulb. pioneered.“

–U/Commercial camera189

8.“People believed that women stayed at home and only men work. For the poor who have the vast majority of people throughout history, everyone who can work worked.

“You were working in your own land, you were running the land of your Lord, you were working as route workers. If you didn’t do physical work, you were cooking and returning, you were constantly turning and weaving and sewing. Continuous work.

Women worked mineHe worked as a maid and worked in factories as soon as Proto-Factories were.

Rich women also worked. Them Runned Households; For a rich family, this can be 100 people responsible. He inspected the cooking of foods and the organization materials that enable them to have accommodation and food stores; He did the drugs and headed to the patient.

Women always worked. How do people think that men know that men can safely go to war and that everything is looking at for years? “

–U/WWAXWORK

9.“People believe that the US Civil War is on the rights of states.”

–U/Spideewebb

“So, it was. It was on the rights of the states to allow inhabitants to have people as property.

–U/Fourtoedfist

10.“People believe that the MLK is socially acceptable for white people in the 1960s, and not in favor of radical changing the socioeconomic order of the United States. A socialist It was widely revised by the white culture of the time. He was re -imagined by white people who wanted to accept slow election solutions to racial problems. “

–U/Cute_win_386

11.“Many people still said Marie Antoinette’s, ‘Let them eat cake.“”

–U/Unhappy-Jaguar-9362

12.“The legend it has so far Famine in Ireland. This was a genocide and the British was exporting Enough meat and cereal from Ireland to feed three times the population of Ireland. “

–U/Cupofteaanone

13.“People in old and medieval times regularly exceeded 30 or 40. ‘Life expectancy’ was low due to child deaths. “

–U/Herskippa22

“Baby deaths He reduced the mathematical average for life expectancy. Usually today, if you have exceeded 10 in the past, you are thought to have a chance to live at a mature age like everyone else today. “

–U/Silliaurus

14.“The idea that Galileo was imprisoned by the Helicentric model. No, the reason Pope angryWho financed his research. “

–U/Double

“Galileo did not follow the steps to declare the Heliosentric model as a valid model, and he began to speak shit about the Pope. The Heliosentric model wasn’t his idea; many people were talking about the Heliosentric model and none of them were imprisoned.”

–U/Proteinpapi777

15.“There is a legend where the US has no authoritarian government. In fact, most of its history is authoritarian. Jim Crow South It was an authoritarian government that existed until 1964. “

“Until recently, constitutional rights were not ‘ingrained‘Considering the state laws. For a large part of our history, the constitution was applied to federal laws.

The state government restricted behaviors on a wide basis: inter -racial marriage, homosexuality, birth control, pornography, aggressive, aggressive comedy, or illegal. “

–U/Dubwrewer

16.“The legend of carrots the ability to see you well. This lie came from England during the Second World War Hide the fact that they have a new technology called Radar. “

–U/Cha0sdan

17.“Aragon’s idea of Catherine defective Henry VIII because he had no son and heir. He and Henry’nin at least – had. Three sons.“

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–U/No_thought_1492

18.“Samurai despised the weapons and saw them as ‘dishonest vehicles’.”

“Samurai A class not only embraces gunpowder weapons in the history of Japanese, but also developed its own domestic industry surrounding gunpowder weapons, including many original designs and tactics, which are not equivalent to even decades of Japan, even in Europe. “

–U/Likely

19.And finally: “This Not much happened ‘Dark Ages’. “

–U/Callmekiki1

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