I found a link to an interesting article at the Humanities Talks blog. The article, The 20 Greatest Historical Myths, dubunks many well-known historical “facts” as pure myth. I’ll leave it up to you to decide how significant some of these inaccuracies are (or if even true), but I recommend this as a read for anyone who likes history. My favorite correction was that Magellan never actually circumnavigated the globe, and personally only made it half way around the world.

Richard and I covered some of the historical people on the list in the Quotiki - Fun With Quotes podcast, including Napoleon, Marie Antoinette, Shakespeare and Ghandi. We even covered some of these historical inaccuracies ourselves, but we fell for a few of them too.

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