50 Greatest Historical Events That Never Happened

There have been thousands of years of recorded history filled with incredible stories, yet many of the most entertaining anecdotes may

never

have

happened

. Often these stories began to circulate as fact long after the people involved had gone into debt as a way to emphasize a particular character. trait of that individual, others used completely fictitious people to illustrate a particular point the speaker wanted to convey. Today we will dive into 50 apocryphal tales and analyze some of the most famous and memorable stories in all of history that may or may not actually be trans inspired George Washington by the cherry tree when George Washington was 6 years old his father gave him an ax when he was still a little boy Washington went out to play with his new toy cutting various things while running through Washington he came across a cherry tree and hit it several times with his axe.

He didn't completely cut down the tree, but he damaged it enough that he ended up dying after seeing that his favorite cherry tree had been killed. Washington's father angrily confronted him. to find out what had

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to the tree Washington responded I can't lie, father, you know, I can't lie. I cut him off with my little Hatchet rather than be punished. The young George Washington was praised for his honesty. It's a great story about The Bravery and Integrity of the First American President and it almost certainly

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happened. The story was invented by Mason Lo Weams, a traveling bookseller and author of the first biography written about Washington.

The former president had died in 1799 and WAMS published his book The Following. year in 1800 was an instant hit, but the story wasn't even originally included. WAMS didn't add the apocryphal tail until the fifth edition of the book in 1806, meaning it was almost certainly just a piece of fiction. We bring you today's episode. for the potential of the 2.1 paper-like screen that allows you to unlock the full potential of your iPad if you've ever been using an iPad it's too bright, it doesn't really feel like paper, well, paper makes it feel like paper and then you can draw on it and I thought when they first approached me to sponsor, I thought: surely Apple will have thought about this if the screen is better with a paper texture.

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These stories are impossible exaggerations like The Silver Dollar did. It didn't exist until Washington was 60 years old and the pomace is more than a mile wide; However, the original story came from his grandson, George Washington Park, custus, according to the grandson, was a piece of slate about the size of a silver dollar that Washington and the throne and which was a narrow part of the Rap and Hanuk River near Washington's childhood home with some parts of the river narrowing to about 250 feet this was much more plausible although still very impressive in 1936 the legend was put to the test by Baseball Hall of Famer Walter Big coached Johnson to celebrate Washington's 204th birthday.

Johnson was taken to a part of the river estimated to be 380 feet wide, and after three attempts, the first failed to reach the opposite bank and the second barely made it across the river, not wanting to disappoint Johnson. The third coin came clear over the heads of some 2,000 spectators on the opposite side of the river. The historic moment was recovered by Peter Yon when journalists asked him what he intended to do with the coin and he responded: "I can't lie. I'm going." To sell it to the highest bidder, Nero tinkered while Rome burned. Nero is known to be a cruel emperor and external data synchronization exists, although he never actually made this claim according to Tacitus and many other sources.

Nero was 35 miles away when the Great Fire of Rome occurred. He snapped and quickly retreated to help coordinate relief efforts. However, Tacitus hinted that Nero may have orchestrated the fire and that he used it for his own benefit by building his Great Palace in the area that the fire had devastated. It is not clear what the origin is. of this apocryphal story, but the intention was clear to portray Nero as a heartless and indifferent leader, more interested in himself than in the subjects he was supposed to govern; It's certainly not an unfair characterization of the Roman emperor, even if this story didn't.

As with Zeno's paradoxes of motion, the Greek philosopher Zeno OFA is famous for his paradoxes of motion. The argument states that what is in locomotion must get halfway before reaching its goal, which certainly makes sense and seems to be obviously true, but Zeno used this paradox to argue that all movement was impossible now let's say you want run one mile before you can finish the mile you must run half a mile but before you can finish the second half mile you must run a quarter mile and then an eighth 16 and so on, the remaining distance can be divided in half an infinite number of times, so the runner must complete an infinite number of tasks before reaching the destination because a person cannot complete infinite tasks in a finite time.

Zeno argued that it was impossible. to ever reach a destination using the same arguments at the beginning of the journey, he also argued that it was impossible for a person to start moving as well and therefore all movement was an illusion in his writings, the Greek philosopher simplus wrote that at Hearing the argument the abelly called Diogenes, the cynic got up and walked refuting the idea that movement was impossible, of course this story almost certainly never happened. Zeno was only 11 years old when Diogenes died and Simplus was writing about it several centuries later, but whether it is true or not.

It was a fantastic moment to drop the microphone for Diogenes. Behold, a man. Diogenes's alleged antics did not end with Zeno. This entire episode could probably be filled with apocryphal stories from Greece's most hilariously antagonistic philosopher, but for now we'll stick with just one more. What it means to be human was of great interest to the ancient Greeks and interest in that question never really disappeared. This was not only the subject of many philosophical debates but also scientific debates. Plato sought to create a scientific definition of what a man was and decided to declare that humans were defined as featherless bipeds, not a terrible definition as only humans and birds are also bipeds, so this combination was quite unique.

Upon hearing this definition, Diogenes went home and plucked all the feathers from a chicken and then assisted Plato. In the next lecture and when Plato repeated his definition, Diogenes held up the bald chicken and declared, Here is a man. Plato modified the definition of it to include wide, flat nails, apparently missing the entire point of Diogenes' criticism. As popular as this story is, it does not appear in any ancient books. Greek texts or we can simply hope that Diogenes was really as entertaining as all apocryphal stories present him as a detachable shirt collar in the late 18th century.

High colors for men were in fashion the higher and stiffer a man's neck was, the richer and more important he must be, while many people today would consider this somewhat ridiculous trend as a fashion crime, in reality it is not It was a victimless crime, those collars had to be washed and starched every time they were worn and this task became one of many jobs. From Irritated Wives A man's wife supposedly got so upset with the whole situation that she decided to do something about it. After a week of work the husband would have five shirts that were perfectly clean except for the collars and she would have to spend time washing and starching them all.

They were tired of washing clean shirts. She cut the collars off her husband's shirts, washing and starching them separately to save time. This is the supposed origin of detachable shirt collars, which became an entire industry starting in the 1820s, without a name. given for this woman, so the entire story was probably made up as a marketing ploy to get women to encourage their husbands to buy these necklaces The Judgment of Solomon The Judgment of Solomon is one of the most famous ancient stories known. which is constantly referenced and parodied throughout pop culture in the story two women who lived in the same house came before Solomon along with a baby both women had given birth at around the same time but one of the children had died in his sleep each one claimed that the surviving baby was hers and they asked Solomon to decide the matter.

Solomon asked for his sword and declared that the child would be cut in half and each woman would receive half of a baby. One woman agreed with this judgment saying that if she couldn't have the baby then no one could have it. another begged Solomon to spare the child's life and give it to the other mother. Solomon declared that this last woman was the true mother, since a mother would do anything to save the life of her son, even if it meant giving her up. The story appeared for the first time. In the book of Kings, as we discussed previously on this channel, much of that particular book of the Bible is a reasonably accurate chronicle of Jewish history;

However, while there is a small amount of archaeological evidence to suggest that King Solomon existed, the biblical stories of his reign are considered much more embellished than most of the book of Kings, this story will likely never happen and was just an anecdote. popular to demonstrate the wisdom of Solomon. Albert Einstein failed mathematics for generations. Einstein's early academic career has been a source of inspiration to those who struggle in school as well as the talented but lazy Underachievers, after all, everyone knows that Einstein failed math when he was a child. Some versions of the story say it was because he had trouble understanding the material and others say it was because he found it boring and simply didn't care.

But is there any truth in this famous story? No, not at all, it's Albert Einstein. Do you really think he failed math? It is unclear exactly where this myth originated, but it was ubiquitous long before his death in 1935. A Princeton rabbi showed Einstein a newspaper article. Upon making this statement, he supposedly laughed and said that before I turned 15 he had mastered differential and integral calculus. The only truth to this story is that Einstein was a somewhat lazy student and had very poor attendance during college, instead choosing to copy notes from one of the students. friends of him in the physics program, but despite this he was still among the best in his class.

The only bad grade Einstein seems to have received in any class was from a college professor who made a personal note about how often he missed classes despite excelling in the program. examinations in two grosses on March 15, 44 BC. C. Julius Caesar was surrounded and murdered by around 40 Roman senators after stalking the various attackers of him, uttering his last words to someone who was very close to him in two brutes. The story of Julius Caesar is inseparable from these famous last words, but Caesar never said this, the quote first appeared in William Shakespeare's play about Caesar, that doesn't mean it isn't based in reality, but there is a debate among historians about Caesar's last words when the attack began.

Caesar said in Latin or but this is violence, there are two theoriescommon dating back to at least the 2nd century. Some accounts claim that those were his last words and that he said nothing more once the stabbing began. Others claimed that he then spoke the words. You too are a child somewhat similar to the famous Etu Brutus, however, if Caesar actually said those words, it is reported that he said them in Greek rather than Latin. If he said that, it is also unclear whether the comment was directed at Marcus Brutus or if it was intended for his desus Junius Brutus albanus, whom he referred to as a son to him and who many believed was actually his illegitimate son.

Benjamin Franklin in June 1752 Benjamin Franklin tied a key to a rope and blew it away during a storm the key was struck by lightning and thus Franklin discovered electricity, this is how the story was originally told, although more recently it has been reversed. It is common knowledge that people already understood the existence of electricity and that Franklin was simply trying to prove that lightning was made of electricity, although the story is considered apocryphal and many historians doubt its authenticity. The origin of this story is a letter written by Franklin himself; However, in the letter Franklin simply described the experiment and never stated when or even if he had actually performed it 15 years later.

Joseph Priestley's book, History and Present State of Electricity, told the story, presumably with additional details provided to him by Franklin, while Priestly claims that Franklin and his son carried out the experiment, there was no claim that the key was struck by lightning, if it had been Franklin he would almost certainly have died, we know this because others died while conducting experiments with lightning rods described by Franklin according to the book The kite was dragged to the ground after flying in the storm and Franklin felt a shock electrical. charge on the key when he touched it had picked up ambient electrical charge in the air Benjamin Franklin's national bird It is a tradition to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day in the United States, but according to a popular story this would not be the case if Benjamin Franklin had In its own way, this story began to circulate in the newspapers when the United States was celebrating its 100th birthday and was based on a letter that Franklin wrote to his daughter.

In the letter, Franklin criticized the bald eagle, calling it lazy and of bad moral character, he continued. . say that the turkey was a much more respectable bird and yet a true original native of America, but while Franklin may have preferred the turkey to the eagle, he never nominated it as the national bird nor made any of these comments publicly. The context of the letter was to criticize the original design of the Great Seal of the United States, as he felt that the eagle design made it look more like a turkey. This was what led him on his tangents about Aven's morality, however, either Franklin did not want the turkey on the Great Seal or he had been given the opportunity to design the seal several years earlier and his proposed design featured neither an eagle nor a turkey but rather Moses parting the Red Sea what that had to do with the United States is anyone's guess which is Probably why the guardian was rejected, not when Alexander the Great undertook his conquest of Asia Minor he had a legendary encounter with the Gordian knot in gordium in IIA there was an extremely intricate knot that connected an ox cart to a post the knot had been tied by King Gordius, a peasant who was declared king and became the adoptive father of the eventual King Midas, an oracle stated that any man who could untangle the elaborate KN would become ruler of all Asia when Alexander heard this story he naturally wanted to untie the knot according to legend, he tried to untie the knot conventionally but to no avail, he then reasoned that it didn't matter How the knot was undone, only it was, he took out his sword and cut the knot in half.

Now that's how it is. A funny story that demonstrates how seemingly complex problems can be easily solved with brute force, although that's not necessarily a great lesson, but it happened well, supposedly it did, according to the Greek historian Aristobulus, who accompanied Alexander on his campaign, it really was encountered with the The Guardian Knot, however, Aristobulus described a more clever solution devised by Alexander, instead of cutting the knot in half, he stated that Alexander removed the Lynch pin from the yoke of the oxcart, freeing one end of the rope. so that it could easily be up to While this story is considered more plausible, it may still have been a piece of fiction designed by Aristobulus to legitimize Alexander's expansion of the Greek Empire.

Columbus proved that the Earth was round in 1492. Columbus dared to do the unthinkable and sail west toward his inevitable doom. Everyone knew that the Earth was round. flat, but Columbus was a brave and daring explorer who tried to prove everyone wrong, but before they could leave the port, Columbus had to convince the ignorant and superstitious sailors that the Earth really was round and of course, We all know this is not true and it has been well established since ancient times that the Earth is round, however, the origin of this myth is surprisingly interesting. It is often attributed to the biography of Columbus written by Washington Irving in 1828, titled History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.

This so-called biography was a highly fictional and unrealistic retelling of history, but while this book perpetuated the myth that people in the Middle Ages believed the Earth was flat, it was part of a much larger trend that began in the 17th century as a coordinated effort by Protestants. To disparage Catholic teaching in the 19th century, the myth spread enormously thanks to both revisionist histories such as Irving's book and a growing belief that science and religion had been extremely antagonistic in the Middle Ages; This last belief completely ignored the fact that many scientists were also members of Columbus' clerical ships.

Santa Maria, however, those were not actually the names of the three ships. Ships at that time almost invariably were named after saints, so while Saint Mary is correct, the other two names were not. Sailors typically gave ships nicknames, which is what the names Nina and Pinter would have been. Pinter in Spanish painted what a Nina oh. In Spanish for girl, we know that Niña's real name was Santa Claraa, but Pinter's real name is unknown. The death of Catherine the Great. Catherine the Great was the longest reigning empress of Russia and accomplished much during her time on the throne, however, one of the things she was best known for was the many lovers she took, as Empress Katherine invited a man to be with her until she got bored of him, at which point she would give him some surf land and a pension and send him on his way. gave rise to many rumors and urban legends, the most famous of which was about the cause of Catherine's death, according to the tale Katherine was involved in amorous activities with her favorite horse, the hares that suspended the horse broke and the horse crushed Catherine to death, although This apocryphal story began to circulate immediately after her death and helped for centuries.

It was nothing more than slander. Catherine actually died of a stroke and the story about her horse was one of many salacious rumors started by her political enemies to discredit the empress and the attack on Carthage. The Third Punic War took place between Roman Carthage from 149 BC. C. until 146 BC. C., although the siege of Carthage lasted three full years, the Romans were finally successful in their mission, but it was not enough to win, they had to send a message to that end. General skipy Alam Manus raised all the buildings in the city and sowed the soil with salt so that nothing would grow there again, or so the story goes and it seems quite believable.

There are many ancient references to the salting of the earth and the salting of Carthage. It is among the most famous, surpassed only by the biblical account of the salting of the shum; However, while ancient sources mention this practice, it is unclear how often it actually happens; when he did so, it was probably a small symbolic gesture possibly intended to place a curse on the conquered lands. Salting the soil actually prevented agriculture that would have required massive amounts of salt would have been prohibitively expensive and a logistical nightmare; However, it is unlikely that this happened to Carthage, even symbolically, while Cheo did raise Carthage and the Romans were determined to city that remains in ruins there are no ancient references to the salting of Carthage the first book on the Third Punic War which includes this detail was not written down until the 19th century because the practice was believed to be common in ancient times; it is believed that the author added the detail simply to make the story more interesting in a plausible way.

Historians of the past. Everyone has a body. Stockbrokers jump from Windows. Unreasonable heights, however, as investors were reminded in the years 2000 2008 2015 2018, to name just a few, these speculative bubbles always burst in October 1929, the first stock market crash began between Black Monday and Tuesday Black, the market fell more than 23%, this was not an isolated incident and the market had already been in sharp decline, but it is still the biggest two-day drop in history, people panicked and stock traders started to jump out of Windows to end their own lives while crashing headlong into Wall Street just like their stems.

Had it even been said that there were queues of runners waiting for a free window, this was the initial report in the papers and comedians quickly jumped on the story to help perpetuate the rumours; However, there is not a single verified case that this actually happened while the Great Depression saw higher suicide rates than in the 1920s if there had not been a surge in October 1929. Most people accepted that the world had gone to choose to do everything possible to survive the stock market The runners never jumped out of the window they let them eat cake Mar anquinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution and the revolution did not end well for her or her husband, King Louis XVI.

Both were beheaded after an angry population removed them from power. Of all the Marie Antoinette stories, none is more famous. when she was informed that the peasants had no bread to eat, she was reported to have said: let them eat cake; However, there is no evidence that she ever said this nor is it even an adequate translation of the quote that people have attributed to her, although the sentiment is largely the same in the autobiography of French philosopher Jean Jaac Risso, made reference to an anonymous princess who, upon learning that the peasants did not have bread, responded De Brios, this translates as let them e Brios, which is a more elegant, sweeter bread, but still it is a bread, it is not a cake.

However, although it was not published until 1782, Riso is said to have completed the book in 1767, 3 years before Marie Antoinette arrived in France, in reality stories like this had existed for centuries in different languages ​​around the world, it was just a joke meant to show how out of touch the ruling class was with the people over who was supposed to rule Martin Luther's Thesis 95 on October 31, 1517 Martin Luther walked to the doors of All Saints' Church in Whittenberg, Germany and nailed his thesis 95 to the church door was a bold act of defiance that began the Reformation and Luther's separation from the Catholic Church at least that is what we have been led to believe, but it was not the case, it is believed that Luther never nailed his thesis on the church doors, he simply mailed them to the archbishop.

Luther was a priest and a devout Catholic and he did not seek to form his own religion just to fix the church. His main problem was always the practice of indulgences, the way of life of the church. Raise money by telling people they could buy his way into heaven. His complaints were ignored and things got out of control, resulting in Luther's excommunication. G historians say that the Theses were never nailed to the church door, particularly because Luther was a bit of a braggart, but he never claimed to have done this just saying that he mailed them to the Archbishop;

However, even if it had happened, it would not have been the grand exhibition it was made to be. The church doors were essentially the town's bulletin board and people pinned documents to them. all the time so that they would be seen by the majority of people the walk of lady GD ia lady gooda was the wife of Leo frck Count of Mercier in the 11th century, she felt sorry for the peasants and the oppressive taxes that her husband imposed on them, so he continually begged with him to lower his tax burden, finally fed upUpon hearing her ass licking he told her that he would lower taxes if she rode naked through the streets on horseback, to her surprise she accepted out of respect for Lady Gadiva and what she was doing for all of them.

Of the town's people stayed inside during her trip, except for one, a tailor named Tom, who gave us the expression voyeur. The story is so iconic that it inspired multiple paintings and sculptures by famous artists, but there is actually no evidence that it ever happened. The story wasn't first recorded until more than two centuries after her death, so it's virtually impossible for it to have happened, even though Gadiva and Leo were real people. Contemporary historians made no reference to Gadiva other than her marriage to an earl and her considerable donations to the church. if a famous naked walk took place, it seems like the kind of thing they might have mentioned.

Eureka Archimedes was a well-known Greek mathematician and scientist in his time. He was summoned by King Hero II of Syracuse to inspect a crown that had been The hero in charge had supplied the gold for the crown, but he wanted Archimedes to determine whether the gold had been adulterated with cheaper metals such as silver. The only caveat was that Archimedes could not damage the crown, which was probably shaped like a crown, although this question would be easily answered if Archimedes knew the weight and volume of the crown, its highly irregular shape made calculating the volume difficult. a difficult problem.

Archimedes went home to soak in the bath and think about the problem and when he saw that the water level in the bath was rising as he sat down and he realized that he could use the displacement of the water to measure the volume of the Corona then jumped out of the bath and ran naked through the streets shouting eure excitat that he could answer the king's question. While this story appears in ancient

historical

accounts such as the work of Atrio, the story remains somewhat apocryphal. Sure, Baredes could have solved that problem for the hero Rey, but running naked through the streets was probably a fun embellishment added by historians from a logical standpoint.

It is also more likely that he used Archimedes as the principle of buoyancy rather than water displacement, as the latter would have required measurements that would be impractical given the technology at the time of Archimedes' death ray. There are many apocryphal stories about Archimedes, but the other most famous has to do with the siege of Syracuse during the first Punic War during the siege. Archimedes was said to have used a series of large mirrors for focusing. sunlight on the approaching Roman ships setting them on fire while they were still in the water. This has been known as Archimedes as heat and his death ray.

It is a popular story that aligns with people's belief about the brilliant inventor, however, The first references to this death ray came centuries after the war, even then it was only said that Archimedes addressed ships and the author did not specify the extent to which the theory seemed somewhat plausible and numerous attempts have been made to create this event using only materials that would have been available at the time, despite the best efforts of Mythbusters and other teams attempting to recreate the invention. of Ares, have not been successful at all, although it is theoretically possible that the logistics of aiming the mirrors perfectly at a moving target could work.

It is incredibly unlikely that this will actually happen. Archimedes was killed during the siege by the Romans, so if he had some clever way to make his death ray work, then the plans died with him. William tells Apple that everyone has heard the famous story of William Tell and the apple, but for the Swiss people it is much more than that, legend has it that, after refusing to take off his hat, the tyrannical Habsburg bayith arber gastler ordered tell him to shoot an apple from his son's head at a distance of 120 steps if he doesn't succeed.

Both would be executed. Tell loaded his crossbow, counted 120 steps and then fired, knocking the apple off his son's head. When Gesler asked why there was a second arrow in his jacket, Tell said that if he had killed his son, he would have killed him. Next, Gua, this is the part most people know, but the story continues from there: Tell was imprisoned, escaped Guesta's assassination, and helped lead the rebellion that led to the formation of the old Confederacy. Swiss. Naturally, Tell became a national hero, but there is not only one problem. Is this story a complete fabrication?

There is no evidence that it actually existed. The first telling of this story was written hundreds of years after it happened and the author got the date wrong by 16 years, if that weren't damning enough. Another story written more than 300 years before this supposedly happened was written by King Harold Bluetooth of Denmark and a man named Palnatoke. It's almost exactly the same story with palnatoke and Bluetooth taking on the roles of T and guesta, death by a ham sandwich. Cass Elliot, also known as mamass, was a darling. member of the 1960s group The Mas and the Papas as an accomplished soloist and The Story Goes who died by choking on a ham sandwich is a story so well-known that it was even joked about in Austin Powers, however, although We know that This was not the true cause of C's death.

It was not a total fabrication when Dr. Anthony Greenberg saw Cass' body in the room where she had died. Her first instinct was that she had died from asphyxiation and he noticed that she had been lying down while she was eating a ham. sandwich and drink a Coke, which she considered a dangerous activity, especially for someone who was overweight. Her initial analysis was that she had choked to death on the sandwich. The public immediately latched onto this story because it was considered a humorous cause of death. Cass's weight had made her the constant butt of people's jokes and this fit perfectly with the narrative they had built around her, to the point that few people noticed when the real cause of her death was revealed later. from his autopsy, although it was related to his weight.

Cass didn't die of asphyxiation. a sandwich had been constantly overweight, but she also routinely followed dangerous crash diets to lose weight for photo shoots and the like. The combination of these strict diets and being overweight in general put an enormous strain on her body and she died of a heart attack. She just happened to be eating a ham sandwich when that happened. The original vampire prince by wlea. Vlad dracul or Vlad the Impaler is often referred to as the world's first vampire, while vampire legends predate Vlad. Vampires are obviously unreal, while Vlad was allowing him to win this.

Vlad was a brutal and ruthless leader known for impaling his enemies on spikes. He is often cited for drinking the blood of his enemies and the somewhat attenuated version of the story is that he walked among the impaled bodies while dipping his dinner. his bread in his blood since Flat was such a feared ruler and famous for his cruelty and brutality, it is easy to see how this rumor would have spread, even if it were not true, it would certainly be beneficial to him if all historians moderns would not believe it. I have always questioned how realistic this story was as it was dismissed as legend and hyperbole;

However, new research may have provided a definitive and somewhat shocking answer, according to the study published in 2023. Vlad definitely did not drink human or animal blood, in fact, skin and saliva samples were probably taken from a vegetarian from a letter written by Vlad and expert analysis showed a complete lack of animal proteins. This would only be possible if Vlad were a vegetarian or possibly even vegan, of course, that surprising fact doesn't make him any less. The last words of Oscar Wild It was said that Wild said his last words to a friend of his, the author and journalist Ker Pratz.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go. It's a good phrase. And complaining about the aesthetics of his dreary hotel room as he dies. They certainly seem to fit Wild's personality, the last words are notoriously difficult to verify, however this story is most likely just a slight exaggeration. Pratz wrote that Wild said these words to him, but not in the bet of his death, but rather he said that he made this comment weeks before his death. during one of his last trips away from his hotel room, so while it is likely that Wild said the famous quote attributed to him, the idea that they were his last words was a later embellishment to make the most interesting story.

The Betsy Ross flag, the first original American flag. The flag with 13 stars and stripes is often known as the Betsy Ross flag in honor of its creator. Elizabeth Ross was a Philadelphia seamstress who had flown flags during the American Revolution and in the decades that followed, and was personally commissioned by George Washington to design the first official flag of the United States. This is an iconic story about the founding of the United States and Betsy Ross sewed the original flag, it was even immortalized on an American stamp. However, virtually every part of this story is fiction.

Betsy Ross actually spent 50 years sewing flags primarily for the military, but there is no evidence that she designed the so-called Betsy Ross flag; even if she had it, it was actually the second official flag instead of the first. The original story, told by one family, was that Washington had a sketch. of the design he wanted and that Ross's only design contribution was to change from six-pointed stars to five-pointed stars as they would be easier to manufacture. This evolved over time until she designed the entire flag, while her grandson may have believed that she introduced a more humble family law in which Ross only changed the shape of the stars.

Most of the people who spread this story knew it was completely fictional, but when a grandson came forward with the story, it was just after the Civil War that preceded the nation's centennial celebration there. There was a strong desire to create healthy American laws that could help unite the nation, so the story was published without regard for its veracity. Burned at the stake. The Salem Witch Trials are a well-known part of American history and each Halloween nearly a million. Tourists come to see the city where it all happened and make traffic miserable for everyone else. It began when two girls, Betty Paris and Abigail Williams, began experiencing symptomatic attacks of bewitchment, which they called The Witches, who they believed were bewitching them and others.

Witches were burned at the stake, this set off a cascade of

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in which dozens of innocent people were executed after being accused of witchcraft by young girls, although that's how most people remember it, it's not exactly how which happened at the beginning of most of these

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. This actually took place in present day Salem, the trials were mainly held in the town of Salem which is now Salem, but all the people involved were in Salem Village which is present day danvas. The most important thing is that no one was burned at the stake. This error is probably the result of confusion. more than anything else, witch trials also occurred throughout Europe and in Europe it was customary to burn witches in Salem, however the standard method of execution was hanging, of course this ultimately worked out better for the city of Salem burn the victims.

It has not left any significant landmarks, but Gallows Hill is now a popular stop for tourists The War of the Worlds October 30, 1938 CBS Radio decided to broadcast a very special live Halloween broadcast Aon Wells and the Mercury Theater were going to read a radio dramatization of H.G. Wells' famous novel, The War of the Worlds, the program was written in the style of a news program, so it began with a disclaimer that what was being presented was a play fictitious radio station instead of a breaking news bulletin, however, not everyone caught that announcement. A fake newscast aired alongside the Chase and Sandborn Hour, a popular show that had only become a hit with the addition of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy because ventriloquism apparently translates surprisingly well to radio after the first sketch. comedy, there was a musical. number and many listeners switched stations to CBS after missing the initial disclaimer, this resulted in widespread panic depending on how much of the program people listened to before losing their opinion, they believed there was a major natural disaster, an invasion of the Germans or a real Martian invasion. how the newspapers reported it anyway, but it was all a lie.

Radio news has been rapidly gaining popularity andThey were stealing advertising revenue from print newspapers. In an ironic twist of fate, newspapers decided to use fictional news drama to paint radio news as knowingly unreliable. printing his own lies Newton and the apple Isaac Newton was enjoying a quiet day in his garden at Wall Thor Manor in Lincoln, in pure England, while he was sitting under an apple tree, an apple fell from the tree and stuck directly to his head. The sudden impact turned Newton's head. Thoughts about gravitation, a force of attraction that pulled things toward the Earth, is a well-known story, although even children assume it to be apocryphal when they hear it, the idea rings that Newton's laws were derived simply by receiving a hit on the head with an apple.

Too absurd to be true, however, it's actually not that far from the real story, the story goes back to a biography of Newton that was written by one of his friends and Newton directly told him the story about Apple, although he never he claimed. the apple hit him on the head an apple was in fact the inspiration for his work with gravity instead of being hit by the apple Newton simply watched an apple fall within his line of sight and it made him wonder why a falling apple From a tree it would always fall straight towards the Earth instead of at an angle or even instead of falling straight up, the idea of ​​an apple falling obviously sounded ridiculous, but without Newton explaining how gravity worked, there was no real scientific explanation. why The Battle of Themop, everyone knows the story of The Battle of Themop was one of the most famous battles of ancient times and was immortalized in the comic and the subsequent film. 300 During the battle, 300 Spartans alone faced a Persian army of hundreds of thousands that the Persians would have to break through. the bottleneck of the operation effectively negating their numbers Advantage the battle lasted 3 days until the Spartans were killed to the last man, but with 20,000 Persian deaths Xerxes decided to withdraw his army rather than press on to face a large Spartan army.

It's an incredible story. that demonstrates both the skill of the Spartan soldiers and the importance of battle tactics, but while the basic idea of ​​the story is true, it is a complete exaggeration. Herodotus recorded that the battle had 4,000 Greek deaths, something that would be impossible if there were only 300 men there. At first, a Greek army of approximately 7,000 men fought the Persians for two full days; After the second day, Leonardus learned that the Persians had found an alternative path and were moving to outflank them, so he dismissed much of the Greek army, although only 300 Spartans. They were left for the last day of the battle.

Another 2,000 Greek soldiers stayed as well. The Greeks did not fight to the death either, as most of the 400 Thebans were reported to have eventually surrendered to the Persian army. It was still impressive that the Greek army was able to successfully hold the position for as long as they did, but the story has been exaggerated over time to depict the Spartans as effectively superhuman chastity belts. We can all imagine the scene so vividly that we are in the Middle Ages and you start to get frisky with some. beautiful L, but when you lift a dress, you suddenly find yourself face to face with a padlocked chastity belt, whether by a father to prevent premarital sex or by a husband to avoid infidelity while at war, it seems You're going to have to settle for another night of medieval stuff, it's an extremely common representation that has been around for centuries and is completely fictional, the idea that chti belts were common in the Middle Ages seems to have taken root in the 18th and 19th centuries, not not because there was any evidence that they existed, but because the idea of ​​a chastity belt made their ancestors seem backwards. and repressed, which makes them seem much more enlightened in comparison, although there are some references to chastity belts from the Middle Ages, they are extremely rare, any references that exist are metaphorical or satirical in nature and there are no actual chastity belts of that nature. period. that have been found, the oldest known sketch of one of these devices comes from a book written in 1405 that suggests for the first time that they may have existed;

However, this book also has sketches of devices to make the user invisible and is full of fart jokes, so it's hard to believe this sketch wasn't just a joke. Atlantis, the lost city of Atlantis, was a utopian society located on an island beyond the Pillars of Hercules, whatever that means, they were an advanced Naval Empire that controlled almost all of the western parts of the known world. Then, after a failed attempt to conquer Athens, the Atlanteans fell into disgrace with the gods and their island was thrown into the sea. Most people understand that this was fiction, but some of the nuances have caused a lot of confusion at first.

There are still those who say that we believe that Atlantis was a real place and have dedicated their lives to finding it and to those people we wish the best of luck in their endeavor, but as for those of us who are aware that there never was an Atlantis , how important this piece of fiction often was. It is misunderstood Despite its fame and notoriety the story of Atlantis was a relatively minor aspect of two books written by Plato. There was no rich oral tradition about this lost city nor was Atlantis a major part of the public consciousness at the time. simply an allegory that Plato invented to try to prove a point, although exactly what his point was remains a subject of considerable debate.

Dr. Seuss's most famous quote. Dr. Seuss is known for many things he invented. The word nerd, he made propaganda films about World War II and the Tau generations. of children that it's okay to invite strangers into your house and break all your parents' rules as long as you clean up and don't get caught, while Dr. Seus has written many memorable books, the constant use of nonsense words made up to fit in . the rhyme scheme prevents them from being very quotable, however there is a quote that Theodore suus geel is most famous for, be who you are and say what you feel because those who care don't care and those who care don't care , it's a beautiful sentiment and it certainly sounds like something Seus would say aside from the lack of rhymes, but he never actually did or at least there's no record of him ever saying it.

Some of the earliest references to this quote are from the 1940s and in both cases. is the punchline of a joke about the difficult seating arrangement at a party Even before that, in 1938, the quote appeared in a London-based engineering magazine again used as a joke, in that case the line appeared in quotes a Although not attributed to anyone in particular suggests that it was simply a common phrase or wisdom at the time the Bermuda Triangle in the Atlantic Ocean there is a dangerous area of ​​sea known as the Bermuda Triangle this loosely defined area is the triangle Formed roughly by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the Florida Keys, the area is known for its high rate of accidents, disappearances and sunken vessels.

Often, under mysterious circumstances, a ship or plane entering the triangle may never be seen or heard again. There are many attempts to explain why this area of ​​the sea is so Cursed, most of which are supernatural in nature. Some offer a scientific explanation, such as localized magnetic fields affecting compasses and navigation equipment, but there is a much simpler explanation for the disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, which is that it is a lie invented by writers looking to make money. with a sensational story, nothing mysterious actually happens, many disappearances were outright lies and of those that actually happened, ships that were considered missing but arrived late to port were still included in the count to inflate the numbers and make them seem more worthy of mention.

The Bermuda Triangle is an area of ​​the Atlantic that received exceptionally heavy traffic from ships, airplanes, and tropical cyclones. There was nothing disproportionate or mysterious about the number of vessels lost. The curse of the goat. Sports are full of superstitions, but it doesn't happen every day. William Cyanis was the owner of Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago and, as an avid baseball fan, had gone to Wrigley Field to see the Chicago Cubs play in the 1945 World Series or because he wanted to promote his team. he business or just loved animals a lot sanis he brought his pet goat to the game.

Other attendees found this to be disturbing to Murphy, so CIS and his pet were asked to leave. Enraged CIS placed a curse on the team condemning them to never play. In the World Series again the Cubs lost the game and the series and it really seemed like they would never compete in the World Series again. This is another story that was always told, but it's unclear what CIS said, if anything, when he was kicked out of the stadium. The most common stories are that he didn't say anything or that he angrily told the Cubs they weren't going to win anymore.

That doesn't sound like anyone would play a magic curse if curses were actually real, but you can't argue with that. The results after losing that World Series in 1945, the Cubs would not appear in another world series until 2016, 72 years after the curse was placed and 106 years since they last won, they won that year, supposedly breaking the curse. Cleopatra's Pearl Wine Cleopatra and Mark Anthony were having a lovely banquet together, suddenly Cleopatra removed a priceless pearl from her earring and dropped it into a wine glass, once it dissolved she drank the wine. with a pearl inside. Some also say that Cleopatra did this to show her indifference. to wealth and others say she did it to demonstrate that she could consume the wealth of an entire nation in a single meal, regardless of her motivation.

The way the story is most commonly told now is that Cleopatra dropped the Pearl into her wine without provocation. The original story told by Plenny the Elder is a little different in the original version Cleopatra and Antony had made a bet on who would serve the most expensive banquet and this was Cleopatra's way of winning. PL also said that the glass was vinegar instead of Wine in ancient times, this story was considered a real

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event; it was later considered apocryphal; However, that may not be the case, according to a 2010 article published in the National Library of Medicine.

The story is really plausible. His research concluded that the concentration of acetic acid found in vinegar and made from wine was ideal for dissolving a pearl, making the story at least plausible. The unimaginable girth of President Taft, President William, how Taft was one of the most successful presidents of the United States, not only did he serve as president, but he continued. teach at Yale before being appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and becoming chief justice, but despite all this, there's only one thing people really remember about Taft: He was a big guy, He was 6 feet tall and weighed 340 pounds.

Taft was the fattest American president as The Story Goes Taft was so fat that he was trapped inside a bathtub in the White House. The rumor was popular even when he was president and its origins are impossible to pin down. What we can tell you, however, is that it is completely false, of course. That's not to say that a standard bathtub that couldn't accommodate the president wasn't a concern, but he installed a custom bathtub, one that was large enough to comfortably see four typical Siz men when he went to inspect the progress on the Panama Canal. a special bathtub installed aboard the USS North Carolina for its voyage the bathtub measured over 7 feet long and 3.5 feet wide origin of the potato chip If you've ever worked in retail, you no doubt had at least one customer nightmare for George Crum a chef at Moon's Lake House in Saratoga Springs, New York, that customer walked through the door on August 24, 1853, the customer ordered a plate of French fries, but kept sending them back to the kitchen every time How crumbly the fries were, the customer complains that they were too thick, too soggy, or didn't have enough salt after finally getting upset with the customer.

Crum cut some potatoes as thin as he could, fried them until they were crispy and sprinkled them with salt to his surprise, the customer loved them and thus Saratoga French Fries were born. The potato chip brand still exists to this day, but is there any truth to the story? We can't say for sure. It is certainly possible that Crum made French fries while he was trying to please an angry customer, but it isThe story may have been invented later. a marketing tool either way is somewhat irrelevant since the scumbag didn't invent French fries, although he did help popularize them in the United States. a re re for French fries was published in an 1817 cookbook that was a bestseller in both the US and the UK.

The recipe book didn't refer to them as French fries, but there's no doubt that's what the Magna Carta's signature recipe would do. June 15 at 12:15 is one of the most important dates in history , that day King John signed the Magna Carta. The Charter is widely considered the most important document in the development of modern democracy; However, there is sometimes disagreement about why he signed it; There are two most common stories and then there is the truth; One of the popular versions is that John was tricked into signing the document, he is often considered an incompetent and ineffective leader, as England lost a significant part of the lands it had gained thanks to his father, King Henry II. , and his brother, King Richard.

The lion. Juan is also often the villain of stories about Robin Hood in which he is frequently outplayed and mocked as such, the idea that he may have been tricked into signing the magnar without understanding it became one of the main narratives, the other belief It is common that John signed the Magna Carta out of the goodness of his heart when signing it. out of a sense of justice for the people of England, of course, this is completely at odds with what is known about King John's character. He was known to be spiteful, cruel, tyrannical and arbitrary in his judgments.

In reality, Jon's feudal barons rebelled against him due to his general behavior after facing an army far larger than he could have mustered, John was forced to sign the magnar to purchase President Lincoln's little wife from his barons. In 1852, Harriet Beer Stow published the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, which became incredibly popular. The novel was a harsh depiction of the lives of African American slaves and helped turn public opinion in favor of abolition. It was also controversial among slave owners and slavery fanatics in general, who claimed that it was an inaccurate depiction and was just abolitionist propaganda when the Civil War broke out.

Stow traveled to Washington DC to meet with President Lincoln. He greeted her saying "you are the little woman who wrote the book that made this Great War." It is a commonly referenced quote, but there is no evidence that it was ever established. Although the quote gains public attention after spending years in Stow family law, there is no evidence that Lincoln ever made this specific comment and Harriet did not reference the quote itself which said that it is also not entirely impossible, although the Most historians believe that Lincoln's statement was completely apocryphal. There was one thing that Stow and her daughter Hatty, who traveled with her to the White House, were very clear about: Lincoln was an absolute riot.

Stow wrote to her husband. I had a very funny interview with the president, while Hatty said: I'll just say now that It was all very funny and we were about to burst out laughing while I'm a jelly donut On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy stood up in West Berlin, in front of the Berlin Wall, to deliver one of the most memorable speeches of the Cold War, he spoke of freedom and democracy, but unfortunately made a terrible mistake. JFK was known to have trouble with foreign languages ​​and he ended his speech with the phrase Bina, which means "I am a jelly doughnut." The audience burst into laughter at this Gaff and the German political cartoonists.

I had a field day with the speech for weeks. JFK had meant that he was a citizen of Berlin, but adding the article completely changed the meaning of the sentence. That's the story most people know today, but it originated in a 1983 spy novel, a Berlin play. It was a one-line comment by a fictional character who was an unreliable narrator, but 5 years later it was picked up as a real news story. It is almost baffling that this myth has persisted for so long, as footage of the speech is available, anyone can see it for themselves. no one laughed at the president, but instead broke into thunderous applause to begin what he said was in fact grammatically correct, it was written for JFK by his translator, a native German speaker, who even gave him a phonetic pronunciation guide so he wouldn't will ruin it and even though Bina is kind of a jelly donut.

People in and around Berlin had a different word for them anyway, but even if that wasn't the case and the statement had two possible meanings, it's safe to assume that the German people would have understood it. what Jimmy Stewart, the governor meant in context despite spending decades in Hollywood Ronald Reagan was never really a leading man Women thought he seemed too nice, so he was mainly a character actor relegated to the role of brave sidekick. It was strange that Reagan did it. receive top billing in a movie and half as many times as he did just because his co-star was literally a chimpanzee.

This was perfectly articulated by Jack Warner of Warner Brothers when Warner found out that Reagan was running for governor of California and stated that his immediate response was no Jimmy Carter, the governor, Ronald Reagan, the governor's best friend, despite having been reported in Time magazine, it is unclear whether Warner actually made the statement or not. Reagan was known for his sense of humor, so it is entirely possible that he made up the story as a joke. Walt Disney was frozen, in addition to being an incredibly adapted character. Entrepreneur Walt Disney was a fan of science fiction and futurism, although it is now little more than a miniature world's fair thanks to Walt's brother Roy.

Epcot Center originally represented the experimental prototype of the community of tomorrow; was meant to be a look at the future and Disney was Often, on the cutting edge of technology within the film industry, it made sense for a forward-thinking individual to have their body cryogenically frozen after their death, a theoretical technology that was entering public consciousness for the first time right around the time Disney died. In 1966, the following year, reports came out that this had happened and everyone just accepted it, not only did it seem to make sense as something Disney would do, but there hadn't been a big funeral, even in the '60s, it was common for celebrities. have mass public funerals, so maybe Disney didn't have one because there was no body to display and it's true there was no body to display, but that's because Disney was cremated.

He was a notoriously private person, so a big funeral would have been a strange decision, instead a small ceremony was held where his family buried his ashes in the Morelia family, so how did the story begin? It appears to have first appeared in a tabloid the year following Disney's death; a writer claimed to have broken into a hospital by posing as an orderly and saw Disney's body with his own eyes; the story was first picked up and repeated. by other tabloids and then by respectable news outlets and it spread simply because people found it credible. Julius Caesar was born by cesarean section, as has long been said. that Julius Caesar was born by cesarean section, it is generally said that the cesarean section was named after Caesar, although some accounts claim that he was instead named after the procedure;

It is often reported that she was the first person born using this method and claims this as the reason it is named after her, however, none of this is actually true, regardless of what they were called, Caesarean sections had been around for quite some time in the time of Caesar's reign and were not an invention of the Romans, the name of the procedure comes from Lex Caesar. What was the law that governed cesarean sections? According to the law, it was mandatory that any pregnant woman who died always had to be cut open in order to remove the baby, but while this procedure had been around for some time, it was nothing like how exists.

In modern medicine, once a woman was cut open, she could not be sewn up again, so it was only performed on those who were already dead or dying, although this rumor about Caesar dates back to at least the 10th century, we know that can. It is not true because Aelia, Caesar's mother, survived his birth. Alice Cooper's kittens. Alice Cooper was so dedicated to surprising her fans at concerts that he was often referred to as Sharrock's godfather, however, once Sty performed on stage he went too far for most. the sensitivity of the people, although apparently not too much for the audience that night at the beginning of a show, Cooper came on stage carrying a bag of kittens with him and then declared over the microphone that I refused to play until all the kittens were dead before to throw away the bag. to the audience, Cooper's beloved fans, as their idol had ordered them to do and the show ends from there, you are likely to find the story incredibly absurd and you would be right, however, many outraged parents believed the opposite and this apocryphal story persists as part. of Cooper's method as believed by those who seek to vilify music they consider inappropriate, of course, this was not the first time a story like this had appeared before Alice Cooper.

A similar story circulated involving Australian Osborne years later, an AOL chain letter warned about Marilyn. Manson making an identical stump out of puppies, these false reports of grandiose acts were a common way for people to support Garner by vilifying anyone whose music had any kind of moral opposition. Decades later, Cooper was asked about the rumor during a interview, he laughed and said he didn't remember but he was probably the one who started the rumor the cow that started the Great Fire over the course of 3 days in October 1871 the Great Chicago Fire devastated the city destroying 177,000 buildings and leaving to over 100,000 homeless residents and claimed the lives of 300 people and how this terrible fire started that would be Mrs.

O's cow. The fire is believed to have started around 8:30 p.m. on October 8 at or near O's Bar on Doov Street, since the shed next to her barn was the first building destroyed in the fire, the most popular explanation is that Mrs. O's cow kicked the lantern and that started the fire that would engulf the In the city there is absolutely no evidence to support this theory, but there was no evidence to support any other theory. Nor was the Midwest in the midst of an intense and prolonged drought. Strong southeasterly winds would have easily helped it spread and there were widespread fires across the country.

The entire region at that time with how extremely flammable the weather had left the city, even the smallest spark could have caused the fire as anything or anyone could have been fake and there was no evidence or reason to suspect an act. of intentional fire. he decided it was better to blame Mrs. Oar's cow rather than start a bra-burning witch hunt. The United States saw a large feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s. One of the most iconic and evocative images of this movement was the burning of bras and women being invited to take them off. her bras are seen as a symbol of male oppression and thrown into a roaring bonfire, that's how people seem to remember it anyway and it certainly paints a pretty vivid picture;

In fact, the idea paints such a vivid picture that most people never fail to realize that the only images that exist of these bra burnings are the mental images they conjure up in their imagination because it never happens, at least in their minds. Most never happen. The protest cited as triggering this movement took place outside the Miss America pageant in 1968. There was a metal trash can labeled as the freedom trash can and women were encouraged to throw away things like mops, lipstick and high heels inside some also threw bras, but they were bras they had brought separately.

A single passerby saw the protest and carefully removed her bra. under her shirt, throwing it into the trash can of freedom, this one law made national headlines and became a symbol for the entire feminist movement, yet nothing thrown into the metal bin actually caught fire , there were many similar protests throughout the country after this and among all. During these protests there is only one report of burning despite it being remembered as the defining characteristic of the movement. The War of the Stray Dogs. The Petri Incident was a small military raid between Greece and Bulgaria in October 1925.

Tensions have been rising between the two. Nations throughout the early 20th century due to disputes over Macedonia and the West hadinvolved in open conflict several times with Greece emerging victorious, but this was supposed to be a time of peace, unfortunately a Greek soldier's dog escaped while crossing the border. In Bulgaria, he chased the dog and the Bulgarian border centers opened fire on the Greek soldier and killed him. This resulted in a 10-day conflict with Greece that invaded Bulgaria and killed 50 people, mostly civilians, before the League of Nations intervened and put an end to it. Because of the fighting, the conflict's origin story is why it is sometimes known as the Stray Dog War.

An alternative history suggests that Bulgarian forces crossed the border and attacked a Greek outpost, as neither side was going to be willing to claim blame for When fighting broke out, we will probably never know if the war was actually started by a dog. Hugo Boss designed the Nazi uniforms. He was born in 1885. Hugo Boss was a German businessman who founded the luxury fashion house Hugo Boss AG. He also supported the Nazi party he joined in 1931, even before Hitler came to power, as such there is a persistent rumor in modern times that Hugo Boss designed Na's uniforms, although this is not accurate, it is a simple A misunderstanding rather than a pure invention, the iconic Sh Staffell uniform was manufactured by the boss, but was designed by a German graphic designer who was not affiliated with the boss's company.

The boss made Nazi uniforms even before joining the Nazi party, but later became a major supplier of uniforms to both the SS and the Hitler Youth. Not only did the boss benefit from obtaining these manufacturing contracts, but he was also given access to slave labor along the way, which provided further financial benefits, so while Hugo Boss was an active supporter of the party If the luxury designer had been responsible for designing the SS uniforms, their hats probably would not have been decorated with a skull and crossbones.