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Triple numbers, yay! Although according to the ancient Greeks, three 8's are bad luck. Since it is infinity sideways repeated.

GREEKS WERE WRONG



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About a lot of things.

So was history.

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History is never, ever, ever wrong. About anything, ever.

Nope, couldn't say it with a straight face.

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Columbus thought he was in india

BOY WERE THEY WRONG!

They thought diseases were caused by bad blood.

BOY WHERE THEY WRONG!

For a while everyone thought the world was flat. Well

BOI WERE THEY WRONG!


shall I continue

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Oh yes, would you, please?

Humanities fails are actually quite funny.

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Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves and freed only 5 upon his death. The rest were sold as part of his estate. In spite of his stated abhorrence of slavery, Jefferson kept slaves like the other rich people of his time, and furthermore thought that Africans were inferior to white people, although he admitted he did not know if that was because of race or the circumstances that found Africans enslaved without education and freedom.

Seldom do you see pictures of Vikings without their stereotypical horned helmets, including the cartoon Hagar the Horrible. In fact, Vikings did not wear horned helmets. That is strictly a product of German opera productions.

This overstatement is often heard in the debate over whether or not the US should have dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Winston Churchill himself said that the US would suffer a million dead and that the United Kingdom would suffer another quarter million dead. The real estimates at the time were 250,000 to 1 million total casualties (dead and wounded) with a maximum estimate of 380,000 dead. More realistic estimates were 40,000 US dead and 150,000 US wounded. On the other hand, estimates of Japanese casualties ranged from a few hundred thousand deaths to as many as 10 million, in either case more than the number killed by the atom bombs.

Often portrayed as the mighty and unstoppable land and air forces that swamped hapless German defenders and bombed German cities to rubble, the facts show that the Soviet Union bore by far the biggest responsibility for defeating Nazi Germany in World War II. Despite the American and British bombing campaign, German industry managed to actually increase production every month of the war until the last couple months. The Soviets suffered perhaps 10 million military deaths (out of 26 million or so total) compared to 407,000 American military deaths (and that includes the Pacific). Germany lost about 93% of their casualties fighting the Soviet Union! Sure, we had a big role, but the fact is the Soviet Union beat the Germans.

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thank you thank you

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