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George Washington died peacefully at home on December 14, 1799, aged 67 years old. A soldier, farmer, and statesman, as well as the first President of the United States under the U.S. Constitution, Washington was commonly referred to as the "Father of His Country" by his compatriots.He, like anyone else at the time, didn't know that dinosaurs existed because they were not scientifically

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Ben Franklin didn't discover electricity. Ben Franklin's famed experiment involving a key tied to a kite wasn't quite the revolutionary scientific venture you might think it was. He

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9 The Emancipation Proclamation. Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, was a big step for equality, but it was not exactly the huge leap many people think it was. Specifically, the idea that the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves is not entirely true.

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Not all fake historical events happened (or, well, didn't happen) in the distant past. It's easy to say, "Well, of course people believed these fake stories in falcon times. They didn't even have Snopes to fact-check." But there are major, world-shaking events reported in living memory that completely, actually, weirdly didn't happen.

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10 Historical Events That Didn't Happen Like You Think They Did. 5 Salem Tomato Trial. The Salem witch trials are well known, but have you heard of the Salem tomato trial? In the early 1800s, tomatoes were put on trial in Salem, New Jersey, because they were believed to be poisonous. But people had been looking askance at the fruit since the

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Uncover the truth behind historical myths! Did Paul Revere really shout "The British are coming!"? Was the Titanic's demise solely due to an iceberg? Explore

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For example, when most people think of Charles Darwin, they imagine him meticulously taking notes on the animals in the Galapagos. In reality, he was likely out there chucking lizards into the ocean. Then there's Hitler. Apparently, he was said to have a pretty serious problem of farting all the time.

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The Titanic Didn't Sink Just Because It Hit An Iceberg. An illustration of sinking of the Titanic by Jay Henry Mowbray. Fans of the movie Titanic will be surprised to learn that the luxury ocean-liner wasn't actually brought down just by hitting an iceberg but by a massive coal fire that staff had been told to keep secret from the passengers. A

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Join us on a journey through history as we delve into the intriguing world of historical events that never actually occurred. From popular misconceptions to

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Explanation: Renowned novelist Kingsley Amis entered alternate-history territory in 1976 with his award-winning novel The Alteration. In his imagined history, Henry VIII's short-lived older

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New York City gets a botanical garden (1801) Excavation of site for Rockefeller Center construction on January 26, 1932. The site was formerly a botanic garden. NY Daily News/Getty Images. In 1801

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William Tell Didn't Shoot an Apple Off His Son's Head. You probably know the legend of William Tell, or at least the gist of it. During the period of the Old Swiss Confederacy, Tell, a local farmer and renowned marksman, refused to acknowledge Austrian authority and was forced to shoot an arrow at an apple on his son's head. In case he

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3- Rats Didn't Spread the Plague During the Black Death. The Black Death, which caused more than 50 million deaths in Europe between 1346 and 1353, has long been blamed on rats. For centuries

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Vote up the unexpected historical happenings you didn't see coming. History may have already happened, but the past still holds plenty of surprises . These facts run the gamut from relatively unknown stories about famous people's lives to details about well-known organizations or historical figures that seem almost too wild to be believed.

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Spanish flu and WWI. One of the most deadly conflicts the world has ever seen, an estimated 37 million people lost their lives due to WWI. At the same time, the worst flu pandemic in recent history, the Spanish flu, broke out in 1918. The flu took an estimated 50 million lives worldwide—more than the war.

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It's hard to imagine that the invention of gunpowder happened at the same time that Vikings were busily killing people the old-fashioned way, but in those days it took a while for innovations to spread across continents, and Europeans didn't obtain gunpowder until the late 13th Century. Mythbusters, we think, got it in 2003.

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Sushi was invented at around the same time as the beloved sandwich, during the late 1700s to early 1800s. The Brooklyn Bridge in New York (pictured) was completed in 1883, the same year as the

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Universal History Archive/Getty Images. Dr. James Marion Sims, a pioneering American gynecologist, is often credited with establishing the country's first women's hospital in Manhattan in 1855

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Unless you're a history buff. But when we do make the comparison, the disparities or similarities between two such events are big enough to leave us in utter disbelief. Take a look at these 30 pairs of historic events that will probably leave the historic time-line you know in jumbles. 1. 2.

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Star Wars, 1977. Famous silent film star Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) lived just long enough, in theory, to have caught a showing of Star Wars, which debuted in the U.S. on May 25, 1977. And he would've had several months to make this happen. Chaplin died at the ripe old age of 88 on Christmas Day in 1977.

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Earlier this year, Biden and his campaign based the claim on Trump saying in a March 11 CNBC interview that "there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of cutting and in terms

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June 4, 2015 10:00 AM EDT. O n the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, TIME proclaimed that his death was "the moment that changed America." "There is little

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The response was awesome, with almost 15,000 combined comments. Super-popular blogger Jason Kottke linked to both threads and the conversation spread like crazy. You've probably seen lists of historical events that happened at the same time compiled on other sites online. Unfortunately, most of these sites don't credit the original Reddit

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No need to mention that the original story was based on Greek mythology and the movie Troy has made some people think about the war as a real historical event. The story in its original form is

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In both groups — HSAM subjects and those with normal memories — about 1 in 5 people "remembered" seeing this footage when asked about it later. "It just seemed like something was falling out of the sky," said one of the HSAM participants. "I was just, you know, kind of stunned by watching it, you know, go down.". Word recall was

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I didn't feel that great.' I said, 'Look, Joe, we are not going to let 90 minutes define the four years that you've been president.'" Dr. Biden understood that the debate night had

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The confrontation in Atlanta between Joe Biden and Donald Trump Thursday night has a good chance of becoming the most fateful presidential debate in US history.. For the first time, a sitting

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World War I didn't just happen and just as people make choices, actions have consequences. You wouldn't write a story where a thief stole 100 million dollars and the police didn't even try to come after her. Neither can you write a story about history without talking about the effects that actions have on people.

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This explosion was the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history. To most, if not all people that would suffice as an explanation. However I, along with anyone who is reading this, know that an impact event is exactly what this wasn't. You may think that by covering up these events, there must be something big behind them.

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Biden's wishes could also become hugely important. He could try to influence the process by endorsing Harris, his vice president. And she would have an argument in her favor since she is already