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What are the worst most inaccurate things you have heard someone say about history that wasn't a joke?
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I've heard this one yesterday.

"Americans attacked japs with incest gas during ww2 so jap soldiers started having sex with each other and did lost the war"
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>>1062197
And this happened in a class in a law school.
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>>1062197
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"The Holy roman Empire is neither Holy Roman or an Empire"
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>>1062197
Mate I think this guy was fucking with everyone
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>>1062237
No he was totally serious.
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>>1062189
>le-ghazali caused the end of Muslims doing science XD
Neil Degrasse Tyson should not be allowed to talk about anything other than pop science.
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>>1062252
You sure he wasn't just being ironic?
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>>1062272
You have no idea about amount of historical revisionism in muslim countries.
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>>1062189

Thrusting/Stabbing was not used to kill a man in plate armour. The proof is modern Battle of the Nations fighters not thrusting to win a fight.

Said right here at few months ago.
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Heard this gem in Native American History class from a group presentation:
The colonial elites brainwashed the commoners to hate the Indians.

Even my border line Marxist teacher had to face palm that.
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>>1062197
would explain a lot actually
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Marx's prediction that nationalism would have fizzled out by the end of the 20th century and all national differences would be erased.
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>>1062189

>If Hitler hadn't made [MISTAKE X] Germany would have won the war!

Double points for when the suggested alternative is impossible or idiotic.
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Be on trip to Society for Military History convention in Tenn.
Stop for cigarettes at a gas station in Nashville. To get cigs have to give my birth date (12/10).
Kid behind the counter -- college age -- clearly trying to impress his girl co-worker, says, "Wasn't that the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?"
After some soul searching (I didn't want to make him feel bad) I corrected him. The girl says, "At least he got the year right."
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>>1062275
which country?
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>>1062379
What autist would think knowing such a trivial fact would impress anyone?
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>>1062392
Turkey. That guy was a Kurd but it doesn't matter a Kurd or a Turk when it comes to historical revisionism.
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>>1062236
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>what was ww1 about?
>idk, it involved napoleon though so it must've been a 150 years ago.
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>>1062197
>>1062275
That reminds me a bit of the American evangelist myths about WWII, like the "Japanese emperor made a secret ceremony to the Devil, that's why Japan was cursed."
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>>1062396
The poster you're replying to explained that he is a member of a organization made up of autists interested in trivial facts
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>>1062197
You do realize America weaponized faggotry right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
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>>1062456
>Wright Laboratory won the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for "instigating research & development on a chemical weapon—the so-called 'gay bomb' / 'poof bomb' — that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other."[12]
>won the Nobel Peace Prize
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>>1062474
Ig Nobel prize. It's satirical
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"Asians, whites and australians stole black culture and history and left Africans with nothing." -Student in my freshman english class at a UC
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>>1063350
Partly true, Africa has been shat on for centuries by whites and arabs
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>>1063350
>and australians
What, like aboriginals? If not, having said white makes that redundant.

Should've turned to the camera and asked "what did she mean by this?"
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>>1063382
Africa has been shat on by Africans mostly
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