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Ashley LezSome historical events seem too crazy to be real, yet we’ve been told all of our lives that it’s 100 percent fact. However, the ones that seem entirely plausible are, surprisingly, the events that never happened. From Paul Revere’s infamous night ride to Marie Antoinette’s famously and cruelly saying, “let them eat cake,” we are exposing these historical myths and diving into how they become so popular. Get ready to be amazed at how so much of what you were sure happened throughout history is nothing but fun stories.

1. Paul Revere Never Had A Midnight Ride

“The British are coming. The British are coming!” The story of Paul Revere riding through Massachusetts warning American colonials that the British were coming got its origin from an 1860 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Advertisement

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