History may not be a very popular hobby these days, but there are several facts about the past that even people who are far from historians know about. We’ve all heard the story about 300 Spartans and about what happened to witches in the Middle Ages. These stories became popular thanks to movies and seem to be true. But if we start checking reliable sources, we’ll quickly find out that many events didn’t quite happen the way we think they did.
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