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Our Fake History

Have you ever heard the story about how Napoleon shot off the nose of the sphinx in Egypt? Or that Shakespeare was actually illiterate and stole all his work? Or the rumor that Queen Elizabeth I of England was actually a man? The award-winning podcast Our Fake History explores strange stories like these, digging into myths about historical events and people and uncovering the real history in which...

https://ourfakehistory.com/
You're Wrong About

You're Wrong About, the hilarious and edifying "podcast about misremembered history," revisits pop culture stories, public figures, and historical events that have been widely misrepresented or misunderstood. Hosted by journalists Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall, each one-hour episode thoroughly debunks everything that you thought you knew about pop history, tackling subjects as diverse as the...

https://yourewrongabout.com/