Not all war strategies involve bullets and tanks.
Not sure how Napoleon screwed this one up so bad. Also, Hitler could have learned a little bit from that "Doomed to Repeat it" thing people keep talking about.
Being a viking was less an awesome, bloody lifestyle, and more like "this is a 9-to-5." "That might actually kill me."
The 'Keep Calm and Carry On' meme is a pretty dumb piece of propaganda compared to 'Be Charming and Stab Hitler In The Face,' it's also a lie.
Sure, Benedict Arnold is a traitor but he was also an American hero! And you'd probably become a Benedict Arnold too if you were underpaid, constantly skipped for promotions, and had the world's worst bosses and co-workers, all while pretty much ensuring America didn't lose the war as soon as it started.
The Salem Witch Trials were more like a mid-credits scene in an 'Ant-Man' film rather than the 'Avengers' sized witch hunts happening literally everywhere else.
Let's talk about Japan's samurai! Not the honorable Tom Cruises, but the actual ... well ... just watch and learn because apparently literally everyone was a samurai -- from stuffy nobility to probably gross pirates.
Thinking of being a pirate for Halloween? Well, you can keep the peg leg, but lose the gold, and perhaps consider a privateer's charter from a European power. Historical Accuracy always goes over great at parties!