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* Like marrying age, there is a widespread misconception of historical lifespans, as though people before the Industrial Revolution magically aged faster. ''Average'' lifespans were low, but that was primarily because so many infant deaths bringing down the average, and people of any age often fell victim to now-treatable injuries and illnesses (particularly complications of childbirth). While a life of hard work and poor diet took its toll, aging progressed much as it does today.
* Post-[[Dances with Wolves|1990]], it became fashionable to refer to all Sioux as Lakota. Anyone who's looked at the north central part of a map of the United States knows why this is amusing.
* The claim that all or at least most women that were burnt as witches were wise women is completely false. It was made popular by one guy and accepted as truth by the public because, well, people being killed for being too badass for their time to handle is much more interesting than people being killed because their neighbors didn't like them and claimed that they were doing witchcraft. Or wanted to take their stuff.
* While we're on the subject of witch trials, witches in Salem weren't burned at the stake, they were hanged. Also, most of them were men.
* You know that "chain mail" is tautology and some other armor types (such as "ring mail") popularized by games neither did exist nor make any sense, even before we get to [[Chainmail Bikini|armored bikini]]? Well, [//middenmurk.blogspot.com/2015/09/apocryphal-armour.html it turns out] not only all this came from XIX century pseudo-science (which is unsurprising), but from just one guy: Samuel Rush Meyrick. Who put a lot of time and effort into studying depictions (like ''embroidery'') of medieval battles and wildly extrapolating from this, when he didn't have actual samples. Which doubles as [[You Fail Engineering Forever]], since if you ever tried to interlock more than two wire rings together, you will cringe from looking at some of the illustrations. Even if you didn't… can you imagine someone making a brigandine or lamellar armor would say «ooh, what if instead of punching small holes in metal plates to sew them side by side, we did extra work of rolling wire, cutting it and making rings to sew them side by side? It will be like with plates, ''but'' with a hole in the center!» — while sober, and actually go through with this, and then someone else paid for the result enough to make this work more worthwhile? If not, congratulations, you have more good sense than the "discoverer" of the "ringed mail". Then it somehow gets even weirder.
{{quote|It is ridiculous to think that someone “figured out” rustred mail existed and others believed him. Rustred mail is big overlapping rings that hang down over one another. It did not occur to Meyrick that the reason people use rings in armour is the whole interlinking thing. He somehow assumed people tried various other configurations before linking them together.}}
== Comic Books ==
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