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#[[Marie Antoinette]]'s "Let them eat cake" was almost certainly never uttered. The phrase was likely invented by anti-monarchist revolutionaries seeking to have Marie and Louis XVI executed.
#[[Columbus]] set out to discover America; in fact, he set out to find a route to Asia, only to find an extremely large landmass in his way.
#That the Europeans intentionally deliberately spread smallpox to the American Indians; in fact, the germ theory of disease smallpox was not discovered until centuries laterendemic amongst Europeans, and they introduced it to the Americas unintentionally and without knowing the devastating effects it would have on the local population.
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