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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.
 
#[[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.
 
#[[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.
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#That the Europeans intentionally spread smallpox to the American Indians; in fact, the germ theory of disease was not discovered until centuries later.
    
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