What commonly accepted historical inaccuracies drive historians crazy.

Albert Einstein didn't fail mathematics in school as is commonly believed.

Upon being shown a column making this claim, Einstein said,

I never failed mathematics.

Before I was 15, I'd mastered differential and integral calculus.

Thanks a lot, now I have no excuse for failing my pre-calc class. I mean, I'd mastered differential and integral calculus. Thanks a lot. Now I have no excuse for failing my

pre-calc class. I mean, I think not being Einstein is a pretty good excuse.

Huh, poor Einstein, he had no excuses. I'm not a historian, just Mexican, and let me say that

Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day. I am a historian,

and let me just say that it drives me mad when people think the Aztecs, actually the Mexico,

thought that Cortez was a god. They were 100% clear on the fact that he wasn't. People like to

vilify Donna Marina Melinche Melinzin, but she's pretty much proof that nobody thought Cortez was a god,

since she actually gave the orders. People also love to think the Spanish showed up with 500

men and took over the capital of the biggest empire in the new world, but they conveniently forget

that lexicans have pretty bloody hands in that respect as well, especially considering the fact

they talked Cortez into making a quick

detour to Cholula to fricking slaughter everyone. There's a very prevalent myth about a famous speech

given by John F. Kennedy in Berlin. The story goes that his statement,

I bin ain Berliner, translates to I am a jelly donut. While Berliner is a word for a type of jelly-filled

pastry, no one at the time thought that's what Kennedy meant. The general story is that Kennedy

should have said, I'm being Berliner, rather than I'm ayn Berliner. People claim that adding

the indefinite article Ain is the problem. While Ein does give nuance to the statement,

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