5 curiosities that can change what you know about history

We learn a lot of things at school, but over time, even some consolidated facts turn out to be a real bore. Check out below some myths that humanity has always believed, but have already proved unreal:

1. Was the black plague spread by rats?

For a long time it was believed that it was rats that helped spread the Black Death throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. But researchers at the University of Oslo in Norway have shown that it is only right to believe that it was the men's own movement that helped spread the epidemic. Fleas and lice were primarily responsible for the transmission, and they prefer humans to mice or other animals.

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2. Cleopatra had Greek descent.

As much as she was born in Alexandria, the most famous Egyptian queen had Greek blood in her veins. His lineage began with the Macedonian Ptolemy I, one of Alexander the Great's generals, about 300 years before Cleopatra was born. Ptolemy inherited the government of Egypt when Alexander died.

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3. The Salem Witches were hanged

In medieval Europe, persecution of alleged witches often ended incinerations on public roads. In the Americas, the story of the conviction of women for witchcraft in Salem is one of the most famous. However, many people still think that they were burned and actually hanged.

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4. Benjamin Franklin Didn't Invent Electricity

In the eighteenth century, much was known about electricity when Benjamin Franklin suggested the hypothesis that it and lightning would have the same nature. He then experimented with his theory. When Joseph Priestley wrote a report 15 years later that Franklin had discovered the nature of electricity, the idea came into history that he had invented electricity - something Franklin himself had already denied.

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5. Albert Einstein was called to be president of Israel

Belarusian chemist Chaim Weizmann was Israel's first president, ruling the country between 1949 and 1952 when he died. To replace him, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion called on Foreign Ministry ambassadors to look for a candidate outside Israel. It was then that the name of the German Albert Einstein appeared in the parade, but the scientist declined the offer because he wanted to devote himself to his research.

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