The British military once opened fire on a bright object in the night sky—confident it was an enemy Zeppelin airship. It wasn’t. It was Venus. This true World War I story explores how reasonable certainty can still be wrong, and why that lesson still matters. During the First World War, soldiers did exactly what they were trained to do when the sky itself became dangerous. The result was a perfectly logical mistake—and a quiet reminder about how confidence can arrive before understandin...
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The British military once opened fire on a bright object in the night sky—confident it was an enemy Zeppelin airship. It wasn’t. It was Venus. This true World War I story explores how reasonable certainty can still be wrong, and why that lesson still matters. During the First World War, soldiers did exactly what they were trained to do when the sky itself became dangerous. The result was a perfectly logical mistake—and a quiet reminder about how confidence can arrive before understandin...
What If Everything You Thought You Knew About History Was Wrong?
An Ounce - For Your Consideration
10 minutes
3 months ago
What If Everything You Thought You Knew About History Was Wrong?
Think you know history? From Marie Antoinette’s fake cake quote to a pope putting a corpse on trial, we debunk 10 myths and reveal the weird truths behind them. You know the story — or so you thought. This episode of An Ounce dives into 10 famous “facts” that never happened, plus a few true events so strange you’ll swear we made them up. From Columbus’s wrong math to political window-tossing in Prague, we’re swapping history class clichés for the real — and often ridiculous — truth. It’...
An Ounce - For Your Consideration
The British military once opened fire on a bright object in the night sky—confident it was an enemy Zeppelin airship. It wasn’t. It was Venus. This true World War I story explores how reasonable certainty can still be wrong, and why that lesson still matters. During the First World War, soldiers did exactly what they were trained to do when the sky itself became dangerous. The result was a perfectly logical mistake—and a quiet reminder about how confidence can arrive before understandin...
