How a Math Error Tricked the Whole World 📏

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Everyone knows Napoleon Bonaparte was a tiny man who conquered Europe to compensate for his height. But what if I told you he was actually above average height, and you've been fooled by a 200-year-old meme? At 5 feet 7 inches tall, Napoleon was actually taller than the average Frenchman of his time. So why does the entire world think he was short? First, French inches were longer than British inches, causing a massive translation error when his autopsy was published. Second, British propaganda cartoonists ruthlessly drew him as a tiny angry toddler to make him look less intimidating. The propaganda worked so well that two centuries later, we are still using his name to describe short, angry guys.