Napoleon's Height: The Great Misconception

Napoleon wasn't actually short. That rumor was British propaganda to mock their enemy,

and we believed it for centuries. The truth? He was five foot seven,

average height for his time. The British press literally invented fake news to troll

him, and it worked so well that even today people think he had a complex.

History's greatest roast became history's biggest lie, and nobody bothered to fact check for

two hundred years.