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What inaccurate historical factoid do you just go with?

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He wasn’t short? 😨
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  He was short. But so was everyone else then.
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    He was 5’10" which at the time was considered ‘normal’.
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      Dude 5’ 10 is slightly above average for men today. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_country
      
      Napoleon was 5’ 6”, but again, average for the time. https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-short#
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        As a 5’11 guy you’ve just made my day
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      *5’6”, which was actually a little above average.
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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_complex#:~:text=He was actually 5 feet,French adopted the metric system.
        
        Both 5’7" and 5’10’ are listed here but I see no 5’6".
        
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        1.67 Meters
        
        https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-short
        
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        I wonder why the height differs so much between sites?
        
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        Usually I’m a huge champion of Wikipedia, but my guess is someone on Wikipedia not accurately converting between archaic French inches/metric/imperial
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  He was average for the day. He just happened to be measured in different units than the British and had really tall bodyguards.

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