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I was wrong (and so was everyone)
Tom Scott
Tom Scott's correction video on his earlier claim that 18th-century insurance firefighters let uninsured buildings burn. After a historian looked into it, he concludes the story was wrong and explains how the error happened.
HN mentions it as an example of a prominent creator publicly correcting a popular myth, and of the fire brigade myth itself.
3 Hacker News mentions · 2022–2023