We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don’t see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.

C. N. Lester
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History only tells the story of the events that are available to us due to the fact that historians have access to many different stories. It is possible that there are some events that have never been recorded or that were kept secret due to their nature. For example, it is common belief that Adolf Hitler never killed himself in his bunker. However, the official explanation for his death is that he died from an illness that was brought on by his suicide. This would mean that he actually died of a chronic illness and not due to suicide, which would be a huge discovery.

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