Some of our history we learn as facts, which give us some knowledge but often without perspective. Other things we learn as anecdotes passed along without much evidence behind it, often stories that grew further from the truth as time passed. And as you know, history is colored by who teaches it, and from which perspective.
Read all 25 pictofacts with things you might know (some of them have been covered here at Neatorama) and some thing you didn't know, at Cracked.