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> when someone tells me about historical facts, I become cautious
Well, you should be.
Historians do collect facts, but just a list of facts won't be history. They have to be connected with a narration to give us a real sense of what could have happened. So they make up lotsa things, it's a creative writing process. They use analogies, and the narration of historical sources which aren't supported by other sources. And then as time goes on, new historians use the works of previous historians we are talking about modern historians now, not like the old ones like Tacitus or whoever, since they are among the sources and take stuff that was made by the creative work and start using them as facts.
And sometimes politics interjects and create unquestionable dogmas, which have to be treated as facts. Worst case scenario, since in these occasions going against the dogma results in serious repercussions.