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- - - - Example: historians may write that a battle’s outcome was inevitable, even if his earlier prediction did not say so.
      - https://hmcurrentevents.com/hindsight-bias-keeps-us-from-seeing-the-past-clearly/
  - - - Example: Onn 8 November 2016 – US election night – the betting odds of Donald Trump winning the presidency had narrowed to five to one. By the following morning, he'd managed to pull off a feat many thought impossible, but that didn't stop the I-told-you-sos – friends, family members and even online soothsayers – who claimed to have known all along that Trump would triumph despite such bad odds.
      - https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190430-how-hindsight-bias-skews-your-judgement
  - - - Example: Historians are usually over-confident because they know about the past events. They will think that they are smart and really good at figuring out in advance what is going to happen.
      - https://hmcurrentevents.com/hindsight-bias-keeps-us-from-seeing-the-past-clearly/
- - - - George Santayana, a philosopher, left a meaningful quote that is still being used today to encourage people to learn the history
        "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it!"
        (George Santayana-1905).
      - https://www.nwfdailynews.com/story/opinion/2020/06/11/letter-dont-make-me-repeat-myself-history/41983691/
    - - Abraham Lincoln, the 16th United States president, keep out foreign powers such as Britain and France during American Civil War to avoid conflicts that used to happen in the past.
      - https://bigthink.com/the-proverbial-skeptic/those-who-do-not-learn-history-doomed-to-repeat-it-really