Howdy r/badhistory! It's August, which means it's time for the monthly list of the best (or worst) historical takes across Reddit. Every time our sub is mentioned, we get a notification. We select the choicest bits and compile them here for your entertainment. Let's see what July had in store.

First up, did you know the Vatican ordered the burning of the Library of Alexandria? No? That's because it never happened, but it is a great new conspiracy theory in the making I'm sure.

Germany could totally have pulled off Operation Sealion guys. 100%. As long as all the navies involved had totally different specs than what they actually had, that is.

This person had to read Atlas Shrugged at the same time they played Bioshock, and they had some good thoughts. And then someone in the comments tried to make it about the trustworthiness of PragerU, and that went about as well as expected.

It's the burning of the Library of Alexandra: Part 2, Electric Boogaloo, only this time with a side of unironic "Christian Dark Ages set us back a millennium, because all progress is completely linear!"

Ready for a two-parter? As we all know, TIK is a source. But isn't a source. So you can't refute him. But he's a great source. And since he's a source, that makes all of us over here at r/badhistory full of socialists who just refuse to admit we're Nazis for some reason.

The Baltic Greeks are back baby, and they're taking Odysseus with them!

And finally, a little Olympics controversy: everywhere that used to be a British colony is indistinguishable from England, says local Redditor, who appears confused to learn that the Olympics does not actually have multiple British teams.

Across Reddit, our most mentioned thread was Mother Theresa. She was linked in 32 independent threads. In second place was Guns, Germs, and Steel, which appears to be having a renaissance with 7 unique thread mentions. In third place was TIK, who had 5 mentions. Overall, 27 unique badhistory topics were linked across Reddit. That's it for July, and we'll see you again at the beginning of September!