Every big story has a footnote. This is where we read it.

The Footnote Files turns the strangest true stories in history into short cartoons: the jet that ran out of fuel because of a maths mistake, the army that lost a war to birds, the pig that nearly started a war.

Every story is checked before it's animated. When something is a legend or disputed, we say so on screen.

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