The man who sold the Eiffel tower twice was a con artist named Victor Lustig.
Confederate army won the battle of chickamauga by spreading the false information that Confederate General Braxton Bragg was retreating. This false information drove the Union Army of the Cumberland back into Chattanooga, Tennessee, from Chickamauga Creek where, after days of battle, Confederates were victorious.
One of the "paganic" beliefs that the Aztecs thought at the prehistoric time would be that in order to continue the sun on moving, it must be fed with a precious fluid, at which time they guessed it could be human blood. They made a lot of human sacrifices for the sun in which these humans are mostly slaves or prisoners.