Give them a look via:
ls -al `locate .bash_history`
You might find some history that is not history.
For more info when running the history command:
export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %t '
Before you run the history command.
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ls -al `locate .bash_history`
export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %t '