1 Hour Of The Moments In History As Told On r/AskReddit (Reddit Compilation)

historians of Reddit what commonly accepted historical inaccuracies drive you crazy Albert Einstein did not fail mathematics in school as is commonly believed upon being shown a column making this claim Einstein said I never failed in mathematics before I was fifteen I had mastered the Firenze and integral calculus thanks a lot now I have no excuse for failing my pre calc class I'm not a historian just Mexican and let me just say that Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day first that Roman gladiatorial battles were blood baths with like 30 men dying in one fight I read something very recently saying that one in two hundred fights ended in killing gladiators are freakin expensive and you don't just get them killed when a man was injured fight over second that Nero played the lyre and sang while Rome burned he was in an tiem and hurried back to Rome source Tacitus the IAM he LD is actually abbreviated as an early modern english letter called thorn that was pronounced like so so it's pronounced more like our the oldie than anything else also because Gutenberg's printing press didn't have Sean so they improvised with why that Paul Revere actually staged the midnight ride and was the only one who did so he actually went from Lodge to lodge warning people then got his butts arrested and then escaped later on in the night that most of the slaves in the triangle trade ended up in the USA wrong just plain wrong the majority of slaves shipped from Africa ended up in South or Central America or the Western news just to add to this so many slaves were shipped to the West Indies because it was cheaper to work current slaves to death and just to replace them rather than give them even a substandard quality of life that Rosa Parks just decided one day to not move from her seat on the bus because she was tired but she actually had years of training with the n-double-a-cp leading up to that action years of training sounds like she was the Batman of black women trained by Ra's al Ghul to sit on buses one thing that really bothered a professor I had was that when people discuss the Nazis they frequently labeled them as Psychopaths insane crazy etc and this is especially true with Adolf Hitler when discussing him people right off the bat label him as evil a monster a drug addict had one testicle basically any reason to distance Hitler from a normal human you can't just dismiss what happened in Nazi Germany as craziness there were rational people making decisions and running the country my professor would call us out on it and ever since then I notice it a lot and it irks me too Pabst Blue Ribbon beer claims that it got the name by winning the Blue Ribbon for best beer at the World's Columbian Exposition the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 there were no blue ribbons awarded at that fair that Titanic was in any way badly designed badly built or badly operated by the standards of the time in fact there are so many ridiculous inaccuracies surrounding Titanic that it's hard to list even a fraction of them here she was an incredibly seaworthy ship much more so than any passenger ship around today the iceberg tore a gash almost 1/3 of the way down the side and she still stayed afloat for more than two hours in that time all but two of her lifeboats were launched there wasn't time to launch anymore but she could have had a hundred more lifeboats on board but that wouldn't have helped without vastly more crew to operate them Titanic's passengers genuinely did believe that she was practically unsinkable when the time came to begin loading the lifeboats many passengers thought they would be safer staying on Titanic there wasn't time for the crew to wait around convincing more people to get in so when a lifeboat was ready if there was no-one else waiting to get in it had to go this is why so many of Titanic's lifeboats left only half full Titanic wasn't traveling too fast for the conditions by the standards of practice around at the time further precautions were put into practice after the incident but no one on board can be blamed for doing what anyone on any ship would have done the same she wasn't built using substandard materials this rumor goes around a lot these days but of an article that was written some time ago what the article is supposed to mean is that there is much better quality steel available today this was not the case in 1909 additionally Titanic's builders were paid on a fee plus materials basis they were given a set fee to construct the ship plus the cost of all materials used there was no incentive to use anything but the best steel they could get their hands on the shipyard had an excellent reputation and would not risk tainting it by using bad steel which could easily be noticed on inspection anyway Titanic and her two sister ships Olympic and Britannic were also surprisingly maneuverable for their size much more so than was expected some will tell you that Titanic's rudder was too small but this simply isn't true in fact Olympics wartime captain marvel that'll have maneuverability and was even able to throw her into a sudden turn rhyming and sinking a German u-boat no Olympic was the only merchant vessel throughout the First World War accorded to have sunk an enemy vessel Galileo's models at the time of the controversy were less accurate than the geocentric models for predicting movement of celestial bodies important for navigation there was ample reason to be skeptical the Catholic response was primarily because he decided to insult a pope his patron not his scientific views Church views on the geocentric system were largely based on greek models not the scripture since his parody of the pope was done within his works advocating he lost centrism the church requested he ceased to publish them but allowed to publish about other scientific subjects he agreed to do so he later broke that promise leading to the famous trials it wasn't a war against science it was politics that Napoleon was tiny he was actually above average height this mistake is due to the fact that French inches were different from English inches I believe that people in the Middle Ages used spices to mask the flavor of meat that had gone bad if you could afford spices that were traded from far-off lands at great expense you could well afford fresh meat the idea that Columbus was trying to prove that the earth was round or that anyone in that time period even believed that the earth was flat Mark Twain did not say the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco I've seen quite a few quotes attributed to him that are really of unknown origin I think because of his wide range of writings it is easy to claim he wrote something the Vikings never wore horns on their helmets the only reason we believe that is because of poems and tales of the Vikings saying they did so we found remains of Vikings and non Hornet helmets after the idea that they had horns on their helmets was popularized just think about it aren't horns on a helm it's a little impractical and inconvenient you would never use them and it would make a great handle for the enemy to drag your head to the floor that people who lived before modern medicine lived much shorter lives when we say that the average life expectancy of an individual in a say the Year 1100 was 35 it does not mean that most people lived till around 35 and then suddenly died it means that mainly due to high childhood mortality in death during childbirth rates the average age of death was driven down if you survived childhood and pregnancy you had a fairly good chance to live well into your 60s or 70s of course people died more often from diseases and malnutrition but these were marginal factors in reducing the average life expectancy compared to childhood mortality and death during childbirth Pocahontas and John Smith thanks to Disney no one remembers that Pocahontas was a 12 year old girl that was kidnapped by a 30-plus year old man dragged from her home and killed by STD she didn't die from an STD it is not known what caused her death mid theories range from smallpox pneumonia or tuberculosis to her having been poisoned none of which are STD related that a katana is somehow the best sword humanity ever created and that the samurai were the best swordsman or bull shoot the car tanner is great assuming you are fighting in Japan as soon as you hit somewhere with metal armor specifically Europe that sword actually kind of sucks also when you break down sword fighting among all the major sword cultures Europe Japan China some parts of India 75% of it is the same crap mostly with variances in footwork Europeans could handle the sword just as well as the Japanese the exemption of the American philippine war from lower levels of history classes i didn't even hear about it much less learn about it until i took an AP class the common American myth that Jesse James was an American Robin Hood Jesse James was a fiery rebel who killed unarmed and innocent people who posed no threat to him and robbed southern as well north and banks and trains to Jessie's murderer is frequently referred to as the coward robert ford while ford did shoot him while facing his back Jesse James once shot an innocent man named John Sheets who was merely filling out a bank slip Jesse James never gave any money back to people who needed it or really had any Childress qualities other than deluding himself that he was a Southern gentleman truth is is that Jesse James was domestic terrorists who stolen victimized dozens of people killed innocents integrand ice-t-- himself by stealing the success of others as someone from the UK i think people forget about how crappy the country has acted over centuries we are obviously not the root of all evil but people forget we seem to celebrate the abolition of slavery and look at the US as the ones were slaves when we'd been carting slaves around the world for a substantially long time having a huge Empire might have sounded quite cool and civilizing that we were pretty awful in some cases especially with how we treated the Aborigines the Tories seemed to want to bring back the pride in the history of the Empire but it's something we should look at far more objectively as a Dutchman we were also pretty cruel to the natives in our colonies we also transported slaves around the world the relative scope of World War two on the Western Europe front versus the eastern front people never understand or are even taught the sheer magnitude and difference Americans are taught as if we basically were what won the war in Europe it's pretty dang misleading that there were 300 Spartans at Thermopylae there was pretty much every other Greek city stayed there at the time Sparta fielded one of the smallest armies there and reluctantly went to war because they initially wanted to stay behind on their little Peninsula even after crap hits the fan in the rest of the Greeks retreated there were still 700 thespians and 407 as well as the 300 Spartans that fought to the last what really rustles my jimmies about it is that the Spartans couldn't be seen retreating they had to fight by the morals and laws they had drummed into them the Thevenin fest pains just stayed behind because they had gonads of Steel even though in those days they were more of a militia than trained soldiers like the Spartans and they get zero recognition that people say Hitler killed six million people he killed six million Jews he killed over 11 million people in camps and ghettos however Japan killed more Chinese than Hitler killed Jews everything was better in the 1950s history buffs are edit what is one of the most fascinating stories you've learned that no one seems to talk about and can't be found in textbooks I wish more people realized how truly post apocalyptic life after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire was in Britain we had large cities made of masonry aqueducts running water Louise and accountants central heating financial derivatives or thriving civilization after the collapse we lost all of that the plumbing and concrete broke down nobody knew how to fix it people build mud huts inside old stadium and amphitheaters using them as forts that's some diamond city crap there it took centuries for the economy to recover to the point that currency was needed again rather than bartering a side point back in the day your conceives were in the same country that still blows my mind plus people had to leave cities because they weren't safe most cities and villages didn't have massive fortifications and they where the first place most barbarian nomads stopped to loot the may incident in World War two American submarines were very good at getting away from Japanese surface ships this was because the Japanese thought American submarines could only reach a much shallower depth than they actually could and they never set their depth charges to these deeper depths Congressman Andrew May decided it would be a good idea to hold a press conference announcing this fact from then on the Japanese set their depth charges to these deeper depths Vice Admiral Charles a Lockwood commander of the u.s. submarine fleet in the Pacific estimated that may security breach cost the United States Navy as many as ten submarines and 800 crewmen killed in action he said I hear congressman may said the [ __ ] depth charges are not set deep enough he would be pleased to know that the Japs set them deeper now loose lips sink ships when Ivan three of Russia married Zoe Sophia Palermo Jinnah niece off drag aces pally ala Gasol Constantine 11 her uncle gifted them a library along with many other treasures this library somehow survived the burning of Moscow in 1493 and continued to be passed down to her son Vasily 3 and then on to her grandson ivan IV during ivan IV's reign of terror the second half of his reign he feared the library was too precious a treasure and worried it would be stolen stow he and a few men took the collection out of Moscow what was most likely a one three day horse ride and buried the books possibly in a vault to ensure the location of the library would never get out he had the men killed Ivan IV died before the location of the library was ever revealed we have no idea what could have been in this library or if the contents have even survived though some historians have speculated that Plato's hermocrates the final dialogue pertaining to Atlantis could have been part of the collection there's no proof that this is true well time to go to Russia and buy me a shovel it's a bit more recent but I love the story of gander after 9/11 all the planes were grounded almost 7,000 people which was about 66 percent of the local population were forced to land in this tiny town of gander Newfoundland the whole town worked together to make sure all the passengers would have everything they needed the local ice rink was filled with frozen food that people donated you couldn't find a closed door in town for stranded people to take a shower or just talk once the grounding of planes was lifted those passengers pooled their money together and created a scholarship for the people of Gander to use this is one of the greatest acts of kindness that I can view in history to this day at Gander is the only place outside the United States where they have a piece of the World Trade Center in World War Two there was a Spanish spy named Joan Pujol Garcia who approached the Allies to work for them when they refused he approached the Nazis and they accepted him giving him the codename Arabelle once he earned credentials working as a Nazi spy he approached the Allies again this time getting a job as a double agent codenamed Garbo this is where it gets unbelievable he fed the Germans a combination of misinformation true bad useless information and high-value information that always got to the Germans just a little too late he even started a spy network consisting of 27 sub agents of his own keep in mind that not a single one of these sub agents existed they were completely imaginary did regardless he submitted expense reports for them and had the Nazis giving him money to pay their salaries at one point when he had to explain why some high-value information got to the Germans late he told them that one of his spies had died he actually got the Germans to pay the imaginary spies imaginary wife of very real pension for her loss not only did his false information get the Nazis to waste millions of dollars but he was also instrumental in convincing the Nazis that the attacks on d-day were just a diversion and the real attack was yet to come keeping vital German resources away from the front lines he is one of the only people to ever get an Iron Cross from the Germans which required Hitler's per authorization since he wasn't a soldier and an MBE from King George six the Battle of Attu it was the only battle of World War two fought on US soil at two is an island in the Aleutians the Japanese invaded it intending to who the heck knows it was far too remote to serve as a staging for an invasion of the mainland the American soldiers who were sent there had originally been slated to go to North Africa they were sent to the Arctic in the spring with gear meant for fighting in the desert they lost more men to the elements than to the Japanese I am a nurse and a few years ago I had a resident who was in this battle to his dying day he was reluctant to talk about it even seventy years later what I shared here is all he would tell me so during the spanish-american war right after it broke out the US Pacific Fleet got wind that the Spanish had their Pacific Fleet sitting in Manila Bay in the Philippines so the u.s. fleet sails from Hong Kong to go attack them and along the way a British fleet saw them headed full-steam somewhere and figured they must be headed for a battle well since there were no training videos or simulations in 1898 the best way to get experience was to either be in a battle or watch one so they followed along behind the Americans to see what was going to happen well as they continued on a German fleet saw them as well and made the same decision the Brits did been followed along to watch it's important to mention here that the u.s. ships were the best of the time only the British had similar ships and these new US ships were the best in the world though low in number so on top of the spectacle of a battle everyone wanted to know how they would perform so finally the Americans get to Manila Bay and find the Spanish still at anchor in the harbor so they sail up and blockade it morning comes in the Spanish wake up to find the harbor blocked by six if the best ships money could buy at the time and pass them an assortment of British and German ships and a couple reserved ships from the US fleet well the Spanish having no idea what the heck is happening refused to surrender and unfortunately for them the American guns with longer range so they just sat out there and absolutely destroyed them while Spanish shells splashed in the water hundreds of feet away they five six thousand shells at the punished in the end virtually the entire Spanish fleet was either at the bottom of the harbor or so damaged it was useless 75 men were dead and hundreds wounded and the only major naval force the Spanish had in the Pacific Ocean was done for the US side had a handful of injuries and only one fatality which was an old engineer who succumbed to heat struck during the battle diarrhea was so widespread and common in the 19th century that people would develop opium habits because opium makes you constipated opium has probably prevented millions of deaths from diarrhea I crap you not two of my favorite are the attack of the dead men and the brown Stifler incident to the attack of the dead men occurred during in 1915 World War I when the Germans laid siege to the Russians in Asahi fortress in modern Poland first the Germans shelled the fort and attacked the russians held during the second attack the Germans used heavier artillery guns to destroy the fort once again the Russians repulsed the attack the third time the Germans used a combination of artillery and chlorine gas as the German infantry advanced they heard screaming and saw Russian soldiers charging them the Russians were covered in chemical burns eyes red from the gas and they were coughing up blood once again the Germans pulled back the Russians evacuated before two weeks later the brown Stigler incident occurred during world war two a b-17 ye oldie pub was heavily damaged during a bombing run on Bremen several of its crew were killed or injured two engines were out a section of the tail was blown away and the radio was disabled the bomber lost altitude and was saved by the captain Charlie Brown the bomb flow over an airfield and was spotted by a German fighter ace Franz Stigler Stiegler took off caught up to the bomber had it in his sights then realized that the tail gunner was not firing at this point he noticed how damaged the b-17 was and took the advice of his former co to never shoot a man in a parachute he decided that the bomber was no longer combat capable and was in distress like a man in a parachute so he pulled to the side off for b-17 and signaled for Braun to land at the airfield when he Braun continued to fly Stiegler tried to get him to fly to Sweden once again Brown continued on when Stiegler realized that Brown was going to try to return to England he pulled to the Bombers wing and escorted to the English Channel where he gave Brown a salute a return to Germany to make a long story short after the war Brown found Stigler and the two became close friends until their deaths a book was written called a hawk called by Adam Markos 1014 ad after defeating a large Bulgarian army at the Battle of Klien Byzantine Emperor Brazil - had 99 of every 100 prisoners blinded leaving each 100th man with one eye so that he could let his comrades home upon seeing his thousands of blinded soldiers the Bulgarian Emperor reportedly died off a heart attack basil - was known thereafter as basil Bulgaria the story of the bloody benders a family of serial killers in southeast Kansas in the 1870s they let travelers stay and eat at their home for a fee of course and would kill them during dinner steal anything of value that the travelers had with them and bury the bodies of the yard small people may know about this now compared to if you had posted this question like six months ago with the story of the clotilda the last slave ship to carry slaves from Africa to the US the importation of slaves until the US had been outlawed by the federal government in 1808 but the international slave trade was still active in 1859 the captain of the ship better rich man that he could import some slaves from Africa he sailed that year and made it back smuggled them into ports at night took them up the river and then transferred them to a steamship and burnt the clotilda the slaves were split according to the people who fronted the money for the captain to sail and were enslaved alongside the american-born slaves and were freed after the Civil War the captain was tried but not convicted the slaves settled on recovered land and founded a town called Africa town that's still there it got launched back into the news recently because there's been a lot of attempts to find the last us slave ship and people believe that they found it a few months ago the bee wars you all know about the Soviet gulags correct well within them there became a society of criminals that organized together as thief in laws in Russian they became commonly known as levar's they were viciously anti-authority they must refuse all orders and all work and spit in the face of officials these motherfrakkers were hardcore well when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union Stalin allow prison was to fight them on the front in exchange for their freedom so these guys who are just anti-authority we're now fighting on behalf of the Soviet regime the interesting thing though is that these men were career criminals so after the war once they were free they continued to commit crimes and many was sent back to the gulags now the vols that agreed to not fight the Nazis began to call these traitors sukkah Sorby in English the circus became a sect and we're the bottom of the pyramid of the gulag hierarchy however these guys were now war hardened fighting machines because they took so much crap from Devore's they eventually rebelled in the gulags were torn apart in extremely bloody battles literally tens of thousands of prisoners died it was no joke and the guards allowed them to get away with it too because it was a means of population control thus the B Wars the last American Civil War Widow actually died in 2003 and the government is still paying pensions to to children of Civil War veterans in case anyone is finding this hard to believe the woman married an 81 year old civil war vet when she was 21 years old she then lived to be 97 I may not be too much of a history buff but I really like the story of Leo major Lea was a Canadian soldier serving in World War two he was assigned to the division in charge of liberating the Netherlands one day in the summer of 1944 he was alone on recognizance duty when he saw two German soldiers walking nearby he killed one and captured the other then captured their commanding officer and an entire German garrison after killing a couple more he came under fire from other German soldiers and Jew had kept walking he single-handedly captured 93 German soldiers in February of 1945 a truck Lea was in hit a landmine he broke his back a few ribs and both ankles and was told he would be discharged Leo couldn't give enough Frick's however and a week later he snuck out of the field hospital he was an in-state with a Dutch family after getting better he made it back into his battalion and volunteered to do recognizance of the city of Zwolle once he departed he decided to take the city himself he convinced a German soldier to relay a message back to the German army then through the night ran around the town making all the noise he could he shot bullets through grenades captured German soldiers burned down the Gestapo and cleaned out the SS building ins wall his tactics were so effective he convinced the German army that the entire Canadian army was invading the town so by the morning the town was free of Germans and the Canadian Army just marched him he has a street named after him in that town now the Battle of Serra gahe 21 british sikhs soldiers were attacked by 10000 afghans all the sikhs fought to the death and brought down a lot of Afghans it deservingly should be considered one of the greatest last stands of all time I recently finished killers of the flower moon which was a piece of interesting history about the systematic murders of the Osage Indians around the 1920s in Oklahoma without going into every little detail the Osage Indians were given had rights over land that contained oil but they were essentially given royalties for miners to come in to mine for oil it actually ended up making them the wealthiest people per capita at the time of course some white folk weren't too impressed and then started systematically murdering them so that the head rights would be passed on to a relative whom happened to have a white husband as he would be allowed to legally take possession of the head rights it was investigated many times with nothing turned up until Hoover decided to take a much bigger vested interest in the case and assign a team to handle it it was a pretty important case as it gave Hoover the impetus to increase the size of his department and implement new ideas as a framework moving forward for the future Department of FBI I think it was cool Dodge at the time anyways I had and heard about this and never knew just how much these people went through at the hand of common white folk around them at the time very interesting read and highly recommend it Robert Liston 1794 to 1847 a surgeon in fact he was described as the fastest knife in the West End and could amputate the leg in 2.5 minutes the fast of the surgery the more likely the recovery though during this particular amputation he went so quickly he also removed his patients testicles however he also amputated a man's leg in less than 2.5 minutes who would later die of gangrene in his haste he accidentally cut off his assistants fingers who would later die from gangrene and apparently cut through the coattails of a surgical spectator who was so scared he died of fright this becoming the only surgery with a 300% mortality rate we British did try opening trade by negotiation but sometimes we did it very very badly 1793 Beijing Ching Empire Mac carp nian becae Britain's first attempt at negotiating with the Ching the party arrived with no prior warning or arrangement with the royal household or the court of the Ching and at a time while the Emperor was in a different Palace so not expecting guests the Cayenne long emperor still agreed to meet them though and was quite impressed by the 10 year old boy they brought along who could speak fluent Chinese just boom none of the adults could speak Chinese or Manchu or any language that was used in the Ching Court Saud so the court ran around trying to see if anyone could speak English in the court literally only one person in the Ching Court Kurt the grand Secretariat Hessian who was occasionally absent from court you to illness the negotiating didn't go too badly between McCartney and Hessian though Hessian did have a bout of illness while at the table which it turns out was caused by a hernia the guy had for over 20 years which Mac Connie's physician actually helped with hurting them in a pretty good position for once then there was the issue of the cartel which Matt Kopp me would not do to kyang long as it would be disrespectful to the British king to bow more thankfully to a foreign emperor that took a lot of negotiating around with the conclusion that McCartney would show Cayenne long the same respect that he would show the British king which offended the court but the emperor was fine with after explanation the result of the comedy of errors kyang long sending a letter to the king rejecting trade offers however not as some think due to this mess and defending the court and stuff but just because he didn't want to trade with them a Dutch party did everything right and there were still rejected what historical fact blows your mind London Underground opened during the American Civil War frickin explains why six feet three inches we can't fit into the dang thing properly that at the same time the u.s. Civil War was going on which killed about 600,000 people and served as probably our greatest national tragedy China was in the throes of the Taiping rebellion the Taiping rebellion is the largest civil conflict in human history and best estimates put the death toll somewhere north of 20 million really reminds you of just how many more people live in Asia also hong xiguan who led the rebellion claimed he was Jesus's younger brother the number of aircraft destroyed during World War two is greater than the number of aircrafts that currently exist in the entire world today of course it is the number of destroyed planes has thousands of zeros in it in the late 1800s writers complained that young adults are losing touch with reality instead of sitting at the dinner table with family they have their noses buried in a magazine in the late 1800s music paper producers claimed that illegally copying sheet music would destroy the entire music industry a man survived both atomic bombs in Japan after being shot during a duel Andrew Jackson lived with a bullet next to his heart for 39 years a Jackson was shot first and calmly kept his composure and ended up killing the man when speaking to an astonished friend after the incident he stated if he had shot me through the brain sir I should still have killed him lead poisoning would explain much of his behavior how deplorable the conditions were just being in the Royal Navy in the 17th century you would work in disgusting stupidly dangerous conditions had more than a 50% chance of dying and after three years of this they would find an excuse not to pay you at all this is why a lot of them became pirates there was a saying that the only difference between prison and the Navy is that in the Navy you might drown to that the Romans and the Chinese knew about each other and actually communicated semi-regularly the Chinese called the Romans Daken and envisioned them as a kind of mirror china on the other side of the world it is believed that the human population dipped as low as 1,000 people about 70,000 BCE we could very well have been a few stillbirth or Sabbath mornings away from extinction when reduced to such low numbers the survival of a species truly teeters on a knife's edge it's a difference of a handful of births to few and you dip below minimum viable population our survival could have come down to something as trivial as some tribe finding a spring or gazelle in the nick of time yes it's thought that extremes of climate in Eastern Africa forced humans to divide into small isolated groups we came back from the brink reunited and populated the world craps crazy the last execution by guillotine was after the first Star Wars movie bear in mind that when invented it was by far the most humane method of execution out there at court the entire theme park at Walt Disney World was built in three years but it takes longer he gets new shopping plazas finished today largest construction job in the world at the time I wonder how much other roll the fact that it was Disney played in that like shopping plazas need to deal with zoning and all sorts of other things I teach history at a high school and I realized today that we've been using guns in war for close to 600 years also sort of poetic to think that the world's first giant artillery weapon the Dardanelles gun ended the Roman Empire kind of poetic with the advance of technology in this classical Empire being destroyed by the first early modern siege just learnt this in my history class today there are no more living veterans of World War one but there are still 20,000 alive widows of World War one veteran's it's estimated that Genghis Khan killed approximately 40 million people in his lifetime it's also estimated that when he slaughtered the city of Ur genj he killed over a million people in approximately six months he had a habit of conquering a city rounding up all the prisoners then dividing the prisoners by the number of people in his army and giving each soldier that number of people to march off and behead America was one vote off from important hippos the loss of life in the world wars around 38 million in World War one and around 60 million in World War two just thinking about how catastrophic and damaging that must have been for people and communities is something I just can't comprehend in World War one buddy battalions were common in Britain where they would recruit and keep men together from local areas the idea being that the connection would help morale and bring them together just looking at the dead from the Battle of the Somme 72,000 plus people died from the UK and Commonwealth entire battalions wiped out entire villages and towns losing all their men and boys hundreds of families who knew each other who all on the same day find every recruited soldier from that area has died the loss must have been unimaginable the last American Civil War widow's pension was paid in 2003 there was also a Confederate soldier that tried going to a Veterans Hospital in the 1950s they originally wouldn't treat him because he wasn't a United States veteran I should clarify that they did end up treating later though he was just originally denied that the Roman Empire existed for over 2,000 years in one form or another and there were people calling themselves Romans until the 1800 that nations and rulers laid claim to the mantle of Rome well into the 20th century one Julius Caesar was once kidnapped by pirates he laughed at the ransom they were demanding and ordered them to increase it he made then listen to his poetry and berated them if they complained he threatened to crucify them and once he was set free he did just that to ol goth Kiev her husband was murdered by a rival tribe said tribe tried to get her to marry one of their men and she agreed she invited them over and had her servants dig a hole and burned a visitor's alive then she sent pigeon and sparrows with sulfur tied to their legs into the village and burned it to the ground she was a bad B I'm glossing over all of this I could be wrong but this is what I remember Julius Caesar was once kidnapped by pirates he laughed at the ransom they were demanding and ordered them to increase it he made then listen to his poetry and berated them if they complained he threatened to crucify them and once he was set free he did just that till that JC was a Vogon I through the power of the Internet have seen more naked women than all my ancestors combined yeah that they have seen actual women naked Pluto didn't even get to complete one orbit around the Sun between the time it was discovered in the time it was Declassified as a planet but Pluto was discovered in 1930 that 87 years ago it has an orbital period of 248 years pluto has only completed 35% of its orbit since being discovered Alexander the Great defeated Araya scion of the Persian Empire the largest empire in the world at a time by beating them in the field in open combat and he did it twice in the first battle he was outnumbered 7 to 1 in the second battle he was outnumbered 10 to 1 and he freakin decimated the Persians and he conquered and ruled one of the largest empires in history he was 32 when he died I'm 32 and still feel like I'm too young to have kids Germany paid off the last of its World War 1 reparations in 2010 at the Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944 the 222nd artillery supply company under the polish 2nd corps had a bear named white egg that would bring artillery shells to forward gun positions let me repeat that and the thinking bear would fetch them artillery shells not only did John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die within hours of one another it was on the 4th of July the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence Jefferson died first and Adams last words were jefferson lives since the news didn't reach him yet more bombs were dropped on the country Vietnam during the Vietnam War than were dropped throughout the entirety of World War two across the globe that the Mongols lost to the Japanese in two invasions both times due directly to a typhoon thanks little words gunboats the last person born in the 1800s just died unless you live to 2,000 100s you're never going to meet a person who has lived in three centuries this person lived through World War 1 World War 2 Vietnam 9 stroke 11 Titanic Jim Crow laws and their repeal prohibition and its repeal women's rights especially voting the rise of flappers the rise of twerkers the Great Depression the moon landing the Dust Bowl rock and roll hippies pop rap electro Frank Sinatra Elvis the Beatles Michael Jackson Babe Ruth Muhammad Ali every Super Bowl every World Series Kennedy's assassination television remotes airplanes the internet cell phones virtual reality video games man-made drugs the end of Prussia the rise and fall of Czechoslovakia the end of the Soviet Union the end of Ottoman Empire and the creation of five states not to mention that when they were born they were the youngest person and when they died as the oldest person there was a completely different set of people on the planet than when they were this person lived through some of the most significant moments in human history truly blows me away I mean if I make it to 101 I'll have lived in three different centuries I am in my early 20s when my grandmother was a child living in the south an elderly neighbor would tell grandma about how when she was herself a little girl she remembered seeing the Confederate troops marched by in the Civil War it's so strange to think that an event which seemed so distant really happened with him to human lifespans born in 1790 at the start of the French Revolution John Tyler still today has two living grandchildren that humans have been around for about 200,000 years but we only have written records dating back 6,000 97% of humankind's history is lost I mean most of said history was after a long day of walking around and looking a stuff cut cut got his dong stuck in a hornet's nest again the first person to use the phrase what-the-dickens was Shakespeare I thought it was referencing Charles Dickens I never understood why people said it hurts like the dickens I always thought it was referring to his writing style of one of his books the ancient Phoenicians had a number system that went from 1 to 60 for them to write 61 they would have written 11 the same people invented the measurement of the circle and decided that there are 360 degrees around the circle the Boy Scout Handbook says if you hold your hand out at arm's length one finger width is about one degree of Arc Circle measurement till there are societies alive today that don't have any number system they think with the concept of a few or many that Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilization that Cambridge University is older than the Easter Island heads and that Oxford is so old no one knows when it was actually founded they only know people were teaching there as of 1096 but don't know how long that had been going on 189 swiss guard defending the Holy See in 1527 10,000 Protestant mercenaries sacked the Vatican the Vatican defenders were some militia and the Swiss Guard all but 42 Swiss good sacrificed their lives to get the Pope to safety not to mention that they still guard the Vatican to this day and that the Vatican is the only state allowed to use Swiss mercenaries what is estimated to be the first written record of an encounter with Vikings essentially goes like this there are some small ships approaching our little island with a monastery on it I wonder who it will be their boats looks different than ones I've seen before hello friends welcome to our HHH HHH nanu everything is gone we're all hurt the buildings are burning and they didn't even speak to us it probably was more along the lines of harrowing long a beggar drew damar and oil and beg LeMay mr. air when federer be say when by breath Murray and a free will non arson may laugh ISA he loss dear dude Cadfael Troy ma HHH HHH me ee ee o if you are 25 years old you have lived through more than 10% of the history of the United States of America when I was 18 my home town celebrated 700 years and it is far from the oldest town in Europe Dublin recently turned 1,000 i iack Hitler was a dispatch runner in World War 1 he came face-to-face with the enemy but his life was spared I believe he eventually even sought out the British soldier who had spared his life I feel bad for that guy at the time he did the right thing but in the long term killing Hitler would have probably saved tens of millions of lives 10th US President John Tyler born in 1790 has two living grandchildren it blows my mind that we first used a nuclear weapon the peak form of weaponry for battle purposes 72 years ago and haven't used it since in a war that had bold action rifle and horses Photography is almost 200 years old the fact that we have photos of slaves proves humanity develops in an odd pace food the way we eat today particularly the variety is completely unheard of historically the main thing I like to remind people is even 100 years ago you'd go to your local market and buy indeed the plants that are in season imagine if you went to get a cheeseburger and they told you they didn't have tomatoes because it's not tomato season you would look at them like they are crazy but if you did the same thing during most of human history and demanded a crop that was out of season they would like at you like you're the crazy one and Frank and MLK were born in the same year and Barbara Walters I'm not sure if you could call it a historical fact or just a thought on history but it's absolutely insane to me to think how fast computers have injected themselves into our lives I was talking to my father about it he was born in the fifties and to your every day working Joe like his father they weren't even a concept or a thought it's weird to think that in a span of 25 - 35 years is when computers just started to become used in businesses more regularly thinking about that time span is wild my father in his mid-60s was my age when computers first started to become mainstream his grandma my great-grandma shared a community line with everyone around the farming area now almost everyone carries around miniature computers that power our ability to communicate read about and perceive the world my nieces and nephews can navigate YouTube something I don't think my mid-sixties mother can do with any real skill 117 years ago the concept of a computerized device allowing you to communicate with anyone in the touch of a few buttons would be science fiction and going back even further it had starts to become straight-up witchcraft or sorcery watch peasants from the 1750s as I conjure on my device the image of individuals engaging in obscene acts Hitler had never been to a concentration camp this made my eyebrows shoot up quite dramatically I want to look into this further but also I really don't what are some weird historical facts or events that most people don't know about as a child Queen Victoria was isolated and emotionally abused by her mother and her mother's scheming friend said John Conroy they hope to make the young Victoria the heiress presumptive weak willed and dependent on them so that they could control her when she became Queen and be the power behind the throne obviously this didn't work it did exactly the opposite of working the only reason King Tut is considered famous is because his tomb was one of you in touched by tomb robbers because he was at an important all major pharaohs had their tomb robbed and Tut's was the first tomb discovered during the time with everything intact he wasn't an influential or all that memorable Pharaoh of his time King Tut is - King Edward VI of England too young to rule and died too early to be effective I think the most fascinating part about this is that his tomb still had intricate artifacts that dance are incredibly ornate I cannot begin to imagine what was in an important Pharaoh's tomb before the mid 19th century dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers Peter the Great executed his wife's lover then forced her to keep her lovers head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom Peter don't mess around Thomas Jefferson had SRAM as a pet he called it the abominable animal it was aggressive as heck and Jefferson usually tied it outside buildings he was in and it attacked a lot off people just walking by it killed a boy even he only had it killed once it started attacking his other shapes WTF Thomas gladiators endorsed products like modern sports stars do Eastern spices taste so good Alberti machine could have been President of Israel when it was formed but he declined classics Chien asper cellist who believed in harnessing organ as in orgasm energy center Einstein what is fundamentally a nonsense machine for harnessing the energy Einstein spent an afternoon trying to analyze this thing before sending an apologetic letter explaining that this machine was just nonsense ah the first vibrator Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay about farts and another about how young men should sleep with old women 26th President Theodore Roosevelt was an ardent supporter of William Howard Taft the two were longtime friends and Taft was Roosevelt's most trusted cabinet member when Roosevelt's latter term came to a close he successfully campaigned for Taft selection to the presidency however when Taft began enacting many policies that his predecessor found disagreeable Roosevelt grew sour towards his friend he vied for the Republican presidential nomination and failed he then literally marched his supporters out of the Republican convention hall and created a new party under this new party's banner Roosevelt split the Republican vote and ensured Taft's defeat the bull moose party Teddy didn't take no ball Thomas Jefferson collected so many books in his lifetime that he would go into debt after the British burned Washington DC in the battle of 1812 he sold most of his books to the Library of Congress to replace those that were lost in the fire Jefferson had spent 50 years accumulating a wide variety of books in several languages and in many subjects including philosophy science literature architecture law religion and mathematics the nearly 6,500 books netted him twenty three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars on the Lewis and Clark expedition a vote regarding what direction they should go was held on the coast of Washington amongst the party members this vote included Sacagawea and York Lewis slave thus because the expedition was funded by the US military this was the first time in American history where a woman and black man were allowed to participate in a vote of any kind related to government affairs legend holds that the Renaissance artist Rafael died of exhaustion and fatigue due to excessive fornication with his mistress fawn arena baddam TSS Hitler's original plan for the Jewish was to deport them to Madagascar when that failed for obvious reasons mass forever sleep was the backup over one-third of the men who served in the waffen-ss were neither German nor ethic German common or ethic German I think it's pretty safe to say that none of the people who served in the waffen-ss were very ethical people the sound made by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883 was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away traveled around the world four times and was clearly heard three thousand miles away that's like you standing at New York and hearing a sound from San Francisco you didn't have to be ethnically Spanish to be a conquest a door there were conquest a doors from England and Germany with the rules to become one involved Hispano sizing your name and converting to Catholicism if you weren't already Catholic anando de Soto is responsible for the collapse of several North American civilizations and the death of untold millions of people he and his band of men were the first Europeans to make a concerted expedition into what's now the USA he started in Florida and eventually his men made it to Louisiana with many detours along the way de Soto dies along the way but that's an important what's important is that they brought about 300 pigs with them for food because they breed quickly and can live off of almost anything unfortunately they also serve as a host for various diseases that humans are susceptible to lots of the pigs escaped reproduced destroyed farmland and spread diseases by the time the next Europeans came to those areas the civilizations de Soto and his men saw had utterly collapsed and the population had catastrophic ly fallen as well similarly the vast numbers of Buffalo and passenger pigeons are thought to be a result of the death of North American native peoples in the collapse of civilizations particularly the ability to maintain agricultural systems that's also thought to be tied to a period of global cooling as an entire continents worth of people stopped using fire to control plant growth and forests expanded massively resulting and vast amounts of co2 being pulled from the atmosphere Magellan is not the first person to circumnavigate the globe he never made it he died in the Philippines there was the 100-hour war between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 the war caused the death of about 3,000 people the war was triggered by a football soccer game it has been known as the football war and we still hail each other to this day also I love your username it is common practice to wear the bottom button of a vest waistcoat undone sometimes vests are even cut with the bottom edge curving away so that the button is purely decorative the reason for this is that Edward VII of England was a fattest he undid his bottom button for gut comfort and it turned into the style as courtiers imitated him relatedly the fashion of wearing wigs which prevailed in European fashion for 150 years started because the French King got bald and neither one the Roman Senate of the Roman Republic wasn't officially supposed to be a legislative body with authority to pass laws officially it could only recommend legislation to the magistrates who didn't technically have to obey however there was an extremely strong precedent to obey official advice from the Senate so it almost always was followed during the Republican period during the Empire the authority of the Senate was reduced further it's worth noting however that the Senate didn't only issue advice outside of legislative issues they did have other authorities and powers in addition to the immense influence they carried something I always like to talk about there once existed an alleged theoretical state of war that lasted 335 years and 19 days and was between the Dutch and an archipelago off the coast of southwest England called the Isles of Scilly what's more there were no casualties because the Dutch forgot that they were at war with the Isles it wasn't until a silly historian contacted the Dutch about the war in 1985 and received the information that the war was still technically ongoing that a peace treaty was signed in 1986 just imagine if they gathered to end this war and the leaders started arguing about who won so much so that a real war would break out Fidel Castro actually wanted to be allies with America since there were only 70 miles north a world superpower and Cuba desperately needed economic assistance but because of containment and strong anti-communist sentiment isn't how her Nixon both refused to meet him so Castro turned to the other world superpower the Soviet Union for economic assistance and Khrushchev welcomed him with open arms and that's how the Cuban Missile Crisis began not really weird but a fun piece of history that not many people is know about as the origin of an announcer calling a horse race on the 5th of February 1927 in tirana Mexico there was a film being shot at the racetrack a track official noticed the way a director was using a microphone and a loudspeaker to direct his crew and actors during the filming the idea came to him that if he had a microphone set up in the stewards booth that led to a set of speakers he could call the positions of the horses like a director gave direction later that day he had it set up without telling any other patrons to the track about it when people first experienced it they were extremely confused before that people would keep track of the horses themselves with binoculars and often were unable to get a great view of certain angles after they got used to it they loved hearing a race being called and it became an everyday thing at that small track now it's an extremely important part of modern day racing all across the world and even people that aren't familiar with the sport know about it during his travels in Africa the guy that invented Jameson liquor bought an 11-year old girl as a slave and then fed her to cannibals just to see what it was like he sketched while they ate her typing hard you sick be in medieval times the accused often a trial by ordeal where they were forced to stick their arm into a vat of boiling water if their arm emerged unscathed it was believed God protected them thus proving their innocence they also had a trial by iron up to the 18th century where you had to hold a red-hot iron bar in your hand and run a specified distance the hand would then be wrapped up and you would wait a few days if your hand-skin was corrupted when the bandages came off and that was God deeming you guilty and you were hanged simpler times The Twilight Zone was one of the first television shows to feature a nearly old black cast on a dramatic show that was was not dealing with racial issues this was all because of Rod Serling who was quoted in saying television like it's big sister the motion picture has been guilty of a sin of omission become grief or Talent desperate for the so-called new face constantly searching for a transfusion of new blood it has overlooked a source of wondrous talent that resides under its nose this is the Negro actor the episode was the big tall wish which was part of the first season of the show and it was awarded the 1961 Unity Award for outstanding contributions to better race relations Pope Gregory IX called for black cats to be killed as he believed they are incarnations of Satan the mass killing of cats increased the number of rats in Europe the increased number of rats helped to spread the plague Oh throughout Europe he also had a steam yacht called the source ECU which was moored off the West Indies in which he hosted the entire England cricket team in the Balinese goddess of plenty Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same day the 4th of July 1826 America's 50th birthday tightens last words were Thomas Jefferson survives he was wrong Jefferson had died hours earlier in Virginia max Tremmel a priest on a winter walk one day in 1894 witnessed a young boy slip through some broken ice on the river in and saved the boy from certain drowning that boy was a tall Hitler ten-minute lobotomies two methods we use either had to drill holes in head or the later method that was using a metal picta was used to hammer through eye sockets in both method a metal instrument was used to mush brain local anesthesia was used the patient could go home in the same day the doctor did a couple of thousand of these and could do multiple surgeries a day also because anesthetic was costly they just stunned the patient with an electroshock therapy machine which was pretty commonly available say Leary did not kill Mozart this is a legend Mozart drank and died in poverty I heard that it was also a myth that he died in poverty had a pauper's burial apparently a lot of money was spent on his funeral as well I actually have something for this during the evacuation of Dunkirk in World War Two in that moment of despair desperation and overall bleakness on the beach there was a workers strike by a group of British rail workers regarding overtime a very strange thing to happen in the face of events Beach I'll say where's this Dunkirk location with a tree Mexico lost part of its territory in part due the abolishment of slavery the Romans used human urine as mouthwash president LBJ would have highways cleared out by the Secret Service get in a car with a six-pack of beer and gun it down the highway downing beer after there you can leave Texas but Texas never leaves you long the first vending machine dispensed holy water the Tulsa Oklahoma race riot in 1921 what was called the black Wall Street was burned to the ground and whites actually used machine guns on black people and frickin airplanes when Fort Sumter was attacked by the Confederates in 1861 no one had gotten killed from the attack but the Confederates later had a party for a reason I do not know and when one of their drunk asses shot a gun it killed one of their own but that was the only death that occurred during the three days of the attack on Fort Sumter Confederates kept on partying even though they saw the mandate the CIA made a spy cat a cat that could lurk around and record information that they sunk several million dollars into and it promptly walked into traffic the Soviets had anti-tank dogs dogs that they strapped explosives to that didn't want to run at the tanks for obvious reasons and frequently blew up their own forces I always heard the Soviet anti-tank dogs failed because they were trained with Soviet tanks so promptly ignored the enemy and went straight award Soviet tanks as they were trained to do during the 16th century nicholas fuqua was the minister of finances of france under king louise if he had the castle of oliver kahn built for a shitload of money and had the most rad of parties there 16th century they still said things like rad then he invited the king at one of those parties and made it the radiused of all rad parties like top three Raiders in France's history looking at all the food and fireworks and fountains and all the bling king louis xiv found it suspicious where is the money coming from he was also very much jealous of such splendor when his own castle was mostly empty so louis xiv had Fuqua directed and prescient then investigated and found guilty in that order arrested by d'Artagnan the guy who inspired Alexander Dumas fourth musketeer and then he ordered a castle of Versailles to be made even more beautiful and Vall every Kahn's first law of the 48 laws of power American doctors were secretly sterilizing women in the 70s in America there was a gang war called the Great Nordic biker war where hundreds of American bikers still armaments from several scandinavian military bases and terrorized the streets while killing each other like they stole the weapons originally to sell back in the States but a bandit is used an anti-tank rocket to destroy a Hells Angels clubhouse in Sweden when the barbarians sacked Carthage they burned and pillaged pretty much everything bit of a sanctuary where st. Augustine was staying he was on his deathbed and the barbarians respected him so much for his influence even though they hated the church that they decided to leave him alone King Tut's parents were incest yours they were brother and sister if your grandparents are over the age of 80 they will have lived one stroke three of us history if you are 30 you will have lived one stroke eight of us history you have been visited by the romantic dog our Comment love is magic so you never fall in the friendzone if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people

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Length: 65min 9sec (3909 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 21 2020