10 Biggest Lies Ever Told In History!

howdy ladies and gentle folk welcome back to simon reacts today i'm joined by minter and harry and we will be reacting to the 10 biggest lies ever told in history have you got any crazy lies left i'm trying to get a lie i've told in my life like a really bad one i don't think there is not a single like you've never told a lie no i have i when i was younger i stole like a little ornamental frog from one of my um like when i was like five i stole it from like with my friend's house and my mom knew i'd done it but i refused to tell the truth to himself she was even more upset that i wouldn't come clean oh that's good i didn't steal the frog you know like the nando's chicken that they put on the table and then they come around and collect to say like oh you've got your food and stuff oh yeah i i i stole one of those or a couple of those and said yeah everything's great so i lied to the wow yeah crazy right are you simon i mean i've lied a lot but i i i can't think of anything in my head right we all know you shouldn't trust everything you see on the internet as it turns out everything that we're taught in school either our textbooks are overflowing with exaggeration misinformation and sometimes downright lies can the great wall of china really be seen from space is it true that albert einstein actually failed math class in high school because this is nonsense and find out true all right ladies and gentlemen let's go watch the countdown of lies when you think of world wonders what comes to mind first machu picchu the pyramids or the great wall of china for us it's the latter and for good reason because what other world wonder is visible space exactly but here's the thing the so-called great wall isn't even that great the truth is that it simply cannot be seen from outside of our atmosphere even from the moon and the ground the universe is relatively close it's still invisible according to nasa the unaided eye cannot see the wall from a low earth orbit despite it being 13 170 miles long while it is a masterpiece that was very generous of you so conference of the world oh my god oh here we go the great wall is three times yeah no i'm gonna make the circumference of the world is 40 000 kilometers you're telling me half the world is [ __ ] surrounded by this bloody wall [Laughter] of great wall of shock it is how is that a thing how is it half the length of the with the world it is nothing in terms of width it's only 20 feet at the bottom and 16 feet at the top this myth first started circulating in the mid 17th it's such a pointless wonder isn't it it's way before we made it up onto the moon or started putting satellites into the space it had a pool for 10 million people visit the winding great wall of china every year unfortunately someone comment to me please for another god how is possible the circumference of the world okay because i'm really i'm really confused right now apparently it's not maybe because it like twisted myth busted yeah that's not a straight line as well now if you ever took a history class at school in the usa we're pretty sure that you've heard of a certain george washington no not george washington carver the man who invented peanut butter george washington the founding father who served as first president of the united states from 1789 to 1797. we've always been told of this famous tale about him and his dad in a cherry tree when we've come to accept it wrongly yeah i don't think this is a refresher here's the story little six-year-old george washington was given a hatchet and confronted george who instead of denying it said the famous words quote i cannot tell a lie here's the thing though i cannot tell a lie was a lie even though washington was already a great named mason oh that was exactly his face is hilarious i just found out i was alive biographer named mason lock weems exaggerated his notable characteristics even further weems simply made up the tale to highlight washington's honesty and his good nature wow that's cool if we hadn't quite quenched your thirst for mind-blowing revelations about about the pyramids coming right up here if we asked you to tell us who built the pyramids what would your responsibilities be ancient egyptians right the wealthy put slaves to work dragging incredibly heavy stones up slopes until finally they created an unforgettable landmark well that's not quite true either sorry to burst your bubble pharaohs but the majority of the manpower was in fact not the slaves that's what the 19th century sciences slaves claiming credit for everything that's jokes jokes tricky slaves no let's move it was the entire healthy population of ancient egypt over a span of 85 years between 25 89 and 25 bce aliens put blood and some even headed out on long journeys in search of stone and metal yeah after all of that community actually like the humane thing to do so maybe she's just like running around with it oh wait they're actually in a war oh there's cats there's cats there's cats flying everywhere oh there's lots of cats now now i've looked at the bigger picture after all of that cumulative world the pyramids are the only wonder of the ancient world that still stands today if you're curious it's these ones that are long gone wow joining the liar liar pants on fire party next is the one and the only the totally loch ness isn't exactly a giant shock because there's always been speculative evidence supporting next i wish he was real you i'd still be shook to swim in the lot nessie though would you i think just mentally i'd be like bro is this donnie's gonna jam me up i wouldn't be scared of a monster i just think there's weird things in there scottish people like there's weird things in there yes scottish people in this case is the so-called surgeon's photo this photo the one that helped nessie to transition from an urban legend into a realistic and frightening ability this is the loch ness located in scotland it was real though the stories of a mysterious creature swimming around in its corners actually go back to the 6th century ce the first shred of evidence well false evidence technically was taken by robert kenneth wilson in 1934 and was assumed to be accurate for close to 60 years however all good things must come to an end [Laughter] it was revealed that the shape of nessie was nothing more than a toy submarine in disguise what was a toy submarine doing there long story short it was deliberately placed by a man named marmaduke weatherall he used to work for the newspaper and after they ridiculed him for writing a piece about nessie's footprints which turned out to be false he got his revenge fooling the newspaper as well as everyone else why would they change the world we've actually got an entire video about nessie after this one check it out the link is in the description five days all righty moving on okay when you think of a viking what's the first thing that comes to mind besides the boats that's right it's those big horned helmets uh yeah well we're sorry to say it folks but that too is a lie it's just a stereotype that emerged as the result of vikings becoming more and more prevalent in mainstream media as it turns out however historians have looked at a number of viking tombs and not once not once have they ever found a helmet that had horns oh yes scandinavians probably did sport some sort of headgear but there is no reason to believe that it was bedazzled with horns in fact that'd actually make it easier for the enemy to grab and remove sure so where did the idea come from the popular image of the viking we know today actually dates back to the 1800s it was then that scandinavian artists like gustav malstrom drew the horned headgear in their portrayals of the viking people and then well it it just stuck the horns just got bigger and bigger you have unique outfits our next fib is all about the former king of pop michael jackson himself no matter how you feel about him as a person and all the controversy surrounding him it's impossible to deny that he had a monumental impact on the music industry when he wasn't releasing toe chart-topping hits he was creating dance moves like the moonwalk that every fan around the world would try to imitate in front of their mirrors at home sorry to burst your moon that captivating moonwalk sure he showed it to the world when he was performing billie jean at the motown 25th anniversary live show in 1983. but it wasn't used to show off jackson actually learned it from casper candidate and cooley jackson who performed it on soul train in the 1990s showcased the move prior to mj and even before those guys the move's inaugural performance came from tap dancer bill bailey back then it wasn't even called the moon walk any guesses the backslide oh creative okey dokey so who here has ever heard of something called carbon dating it's got nothing to do with tinder it's a method used to analyze materials that once exchanged carbon dioxide with the atmosphere and decipher when that exchange happened uh what in other words archaeologists used carbon dating to determine when things were living we thought that this method was a great way to measure when trees humans animals and plants thrived and the professor who produced the first carbon dates way back in 1949 willard libby was given the nobel prize so as you can see the scientific world took it pretty darn seriously but since then scientists have actually recognized that carbon dating is subject to error why well because of a variety of factors including contamination by outside sources of carbon in the environment this affects the natural decay and makes the evidence all a little wishy-washy plus other elements like the fact that the same plant one in america and one in greenland for example can grow in different eras due to things like temperature variations oh so if carbon dating isn't actually you know what is it that's amazing but because i don't care yeah no harry i was just about to pause it and say but this one's pointless bro just keep it okay you might not be old enough to remember this we certainly aren't but there was a time where the big tobacco companies ran advertising campaigns that said and we are not kidding the cigarettes aren't good it makes it healthy all well aware of the health so we won't dwell on cigarettes back in the day companies were getting doctor's approval to sell cigarettes in 1951 l m advertised their filters as just what the doctor ordered in 1949 an advertisement for viceroys featured a dentist that told the customers that as your dentist i would recommend viceroy money too by the 1820s and 30s lucky strike used celebrity endorsements who would say things like i protect my voice with lucky ones and craven a began marketing its cigarettes under the slogan for your throat's sake as early as 1939 later found out this was nothing but lies sprinkled with misinformation and topped with a few more lies it worked though 50s and it says smoking is actually good for you no no no no no just like something now something now that we don't know is bad they come like bananas are really bad for yourself i don't know all right well that's something made recently some of it was something to do us here or be like it'll be like some sort of alternative like food you know that with a new vegan remakes and stuff like that and they'll just be like listen if you've been eating that uh vegan chicken shawarma uh unfortunately you're probably gonna die soon 45 to the population smoked by the numbers that would have been close to 70 million people when medicine proved the associated health risks companies changed their advertising tactics instead of we're good for you it became we're not as bad for you as everyone else and you're gonna smoke anyway so smoke our product that's crazy you know who else put out a few false claims a man famous for inventing the light bulb didn't actually invent wow it's a weird thought isn't it edison managed to file an astounding 1093 patents but the light bulb was not one of them in the year 1800 the first stages of light bulb technology were already in the works thanks to alessandro volta our main he wasn't even member until 1847 nearly 50 years later a number of people added different elements to the light bulb warren de la rue made alessandro volta's version more efficient english chemist joseph swann improved it again in the 1860s in 1879 who created the cost-effective finishing touches and took it to manchester united okay from one famous inventor to another we have no doubt that you've heard of albert einstein the man famous dreams about our eyes yeah no they can't do this couldn't even pass math class in high school how is this possible it's not it's a lie for a long time it was widely believed that the ingenious einstein is actually better with basically yes so he is absolutely in truth it was the complete opposite he'd already mastered differential and integral calculus by the time he was 15. and just like all kids at that age do in their spare time he came up with an alternative for the pythagorean theory just for fun bonus entries this is a modern lie that is every single day and it's called photoshop take a look miranda care's waistline was changed for the cover of vogue and according to the 2016 maxim magazine priyanka chopra has no armpits we have seen photoshop cover-ups in the media time and time again and they are not going away anytime soon it's just like it's like assignment thumbnails it's like it's like the truth but a bit embellished [Music]

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Published: Thu Apr 08 2021