Biggest WTF Moments in History

biggest history mint [ __ ] in a similar vein to the arps example when i was studying egyptian history one of my professors talked about research he had done on graffiti at the pyramids one of the inscriptions was from a new kingdom pharaoh think sucker king tut which said to the effect the great pharaoh xx visited these pyramids and marveled at the mysteries of his ancestors egyptian civilizations spanned such a great amount of time that they even forgot how they built the pyramids mindfuck the pyramids were ancient history even for egyptians deferral was here for a good time call bird bird snake reed eye bird snake napoleon marched his troops under the brandenburg gate in 1804 after he invaded germany hitler marched his troops under the arctic triumph in paris during world war ii as an act of revenge europeans have quite long memories this is fantastic confirmation of the saying the difference between americans and europeans is that americans think 100 years is a long time and europeans think 100 miles is a long way the time difference between when tyrannosaurus and stegosaurus lived is greater than the time difference between tyrannosaurus and now all my tyrannosaurus versus stegosaurus dino fights hate you and your facts when alexander the great decided to attack the city of tyre he ran into a problem tyre was an island and he had no boats no matter he had his men construct a bridge amidst the hail of arrows from the walls of tyre then he crossed the bridge and conquered the city 2500 years later the centuries of accumulated silt and sand have turned that man-made bridge into a full-scale permanent geological feature tire is to this day no longer an island there are over 2 400 comments but i hope some of you can see this mississippi didn't ratify the 13th amendment prohibition of slavery until 1995 only 16 years ago in a single afternoon 40 000 roman soldiers were slaughtered by hannibal at the battle of kanye a slaughter of this proportion in a single afternoon wasn't matched until world war one when hannibal led his forces through the alps he got to a point where the war elephants couldn't pass hannibal said frickit built some roads for his elephants and went on his way the roman defense against war elephants was to cut off their trunk and cause them to panic in the 1920s canada had a plan for a surprise invasion of the united states in the event of war the plan was to move troops as far south as possible then as soon as serious resistance was met retreat to the border using scorched earth tactics all this was to buy time for assistance from britain and japan i've always thought that the inventors of basic things were kind of min [ __ ] inducing mathematics are impressive enough but then you think about the guy lady who invented numbers with nothing to base it on but an abstract notion or the person who realized hey if i take the seeds from this wheat plant and mash it up mix it with water let it sit around for a little while and then put it on a fire for a while it tastes freaking delicious it just puts into perspective how smart humans are to figure those things out the fact that newton got as far as you could in explaining physics with the mathematics he had at the time algebra when the math was no longer sufficient he invented calculus in europe between the 14th and 17th centuries people were occasionally afflicted with dancing mania in which large groups would begin to dance in the streets as if in a trance often until the point of passing out the phenomenon is well documented and is largely not understood flash mobs we usually think of a cowboy as being a white man but 30 percent of cowboys were black poor recently emancipated slaves trying to make a bear living during 14th century career admiral yi sun shin single-handedly stopped the japanese invasion during japan's conquest of asia in 26 naval battles he didn't lose once and achieved flawless victory every battle he was outnumbered sometimes 100 one there were many battles where he takes a handful of ships 13 and defeats hundreds upon hundreds he was able to do this because he was a master tactician and used every advantage he could find whether it was wind direction tide changes boat formation and natural geography his achievements in history is unparalleled yet not many people have heard of this man due to his birth surroundings how he can win over 25 naval battles where he was outnumbered usually 10 1 in dominant fashion is one serious mind freak reminds me of koreans playing starcraft not really a min [ __ ] but has anyone wondered what the world would be like if the library at alexandria had not burned down shortly before the assassination of abraham lincoln by john wilkes booth lincoln's son robert was in new jersey at a train station when he fell off of the platform and onto the tracks immediately her hand reached down and grabbed his collar pulled him back onto the platform and saved his life who was the man who saved him none other than edwin booth the older brother of john wilkes booth today you tomorrow your father the day after thursday the 4th of october 1582 was friday the 15th of october 1582 this marked the transition between the julian calendar and the gregorian calendar back in 401 bc cyrus i a usurper to the persian throne hired ten thousand greek mercenaries to help him in his takeover starting insides on the ionian coast cyrus and the army of the ten thousand as they were bad or sadly known enjoyed a successful campaign across the persian empire until cyrus was killed at the battle of cunaxer the 10 000 their numbers now around 6500 were then betrayed by tisha ferns one of cyrus allies and their generals were captured and executed instead of surrendering the ten thousand elected their own leaders and went about the business of fighting their way out of the empire to the black sea port of trebazond over 400 miles away across deserts and through mountains fighting off the persian army the entire way if you have ever read a book or seen a movie about a stranded army fighting its way out of hostile territory it is based on this book sir arthur curry a canadian general did not lose a single battle in world war one he revolutionized troop cohesion and mobility by and this is what fricks with my mind giving each of his soldiers a map of battle location at that time the prevailing idea among militaries was that lowly soldiers couldn't possibly make use of a map meanwhile this canadian comes along and thinks to himself no i really think the whole knowing where you are thing is a good idea yeah i am always lost in fps without a freaking map the events that took place between cortes and montezuma the spaniards landed in a world where people breathed fire smoking tobacco had hot and cold running and or plumbing and built structures that dwarfed anything in europe the population of tenochtitlan was around 150k whereas london at the time was around 50k when asked why they needed so much gold cortez replied because we spaniards have a disease called greed which only gold can cure the clash of these two cultures has always fascinated me my min [ __ ] of this whole affair is the chicken introduced by the spaniards up in mesoamerica reached the inca empire before the spaniards did several hundred years ago a group of maori set sail from new zealand into the unknown south pacific whether by luck or skill they landed on a remote archipelago known now as the chateau milan's some 500 miles away they lost all contact with their fellow tribesmen on new zealand and formed a tight-knit egalitarian community known as the morali and lived in peace for over 100 years then one day in the 1830s a group of maori who had by this point established contact with english settlers hitched a ride on a seal hunting ship and sailed back to the same island seeing its potential as a settlement the maori as was their custom slaughtered or enslaved every single moriary the morihori did not fight back they had never known violence more people died from the 1918 influenza pandemic than world war i also more people died in one year of the influenza pandemic than died in four years of the black plague yes but that is largely due to the global population in 1918 being higher than it was in the middle ages at the time of the black plague so the influenza killed more people but the plague killed a greater proportion ancient spartans were fine with men loving young boys as long as that attraction was based on an admiration of their character being attracted to them physically was disgusting though that was what those perverted athenians did not only fine but encouraged men fought better in battle if the one they loved was fighting alongside them they stood to lose more about 70 000 years ago the human population was reduced to near extinction about 2 000 individuals they also theorized that if that spanish flu had broken out in the middle ages instead of the bubonic plague we might not have made it either the second deadliest war in human history happened in china led by a man who considered himself the younger brother of jesus yeah as an add-on to that at the same time the american civil war was going down the typing rebellion was happening civil war killed 600k typing rebellion killed 40 meters 40 million people i've posted this before but here's my favorite coincidence from history on the 30th of march 1981 there was an assassination attempt on president reagan jerry parr was one of the secret service agents on duty in fact he was the one that pushed president reagan into the limousine after hearing the gunshots while driving back to the white house standard procedure since at the time it was believed the president was an injured agent par noticed that the president was bleeding and ordered the limo to immediately turn around and go to george washington hospital this decision no doubt saved president reagan's life agent parr had wanted to be in the secret service since a young boy when he watched a 1939 movie called code of the secret service with a young unknown actor playing the part of agent brass bancroft that actor made some more movies and eventually entered politics becoming governor of california and later president of the united states indeed a young ronald reagan played a role in a movie which caused a young boy to make a career choice and then save the actor president's own life 42 years later something similar happened to president bartlett my genome has been twisting and folding recombining and mutating in a continuous string of organisms traceable back to an original replicator molecule if i don't find someone to reproduce with the chain will be broken after billions of years of successes now you made reproduction sound like a solemn duty frick the wild west popularly portrayed as being a violent time where the law was at the end of a gun barrel and groups of bandits roamed the land was actually quite tame murders and violent crime were very uncommon gun laws in the old west were actually more strict than they are now washington surprise attack on the hessians at trenton should have failed miserably his army was spotted crossing the delaware by some british loyalists late on christmas eve they rode to the hessian camp and asked to speak to the commanding officer he was too busy with a poker game to be disturbed they then asked for a no to be delivered with the message that washington's army was crossing in the camp should be prepared the hessian commander couldn't read english though and just pocketed the note he was later found dead with the same note still in his pocket the two major aggressors of world war ii ultimately achieved their economic goals germany is arguably the most powerful economy in europe and japan through technology and aggressive economic reform during the mccarthy years has effectively created a great east asia co-prosperity sphere the cars made in the former axis of germany japan and italy also stomp on the cars of the former allies america england and france archimedes was a mathematical genius and supposedly single-handedly defended syracuse against the romans using his inventions he died after a two-year siege and was so well known that the roman generals had given their men explicit orders to not kill him archimedes was so intent on his work that when found by a roman soldier his first words were do not disturb my circles this enraged the soldier so much that he ignored direct orders and promptly killed possibly the greatest genius of the ancient world during thomas jefferson's term as president the white house lawn was public space where people commonly had picnics etc one day many of these people witnessed the french ambassador moving several huge wheels of cheese into the white house thomas jefferson became known as the big cheese i find it interesting that the potato historically considered a staple food of the irish russians and other european peoples originated in the americas and wasn't introduced into europe at all until the 16th century it's strange how readily europeans assimilated the foods and crops of completely alien cultures tomatoes and corn too a lot of the writing left over from the viking age in norway is dong and fart jokes seriously we have we have a gay jokes whittled into wood back in the age of exploration it was common for british and spanish ships to drop mating flocks of goats and chickens on remote islands to develop a food source for future expeditions these ships also dropped rats and snakes we key the histories of ascension and saint helena islands makes me wonder how many galapagos style ecosystems were ruined by this and what amazing and weird animals we will never get to see despite the huge amount of play they get in the movies and on tv sparta was only a major player in ancient greece for some 300 years everything about greek fire those crazy dudes who whipped themselves to show their piety were just a few isolated cases right wrong they travelled in group thousand strong murdered many who stood in their way and for a few brief period were as highly regarded as the pope speaking of popes there was a period in the 14th century where the catholic church had three of them at the same time the catholic churches had at least three african popes at least one was an african native and was possibly black in 1951 a french village suffered from something called saint anthony's fire suspected of being ergotism 150 people went insane and hallucinated for three weeks straight forget smallpox blankets colonists committed far worse acts of genocide by releasing hogs into native american lands the pigs ate much of the natives food stores and then went on to destroy much of their agriculture hundreds starving as a result the colossus of rhodes was two stroke three the size of the statue of liberty in about 50 bc lucretius a roman philosopher wrote a book about trying to understand the world through logic and observation not particularly unusual for the time except almost all of the guesses he makes turn out to be right things lucretius figures out just by using his eyes 1. all matter is made of different kinds of atoms 2. there is no such thing as an immaterial soul consciousness is held inside the matter of the body three if the gods exist they certainly do not intervene in the affairs of man four the mind is connected to the body by long thin nerve cells no really most of the ideas he discussed wouldn't be picked up again until the italian renaissance a millennium and a half later also the way he describes the random notion of atoms has a lot in common with modern chaos theory also the entire book is written in rhyming poetry it's crap like this that makes me think that if the roman empire hadn't fallen we'd have invented warp drive by now the move westward on the oregon trail was a program that was massively supported by government funding now it's a prime example of rugged individualism and a myth used as a cudgel against ideas of social welfare a couple more i just thought of one the population of islanders has still never recovered to the level it was before the potato famine because of immigration as well as starvation but still two only a few hundred years ago the complete pool of human science was so small that a well-educated gentleman could plausibly claim to just know everything a full-time scientist could reasonably be expected to be an expert in every field that's why the where all these cool m like ben franklin and edmund halley were running around inventing the crap out of everything in short until very recently the entire sum of things humanity has figured out about the world could be summed up and memorized by one person the polynesians who did a pretty good job of exploring and populating the pacific hundreds and even thousands of years before the europeans landed in south america and returned to polynesia with sweet potatoes the evidence one the sweet potatoes of our is cultivated in new zealand the kumara have been shown via dna to have originated in south america two bones found in an ancient campsite on a beach in northern chile have been found to come from a type of chicken that is native only to samoa suggesting that samoans or other polynesians were the ones who camped there btw the polynesians have been shown linguistically and genetically to have originated in taiwan so they didn't come from south america in the first place christopher columbus was a freaking butthole one example being the first crewman to spotland was to be awarded a pension for life and columbus falsely claimed it when they returned to spain evil empires are only considered evil when they break down if they keep their crap together history considers them benevolent empires when cortes landed in mexico tenochtitlan the aztec capital was the largest city in the western hemisphere and it was built in a swamp hold out your arms now imagine that the entire history of the world was represented by your arm span starting from your left fingertip life wouldn't appear until you got past your right shoulder and you could erase all of human history with a nail file during world war ii there was a korean man fighting in the german army he had been captured by the japanese conscripted captured by the russians conscripted captured by the germans conscripted and then finally captured by the americans who sent him home biologically speaking grains domesticated humans it shaped our culture to plant it water it fertilize it and protect it from competing species on every continent on the planet except antarctica so complete is human domestication that if grains disappeared now homo sapiens would likely go extinct lots would die off extinction probably wouldn't happen we'd start eating algae and other less appealing plant matter before that all throughout grade school i was taught that the british were 100 000 unjust in demanding taxes from the colonies but once i hit college i was taught in american history the difference in point of views americans simply did not want to pay for the french and indian war that they helped ignite blew my mind to be fair the colonists revolted against taxation without representation and not merely didn't want to pay for the war some easy ones storms helped destroy mongolian chinese forces invading japan twice the holy roman empire wasn't holy roman or an empire presidents adams and jefferson both died on july the 4th in 1826 ce in life they had been both friends and enemies chinese civilization is four thousand plus years old in the ad bc calendar jesus would have been born in 4 bc the monk doing the calculations messed up early jews were monolithists not monotheists furthermore jews did not build the egyptian pyramids every grammatical structure in arabic is found in the quran in sea 300 bce alexander the great's empire extended from macedonia to egypt to anatolia to the levant to mesopotamia to persia to bacteria and finally to northern india when they say the sun never set on the british empire they meant it monolithism belief in multiple deities but worship of only one expanded vocabulary get if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video bye for now

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Published: Thu Mar 25 2021