Fun fact: Kim Il Sung (North Korea's 1st leader) was born the same day Titanic sank. By extension, you can use North Korea's Juche calender to keep track of how long since the Titanic sank. This is because the calendar follows the exact day Kim Il Sung was born.
Another crazy Star Wars/ guillotine connection is that Sir Christopher Lee, the amazing actor who played Count Dooku in the prequels, attended France’s last public execution in 1939. For those wondering, he said he couldn’t bear to watch.
One that I'm surprised no uses is that the United States and the Holy Roman Empire existed at the same time for decades. The HRE ceased existing during Thomas Jefferson's second term. It's a little crazy to think because the HRE immediate makes people think of the Middle ages, but often forget that it only fell a little over 200 years ago
also, I've heard that the date 1977 was the date of the last PUBLIC guillotine execution. and funny enough was still used as a capital punishment till the 90s! someone please fact check i might be wrong lol
Eyup , another fact about the soviet union : to this day altough they are not recognized as such , there are still kolkhoz or collectivist farms , wich are legally registered as "co-ops" , Sadly they are on the decline , and they are likely to become a was soon , Maybe the last one will survive until the first moon settlement ...
Fun Fact: When US annex Philippines, The oldest University in the US at that time was in the Philippines. The University of Santo Tomas (1611) was about 2 decade older than Harvard (1632)
Amazing stuff! On a smaller scale, I saw a large fish in the National Aquarium in Chicago when my parents and I visited there in 1990. My grandmother was a preteen in 1933 and saw the same fish on a trip they took by train, the sign said the fish was 57 years old so it would have just been born when my grandma was there.
5:36 - "the *medieval* practice of death by guillotine" ... wait, hol'up, the guillotine is old, but not THAT old, it was invented in 1789, which is more than 300 years _after_ the modern era started.
1789 is not more than 300 years after the modern era started. Most definitions of the modern era have it starting in the year 1500 (at the end of the Late Middle Ages), which is 289 years before the guillotine was invented, not more than 300 years.
Yeah, it's a pretty modern execution method all things considered (especially compared to the most common methods like getting shot or hanged). Execution in general is probably more "medieval" and I feel like the point could be more so phrased like "The last execution in France ever took place in the same year Star Wars initially released", but that wouldn't have worked with an audience where the death penalty is pretty much common place. (France was the last country to abolish the death penalty in Western Europe, btw).
@@nathangamble125 I've never heard someone claiming it to be _precisely_ in the year 1500, though I've heard people claim it is when Columbus travelled west in 1492 to the Americas. Nevertheless, the most (and regarding western history also the most consistent with the turn from antiquity to medieval times) claimed incident when the modern era started is the Fall of Constantinople. Of course, a change of an era isn't something that will happen from one day to the other and the people living in it would certainly not known 'ah, this is a new era now, time to change our history books'. It is but a chosen point from people in retrospect, so I can understand an argument that the time after that "wasn't real modern era" and stuff; still, as the fall of Rome (don't ask me which one exactly though) and Constantinople are most often the chosen turning points in that regard, my '300 years' comment is very true. And even if there is a sudden shift in perspective and the majority of historic scholars decide "it has to be exactly the First of January in 1500" and not a progressing phase change where a point is defined in retrospect for categorising purposes, it's still close enough to be at least correct in spirit. Honestly, I'm a bit surprised to have an answer to my comment focusing on that minor point (at worst I'm 11 years off) and says nothing about the mistake from the source.
tbf "medieval" is often used casually to mean "old, primitive" and by extension "brutal, inhumane". Normally I wouldn't care, but it is somewhat unfortunate in a history video.
3:55 Could you imagine if Ghandi was known for mass murder instead of being the peaceful figure we know him as today? Anyways, I'm going to play some Civ.
The two that blow my mind are that Cleopatra ruling Egypt is closer to today than the pyramids first built were to Cleopatra and that we are closer to when the Tyrannosaurus Rex was around than the Tyrannosaurus Rex was to the Stegosaurus.
5:18 On June 17, 1939, the killer Eugène Weidmann was guillotined in front of a hysterical crowd and journalists. But the excesses are such that a decree will abolish public executions in stride. He was nicknamed "the killer with the velvet gaze"
There are 5 breweries still operating today that started brewing beer before the First Crusade (3 in Germany, 2 in Belgium). Four of them predate the founding of the University of Bologna (the oldest university in the world, beating Oxford by 8 years). The three in Germany even predate the Norman conquest of England, and two of them predate the Great Schism (when Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy became separate religions).
Erm acshually the first university worldwide was founded in the year 859 in Fes, Morocco: Al-Qarawiyyin. And it is still in operation. Do some of them even beat that?
@@MySerpentine Even older. In a video I watched a while ago it said that Cleopatra lived closer to space flight than to the building of the Pyramids. I think it was a video by Overly Sarcastic Productions if I recall the narrator's voice correctly.
I had my own personal one when i found out that a very big Castle near me was made 100 years before William the Conquer invaded England so it is over 1000 years old. It was made by the vikings. Stills stands to this day.
@@mehallica666 I got it wrong it was a fort for about 200 years and then modified into a castle. The vikings built forts not castles but the descendants of them did in the 11th century so still 900 years old.
@@tarrantwolfyou mean botched lethal injections resulting in hours long torture, versus lights out in mere seconds Yeah, let's play spot the bootlicking coploving yank
For comparison the last public execution in Poland was the hanging of Arthur Greiser, 21st July 1946. Thousands of people attended, children included. They were having fun and drinking lemonade.
One of the wright brothers (the ones that invented the first airplanes) was still alive when nagasaki and hiroshima were bombed, he felt devastated upon knowing that the invention he and his brother created together was being used to carry weapons of mass destruction
That one doesn't really surprise me as they were both young when the plane was invented in 1903. If 38 years later the bombing happened it makes sense they'd still be alive and older. It's no different then Steve Wozniak being alive today still that many years after the computer
The iPhone was released in 2007, but you couldn't install any apps yet, so it was basically a feature phone with a touchscreen interface. The App Store was released in mid 2008, that's when the smartphone was invented.
I find it funny how he was weirded out by the guillotine in France and the hanging in England while living in a country that still use the electric chair
The last recipient of a US civil war pension died the same day you uploaded "Destroying every continent with nukes and natural disasters (Worldbox)" - 21st May 2023.
Here's another fun one! Charlie Chaplin could've starred in Star Wars A New Hope if he wanted. Star Wars A New Hope released on May 25th, 1977 Charlie Chaplin died: sometime in December 1977
Guillotine has always been the best form of executions - it would be even today, even compared to both lethal injection and electrocution. The weird factor is the public violence orgy but this is our view of the French revolution etc, I have nothing against Drew's reaction which is funny and totally appropriate, but for real IMHO USA should adopt it Side note: I'm not sure if Drew realizes it, but to Europeans the fun fact is also surprising because we are used to think of death penalty as 'ancient' like at least before world wars (true or not).
8:15 I am pretty sure that the introduction of time zones was due the invention of telegraphy and not the railroad as it is often claimed. With the stock markets opening in London and New York at local time,. people somewhere else wanted to know the most recent data and place orders telegraphically, making it necessary to synchronize time.
😅 wanted to tell my gf what this vid is about and she immediately started the same example i did: Cleopatra is closer to KFC than to the Pyramids being built
You should react to history shorts, in one they talk about Picasso making a painting of the German bombing of his hometown and putting it on display. Then when the Germans occupied Paris they walked up to him and seeing how the painting made Germany look bad asked him "¿Did you do that?" Pablo responded with, ¡No! ¡You did that!".
12:30 of course... look at the bunch of countries Spain colonized. Almost all of south America, for a start. Till this day that country is a mess, wanting to divide in tiny little pieces, some parts speak Catalan and another varieties of Spanish, a lot a ppl there are VERY xenophobic... It's crazy.
it took mankind longer to go from using copper weapons to iron swords than from iron swords to nuclear weapons when the iron curtain fell, there were still cantons in Switzerland without Women's suffrage
About that guillotine thing i really don't get why that's a problem. The USA still have capital punishment. So i guess it's about the method? I don't think the electric chair is better in any way. The best would just be to not kill people Oh and no it was not public anymore and very few people were actually executed back then
It was deemed archaic by the rest of the world at that point, especially because individuals could still retain consciousness a few minutes after decapitation.
@@osmaniesquijarosa4308 come on, that's nothing short of idiotic, you don't retain consciousness for minutes if the air flow through you neck is distrupted by a piece of food, obviously you wouldn't if you whole neck was lopped off. That's just an incredibly stupid thing to tell yourself so that you can keep believing that barbarities committed today was any better than the guillotine.
Fun Fact: Christopher Lee, the same guy who played Count Dooku in Star Wars was actually attending the last guillotine execution. (I have no idea why tho)
5:30 Honestly, if there is a death penalty, there should be a guillotine. A well maintained guillotine still gives the quickest and most painless death of all execution methods.
As stated in the video, the components of calculus are much older than Newton or Gottfried Leibniz. What is ment be "these individuals invented calculus" is that each discovered the First Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. There are two key concepts in calculus: the derivative and the integral. The derivative is the slope of the tangent line. This is your speed in the exact direction you are moving. An integral calculates the area underneath the graph of an equation. It is not at all obvious that derivative and integrals have anything to do with eachother. Isaac Newton and Gottfreid Leibniz are the inventors of calculus due to their discovery of the 1st Fundemental Theorem of Calculus: an integral can be computed using an anti derivative.
@@vorerstniemand it was founded as a mosque at that time, but the earliest it was used as a madras (not necessarily a university, as it can be very easily argued that it became a university in 1963) between the 11th and 15th century. It is not clear because the earliest evidence dates teaching to have happened in 1121 It is the oldest building used as a university, but only if you're willing to compromise and ignore the meaning of university as an educational model
@@tuluppampam Interestingly, I've just found out about Nalanda which, if one is willing to grant it the title of university as more and more experts seem to do, then the oldest university of the world wouldnt even be that one, but Nalanda, teaching bhuddist philosophy as well as a few non theological fields like medicine since the 4th or 5th century
@@vorerstniemand the problem is that most mostly religious organization that teach stuff aren't going to be favoured by what people consider to be universities, whose definition is also really vague and thus basically only applies to western Europe (because it was coined there)
Here's some facts that will mess with your perception of time: Ted Williams, a baseball player who played in the 40s could've watched 3 full seasons of SpongeBob Williams died in 2002 SpongeBob came out in 1999 Micheal Jordan won his first title while the USSR was still a thing WW2 is closer to today than the Civil War The first McDonalds opened before we had 50 states.
There is nothing Medieval about the guillotine. The Medieval era was over by the 15th century, and the guillotine was not invented until several hundred years later, in the 18th century.
In Norway, the last execution was carried out in 1948, by firing squad. The condemned was the former Minister of Labour in the Occupation Government during World War II. The last peactime execution, however, was carried out in 1876, by axe, and the condemned was a murderer. (Execution for war crimes was technically on the books until 1979.)
@@TurtleMarcus I should probably have written public execution there we had a firing squad too in 1950 for crimes during the war. The Man Ib Birkedal Hansen was a chief of Gestapo in Denmark
Guillotine was used because it was a relative painless way to go. You could argue it's way less barbaric than the electric chair or those painfull execution drugs used in the US (and no it wasn't a public execution, the last one in France was before WW2)
The local pub & hotel here in the cotswolds is a good like..... 200 years older than america and is still up and running Still running Oldest building is the church
Danilo I Petrović-Njegoš became prince-bishop of Montenegro in 1697, often considered to be the beginning of modern Montenegrin history. The last independent Maya hold-out, the city of Tayasal, on lake Peten Itza, in modern north Guatemala, fell to Spanish rule that same year. The Spanish finally completed their conquest of the Maya Area at around the same time the Great Turkish War, a late 17th century conflict where a coalition led by Austria, Poland-Lithuania, Russia, Venice and Spain fought against the Ottomans, was nearing its end. Only a handful of years after Tayasal fell, Karl XII of Sweden would become famous for his Great Northern War campaigns.
As the video mentions, some area of calculus, have roots stretching back into antiquity. In particular, integral calculus deals with calculating areas. Hence, it is not surprising that 25 centuries ago the geometry minded greeks did early work in integral caculus utilizing inscribed triangles to compute areas.
I got another one for you: Tyrannosaurus was alive: 83.6 million years ago - 66 million years ago Plateosaurus was alive: 214 million years ago - 204 million years ago Chronologically the Tyrannosaurus lived closer to our time than they did to the Plateosaurus which really puts it into perspective how long the Dinosaurs survived.
The fact that Oxford was created just 30 years after England was is indescribably insane to me. My mind was not just blown by this, it went full-on supernova
Petition for drew to make a calendar of when he’s gonna drop LATAM plushies because in Latin America we are broke and have to save money in anticipation in order to actually afford it in time. I love these countryballs plushies and I couldn’t get that USSR ball in time unfortunately.
Cao Cao of Three Kingdoms died 1,200 years before Niccolo Machiavelli was born, Machiavelli was just born less than 600 years ago. Sun Tzu predates Cao Cao by about 600 years too. Japan is still in Jomon period back then. The timeline in Manga "Kingdom" is 200 years before Julius Caesar, 400 years before Sangokushi (Three Kingdoms), 1,200 years before Vinland Saga, 1,300 years before Suikoden (Water Margin), 1,700 years before Sengoku Jidai, 1,900 years before US Independence. 3 years after US Civil War ends, the Meiji era began in Japan. Wright brothers first flew in 1903, Chuck Yeager flew X-1 and got faster than speed of sound in 1947, just 44 years after first flight - same year of Roswell Flying Saucer Incident. Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969, just 22 years after knowing that we discovered that being faster than sound is okay. Apollo 11 was propelled all the way to 32.58 x speed of sound. The movie Alien was released 10 years later, it imagined a future with computers still using monochrome display. 46 years later in 2015, Space-X has a rocket that can safely land itself. Yes, we don't progress that much, but the 4-engined Avro Lancaster bomber max payload at max range is 6.4 tons, B-29 can carry up to 9.1 tons. The 2-engined F-15E Strike Eagle can lug up to 10.1 tons, the single engined F-35 Lightning II 8.2 tons. You know why they don't send "bombers" as much these days when a small F-16 can carry more bombs (7.7 tons) than B-17 (3.6 tons, if it wants to reach 400 miles and back).
12:40 Spain was not fascist, it was a dictatorial regime, but it was never a government like Italy's since Franco was a military man, not a politician.
France kept the Guillotine til the end if death penalty, because it was seen as a fast and quick execution in comparison to hanging. P.S. it was NOT medieval! Invented in late 18th century.
Drew's the kind of person to think the London Underground is amazing (as a Londoner, I can confirm it sucks - it's dirty, stuffy and the trains are never on time or very loud)
Fun fact: flamethrowers and grenades were created centuries before fire weapons were a thing, they were being using since the ages in which people used formations, spears, shields and swords in battle even the mayans had created their own grenades before the arrival of columbus
0:27 Indian history is often divided into 3 parts; A)Ancient history(Harappan to Mughals) B)European history(Portugal Goa/British Raj/French India) C)Modern times(Post 1947) The weird part is that B and C collide with each other.
Technically speaking of done correctly either a lethal injection or death by carbon asphyxiation is way more humane. People decapitated could "live", be conscious and fully aware of their surroundings up to five minutes after decapitation. Think for a moment about how humane that is compared to painless, unaware death.
@@FreddieHg37 come on, that's nothing short of idiotic, you don't retain consciousness for minutes if the air flow through you neck is distrupted by a piece of food, obviously you wouldn't if you whole neck was lopped off. That's just an incredibly stupid thing to tell yourself so that you can keep believing that barbarities committed today was any better than the guillotine.
@@kingglassmouse7873 Opinions can't be wrong, that's why they're opinions. But electric chairs cause more pain than decapitation. Lethal injections are less painful _if performed properly._
as a Chinese man, knowing what are we doing in China and what are the rest of the doing is quit ruin my sense of time. like when USA is founded backed in 1776 we are still in autocratic monachy. and there is a Chinese man call Zheng He already been to Africa before the European did. the are many example about that.
Day one of asking Drew to make romanian plushie Also it's kinda weird seeing Spain's eyepatch on the others side cuz of his mirror cam Also yeah, Franco should have been thrown out before
Fun fact: Kim Il Sung (North Korea's 1st leader) was born the same day Titanic sank. By extension, you can use North Korea's Juche calender to keep track of how long since the Titanic sank. This is because the calendar follows the exact day Kim Il Sung was born.
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The first known story, the Epic of Gilgamesh, is described as taking place "in those ancient days."
This is _the_ oldest surviving story.
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Another crazy Star Wars/ guillotine connection is that Sir Christopher Lee, the amazing actor who played Count Dooku in the prequels, attended France’s last public execution in 1939. For those wondering, he said he couldn’t bear to watch.
And then bro got decapitated in a fantasy movie
The fella led a crazy life. Legendary bloke!
Wasn’t he a volunteer soldier in the Winter War?
One that I'm surprised no uses is that the United States and the Holy Roman Empire existed at the same time for decades. The HRE ceased existing during Thomas Jefferson's second term. It's a little crazy to think because the HRE immediate makes people think of the Middle ages, but often forget that it only fell a little over 200 years ago
Also HRE and Nintendo were present in the same century
@@olekcholewa8171 Nintendo and the HRE were only 83 years apart. To be exact
Specifically, the USA and HRE coexisted for the 30 year period between 1776 and 1806.
I was just going to comment that! But you beat me to it.
The guillotine was not a medieval form of execution. Decapitation was, but the guillotine was invented way past the Renaissance.
wasnt it even invented while the french revolution was ongoing? that would put it past 1789...
@@maxmustermann4141 yep, was first used 1792 on a highwayman
also, I've heard that the date 1977 was the date of the last PUBLIC guillotine execution. and funny enough was still used as a capital punishment till the 90s! someone please fact check i might be wrong lol
Still way better than what the US who still has the death penalty use today.
Fun fact: Gorbachev was the ONLY Soviet leader actually born in the Soviet Union, as the rest were all born in the Russian empire
the soviet union was so bad, that as soon as they got a "self made" leader, it collapsed hehe
Eyup , another fact about the soviet union : to this day altough they are not recognized as such , there are still kolkhoz or collectivist farms , wich are legally registered as "co-ops" ,
Sadly they are on the decline , and they are likely to become a was soon ,
Maybe the last one will survive until the first moon settlement ...
Stalin was georgian
@@BDESalGeorgia was a part of the Russian Empire
And also the only Soviet leader who lived after the Soviet union's collapse
Fun Fact: When US annex Philippines, The oldest University in the US at that time was in the Philippines. The University of Santo Tomas (1611) was about 2 decade older than Harvard (1632)
Amazing stuff! On a smaller scale, I saw a large fish in the National Aquarium in Chicago when my parents and I visited there in 1990. My grandmother was a preteen in 1933 and saw the same fish on a trip they took by train, the sign said the fish was 57 years old so it would have just been born when my grandma was there.
the fact I found on WATOP channel that some fish can live 100 years just confirmed by this comment
@@ahha6304 yes, the greenlandic shark lives for over 200 years
5:36 - "the *medieval* practice of death by guillotine" ... wait, hol'up, the guillotine is old, but not THAT old, it was invented in 1789, which is more than 300 years _after_ the modern era started.
1789 is not more than 300 years after the modern era started.
Most definitions of the modern era have it starting in the year 1500 (at the end of the Late Middle Ages), which is 289 years before the guillotine was invented, not more than 300 years.
Yeah, it's a pretty modern execution method all things considered (especially compared to the most common methods like getting shot or hanged). Execution in general is probably more "medieval" and I feel like the point could be more so phrased like "The last execution in France ever took place in the same year Star Wars initially released", but that wouldn't have worked with an audience where the death penalty is pretty much common place. (France was the last country to abolish the death penalty in Western Europe, btw).
@@nathangamble125 I've never heard someone claiming it to be _precisely_ in the year 1500, though I've heard people claim it is when Columbus travelled west in 1492 to the Americas.
Nevertheless, the most (and regarding western history also the most consistent with the turn from antiquity to medieval times) claimed incident when the modern era started is the Fall of Constantinople.
Of course, a change of an era isn't something that will happen from one day to the other and the people living in it would certainly not known 'ah, this is a new era now, time to change our history books'. It is but a chosen point from people in retrospect, so I can understand an argument that the time after that "wasn't real modern era" and stuff; still, as the fall of Rome (don't ask me which one exactly though) and Constantinople are most often the chosen turning points in that regard, my '300 years' comment is very true.
And even if there is a sudden shift in perspective and the majority of historic scholars decide "it has to be exactly the First of January in 1500" and not a progressing phase change where a point is defined in retrospect for categorising purposes, it's still close enough to be at least correct in spirit.
Honestly, I'm a bit surprised to have an answer to my comment focusing on that minor point (at worst I'm 11 years off) and says nothing about the mistake from the source.
tbf "medieval" is often used casually to mean "old, primitive" and by extension "brutal, inhumane". Normally I wouldn't care, but it is somewhat unfortunate in a history video.
@@TurtleMarcus but the guillotine is more humane than the methods of execution used today so that would be an equally stupid application of the word.
5:15 No, the last guillotine execution was not public. It took place inside Baumetes Prison in Marseille.
Fun Fact: Cleopatra is Closer to the first iPhone than the First Pyramid
3:55 Could you imagine if Ghandi was known for mass murder instead of being the peaceful figure we know him as today?
Anyways, I'm going to play some Civ.
He was a pedo and a hypocrite
The Nuclear Gandhi Redemption
I view him as a weak weirdo who slept naked in the same bed as his niece. Team Jinnah 🇵🇰
The two that blow my mind are that Cleopatra ruling Egypt is closer to today than the pyramids first built were to Cleopatra and that we are closer to when the Tyrannosaurus Rex was around than the Tyrannosaurus Rex was to the Stegosaurus.
5:18 On June 17, 1939, the killer Eugène Weidmann was guillotined in front of a hysterical crowd and journalists. But the excesses are such that a decree will abolish public executions in stride. He was nicknamed "the killer with the velvet gaze"
There are 5 breweries still operating today that started brewing beer before the First Crusade (3 in Germany, 2 in Belgium). Four of them predate the founding of the University of Bologna (the oldest university in the world, beating Oxford by 8 years). The three in Germany even predate the Norman conquest of England, and two of them predate the Great Schism (when Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy became separate religions).
Yeah Weihenstephaner, founded 1040. Nice Weizen
Erm acshually the first university worldwide was founded in the year 859 in Fes, Morocco: Al-Qarawiyyin. And it is still in operation.
Do some of them even beat that?
I also love the fact that the T-Rex was closer to living at the same time as us, than the stegosaurus! By a lot as well 😅
And the pyramids were as old to Cleopatra as she is to us.
@@MySerpentine Even older. In a video I watched a while ago it said that Cleopatra lived closer to space flight than to the building of the Pyramids.
I think it was a video by Overly Sarcastic Productions if I recall the narrator's voice correctly.
Dimetrodon is older than the last trilobite
this same video in the future will be like "women in Saudi Arabia were still banned from driving a car when the first rover landed on Mars"
no one saw Jack the Reaper and Mahatma Ghandi in the same room together 🤔
I had my own personal one when i found out that a very big Castle near me was made 100 years before William the Conquer invaded England so it is over 1000 years old. It was made by the vikings. Stills stands to this day.
The Vikings didn't build castles though? I'm pretty sure the Normans were the first castle builders in Britain.
A Viking castle?
@@mehallica666 I got it wrong it was a fort for about 200 years and then modified into a castle.
The vikings built forts not castles but the descendants of them did in the 11th century so still 900 years old.
"It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care." -Pablo Picasso on the moon landing
The actor who played Count Dooku witnessed the last guillotine execution.
Christopher Lee had one fascinating life, may he rest in peace
Imagine making fun of France for using guillotine in 1977 while ur country hasn't abolished death penalty 💀
I think it's more about the method, not the actual execution. In some cases those are necessary.
The death penalty is great for dealing with pedos
@@tarrantwolfyou mean botched lethal injections resulting in hours long torture, versus lights out in mere seconds
Yeah, let's play spot the bootlicking coploving yank
You can find the video of the execution somewhere on youtube
@@thebigmightybattleshipthere is a video?
Petition for drew to hang up the flag of Iowa on his wall (revenge for him calling Iowa Arkansas) Day 214
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My favorite is that Karl Marx wrote Lincoln a letter congratulating him on freeing the slaves.
For comparison the last public execution in Poland was the hanging of Arthur Greiser, 21st July 1946. Thousands of people attended, children included. They were having fun and drinking lemonade.
One of the wright brothers (the ones that invented the first airplanes) was still alive when nagasaki and hiroshima were bombed, he felt devastated upon knowing that the invention he and his brother created together was being used to carry weapons of mass destruction
But Brazil invented th... Esquece.
That one doesn't really surprise me as they were both young when the plane was invented in 1903. If 38 years later the bombing happened it makes sense they'd still be alive and older. It's no different then Steve Wozniak being alive today still that many years after the computer
Wow, this really shows how history early/late things happened!🤯
The iPhone was released in 2007, but you couldn't install any apps yet, so it was basically a feature phone with a touchscreen interface. The App Store was released in mid 2008, that's when the smartphone was invented.
I find it funny how he was weirded out by the guillotine in France and the hanging in England while living in a country that still use the electric chair
Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
The last recipient of a US civil war pension died the same day you uploaded "Destroying every continent with nukes and natural disasters (Worldbox)" - 21st May 2023.
Here's another fun one!
Charlie Chaplin could've starred in Star Wars A New Hope if he wanted.
Star Wars A New Hope released on May 25th, 1977
Charlie Chaplin died: sometime in December 1977
Guillotine has always been the best form of executions - it would be even today, even compared to both lethal injection and electrocution. The weird factor is the public violence orgy but this is our view of the French revolution etc, I have nothing against Drew's reaction which is funny and totally appropriate, but for real IMHO USA should adopt it
Side note: I'm not sure if Drew realizes it, but to Europeans the fun fact is also surprising because we are used to think of death penalty as 'ancient' like at least before world wars (true or not).
I'd support its adoption at least its quicker and ya can get multiple uses out of it.
Yeah,behading are the most humane way to die
8:15 I am pretty sure that the introduction of time zones was due the invention of telegraphy and not the railroad as it is often claimed. With the stock markets opening in London and New York at local time,. people somewhere else wanted to know the most recent data and place orders telegraphically, making it necessary to synchronize time.
😅 wanted to tell my gf what this vid is about and she immediately started the same example i did: Cleopatra is closer to KFC than to the Pyramids being built
You should react to history shorts, in one they talk about Picasso making a painting of the German bombing of his hometown and putting it on display. Then when the Germans occupied Paris they walked up to him and seeing how the painting made Germany look bad asked him "¿Did you do that?" Pablo responded with, ¡No! ¡You did that!".
12:30 of course... look at the bunch of countries Spain colonized. Almost all of south America, for a start. Till this day that country is a mess, wanting to divide in tiny little pieces, some parts speak Catalan and another varieties of Spanish, a lot a ppl there are VERY xenophobic... It's crazy.
The fax machine was invented in 1843 (8:05min.) 😂 German government offices: nah, ist modern technology.
An American thinks hanging and guillotine killings should have been abolished years earlier while still having the death penalty themselves.
Thanks Drew for reacting to this so I don’t have to directly give the Sam O’Nella clone a view or watch time
Yeah this guy is really scummy. I think he even banned people from using "Sam O'Nella" in his comment section
I have never heard of Casual Lecters , but sam o nella is really good!
yep exactly as a big fan of sam i dont like him
I thought he was just one of those that tried to fill the void in Sam's honor while he left like Sigmund Oppenbaum or Jake Farm?
I keep seeing them in my recommended and hope some random mf react to then and it ends up in my recommended
First fax machine was invented in 1843.
Last samurai died in 1877.
So for a short period of time people could send fax to samurai.
The Last Samurai could have in fact warned Abraham Lincoln about his incoming assassination whilst aboard a submarine using a fax machine.
*reading all the comments to make sure someone didn't already mentioned Abraham Lincoln faxing the samurai* A submarine too?
it took mankind longer to go from using copper weapons to iron swords than from iron swords to nuclear weapons
when the iron curtain fell, there were still cantons in Switzerland without Women's suffrage
There was slaves in Brazil in the same time you could make a phone call from Brazil to Europe.
If we count Human Trafficking, there are still slaves in Brazil today and all over the world.@@C0lon0
About that guillotine thing i really don't get why that's a problem. The USA still have capital punishment. So i guess it's about the method? I don't think the electric chair is better in any way. The best would just be to not kill people
Oh and no it was not public anymore and very few people were actually executed back then
It was deemed archaic by the rest of the world at that point, especially because individuals could still retain consciousness a few minutes after decapitation.
@@osmaniesquijarosa4308 come on, that's nothing short of idiotic, you don't retain consciousness for minutes if the air flow through you neck is distrupted by a piece of food, obviously you wouldn't if you whole neck was lopped off. That's just an incredibly stupid thing to tell yourself so that you can keep believing that barbarities committed today was any better than the guillotine.
If your head is chopped off, you retain consciousness for 2 to 20 seconds. @@osmaniesquijarosa4308
A samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln
For me most schocking fact was than Harry Potter series started in 1997, like it's more than 1/4 of century, wow.
Fun fact: the Austrian painter was born on the same year as Nintendo was founded.
Fun Fact: Christopher Lee, the same guy who played Count Dooku in Star Wars was actually attending the last guillotine execution. (I have no idea why tho)
Another day of asking Drew to put up the Guernsey flag
Ok, I agree.
5:30 Honestly, if there is a death penalty, there should be a guillotine. A well maintained guillotine still gives the quickest and most painless death of all execution methods.
what about bullet to the head?
As stated in the video, the components of calculus are much older than Newton or Gottfried
Leibniz. What is ment be "these individuals invented calculus" is that each discovered the First Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
There are two key concepts in calculus: the derivative and the integral.
The derivative is the slope of the tangent line. This is your speed in the exact direction you are moving.
An integral calculates the area underneath the graph of an equation.
It is not at all obvious that derivative and integrals have anything to do with eachother.
Isaac Newton and Gottfreid Leibniz are the inventors of calculus due to their discovery of the 1st Fundemental Theorem of Calculus: an integral can be computed using an anti derivative.
The Oxford university was founded around 1096, but the first university was founded in Bologna in 1088
Erm acshually the first university worldwide was founded in the year 859 in Fes, Morocco: Al-Qarawiyyin. And it is still in operation
@@vorerstniemand it was founded as a mosque at that time, but the earliest it was used as a madras (not necessarily a university, as it can be very easily argued that it became a university in 1963) between the 11th and 15th century. It is not clear because the earliest evidence dates teaching to have happened in 1121
It is the oldest building used as a university, but only if you're willing to compromise and ignore the meaning of university as an educational model
@@tuluppampam Interestingly, I've just found out about Nalanda which, if one is willing to grant it the title of university as more and more experts seem to do, then the oldest university of the world wouldnt even be that one, but Nalanda, teaching bhuddist philosophy as well as a few non theological fields like medicine since the 4th or 5th century
@@vorerstniemand the problem is that most mostly religious organization that teach stuff aren't going to be favoured by what people consider to be universities, whose definition is also really vague and thus basically only applies to western Europe (because it was coined there)
Here's some facts that will mess with your perception of time:
Ted Williams, a baseball player who played in the 40s could've watched 3 full seasons of SpongeBob
Williams died in 2002
SpongeBob came out in 1999
Micheal Jordan won his first title while the USSR was still a thing
WW2 is closer to today than the Civil War
The first McDonalds opened before we had 50 states.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid fled to South America about a month after Queen Victoria died
There is nothing Medieval about the guillotine. The Medieval era was over by the 15th century, and the guillotine was not invented until several hundred years later, in the 18th century.
Portugal was also a Dictotor for manny yeas.
The last Execution in Denmark was 1882 and was by the headsmans axe
In Norway, the last execution was carried out in 1948, by firing squad. The condemned was the former Minister of Labour in the Occupation Government during World War II. The last peactime execution, however, was carried out in 1876, by axe, and the condemned was a murderer. (Execution for war crimes was technically on the books until 1979.)
@@TurtleMarcus I should probably have written public execution there we had a firing squad too in 1950 for crimes during the war. The Man Ib Birkedal Hansen was a chief of Gestapo in Denmark
the gernam empire still existed when Disney's snow white was released
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
Petition for drew to put the flag of Saskatchewan on his wall. (He refused to try to pronounce it in one of his videos)
It's not such a hard word
Guillotine was used because it was a relative painless way to go. You could argue it's way less barbaric than the electric chair or those painfull execution drugs used in the US (and no it wasn't a public execution, the last one in France was before WW2)
The local pub & hotel here in the cotswolds is a good like..... 200 years older than america and is still up and running
Still running
Oldest building is the church
Danilo I Petrović-Njegoš became prince-bishop of Montenegro in 1697, often considered to be the beginning of modern Montenegrin history.
The last independent Maya hold-out, the city of Tayasal, on lake Peten Itza, in modern north Guatemala, fell to Spanish rule that same year.
The Spanish finally completed their conquest of the Maya Area at around the same time the Great Turkish War, a late 17th century conflict where a coalition led by Austria, Poland-Lithuania, Russia, Venice and Spain fought against the Ottomans, was nearing its end.
Only a handful of years after Tayasal fell, Karl XII of Sweden would become famous for his Great Northern War campaigns.
As the video mentions, some area of calculus, have roots stretching back into antiquity. In particular, integral calculus deals with calculating areas. Hence, it is not surprising that 25 centuries ago the geometry minded greeks did early work in integral caculus utilizing inscribed triangles to compute areas.
I got another one for you:
Tyrannosaurus was alive: 83.6 million years ago - 66 million years ago
Plateosaurus was alive: 214 million years ago - 204 million years ago
Chronologically the Tyrannosaurus lived closer to our time than they did to the Plateosaurus which really puts it into perspective how long the Dinosaurs survived.
8:01 Dutch really trying to get his plan to work💀
4:55 Because we could.
I actually watched this earlier but I'll watch it again just to see Drew's reaction on it😂
For comparison the last execution in the US was at the same time Accross the Spiderverse came out.
We ain't done yet. There are still people yet to come up to the plate.
The fact that Oxford was created just 30 years after England was is indescribably insane to me. My mind was not just blown by this, it went full-on supernova
Petition for drew to make a calendar of when he’s gonna drop LATAM plushies because in Latin America we are broke and have to save money in anticipation in order to actually afford it in time. I love these countryballs plushies and I couldn’t get that USSR ball in time unfortunately.
América Latina pobre mas feliz.
@@C0lon0 Como dice el buen AMLO
Cao Cao of Three Kingdoms died 1,200 years before Niccolo Machiavelli was born, Machiavelli was just born less than 600 years ago. Sun Tzu predates Cao Cao by about 600 years too. Japan is still in Jomon period back then.
The timeline in Manga "Kingdom" is 200 years before Julius Caesar, 400 years before Sangokushi (Three Kingdoms), 1,200 years before Vinland Saga, 1,300 years before Suikoden (Water Margin), 1,700 years before Sengoku Jidai, 1,900 years before US Independence.
3 years after US Civil War ends, the Meiji era began in Japan.
Wright brothers first flew in 1903, Chuck Yeager flew X-1 and got faster than speed of sound in 1947, just 44 years after first flight - same year of Roswell Flying Saucer Incident. Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969, just 22 years after knowing that we discovered that being faster than sound is okay. Apollo 11 was propelled all the way to 32.58 x speed of sound. The movie Alien was released 10 years later, it imagined a future with computers still using monochrome display. 46 years later in 2015, Space-X has a rocket that can safely land itself.
Yes, we don't progress that much, but the 4-engined Avro Lancaster bomber max payload at max range is 6.4 tons, B-29 can carry up to 9.1 tons. The 2-engined F-15E Strike Eagle can lug up to 10.1 tons, the single engined F-35 Lightning II 8.2 tons. You know why they don't send "bombers" as much these days when a small F-16 can carry more bombs (7.7 tons) than B-17 (3.6 tons, if it wants to reach 400 miles and back).
12:40 Spain was not fascist, it was a dictatorial regime, but it was never a government like Italy's since Franco was a military man, not a politician.
Day 8 of asking Drew to react to Possible History’s, “What if WWII was re-enacted in the modern day.”
France kept the Guillotine til the end if death penalty, because it was seen as a fast and quick execution in comparison to hanging.
P.S. it was NOT medieval! Invented in late 18th century.
I wish Gandhi should've choosen the dark street at we would have got our independence way early
We need a Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg country ball drop
16:00 I went and looked up the best-seller list for 2022; I haven't heard of a single one of those books.
Drew's the kind of person to think the London Underground is amazing (as a Londoner, I can confirm it sucks - it's dirty, stuffy and the trains are never on time or very loud)
When people ask me how old I am I just tell them. "I was born the year the challenger space shuttle exploded"
If the Aztec and Inca started to build 200 years earlier it could've given them the chance to survive the Spanish a bit longer.
Two actors in the Muppets were alive in the 1800s: George Burns and Senor Wences.
9.07 Drew exposed as Serbian nationalist showing map with Serbia still with Kosovo qnd even Montenegro as a deflaut map
Probably about 25,000 years ago
8:00 IVE GOT A GOD DAMN PLAN
Petition for Drew to learn luxembourgish (please remind me if it's day 44 or day 45)
Japan still uses hanging for the death penalty
Btw the song mentioned at the end is Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles
Fun fact: flamethrowers and grenades were created centuries before fire weapons were a thing, they were being using since the ages in which people used formations, spears, shields and swords in battle even the mayans had created their own grenades before the arrival of columbus
I don't know if filling a hollow gorde with hornets and throwing it at people really constitutes a "grenade".
Love the reference to RDR2 in the Oregon trail, nice.
0:27 Indian history is often divided into 3 parts;
A)Ancient history(Harappan to Mughals)
B)European history(Portugal Goa/British Raj/French India)
C)Modern times(Post 1947)
The weird part is that B and C collide with each other.
They all collide with each other
@@fadhil2831 As in overlap.
@@rockingamingwiththesahit2145 yeah
"why did France let that go on for so long" still way more humane than an electric chair or poison injection
ur opinion is wrong
those are all equally inhumane
Technically speaking of done correctly either a lethal injection or death by carbon asphyxiation is way more humane. People decapitated could "live", be conscious and fully aware of their surroundings up to five minutes after decapitation. Think for a moment about how humane that is compared to painless, unaware death.
@@FreddieHg37 come on, that's nothing short of idiotic, you don't retain consciousness for minutes if the air flow through you neck is distrupted by a piece of food, obviously you wouldn't if you whole neck was lopped off. That's just an incredibly stupid thing to tell yourself so that you can keep believing that barbarities committed today was any better than the guillotine.
@@kingglassmouse7873 Opinions can't be wrong, that's why they're opinions.
But electric chairs cause more pain than decapitation. Lethal injections are less painful _if performed properly._
VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO START VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR!!!!! PICTURES CAME AND BROKE YOUR HEART OHAAOH - video killed the radio by the buggels
“Lets see Paul Allen’s micro soft” - Drew
Petition for Drew to learn the longest anthem he can find and recite it
Day 4
as a Chinese man, knowing what are we doing in China and what are the rest of the doing is quit ruin my sense of time. like when USA is founded backed in 1776 we are still in autocratic monachy. and there is a Chinese man call Zheng He already been to Africa before the European did. the are many example about that.
Most of Europe also was autocratic autocratic
my dads grandpas grandpa witnessed the last hanging in belgium
Dueling was legal in Finland till 1969 🤷
Day one of asking Drew to make romanian plushie
Also it's kinda weird seeing Spain's eyepatch on the others side cuz of his mirror cam
Also yeah, Franco should have been thrown out before
At This rate drew will become reaction channel
His channel has been a meme reaction channel for years.
@@greywolf7577 not even meme now
@@Vernnieyes meme
Petition for Drew reviewing the Finno-Korean war Day 7
"Its just crazy that those two figures came together"
they what.