100 History Facts that Will Shock You

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  • Опубликовано: 16 дек 2024

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  • @Sideprojects
    @Sideprojects  21 час назад +11

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  • @lohwenli
    @lohwenli 16 часов назад +101

    Bro stopped narrating for TopTenz, now does Top Hundreds 😁

  • @Caleb1874ya
    @Caleb1874ya 11 часов назад +13

    Shakespeare invented the name Jessica… idk why but that one gets me for some reason… like really??? Yes….

  • @juggalowildwings
    @juggalowildwings 12 часов назад +8

    I was disappointed when Simon left Visualpolitik but with all this content he now provides he made up for it tenfold. This guy is a treasure.

  • @xenialafleur
    @xenialafleur 16 часов назад +9

    There were also 3 Presidents in 1841. Van Buren finished his term in March, William Henry Harrison died in April, and then Tyler became President.

  • @MS-io6kl
    @MS-io6kl 16 часов назад +10

    1:07 it's going to be a good list if it starts with Kamchatka. For deeper insights into the journey of the 2nd Russian Pacific Squadron and its unfortunate end in the Battle of Tsushima, I recommend Drachinifel.

    • @rentonfreak
      @rentonfreak 15 часов назад +2

      That's my thought.
      "Do you see torpedo boats?"

  • @jackvos8047
    @jackvos8047 15 часов назад +20

    Indigenous Australians were farming eels 6,600 years ago, before the construction of both Stonehenge and the Pyramids.

    • @marcbeebee6969
      @marcbeebee6969 15 часов назад +1

      And now emus rule the nation. 😅

    • @spinnymathingy3149
      @spinnymathingy3149 14 часов назад +4

      😂 and that was the height of their civilisation.

    • @dylandwyer2295
      @dylandwyer2295 12 часов назад

      No the emus now farm the eels

    • @spinnymathingy3149
      @spinnymathingy3149 11 часов назад

      @@dylandwyer2295 emus love colourful mushrooms too

    • @rjhrjh3
      @rjhrjh3 11 часов назад +2

      @@marcbeebee6969 Correct. They won the war against the Australian Army. A funny part of Australian history.

  • @TheFrogInYourClosetWatchingYou
    @TheFrogInYourClosetWatchingYou 13 часов назад +4

    LOL imagine waking up one day and the mountains turned blood red 🤣

  • @PewPewPark
    @PewPewPark 10 часов назад +4

    In regards to silphium, they think the plant has been rediscovered in Turkey.

  • @pierrevaillancourt1803
    @pierrevaillancourt1803 15 часов назад +5

    The fart joke was a blast from the past

  • @_Ben___
    @_Ben___ 3 часа назад +1

    13 liters of anything, you'll die.
    It could've been water and he'd die of hyponatremia.

  • @02whitelaw
    @02whitelaw 12 часов назад +2

    I have to say thank you to Simon's better half.
    Thanks for sharing your man with all us freaks. Hahaha

  • @batticusmanacleas510
    @batticusmanacleas510 9 часов назад +1

    A well placed fart was probably making humans laugh long before we had speech, let alone writing.

  • @AnotherPointOfView944
    @AnotherPointOfView944 17 часов назад +3

    An index to each topic would be handy!

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 4 часа назад

    Damnit, i'm also on the last CasCrim episode , here the draft and i'll finish later this day
    0:35 - N°1 - The russian baltic fleet had a disastrous voyage in 1905
    2:10 - Mid roll ads
    3:20 - N°2 - Spain used to throw platinum into the ocean
    4:35 - N°3 - Alexander the great held a drinking contest that killed several contestants
    5:25 - N°4 - Liberia once held the most rigged election in history
    6:30 - N°5 - The moon landing had to be altered at the last second
    7:50 - N°6 - Chicago once lifted the whole city
    10:35 - N°7 - The oldest grape wine ever found is 8000 years old
    11:20 - N°8 - Cortes had a unique way to communicate with the aztecs
    13:15 - N°9 - The US tricked the USSR into selling them titanium
    14:20 - N°10 - There was once a car race from new york to paris
    15:55 - N°11 - Ancient india performed the 1st ever rhinoplasties
    16:40 - N°12 - Rome loved a fruit so much they ate it to extinction
    17:40 - N°13 - Teddy roosevelt finished a speech after being shot
    19:05 - N°14 - 46 BC was the longest calendar year in history
    21:20 - N°15 - Native americans had clam garden before the pyramids were built
    22:20 - N°16 - The 1st chess engine was a hoax
    24:15 - N°17 - Ancient china designed the 1st ever earthquake detector
    25:10 - N°18 - The mystery nuke detonated in 1979
    26:35 - N°19 - Cannons were used as sun clokcs
    27:25 - N°20 - Ancient egyptians used honey to treat wounds

  • @jmmahony
    @jmmahony 13 часов назад +2

    Speaking of the Julian calendar, you said "such corrections were never needed again". Wrong- the Julian calendar assumed the year was 365 1/4 days long, so a leap day was added every four years. But as you accurately stated, the year is actually about 365.2422 days. That slight .0078 days per year added up over the centuries and after about a millennium and a half the calendar was off by 10 days, leading Pope Gregory to skip 10 days to re-sync the calendar to the seasons, and to introduce the new Gregorian calendar, which had a slight modification in the use of leap days.

    • @nicholasjones7774
      @nicholasjones7774 12 часов назад

      he was referring to the point of the fact he was sharing; that about 90 days were added. it is not wrong to say that has not happened again, it would also be fair to suggest that nothing so drastic has been done since.

    • @jmmahony
      @jmmahony 9 часов назад

      @nicholasjones7774 one correction added 90 days, the other subtracted 10.

  • @TheFrogInYourClosetWatchingYou
    @TheFrogInYourClosetWatchingYou 12 часов назад +1

    Dude falling to his death changed the outcome of that battle lmao

  • @adamredwine774
    @adamredwine774 2 часа назад

    It really is a shame that there aren't any big budget bio-pics about Malinche (the interpreter that helped Cortez). She was an incredibly fascinating and extremely important person that too few people know about.

  • @totherarf
    @totherarf 16 часов назад +3

    The moon landing was indeed remarkable as they had 3 seconds of fuel left!

    • @marcbeebee6969
      @marcbeebee6969 15 часов назад

      Pff story of my life

    • @jmmahony
      @jmmahony 13 часов назад

      a little under 30 second actually.

    • @totherarf
      @totherarf 5 часов назад

      @@jmmahony I am getting old and my mind is feeble .... you may be right! ;o) It was just an interview I remember.

  • @BigMobe
    @BigMobe 10 часов назад +2

    1st rule of war: Do not invade Russia.
    2nd rule of war: Russia do not invade others.

  • @stygn
    @stygn 6 часов назад

    56:08 Well, its a lot more complicated than that. Norway had some natural recourse exploitation at the time, but nothing massive. The iron ore from Sweden was a more important goal, and it was transported through Norway in the coldest months of the year. The British and the French also had plans to invade Norway and Sweden to cut this vital iron ore shipment. They had planned to do so during the winter war by being "invited" to occupy, but Norway and Sweden said no. The Anglo-French plan (Plan R 4) and other British plans were altered as Finland sued for peace in the winter war, and a more aggressive plan took shape. The allies broke Norwegian neutrality several times in the weeks leading up to the German invasion.
    The most beneficial situation for Germany would've been if Norwegian, Danish and Swedish neutrality was respected. Then they could've bought the stuff they wanted without spending vast amounts of resources occupying Norway. As a Norwegian I am thankful that the allies won WW2, but I am also aware that the likelihood of a German invasion of Norway would've been very low had it not been for British actions.

  • @Rascilon25
    @Rascilon25 16 часов назад +1

    As an American learning Korean I really liked the segment about Hangul.

  • @jeromebarrette954
    @jeromebarrette954 18 часов назад +2

    Love these longer videos

  • @paulc6471
    @paulc6471 14 часов назад +2

    31:37 So God wiped out Port Royal personally!

  • @MS-io6kl
    @MS-io6kl 16 часов назад +4

    1:29 that isn't entirely accurate. The fleet would have been just fine if they could have gone through the Suez Canal. But with the British telling them NO after the Doggerbank incident, they had to go all around Africa. Which added a few thousand extra sea miles to their journey.

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 16 часов назад +2

      It's almost as if incompetence has consequences. 😂

    • @MS-io6kl
      @MS-io6kl 16 часов назад +1

      @SkunkApe407 it always has, though sometimes, most of the time really, the consequences are not quite as immediate as in that particular case😉.

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 14 часов назад

      @@MS-io6kl very true!

    • @benjaminepstein5856
      @benjaminepstein5856 3 часа назад +1

      @1:01:30 Napoleon Jimmy-Cart

  • @khironkinney1667
    @khironkinney1667 13 часов назад +1

    Villain, I have done thine mother one of my favorite jokes of all time. Anthony Hopkins stars in a theatrical rendition of Titus Andronicus called Titus it is one of my favorite films. It also Stars Jessica Lange amongst other actors

  • @ALA9E
    @ALA9E 51 минуту назад

    I always mis interpreted the “fiddling” as “fiddling around” not playing a violin 😂😂😂

  • @davidniemi4051
    @davidniemi4051 16 часов назад +1

    Love the typo in the title of fact 41 at 50:35 "Elped" instead of helped. Nice chuckle, thanks/

  • @Ulfhednir9
    @Ulfhednir9 15 часов назад +1

    Sabaton has a great song about the Night witches

    • @aceundead4750
      @aceundead4750 12 часов назад +1

      Sabaton has a lot of great songs about that time period in general

  • @MS-io6kl
    @MS-io6kl 15 часов назад +1

    19:56 or you could do it the way the ancient Egyptians did. They were starting a new era with every new Pharaoh anyway. So why bother adding the leap days? And for all the nerds, who wanted to know better, they created the Sothic Cycle of 1460 (Julian) or 1461 (ancient Egyptian) years after which the dates aligned again.

  • @ALA9E
    @ALA9E Час назад

    So Alexander imitated King David who did the same when his men risked all to get him water from a special area

  • @bigemugamer
    @bigemugamer 10 часов назад

    I can't believe I actually sat back and watched this for 2 hours as opposed to my continued watching of season 2 For All Mankind.... which surprisingly was briefly mentioned by simon whistler in a video I watched a couple weeks ago which led to my curiosity and watching of the show.

  • @ChadHoughten-p7m
    @ChadHoughten-p7m 17 часов назад +5

    I use your Close captioning feature, due to my hearing disability.
    Is there any way to have someone proof the narrative before you post it??
    Any time there is a difficult word, or when the speech becomes fast, your caption just give up..
    Please help out your (not so good) listeners understand what you say!!

    • @aceundead4750
      @aceundead4750 12 часов назад

      If he were to make more money that he could then pay someone to do cc it's possible he would, but unless that happens we're stuck with youtube's a.i. generated cc. On this channel it's not too bad for me, but on Megaprojects there are times i can only listen to an episode if i have headphones on.

    • @jonyemm
      @jonyemm 11 часов назад +2

      Go to the videos description, then go to the transcript

  • @jmmahony
    @jmmahony 12 часов назад

    There were also three presidents in 1841, when William Henry Harrison died after only a month in office.

  • @xboxlivers
    @xboxlivers 17 часов назад +3

    Israel has nuclear missiles I thought

    • @Telthar
      @Telthar 17 часов назад

      There is a very good possibility that Israel has nukes on loan from the US as part of a defense agreement. It is also widely believed that they have their own nuclear arsenal.

    • @AnotherPointOfView944
      @AnotherPointOfView944 16 часов назад +2

      That has never been disclosed.

    • @MS-io6kl
      @MS-io6kl 15 часов назад +6

      Officially, they have no nukes. Unofficially, they're said to have 400+.

    • @-Sierra117-
      @-Sierra117- 15 часов назад

      Of course the judes have nukes
      And they got from us
      Wat a foolish thing to allow

  • @geoffreyparkinson3495
    @geoffreyparkinson3495 6 часов назад

    Just saying that the oldest continual surviving race on earth currently are the Australian Aboriginals (65,000 years) and they also have documented art dating back to this period - some dates may be contested by 10,000 years but this still makes it pretty close to the Neanderthal

  • @williammoore1980
    @williammoore1980 2 часа назад

    18:33 GOAT POTUS

  • @LiveSilence3
    @LiveSilence3 43 минуты назад

    During The Battle Of tenalichlan a warrior suddenly slips And falls Off a roof AS He rallies The defenders. Comedy hidden In Time

  • @katwitanruna
    @katwitanruna 13 часов назад

    We use the Gregorian calendar now which was instituted in 1582.

  • @svenlima
    @svenlima 19 часов назад +2

    "shock" or rather "surprise" ??

    • @daaven6452
      @daaven6452 18 часов назад

      “Wrinkle your brain”

    • @ferociousgumby
      @ferociousgumby 9 часов назад

      @@daaven6452 My brain is the least wrinkly part of me.

  • @waj-efc1372
    @waj-efc1372 17 часов назад

    Woman in WW2 near where I live used to make mustard gas. The Germans bombed overhead and trees have grown on the other side of town in the bomb divets.

  • @christinebrown3359
    @christinebrown3359 11 часов назад

    I feel like the facts I know in this list I learned from Simon's channels!

  • @Royce16727
    @Royce16727 12 часов назад

    Not really doing much to dispel the stereotype, Ireland… 🤣
    I have a feeling that it took a lot fewer cuts to film this entire episode, Simon, then I would normally expect. Enjoy your nap! I honestly don't know if you sleep, so get as much rest as you can. Lol

  • @ferociousgumby
    @ferociousgumby 9 часов назад

    1:31:11 T-H-H-H-E circus!

  • @Tyler-kt6jr
    @Tyler-kt6jr 17 часов назад

    I believe the ball in the dragon’s mouth is supposed to represent a cintamani

  • @reggiep75
    @reggiep75 17 часов назад +4

    Where's the timestamps, man!? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @j.a.weishaupt1748
      @j.a.weishaupt1748 17 часов назад

      He’s notoriously lazy

    • @solleytara
      @solleytara 12 часов назад

      Watch the whole video and you won't need them

    • @tygsv4021
      @tygsv4021 8 часов назад

      It’s a two hour video there aren’t going to be timestamps for every topic he spoke about.

  • @rened.5998
    @rened.5998 4 часа назад

    The Russian naval fake is quiet on brand in my opinion😂

  • @starcrafter13terran
    @starcrafter13terran 10 часов назад

    I learned hangeul in 48 minutes. Not exaggerating

  • @brucegallagher6430
    @brucegallagher6430 8 часов назад

    Excellent!

  • @DurdyMurderGaming
    @DurdyMurderGaming 6 часов назад

    1:13:27 that's equal to 1 cup

  • @Ubique2927
    @Ubique2927 16 часов назад

    Sweet potato is called CAMOTE in the Philippines.

  • @nessc5825
    @nessc5825 Час назад

    One of the most important aspects that would have made changing the color of mt. Fuji would be cultural context. Not sure about Japan but if they had done something to a major natural phenomena in China and dyed it red, I’m pretty sure they would have taken that as a lucky thing … I’m insinuating based on the fact that they have flipped the red and green for there stock market

  • @Janesomeone
    @Janesomeone 4 часа назад

    You can sue for peace!? I’m an American so I didn’t know… 😂

  • @mbathroom1
    @mbathroom1 19 часов назад +4

    last time I was this early, George Bush was about to be eaten by cannibals

  • @rolestream
    @rolestream 5 часов назад

    Wasn't Huel the fat bodyguard on breaking bad?

  • @SpectrumofSmarts
    @SpectrumofSmarts 2 часа назад

    Simon I knew all of this, because I've seen every video you've ever made

  • @Yoder023
    @Yoder023 16 часов назад

    I always wondered the longest Marathon race record
    .....50+ years isnt anything i conceived of 😊

  • @TheShortYautja
    @TheShortYautja 12 минут назад

    Why are you slowly morphing into Johnny sins

  • @Someone-z8r
    @Someone-z8r 14 часов назад +1

    Russians are not clearly not good at this whole war thing.

  • @paulleemathes
    @paulleemathes 17 часов назад

    Is it just me or is there background noise around 33:00-ish, very subtle.

  • @MrMike9267
    @MrMike9267 13 часов назад

    LoL never trust the rabbits 🤣😂🤣

  • @JacobafJelling
    @JacobafJelling 43 минуты назад

    Cool cool

  • @NazgulWraith
    @NazgulWraith 16 часов назад

    Bring us a "100 Ancient Roman History Facts That Will Shock You" pleeeeease! 😊

    • @jonyemm
      @jonyemm 11 часов назад

      Please don't

    • @NazgulWraith
      @NazgulWraith 11 часов назад

      @jonyemm Nahhhh they probably gonna do it 🤣

  • @williamwenrich3288
    @williamwenrich3288 13 часов назад

    Sequoia

  • @glennrugar9248
    @glennrugar9248 16 часов назад

    Oh fact you, fact boi...

  • @legendsofabhaile
    @legendsofabhaile 8 часов назад

    Lol. Nuclear free state.

  • @janusatthegate6201
    @janusatthegate6201 18 часов назад

    Why don't people say, The first landing, or One of the moon landings.

    • @troncat8490
      @troncat8490 18 часов назад +1

      because people say things differently, a fact of life

  • @MaikyBorrell
    @MaikyBorrell 13 часов назад

    Mexico is North America...

  • @sack36
    @sack36 14 часов назад +3

    I swear Simon's mispronunciations are getting worse!

    • @ferociousgumby
      @ferociousgumby 9 часов назад +2

      Still better than AI, however!

    • @caustichonu
      @caustichonu Час назад

      I'd definitely take Simon's humanity (and his human writing team) over an AI.

  • @hollydavid69
    @hollydavid69 7 часов назад

    2 hours worth?

  • @joshhobbs4862
    @joshhobbs4862 19 часов назад

    ❤❤❤

  • @mookiiieeee
    @mookiiieeee 15 часов назад

    🍿

  • @AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw
    @AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw 15 часов назад +2

    Too long brah

  • @Michael-qr6gu
    @Michael-qr6gu 10 часов назад

    This isn't BuzzFeed. Please have some self-respect when choosing your video titles.

  • @hot_ice_e1ite46
    @hot_ice_e1ite46 7 часов назад

    Stop putting ur ads in the middle of videos, pls in the beginning or end. thanks

  • @TheFrogInYourClosetWatchingYou
    @TheFrogInYourClosetWatchingYou 13 часов назад

    Lol they just crapped on their heritage... lol giants made them really?

  • @benjamingrunbaum3601
    @benjamingrunbaum3601 18 часов назад

    It would be more accurate to say FORMER president Teddy Roosevelt as he was not a sitting president when shot

    • @JABoyle3875
      @JABoyle3875 17 часов назад +3

      Except that it is common and accepted usage to refer to any ex president as president.

    • @benjamingrunbaum3601
      @benjamingrunbaum3601 17 часов назад

      @JABoyle3875 true, but in this case somewhat misleading

    • @aceundead4750
      @aceundead4750 12 часов назад

      Wasnt it on the campaign trail that he was shot? If so then technically we could go with the former president who wasnt president yet and just make it a massive mouthful lol

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff 18 часов назад +2

    I doubt it.

  • @bobar57
    @bobar57 6 часов назад

    Click bait title, unsubbed

  • @mmerkley402
    @mmerkley402 16 часов назад

    We've advanced past the gregorian calendar. Sorry theists. BCE and CE

    • @MS-io6kl
      @MS-io6kl 15 часов назад

      And what is the reference point of CE (which most none English native speakers call Christian Era anyway) and BCE? Ah yes the birth of Jesus Christ. Also we don't have moved past the Gregorian calendar. It is very much in use in the entire world, even in countries that have alternative systems like the Islamic world and China to name just two.

    • @Sncalmes
      @Sncalmes 12 часов назад

      Sorry atheist- while you have “renamed” the terms, we still use the Gregorian calendar. Your inability to accept the contributions of historical religious orders doesn’t negate that this calendar system is still the best one yet created and in use across the entire world. Simply renaming BC to BCE and AD to CE doesn’t actually contribute anything meaningful to the calculations of the calendar to match the solar year.

  • @Reina.Nijinsky
    @Reina.Nijinsky 18 часов назад

    @Simon 🌟Happy Holidays to you and yours! 🌟🎄🎅🏻🧑🏻‍🎄🌲🕎❄️☃️🌲🪔✝️🎉🎂☯️🎊🎈🔯🎁🌲⛩️🍷☯️🥂🍾🍻🕉️🌲 from NYC 🍎🇺🇸

  • @Khanjikai
    @Khanjikai 11 часов назад

    Oh, what a perfect gift for me... Simon tells the best bedtime stories. 🥱🥱🥱