21 Weird History Facts in 3 Minutes!
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- Опубликовано: 23 янв 2016
- 21 weird facts from history that sound totally unbelievable but are 100% genuine. Mind = blown. All sources are here: yestervid.com/weird-facts-hist...
These are some of the craziest events, facts and figures throughout history. File under weird facts history / Catnip for history buffs.
We got the idea for this from Reddit, but we've also done a fair bit of digging for reliable sources ourselves. Feel free to chip in and call us liars.
Spoiler alert Here they are:
1. 80% of Soviet men born in 1923 did not survive WWII
2 Nintendo has been around since 1889
3. In 1961, the US Air Force accidentally dropped two nuclear bombs on itself in North Carolina. A small technical error prevented the bombs detonating.
4. Wooly mammoths and the Great Pyramids coexisted.
The woolly mammoth died out around 1700 B.C. The Pyramids of Giza were built around 4,000 years ago.
5. The US Civil War started and ended in the same house.
Wilmer McLean's house in Appomattox, Virginia.
The war’s first major battle damaged the house. Later, Confederate General Robert E. Lee was to surrender in the house's parlour.
6. One person in the US is still receiving a Civil War soldier's pension.
7. The Black Death killed ca. 200 000 000 people. 50% of Europe's population.
8. Scientists believe half of the human race has died from malaria.
9. The last widow of the American Civil War died in 2008
Maudie Hopkins (December 7, 1914 - August 17, 2008)
Schlueter, Roger. Civil War soldier's widow lives Belleville News-Democrat August 3, 2008
10. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire
Oxford University was founded in 1249. Aztec civilization began with the founding of Tenochtitlán in 1325.
11. NASA accidentally erased the original tape of the first steps on the moon.
What remains is a low quality copy.
12. At the end of the Permian Era 90% of all life on earth was wiped out
13. Queen Elizabeth II has reigned through 12 US Presidencies.
www.historyextra.com/article/p...
14. Betty White is older than Mount Rushmore
15. USA has existed for 240 years. It has been at war for 222 of those.
16. Static electricity caused the Hindenburg explosion.
Jem Stansfield, South West Research Institute
17. Ancient Romans used urine as mouthwash.
18. In 1788 the Austrian army attacked itself and lost 10,000 men.
19. A witness of Lincoln's assassination lived to tell the tale on live TV
20. Cleopatra's reign was closer to the moon landing than the construction of the great pyramids.
Great Pyramid (ca. 2560 BC). Cleopatra (69 BC to 30 BC), First lunar landing (1969)
21. The Mongols killed 11% of the world's population
Photographs
Appomattox Court House, Timothy O'Sullivan, 1865, PD-US
Danse Macabre, Michael Wolgemut, PD-US
Woolly Mammoth, Wiki user Funk Monk, CC BY-SA 2.0
Betty White in The Betty White Show, 1954, PD-US
Footage
Hindenburg Disaster, British Pathé Archive, 1937
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The Civil War claim is false. It's based on a quip from Wilmer McLean that "the war started in my front yard and ended in my parlor," but McLean moved -- he lived near the Bull Run battlefield in 1861 and moved to Appomattox Courthouse, more than 100 miles away, by 1865. Lee signed the terms of his surrender to Grant in McLean's house.
Also the war neither began or ended in those places. While Bull Run was the first large battle, the shooting war started at Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor, about three months earlier. Lee's surrender at Appomattox didn't end the war, he only surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia. There were other Confederate armies in the field that surrendered over the next few months, and the last land battle of the war took place at Palmito Ranch in Texas several months later. The last Confederate warship didn't strike its colors until months after that.
wow i thought that stupid roland emmerlich movie was stupid for showing wooly mammoths and ancient egypt together, but apprantly i was the fool
While true, those mammoths were 5340 miles away on Wrangel Island.
Hope that wasn't their source! XD
scottyrobot which movie you talking about
Probably true,but these Mammoths were 5340 miles away on Wrangell Island,just off the coast of northern Siberia in the Arctic zOcean,friends.
Not that these weren't super interesting, but please for the love of history don't let this become another generic "*Number* *Adjective* Fact that *You didn't know/will blow your mind/ will leave you shocked/all the rest of that shit*"
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A small population of woolly mammoths survived on St. Paul Island, Alaska, well into the Holocene[92][93][94] with the most recently published date of extinction being 5,600 years B.P.[95] The last known population remained on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until 4,000 years ago, well into the start of human civilization and concurrent with the construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt.[96][97][98][99]
I seriously love this channel. Keep it coming!
Nick Drago...but it is nonsense!
The American Civil War didn't begin or end at the McLean House.
Wilmer McLean did own a farm on the Bull Run where the First Battle of Bull Run took place. It has been called the first "major battle" because tens of thousands of troops participated. The McLean House where Lee surrendered is a hundred miles away in Appomattox, and that wasn't the last act of the war either.
While the war didn't begin or end on the same property, it is somewhat interesting that one man's property was involved with acts of the war that were close to the beginning and end.
Hmm, this is really curious, isn't it? Thanks for the information.
this is nonsense...for example in the middleage in europe there were just 60 Million people. So 200 000 000 died?
I still feel ashamed about the 1788 one. I dont know any relatives but. just. dumb.
When people know its 2017 and that the woolly mammoth clone is almost done
When it's 2020 and human still struggling with covid-19
wow mind blown!
Great thanks
1:51 That's right, and so is Stan Lee
My perception of time is so messed up now
1:02 you can't call it a Fact and then say they believe maybe...
Interesting stuff
wow NASA, you had 1 job.
0:45 Wrong! The last one died in 1959 at the age of 117.
O:28 not an error. The bombs weren't weaponized.
1788. Were my Relatives really that stupid. Or what happened??
Interesting.... the last ma to see Lincoln assasitnated was 5 at the time and made it to 1956 at the age of 96. In context.... for 2016, 96 years is 1920. So we're as far away from the roaring 20s and that audience was from the Civil War (20s being only 30 years ago for them).
How did they witness to Lincoln's assassination tell their Tale on TV?
They was old
400 000 000 Europeans in the 14th century?????
+charlot2510111
The Black plague killed large numbers of people in asia also, it was just more severe in europe.
yes I think it was more like 20,000,000
I've typically heard that the plague killed closer to two thirds the population so 200,000,000 wouldn't have actually been half, probably much more.
charlot2510111...no only 60 Millions were living in the Middleage. Not 200 000 000.
I saw no sources.
1:12 Bs. She must have married a 80 year old for the math to work.
for some reason this didnt blow my mind
cool
What does ca. mean?
Ca. = circa, around, approximately
2:23 you mean civil war? orr
Dumbass
@@rhinaffrika5825 😂😂😭🤣
Entrancing!!!
I think these snippets need a lot more explanation lol like the last civil war widow died in 2008?😂😂😂
She married her civil war veteran husband in 1938 when she was 19 and he was 83. She herself died in 2008 when she was 89.
Hi
Some of these are dubious at best and some are misleading....
Last civil war widow died in 2008? No.
2003.
Gertrude Janeway was 18 when she married 81 year old John Janeway in 1927. She continued to receive his $70 pension from the VA.
Michael Gilman Children receive civil war pensions.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-08-08/civil-war-vets-pension-still-remains-on-governments-payroll-151-years-after-last-shot-fired%3Fcontext%3Damp
Technically, the last time the US signed a declaration of war was to enter WWII. We're not in that war anymore so 223 is too high of a number
They're including undeclared wars like the Indian Wars, American military interventions in places like Nicaragua and Vietnam, and the current mess in Afghanistan.
Gregory Eatroff I understand, but technically speaking, a declaration of war is necessary to have an official war
If you're going by declarations of war, we were at war, there was never an official declaration of war against Great Britain during the American Revolution, though there was a peace treaty in 1783. There was also no declaration of war in the American Civil War -- the United States never recognized the Confederacy as an official entity, though it did recognize its belligerent status and applied the articles of war to the fight. So by that standard we were at war from 1812-15, 1846-48, 1898, 1917-19, and 1941-45. Just 16 years. But we've spent a lot more than those 16 years fighting.
Also, don't forget the cold war.
Son Of Montreal The cold war wasn't an actual war
dope
this us dugay
No, the person recieving the pension died several years before this video was released.
So a civil war widow was at least 150 years old? Ummm....I have an issue with many of your "facts."
+Sand Angels An 86 year old soldier married a 19 yo decades after the war. She is still considered a civil war widow even though they weren't married while he served.
+Annie Zimmerman
OK. That makes more sense : )
Quite a few young women married elderly Civil War veterans in the early 20th century. The veterans' pensions were a secure source of income in uncertain times.
I was confused so looked it up...
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3765811.stm
These supposed facts are misleading, improbable, or dead wrong. How could someone still receive civil war pension? The civil war ended in 1865. 2016 -1865 = 151, anyone who can live 151 plus years? Besides, he was a soldier when the war started, so he was at least 15 years old. The same reason goes to the window who died in 2008. Highly improbable.
HaoSci That's what I was thinking.
An 86 year old civil war veteran married a 19 year old in the 1920. After he died she continued to receive his pension until her death.
Then, the narrator should point that out.
@@HaoSci should he point out water is wet too?
A small population of woolly mammoths survived on St. Paul Island, Alaska, well into the Holocene[92][93][94] with the most recently published date of extinction being 5,600 years B.P.[95] The last known population remained on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until 4,000 years ago, well into the start of human civilization and concurrent with the construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt.