50 Greatest Historical Events That Never Happened
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i know what paper is and I can read, but what's "writing"?
You just must attack the Bible. Sadly you will answer for this.
You can't say 50 greatest historical events that never happend, then say May or May not have transpired ..... come on now
Got a big one for ya.... Mohammed of islam is a fictional character..... and there's no historical record for the "great" city of mecca b4 the invent of islam
No maps.. not mentioned by Roman's Syrians... Persians... not a word
The Alice Cooper one always made my friend's mom laugh when people told her this. She was a HUGE Alice Cooper fan and whilst pregnant with my friend she went to one of his concerts, and also had a backstage pass (she had won a radio contest or something). She said when Alice noticed she was pregnant (cause she was barely 3 months along) he went from rock superstar badass character he puts on during shows, to extremely caring mom-friend watching out for her. He demanded the others not smoke in the green room while she was there, made sure she had food and/or something without alcohol to drink, and even gave her his chair so she could sit.
If your mother gave birth to your friend, then that person is your brother/sister,, and not your friend
@@nickychimes4719 Correct but I said "Friend's mom" not "my mom" so this friend, nor her mother (father or brother) are related to me in anyway. Hence they are a friend not a brother or sister ;)
@@CartoonHero1986 learn to write properly
@@nickychimes4719 Other then issues with run on sentences there isn't anything wrong with what I wrote. It clearly denotes "my friend's mom." Are you perhaps confused by the term "mom-friend"? Which is a reference to the kind of person/friend that becomes highly protective and maternal in their behaviour when entertaining. Like those friends that are always asking you if you've had lunch/dinner, or check in on you like someone mom rather than casual friend.
You doing okay there? You kind of randomly went off twice for no reason.
@@nickychimes4719learn to read properly, he’s clearly correct and didn’t edit because there isn’t an edited note
I heard that there was once a RUclipsr that had like a hundred different channels and presented on such a wide array of topics that he was practically a genius, a modern day Library of Alexandria. But it's probably just a myth.
he is real but he's demonstrably wrong about 25% of the time.
@@tripsaplenty1227😂😂😂
The problem with this comment is that if you actually watch his channels, it's very apparent that he actually knows nothing about anything he talks about. He just reads scripts. He's done videos on someone on biographics, then he does a casual criminalist on the same person and reads the script and he stops every 5 seconds cause he's shocked by something he just read. I'm not complaining, I love simon, and his side stories are fun, but this is a fact.
I heard he had long flowing hair the likes of which all Vikings envy.
@@that_celtics_fan dude, don't be "that guy"
I had to laugh at the painting of the young-boy version of George Washington holding his hatchet and looking exactly like a miniaturized version of the middle-aged adult George Washington. Lol.
Hahaha. The hypocrisy is ironic too. A fictional story about the first American president is falsely represented as fact, all for the purpose of teaching kids that you should NEVER tell a lie under ANY circumstances.
Being a German, I can attest to the fact that the sentence of JFK "Ich bin ein Berliner" is grammatically correct and is something that a German, that wants to express that he is from Berlin, would say. If a German wants to know if the other German is from Berlin, they may ask "bist du ein Berliner" (are you a ). It is regularly used.
Awesome.
I always thought it was the whole.
Ich bin heist vs mir ist heist?
Glad to be corrected by a native speaker.
Danke schön
True story: My third grade teacher said to the class that Columbus discovered the world was round and I was like, "No, that was the greeks" and she got mad at me and punished me even though I brought in my source.
Awwwww, c'mon, Simon... SURELY you must know that it's "Et tu, BruTAY"! He might have BEEN a brute, but his name wasn't 'Brute'.
I was gonna say this but then I realized it’s Simon, he has been unconscious until these shows started
Come on now, the dude just regurgitates information in an entertaining manner. He isn't some genius.
Brutus was a hero. Sic semper tyrannis! (Motto of Commonwealth of Virginia, not a suggestion)
This comment is better than the video.
He’s taking a page out of HeckleFish’s book of pronunciations!
Simon: We all know the earth is round.
Flat earthers: What WHAT WHAAAAAAT???
im surprised they havent spammed the comment section yet
@@matthewfors114 They have no interest in learning about actual history
Nah, man. It's hollow, not flat. Keep up with the trends.
My theory is that the flat earthers really know better, but like to trigger the pompous. I've thought about claiming it myself.
@@banhammer3904 nah man, its the moon thats hollow. didnt you see that docudrama "moonfalL"?
Regarding "Burning of the Bra".
It most certainly did happen, at least here in Australia it did. There were many, many rallies with Germaine Greer, (a leading Feminist writer at the time), where many of the women in attendance DID take off their bras and burn them. And how do I know? Well I was one of those in attendance at several Melbourne rallies. Some even went completely topless and got arrested for Indecency.
That’s where Newton got his idea about gravity.
Yes,these events did take place,I saw them with my own eyes.😵💫..a beautiful sight to behold.😍 The protests that is. 🤨
sorry, but not your Country, OURS... the story is about OUR ladies and protests in the US, not yours. you guys have your stories, we have ours. Simon specifically said the story was about American women.
@@teomac I know I'm 4 months late but that's the best comment I've read in ages! 😂
“Medieval hand stuff” GOLD
Regarding Einstein. I heard the grading system is the reason for the myth. In German the grades are not A-F, but 1-6 (1 is the best), in Switzerland it is 6-1 (6 is the best). Einstein had 6s in algebra, geometry and physics. This would look very bad, had he graduaded in Germany. But he graduaded in Switzerland.
(Oh, and there was a time, when some germans did like to talk bad about Einstein...)
We (germany) had a child show "Castle Einstein" and the opening song had a line "even Einstein had a D in math and was later a total genius (Selbst Einstein hatte nur ne 4 in Mathe und war später mal total genial.)
@@Lodrik18maybe it was about an unannounced trigonometry test? Anyway D is not bad grade, with A you would become manager in big corporation and would know sun only from CEO's and low level employees stories...
@@Lodrik18so this A/1/6 was normal grade, or extraordinary, so C/3/4 is just "not perfect" while 100% on test means B/2/5?
@@schizoafekt
In Switzerland it is basically like that: 6 perfect, 5 good, 4 just sufficient, and everything less than 4 is not passing a test.
@schizoafekt D (or 4) is mostly considered as a bad grade in germany. But that is not the point Lodrik18 did want to make. 🙂
The song he mentioned (like the show) is well known by the millennials in germany. The 4 there is just an artistic choice (better rhythm than 5 or 6). But it plays into the myth that Einstein allegedly did had bad grades in school.
I love the sponsors Simon decides to work with. They’re never stupid scammy crap and they’re pretty relevant to him and his content. And he’s always great at advertising them.
Simon: "The book of Kings was likely embellished to make Solomon look better than he was."
I & II Kings: A literal laundry list of mistakes and sins made by Kings, FIRST OF WHICH WAS SOLOMON.
Was likely? This is such poor science. You decide "you" dont belive it , so you say it is so. Well done.
What does science have to do with literature or written word???@@AbnerSolano
@@AbnerSolano history isn't a science... history is a LIBERAL ART... so is literature... the bible is literature... next time, pull out a dictionary or just look it up online if you don't own an actual paper dictionary.
The bible was written by scribes from Judea. They attributed stuff done by leaders of the northern Hebrew state of Israel to David and Solomon. Watch Kedem a brilliant channel. Series of 24 half hour conversations with Israel Finklestein. Archaeologist. Also lectures by others on Oriental Institute channel.
The bible both old and new testaments isnt just literature its part fact, part faction and part fiction.
@@lesliekilgore648Historical narrative
Legend has it that listening to Simon Whistler's voice while playing Minecraft, a practice that began in the humble days of TopTenz, is the most relaxing activity in modern times. Perhaps it was just a myth invented by one lonely commenter, though...
Hahahaha, I'm literally doing that!
@@Mentocthemindtaker I knew I wasn't alone!
"Going to have to settle with some Medieval Hand stuff 👏👏👏"! Best part ever!
In the 1980s or maybe 1990s, I don't quite remember, the Chicago Tribune finally put this story to rest. A reporter made up the whole story. Absolutely made it up. For one thing, the man who supposedly saw what happened as he stood at his door couldn't have seen it because there was a building in between his place and Mrs O'Leary's barn. For another thing, you don't milk cows at night. After the story was published or maybe within a few years as I said my memories a bit hazy, the mayor or the governor publicly exonerated her and her cow completely. Would people don't realize about the story is that it almost got O'Leary killed and she was vilified for all of her life. People believe this story and they went against her hard.
One reason the blaze spread so quickly with Chicago was mainly built out of wood. The water tower that survives survived because it was made of stone.
Cows get milked in shifts on commercial dairy farms which includes night time.
I think people forget that most skyscrapers don't have windows that you can open.
Would they have been sky scrapers at that time? And do we know that in the 1920's (assuming even a new building may have been started being built then) the windows didn't open? That sounds like a more modern idea.
Archimedes.
I used to be a math teacher -- thus, I've taken a lot of math classes. The story of Archimedes is a favorite of university math professors. I've heard the story many times.
One of the biggest objections to the story (you touch on it as well) is the absurdity of running naked through the town. However, in about 250 BC, nudity wasn't the big deal that it is for a lot of people now. If he did run nude through town, it would have hardly been news worthy. In fact, walking through town and not seeing any nude people would likely be more news worthy.
47:00 As a German I am completly baffled by this. True, I was born in 1980 so later than this happened, but I have NEVER, not a single time, heard it with a negative touch.
Nobody and nowhere have I EVER heard that anybody attributed "Berliner" to "jelly donut".
Because it just simply makes 0 sense.
"Ich bin ein Berliner" - is a grammatically completly correct sentence in German if you want to state that you are a residendential from the city Berlin.
Yes, you can skip the "ein" and just state: "Ich bin Berliner" - that would be correct too.
But JFK was spot on with "Ich bin ein Berliner" and while in some areas in Germany a "Berliner" is a jelly donut too, that does not make his sentence in any sense incorrect.
We - like most languages probably - have many words that have different meanings. A "Bank" can be an institute where you get money. Or it can be a bench where you sit down. Both is "Bank" and it depends on the circumstances what it refers to.
And "Berliner" is a citizen of Berlin as well (in some parts - not in Berlin itself!) as a jelly donut.
Fascinating to hear that this was supposed to be ridiculed in Germany when it absolutly never was and there would be 0 substance for laughing about it.
Thank you! I was taught that the German people understood what he meant and that it was well thought of and highly recieved.
This video is full of wrong nonsense, worry not.
While the story is complete bullshit, it is still an okay joke. I am a Danish!
it is a joke and meme in the US that has been circulating just here for the past oh... not too long... it was quite taboo here to speak ill of a dead President. at least in public. so if it was a joke here around the time he made the speech in 1962, he was assassinated the next year in 63, so it didn't circulate much back then. i think George Carlin the standup comedian first made the joke in my memory in the 1980's. he's probably the #1 reason anybody here would think of that speech in any way... even if they were alive and grown up enough to remember 1962.
The counter-argument to the Zeno Paradox of never getting to your destination because there are an infinite number of steps to get there is this: "An infinite number of infinitely-small things is finite, thus you arrive at your destination." Isn't this the basis of calculus?
This “paradox” is just a word trick. If you are traveling from point A to point B, yes, you can slice the distance into infinitesimally small slices. But what is left out, is that it also requires an _infinitesimally short_ period of time to cross that distance. If you are traveling at a constant speed, the amount of time required is directly proportional to the distance covered, it doesn’t matter how finely you slice the journey.
In calculus, this would be written as v=dx/dt. V could be a constant (constant speed) or a function of time (acceleration or deceleration).
The problem with your observation is that you would arrive at your destination only after infinite time. You need infinitely fast steps also.
@@chrisf5828 that’s not a problem. However finely you are chopping up the distance, you are chopping up the time needed to cross that distance at exactly the same rate.
An infinite number of anything by its very definition is decidedly not finite
@@bergstromjonny but the sum of an infinite number of infinitesimally thin slices is still finite.
The picture of the baseball stadium at 40:45 mark is wrong. The story is about the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field in Chicago. The picture shows the Wrigley Field in Los Angeles (note the tower) on the exterior of the first base side of the stadium).
I was told that the customer with the french fries turned into potato chips was King George the Second or third. The chef hated King George and after he sent the French fries back the chef thinned-cut the potatoes as revenge and King George ended up loving them.
Was aired on Nick Jr educational shorts back in the 90s. Lol
I always thought the Gordian knot was a lesson in thinking outside the box, and a testament of Alexanders ingenuity and problem solving skills.
The Pilars of Hercules has been long established as being the Strait of Gibraltar
From what I was taught in school, this was because some 2000 years ago, there were actually still islands in the strait left over from the collapse of the mountain range there (the collapse itself was a couple million years ago). This also made the passing of the strait a lot more dangerous.
Not sure if it is true btw.
I watch all of his commercials because it's always something i might buy bc its usually something really helpful
My cat liked the sound of the relaxation/sleep app. I think it was the “Calm” app.
As someone who works at the Betsy Ross House I have some problems with how Simon is presenting this. First, I want to say that Betsy Ross was not a seamstress, she was an upholsterer. I know it seems like a silly thing to make a deal out of, but they’re different. Upholsterers would work mainly on house furnishings that would use different materials often than that of a seamstress. While both would use sewing techniques, they are two completely different trades. Next, Betsy Ross was never credited with designing the first flag, outside of the possibility of changing the stars from six points to five. Six pointed stars were quite common, just look at Washington’s HQ flag. Also, the Grand Union Flag was not an official US flag. It was an unofficial flag of the Colonies that was really only used by some naval ships starting in 1775. The Flag Resolution of 1777 named the Stars and Stripes as the first official flag of the United States of America.
Some other questions I commonly get asked is why would they choose Betsy. John Ross’s (Betsy’s first husband) uncle, George Ross, was a signer of the Declaration. Also, Betsy and John had been commissioned to make bed hangings for Washington that are still at Mount Vernon. So she had connections.
The truth to the Columbus story is everyone did think his journey was impossible, because he asserted that the earth was a lot smaller than it was. They thought he would starve to death attempting to cross what we today know is both the Atlantic and pacific oceans together on small sailing ships. (he would)
Luckily for him (and not so much the native American) his estimation of the length of his journey was actually correct, as he ran into a continent either nobody or basically nobody expected to be there mid-way.
He's celebrated today because we are celebrating the event that began European colonialism, not him as some kind of rebel genius.
The burning your bras bit back in the 60s did occur because my mother-in-law did it. her and her friends did it as protest against the Vietnam war because it was the saying of burn your draft cards and burn your bras.
Not only was Disney frozen, he was also miniaturized and is now part of the GE exhibit
No his head is in a jar and he lives on like that..
Drinking game: take a shot every time Simon says "apocryphal".
So, my mother, the most open, honest person i've ever known, lied about burning Her bra? Then got my Uncle and Aunt to corraborate her story? Dang, fooled me. Thanks for the eye opener.
Same with my mother and aunts who got grounded for it.
@@theConquerersMama ya, this dude is way off-base on that one.
@williamdixon-gk2sk now maybe there wasn't an organized bonfire at a specific protest where women took off their bras and did some sort of organized ritual.
But as personal spontaneous events, sometimes at protests, sometimes just around a campfire with friends or the backyard(people still burned leaves and trash at home then) - that happened at personal declarations.
Same with burning draft cards.
@@theConquerersMama my mom did it at her high school in Oxnard, CA. It was certainly an organized protest.
I was thinking more of a specific one time event the way Simon is presenting. Women were still doing bra burnings when I was a kid.
So you are right. They did them at protests as well as other places. It was a movement and an action that spanned a number of years as different women got to that point to make a statement. Some did it really openly during protests, some had personal break through moments.
Hell, there are dozens of current events that never happened. They’re broadcast daily in the mainstream news media.
Yes
Luther nailed his 95 theses to the Archbishop???
Ha ha, funny
Few people know this fact - carefull, the Vatican is watching 😅
Fun Fact I learned about Betsy Ross' house about 15 years ago: The actors who stay in character during the tours do NOT like when you tell them it's a myth.
Love these sorts of videos!! Keep it up! Great informational content here‼️
Just asking: Where did you find the first picture of the assassination of Caesar? I love that sketch style!
52:13 I heard one claim that the Chicago fire was started by a small meteor shower striking the earth and, combined with the drought, started multiple fires across the area. I have no idea if this is true, but it is a memorable image.
I think it's funny how there's only one example from the Bible of something that probably never happened. Rib lady?
Adam: The McRib is back
Eve Stop calling me that
Don't you mean to McRib.
I'll see myself to the door
And all the crap about the talking donkey?
That's exactly why it seems so out of place. Why include a story from the Bible at all? Either include all of them, or none of them. Plus, that has to be one of the most plausible stories in there... outside of maybe the Good Samaritan? And that one is framed _as_ a story, and Jesus never even claimed that it actually happened.
Yeah I expected the story about the jews serving as slaves in Egypt.
"...Nero may have orchestrated the fire..." Brilliant. Well stated.
As regards the Caesar Caesarean section myth, I have heard that it was just his family’s cognomen used to distinguish his offshoot line from the rest of the Julii. It probably originated with Sextus Julius Caesar who was the first of the Julii known to bear the cognomen. Furthermore Pliny the Elder theorised that an ancestor of Gaius Julius Caesar was born via Caesarean section and was granted the cognomen which stuck. So joining the dots, the theory is Sextus Julius Caesar was born by Caesarean section which led to Gaius Julius Caesar’s name.
Well, Simon. My High School German teacher, a native born German who grew up in Berlin, said that Kennedy did call himself a jelly donut. It was to emphasize the proper grammar. Of course, the crowd may have understood that the President of the US had made a mistake, but given the effort, they gave him a pass.
"Ich bin ein Berliner" is a proper german sentence. It can mean jelly donut in some regions of germany, but not in Berlin. There, they call them Pfannkuchen (pancakes) bc they're fried. (Yeah, I agree, a pancake is definately NOT a Berliner. They're nuts to call them that.) But I digress.
Nobody here in germany thinks that Mr. Kennedy meant anything but "citizen of Berlin" in his famous speech. In fact, I never heard of this story with the laughter. Totally fabricated and only known in the US.
He pulled your leg.
Yes that reference is totally fullashit in this video. We all know that the German people knew what he meant and it was no huge or terrible mistake.
As a lifelong White Sox fan, I always laugh at the curse of the billy goat story
My paternal grandfather was the Art Director of the New York Daily Mirror at the time that the "War of the Worlds" was broadcast. My father told me that his father called home that evening and said something to the effect of "Don't worry, it's just a story." Is that true? Not sure because my father was a fantastic storyteller. But that's the story I was told.
“Only humans and birds are bipedal” bro casually forgot kangaroos existed
There’s an old joke that I feel the need to share because of one part of this.
In England the surname Smith is the most common of names. A lot of people will explain how it could relate to blacksmiths, goldsmiths, silversmiths and so on, but this isn’t quite true. It was only the locksmiths who had the key to the chastity belts.
I’ll show myself out.
Good one :D
@@jaysalisbury193 I think I heard it about 20 years ago and I’ve been waiting all this time for the opportunity to retell it. I have no idea whose joke it was in the first place, but all I can say is that I cannot take credit for it at all.
Been awhile since this guy popped up on my suggested list 15 times a day.
45:35 Don't forget that signing the Magna Carta did not actually involve taking up a pen and writing your name on it. The King used the King's seal to authenticate a copy of the document. A seal is usually in the form of a ring or a medal with his symbols in negative, and it would be pressed against melted wax that would take the shape of it. Multiple copies of the document would be made and sealed by the King's authorisation, and then sent to the various corners of the country for future reference. If any important bits would concern the population (I don't think it was the case in the Magna Carta), the document would be read out loud by the Town Crier in a public square. The image of King John holding a pen with some parchment on a desk are all fiction.
Thank you for correcting the slander of Cass Elliot. No one should get a laugh over the death of such a beautiful soul.
I suppose you could also include most things written in religious texts in this list, the resurrection of Jesus, Mohamed splitting the moon, moses parting the red sea, Noah's flood, Adam and Eve etc. etc.
If you can't disprove it, then you can't say it didn't happen. The same for his statement about the Solomons story.
@@jahimdepass5151you can easily disprove the Flood and the Exodus by reference to Egyptian history.
@@damianjblackyour wrong they proved the flood with the water damage to the sphinx in Egypt and a few other spots around the Middle East had water erosion that makes it impossible to say the flood didn’t happen. They have said that it’s possible maybe the flood happened just in that area and they didn’t know about America and other places farther away just yet. Each tribe knew of their own places that they could get too by walking or using a camel or whatever but they only could go so far. Therefore maybe it only happened in a certain area and not all of the earth. It was in history and discovery channels
@MeMe-fz1ou the supposed water damage to the sphinx was debunked years ago, and that was being used to point to some ancient aliens hypothesis in any case because the last time that region was wet was like 12000 years ago.
What they did find evidence of was a major flood along the Euphrates around 2900 BCE which seems to be the basis for the flood myth: it seems to have left Shuruppak weakened and affected Kish less severely: the Sumerian King lists show that Shuruppak was apparently the pre eminent city state before the flood and that afterwards "the kingship was in Kish".
@@damianjblack your right ❤️
All that yet no mention of King Alfred burning the cakes!
apparently ben Franklin's view of the bald eagle 🦅 makes it the prefect representation of Americans
I didn't know most of these stories were ever considered true by anyone. What's next, debunking the Purple People Eater?
*OnLy a MorRon & a TrumpVoting LIAR, would Pretend to be sooo Smart!!!!*
*Why NOT BeLieve the Cow Stated the Fire or that Alexander Cut a Knot, or that of the Nude Rider?*
Newtons contributions are arguably some of the most important he also had some odd behaviors like searching through biblical text to predict the future
He was also manic over a small herb garden in maintained in Oxford.
‘Silver dollars’ didn’t exist when Washington’s throw might have occurred, but ‘silver thalers’ DID exist at that time.
So much of this was taught in school as historical fact when I was a kid waaaay back in the late 1900's
I recall learning about the 5/6 star thing when i was a kid. I also recall knowing there were no witch burnings. I knew the Newton thing, too. It seems I knew a lot of these. I guess I'm not quite so gullible.
Always interesting, thank you.
I heard Sparta was basically a built up theme park to the Romans - much of their stories about the Agon and the like being myths used to lure in tourists.
Parson Weems and Washington Irving are responsible for popularizing a lot of myths about a lot of famous figures.
10:25 That document says Algebra: 6; Geometry: 6; Graphical Geometry: 6; In the modern German school systems, a grade of 6 corresponds to an F grade in the American ones.
Funny - if Vlad Dracula was vegan or vegetarian that would make Count Duckula more accurate than Count Dracula LOL
Most people could throw a silver dollar across the Potomac River. You just have to find the right spot. 1 km (0.6 miles) below the Jennings Randolph Lake seems to be a good location, as the river is about 9 meters (29 feet) across there
Ya, but the people of Coventry seem to enjoy the story. The Stage 3 Coventry Climax overhead cam racing engine in my Lotus has a brass badge on the cam cover of a naked lady named Godiva on a horse!
Kinda hard to get your army to salt an entire city when you also pay your soldiers with salt, if they are "worth their salt", of course.
As for the Bermuda Triangle, it is a real area where many vessels disappeared mysteriously, but it was further back than most people think. It is where the Gulf Stream cuts around Florida and makes a strong current that was unfamiliar to European sailors when all countries were racing to stake claims to the new Americas.
The part about Benjamin’s Moses design. The U.S. Splits the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. From sea to shining sea
Your comment about the no panic occurring during the War Of The Worlds broadcast is not completely true. My mother grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She was about 14 at the time and distinctly remembered her parents packing the car to get out of town to escape the Martians.
I've heard a far different interpretation of the Solomon story. The half baby story doesn't show his "wisdom", but his impatience. He didn't actually CARE and wanted the women to go away, so he said simply "cut the baby in half." The books of Kings repeatedly show the fallacious reasoning and the mistakes and carelessness of the leaders. That's what Rabbi Brian told me, in any case.
George H. Bush was video taped at a grocery store checkout asking what the beeping noise was when the cashier scanned his groceries. Let them eat cake.
The 'Moses' US emblem actually makes sense when you consider the founding story of the pilgrams and the ocean between the Americans and a tyrannical ruler.
The George Washington cherry tree story confused me as a kid. He's a vandal, but an honest vandal, hooray?
I don't know if the English world know that the Magna Carta is only considered this huge earth shattering deal in said english world. The rest of us learn about it, but we arent taught that it's this giant step for individual rights and democracy.
Do they have a quill option for writing on PAPERLIKE? If it is fun to use 21st century technology to do things the 19th century way, it must be even more so if you go back one more century.
I've got a few:
1) Noah built an ark.
2) Moses parted the red sea.
3) Moses was given the ten commandments.
4) Jesus Christ was born.
You're welcome.
I had always thought Cass Elliot had died of complications of sleep apnea.
Not unheard-of and remember, OSA is a common co-morbidity with obesity.
If your friends tell you you snore, get a sleep study.
Myth Busters tried to do something like the death ray as well as Greek Fire. They couldn’t achieve a death ray with either period-appropriate technology nor modern technology (that didn’t require high end military grade laser beams, that is). Greek Fire they were a little better at reproducing but it really just amounted to spraying something flammable on the sails and lighting it on fire so it wasn’t really a revolutionary discovery. 🤷♀️
👀 you went there! My man Randall Carlson is the one i'll listen too on the Atlantis subject.
*to
Actually it's shown that the second Brutus, not the so-called famous one that everyone thinks that remark was directed to, actually was not Caesar's child. He had had an affair with the man's mother, true, but it was a couple years before he was born.
Whoops! Based on the beginning of the Ronald Reagan vignette, I think the Jack Warner quote must have been "... Jimmy STEWART for Governor...", not Jimmy CARTER.
What kind of mental deficiency leads video makers to believe adding annoying background music improves a narrative which is dependent only on the clarity of the speaker's words.
Slight correction but "Brute" in the Caesar line is pronounced "Bru-tay" not "Broot".
Walt Disney Studios produced a show called "Story" television and they managed to build a device that set fire to wood at a distance from shore to a ship anchored in a harbor. So, it is possible but repeating the procedure ship to ship while in battle in rough seas was not proven.
For the record. Apple doesn't innovate anymore. That takes making risks which is potentially expensive.
What!? Cool Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
I think it’s funny how people say “I ain’t gonna lie” today and say “I cannot tell a lie” back then. Just thought it’s amusing the phrase existed that long ago.
There's another reason for the Columbus worship, at least in America. New immigrant groups to the US frequently get treated poorly by those of us who have already been here for generations, which leads to pushback in the form of ethnic pride movements. St Patrick's Day is so much bigger here than in Ireland because Irish immigrants used it as a vehicle for social acceptance back in the 19th century. Italian immigrants did something similar by deifying Columbus as a great explorer and the "first Italian-American", even though he was a horrible man who never set foot on this continent.
That paperlike thing seems a lot like what they wrote on in the orignal star trek.
Some postulate that historic events never took place . This almost categorically certainly possibly maybe isn’t true.
Um, the Pillars of Hercules referred to the Straits of Gibraltar. Actually it referred to the Rock of Gibraltar and a corresponding hill across the straits.
I'm pretty sure Caesar never said, "Et tu, Broot?" because he knew Latin. Everyone who does tells me it's pronounced "Et tu, BruTAY?" (Whether or not he ever actually said THAT, I know not.)
I feel like the evidence against the 1st one doesn’t entirely discredit it. He could’ve heard a story from someone close to Washington and decided to add it in, but yeah it likely never happened.
The George Washington silver dollar story is almost certainly true. However it really wasn't that impressive because a dollar went a lot farther back then
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It had his face on it
It was under Mythbusters's test of Archimedes's death ray when Jamie Hyneman said "The death ray isn't working -I'm standing in the middle of it and I'm not dead yet."
People who put stainless steel exteriors on buildings have to monitor the heat generated at reflection points because they’ve started fires on buildings the sun’s rays are reflected on. And the myth busters are a poor source.
Did you hear that since then, Brenden Sener set up a different experiment that shows the Ray might actually have worked?
He's 13 years old!!
It was a project he was working on for a science fair!! 😂
MIT also ran their own experiments and came to the conclusion it could have been a real, working weapon, btw.
There were two big problems with Myth busters. It was a reality TV show, so everything ran on a comparatively tight schedule, and was focused on entertainment with time constraints, which will never be really ideal for science...so when they proved something was possible, that was usually reliable,
but when they failed to prove it possible, that often wasn't really a very airtight negative.
Look at that first season with the "urban legend" about the guy running at a skyscraper window and breaking it to plummet to his death.
They couldn't make it happen. The window set up in their studio was SO strong.
But they tried and tried and TRIED till it did.... because the newspaper article had already been dug up by the research team that showed it DID happen IRL.
Without that article, they'd surely have declared it busted.
The second problem is that our schools dont train the public well in logic or experimental methodology,
so of course, we remember Myth Busters conclusions as the last word on a subject.
But while it's a good show, their negatives are often NOT the last word. The format has big limitations.
Sure some Greek Prof got it to work with individually aimed polished shields decades ago. Also they supposedly changed the system after Einstein's result from 6 being high to 1, and heard Marie Antoinette's quote was her aunt.
I remember watching a history show that was either on BBC or Channel 4, featuring Dan Snow and Adam Hart-Davis. and they did it, they made a wooden frame covered in small mirrors that could be individually adjusted, took it to Crete and tried it on a model boat and it worked. the thing is I suspect it didn't set fire to the boats but the sails which would have been much faster and cause chaos. ADDENDUM I have found the show its "What the Ancients Did for Us" from the BBC in 2005. unfortunately the ancient Greek episode is not on youtube.
@@GreatSageSunWukongyeah they'd have been mad not to target the sails. Much easier target and with that much burning cloth flying around its highly likely many ships caught fire due to the amount of oil and others flammable stuff they'd have had on board. It's why they were so worried about even a contained flame let alone the sails going up on ships full of soldiers who'd panic and get in the way unlike possibly trained, experienced sailors who'd have known how to deal with it.
I would imagine Ceasers last words were more along the lines of ‘Ahrgghh, arghhhh, help, murder, arghhh, arghhh, gurgle, gurgle!’, rather than ‘et tu brute’.
I always just imagine him saying ouchimus and falling over...
It just says arrrgh
Shakespeare's version is better, accurate or not.
@thirdcoast2995 That's subjective, a matter of opinion. Most people prefer the truth over lies...
Those are words of a coward not a Caesar
"George. Did you chopdown my cherry tree?"
"Icannot tell a lie father, Benedict Arnold did it and ran away".
Before continuing to condemn Benedict Arnold as a coward and traitor, maybe you could take a little bit of time and do some factual research on him and afterwards come back and comment on what you found out about him. He is one of the most misrepresented people in American history.
I have this hatchet in my collection. Near mint condition, the head was replaced only once and the handle twice.
@@todddenio3200Ehh, yes and no. Was Arnold disrespected within the US military despite his heroics? Absolutely. But regardless of how you look at it, he is a traitor. He betrayed the army he had sworn his loyalty to in turn for favors given by their opposition.
@@RockBrentwoodThis is great 😂😂
When I was a child, the other kids would say "I cannot tell a lie. Popeye did it."
Swiss person here - the myth about Einstein's poor performance in math class was actually created by German people's confusion with the Swiss school system. Einstein was born in Ulm (Germany) but he grew up in the Canton of Aargau (Switzerland). Both the German as well as the Swiss grading system use numbers ranging from 1-6. However, most Germans don't know that the Swiss grading system is the exact inverse of their own. In Germany, 1 = A+ and 6 = F but in Switzerland 6 = A+ and 1 = F. Einstein was obviously very good at math, which is why he only ever had 6's in his report cards. The first guy who wrote a biography about Einstein was German, though, and clearly didn't do his research. He simply looked at the numbers and - based on the grading system in his own country - assumed that Einstein must've been a total loser at math. Obviously, that's preposterous. Another well-known myth spread by the same, unreliable biographer is that Einstein supposedly failed his high school finals and had to repeat his last year of high school because he was so bad at math. Einstein did indeed fail an important exam but it wasn't his high school finals. After successfully completing high school, Einstein took the entry exam to study physics at the ETH Zurich. He failed his first attempt, though not as a result of poor math skills. The true reason was that Einstein sucked at French and French was a mandatory part of this exam. Einstein's first biographer probably didn't get this because Germany isn't a multilingual country and French isn't a mandatory language at school. Einstein ended up enjoying his free time and took the entry exam once more the following year - at which point he passed comfortably.
These days Germany is very much a multilingual country. It wasn't back then, though.
Einstein could not read and write worth crap. And his wife created the theory of relativity
Einstein was no genius, his "theory" of relativity was destroyed by his contemporaries and quickly swept under the rug. He had "family" in media so.... "genius" 😂
@@oldstockamerican4033 What contemporaries 'destroyed' his theories?
1) Names?
2) Titles of their theses?
3) In which scientific publications can these be found?
4) Publishing date?
5) Which exact parts of Einstein's theses were 'destroyed'? Details.
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@@EllieD.Violet
My dear Friend I'm not doing that work for you, I'm only telling you that you've been lied to - Einstein was no Genius.
If you do some research though you'll find enough to show you that I'm telling you the truth.
It's up to you to find the truth.
That time Atlas carried a giant pancake on his shoulders.
Still true for flat earthers.
Hahaha this killed me 😂
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Thank god….i thought Atlas was an ancient dwarf trying to ten pin bowl!?
Clever!!
As someone who has a very large tapestry of Lady Godiva's ride hanging in her home, I'm ok with it not being historically accurate. Its a beautiful piece of artwork.
Some of the best works of art come from the B.S. that is religion.
A tattoed that on someone's back covering the entire back
@@urbz6712100% and some of the most beautiful work is in or was for the Vatican
@@urbz6712Lady Godiva's story has nothing to do with religion. It's about protesting excessive taxation.
You should have known it wasn't accurate as soon as you heard only one man tried to see her riding past naked.
Actually the 4th Doctor was caught by Newton sitting in one of his apple trees, and the Doctor explained all about gravity and the Laws of Motion to Newton during dinner later that day.
It's well documented.
I thought it was the 14th doctor. Also, what is this gravity you speak of? Did you mean mavity?
Actually, it’s gravy tea. A rather odd comestible derived by straining day old gravy through a paper filter in an attempt to render something useful from a nasty leftover.
The laws of motion describe the convulsions that follow the consumption of the gravy tea.
@@Mrgoofyoops 😂
Archimedes actually said: "I'm a streaker!"
No russel t davis you can’t rewrite history the way your rewriting the basis plot of doctor who lemme guess newton overcame gravity by the power of being a woman and despite being a literal genius he didn’t realise he could just let it go
As a Greek I will say the stories about Ancient Greece are perfect for describing us as shitposters even when the internet wasn't even a concept
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The story about the 300 Spartans fighting alone did not originate in ancient Greece though, did it? Because Herodotus never claimed such a thing.
@@jake_ Personally I view it more as a national folklore and the numbers the Simon described seems more realistic than 300 dudes against a literal army
@legendaryhunter1672 was never JUST 300 dudes. There were other men there as well from other city state while 300 of them were from Sparta. It's just that history remembers (due to pop culture and recent films) that we remember it otherwise.
@@jake, well I mean 300 Spartans plus their squires/helots and 700 thespians are the ones who fought the final battle to the last man. Most of the other Allie’s either fled or were ordered away by king leonidas. Depends on who you believe on the last part. The 300 tend to get the credit because they were the ones in charge and had accepted the duty of being the final rear guard to buy time for Greece at large
An addendum for the "Let them eat brioche" topic: At the time when the quote was born, there was a law in France which said that if bakers ran out of bread, they had to sell the fancier bakery products cheaper. The reason for introducing the law was that some bakers made less bread so they could cash in on the fancier stuff.
Hmm, the reminds me of “eye for an eye” law. The reason the law was made was so the people wouldn’t go over board with their revenge. So you only killed the man who your father instead of going in to his house killing him, raping his wife and daughters ( or taking the daughters as sex slaves) then killing them with his sons and household and burning and salting the earth so the land is forever cursed/unusable in case a person did some how survive the rampage.
@@MrSophire Rome: "I don't see anything wrong with this."
@@wingy200 Carthago delenda est.
@wingy200 is that Dr Suss quote is in a dr Suss book. Did look it up as it's not Mandela effect
@annieinwonderland I have no idea what you're talking about homie.