I love the edition where Alfred E. sticks his microphone in Trump's eye....

This is the best thing ever. I hope it makes a return this year

Much as the salt tax was (and is) a stain on British history, I feel I should make a tiny correction. You said that the monarchy owned the salt. This can be mistaken for the monarch actually having anything to do with it. Ever since the Restoration (Charles II) the monarchy has been constitutional. Basically, even if something is done in the monarch's name, it's the government behind it. This does not lessen the shame of the nation regarding such acts, but blame the right people (edit: after the various Acts regarding voting rights, the ordinary people have to take some of the blame, before that, the very few who had any ability to say who should be in government. It's a complicated history!).

Seems like after about 2011 protesting stopped being effective for anything

Andrew Jackson never investigated the Bell Witch. According to the Hermitage, there is no record of him making any journey to visit someone in Robertson County between 1817 and 1821. There is no evidence of any correspondence between the families, nor did any family members ever attend any of the events at the Hermitage. And no evidence can be produced by the Bell family of Robertson County that they knew Andrew Jackson or ever socialized with him. And the claim that the youngest son served in Andrew Jackson's unit in the Battle of New Orleans is frankly fiction. It was a different John Bell's son who served, one from Davidson County like Jackson himself, and the son of a political king maker also named John Bell who was born in Davidson County. So this is just a case of conflation. They wouldn't have even shared the same traveling Minister, as the Bells of Robertson County were Baptist while the Jacksons were fiercely Presbyterian, even founding the church in which I married 20 years ago. And if one looks at the geography of the area involved, One will also see evidence that this is a later addition to the mythology. There simply weren't any good roads between Nashville and what became Adams Tennessee at that time. Rather, the transportation of the day would have been by canoe or raft. The Hermitage is beautifully bordered by the Stones River, and was even more so prior to the building of the Percy priest dam in the middle of the 20th century. The Bell farm was also bordered by a river, in this case Red River. Both are tributaries of the Cumberland which flows through Nashville proper. If Andrew had really wanted to travel to see the Bells of Robertson County, the fastest and most sensible way would have been to load up three or four canoes at his property, paddle them to the Cumberland River, then paddle from the Cumberland to the Red River once he hit Clarksville. He could have made the journey in probably about half a week if not sooner. And the second most sensible way would be on horseback. Carriages not only were of little use at that time in that area, but they took too long. Fast forward to the end of the 19th century when the first book on the Bell Witch haunting was written, and there were several lovely turnpikes and State roads, ideal for carriage drive. Taking a canoe would have meant rowing through some highly nasty water, as the sewage of Nashville and the sewage of Clarksville both emptied into the Cumberland by then. And please, nobody point at anything that you learned from a visit to Adams Tennessee. The entire town is a tourist trap, pretty much existing exclusively on funds from the Bell witch. They will say anything to part you with your dollars. And if you do a quick internet search, you'll find them flipping the story every 5 to 10 years to keep you coming back. At the turn of the 21st century, they blame The haunting on a dead native American. No longer politically correct to do that, they are blaming John Bell's niece Kate Batts (because yes she was John Bell's niece, being the child of Mrs Bell's brother!) for the haunting, and falsely claiming that the devout Sunday school teacher who adamantly supported the Bells until a misunderstanding with the teenage sons arose, was somehow a drunken town Karen! They'll probably blame something else in a few more years. My money is on claiming it was the Kentucky hobgoblins, given their recent rise to prominence. Or maybe they'll blame Bigfoot or the Mothman.

Tightwad Mo.....

Thought I'd see Vietnam War protest. Kids were drafted and sent to kill and die for nothing.

Many of the above listed protests are based off of misinformation and the actions by the protest has left the world a worse place. Earth day is a great example of this, in the 70s people were protesting the building of nuclear power plants. If you think climate change is a big problem imagine how drastically smaller the amount of carbon humans put into the atmosphere for the last 50 years would have been if we would have been using carbon neutral nuclear power.

What an interesting time to post this

The EPA is in danger because of Trump project 2025. He’s going to poison the planet.

Gen x er here, I saw Kiss in78 when I was 12 and saw Ozzy with Randy Rhodes . Good times right there 🤘

The Fighting Irish incident of 1924 deserves mention. The Klan tried to hold a demonstration in South Bend, but was driven off by Notre Dame students.

What about the Protestant reformation? Protest is literally in the name and caused a major shift in the west's religious atmosphere and way of thinking. It literally had global implications and effects

Protests in the US are pointless. They haven't accomplished anything in half a century.

Does the Attica Prison Uprising count as a protest?

It's too late liberals, just take your L and try again next time. Trump 2024.

Women’s suffrage

I still love the "calling in too gay for work" story so much

You can't "change history".

Melophilia is Greek for the love of music

Since I was a little kid I always assumed things like toads causing warts and mother birds abandoning their young when touched were made up by adults to keep kids from touching them. I also assumed the same of certain superstitions like not opening an umbrella indoors (it can hit and break things) and not walking under a ladder (it could fall or something could be dropped on you.)

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10:58 I have spent quite a few summer days on this lake because I have family members living there. It was my mission to master the pronunciation when I was 17 and got it thanks to a song 😂

There's a corner on I-15 in Idaho that's said to be built on sacred native ground. I've heard a few stories of strangeness from people and a few locals that refuse to use the interstate, instead taking the old highway. I've also met many natives that fully believe the water babies exist

you said 18th century when you meant 19th century🙄

I almost became a vet but I saw a birth of a calf. I nope out.

And when you throw it up it turns pink

I typically listen to these, so this format doesn't work for me

I honestly donot care that ppl X me out.We are Gen X for a reason.X us out of your bs.We get a joy out of watching the tennis match with Boomers vs Millinials.I just popped more popcorn with extra butter.😂😂

The freemasons are the templar order in real life

I drank from that fountain and had diarrhea for a week. It was likely the course.....or an illness from contaminated water. 😂

Fun fact: Secretariat is Generation X, born in March 1970.

Aibohphobia. Fear of pallendromes.

What all you Gen x and z and millennials don't get is WE the BOOMERS made everything you know as life possible 😁

AJ has been contributing to Mental Floss magazine/website for ages and we had so much fun making this!

MAD was terrific...Spy vs Spy, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, etc. All fun.

That was awesome! Promissory note, I love that.

Wow Mental Floss, pretty controversial stuff... to some people, apparently. I guess they haven't taken Civics yet, or were not paying attention. "Life, liberty, happiness," in that order. Life is the first and most fundamental right. Then free exercise of religion/speech. Then the armed defense of all the aforementioned. The Constitution is what constitutes (makes up) the United States. It can change, but not likely/easily. If you don't like it, you are free to immigrate to a different country.

I loved The year of living biblically and The Know it all 😅

Actually, you might be onto something with the writing offline. Won't be using a quill though 😂 great video

Claims to have to put the socks himself but then shows a video of someone doing it for him. Ok. I think I'm done with this video....

So this is just one big commercial for this guy's book.

I must admit, that took some stones to do that for so long! Of course back then everyone did it (if you had the money), but they didn't know any better. I do understand the desire to write "off-line". Rather than a quill, use a fountain pen (if you want that outcome). Fascinating stuff! Congratulations on your not inconsiderable achievements!

The Olympics rings represent the five Masonic orders between countries. Look this up guys do not be fed false information. It’s not because of friendliness between countries. This is to see whose country is better after a few years. If you look it up, it’s known facts that the Olympic rings represent the masonic circles, Britain, France, America, Germany, and a few other countries.

Wool is a good insulator which is good in heat as well as cold.

I... didn't like this video. I'm sure Jacobs is a great guy, but he doesn't have nowhere near the presenting skill of Erin McCarthy or Justin Dodd. I'm also sure this was meant as a "feels good/healing" video after a divisive election but... it just fell flat. These facts are not that amazing, and I find myself hard pressed to care about them when bigger issues such as "should be president be above the law?" loom far larger.

By the way all gun laws are against the second amendment and our null and void... You have the right to own all of the top military equipment...

The Constitution is treated like a contract and the person who did not forge the contract has discrepancies ruled in their favor so the citizen is to always has discrepancies ruled in their favor...

Most amazing fact from the Constitution is that it is the supreme law of the land in any law that is in direct conflict with the Constitution is to be treated as null and void and the second amendment when it says arms This is short for armaments which meant the top military equipment of the day including cannons today this includes nuclear weapons and a militia will allow anyone any citizen to join and has no limitations on who can join... Therefore the national guard is not militia because it is controlled by the military and we need to have individual State militias with at least one nuclear weapon per militia.

I can't even imagine what Arizona was like in the traditional clothing of that period.