10 Common Historical Misconceptions You Probably Still Believe

[@ChatHistory]

Did you know all the wrong facts? Don't lie to me. I'll know.

[@Mr_d42069]

Only the germany one

[@tmartin6300]

I did know these actually.

[@ChatHistory]

@@tmartin6300 proud of u bb

[@plumjet09]

I knew the July 2nd one

[@plumjet09]

And the fact that Henry Ford didn’t event the car

[@RandomAutist]

Can you confirm or deny that you are indeed Sam O'Nella reincarnated so i can tell my Dad?

[@ChatHistory]

Bring your dad in. I have news to tell him.

[@Grant-nt9pt]

Ummm Sam’s not dead yet… right? Right? RIGHT? 😵‍💫

[@yogipalko9205]

​@@Grant-nt9pt sam o'nella just released a new video last week

[@RedTail1-1]

​@@yogipalko9205now that he's not the only MSPaint weird facts channel he actually has to put in work. Only reason he bothered to come back.

[@andistansbury4366]

​@@RedTail1-1He doesn't upload that regularly because he's a college student. College is busy.

[@Schwer_]

can confirm, hate it when this happens

[@REDSTONENOOB.]

Whiuayemanojuywunohulowuwiojulemoisiuonalimeu? … … …AKA what?

[@edwinhuang9244]

3:10 I also remembering hearing from somewhere that if lightning struck the kite and conducted to the key, when Benjamin Franklin touched the key, he would have died. 4:40 Also, I remember hearing from somewhere that Stalin did expect a Nazi invasion, just not right then. Maybe later. 8:20 There's still debate whetever the Xia Dynasty existed. Whetever a whole Chinese dynasty existed or not. ... Interpreting history is hard.

[@ChatHistory]

Yeah Ben Franklin was really challenging death with his kite stunt. I really want to dabble in Ancient Asia as some point. Stuff I'm unfamiliar with and want to explore. Thanks for watching!

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Stalin definitely did expect a German invasion. They werent stupid. They knew that ze Germans wanted some "living space" in the east. They were preparing for war. The thing is, their tactic was to not fight the Germans at the border but do a retreat to a fallback line, using scorched earth tactics to deprive the Germans of food and other things to loot, then fighting them when their supply lines were extended. They retreated so far that the Germans were almost at Moscow, and all the way to Stalingrad in the south. Only then did they commit to full scale war. Had they tried to fight the Germans at full strength on the borders, they would have lost. This whole thing about Germany unexpectedly breaking the Molotov-Ribbentropp pact and invading a surprise pikachu face Russia is way overblown. Also, even if hypothetically they didnt expect Germany to invade, they would still have been preparing to invade the German occupied land to get back what once belonged to the Russian empire. That non-aggression pact was literally 2 guys shaking hands while holding a knife behind their back with the other hand, and they both knew it. Its kind of sad how so many people think people that lived a few decades ago were dumb. Its not like we are so special.

[@LandCfan]

​@@ChatHistoryI think I heard somewhere he never even did the experiment. He used the example as a way to explain the concept, but never physically did it. But I could be wrong.

[@LINKfromTHElegendOFz]

The City of Troy thing is actually up for debate, entirely thanks to Heinrich Schliemann who TNT'd the site that the City of Troy was thought to have stood. Thanks to that we've lost artefacts that post-date 3000BC, which the trojan war is thought to be around 1194 and 1184 BC, you can imagine what we lost thanks to that event. Also I was hoping you'd add in that Benjamin Franklin was never a president of the United States, and he's not the only person on a paper bill that isn't a president either.

[@ChatHistory]

They didn't need it anymore. I guess you can say it was all Des-Troy-ed.

[@LINKfromTHElegendOFz]

​​@@ChatHistoryHa, there is a reason it was no longer a city. Just a small field that nobody cared about.

[@ChatHistory]

@@LINKfromTHElegendOFz no oil, no care :(

[@Lord_Merterus]

No, it is only debated by people like Jacob Wilkens who believes Troy was in England, or people like Felice Vinci who believe the Odyssey took place in the Baltic. The fact of the matter is, the site at hisarlık *precisely* matches Homer's description of Troy. And while Schliemann's excavations were damaging, it was nowhere near enough to destroy the ancient citadel (not to mention he didn't even know about the lower city) and evidence of warfare and destruction havs been found like arrowheads and burns marks in Troy VI-Troy VII Also, there's external evidence to support the site of Hisarlık being Troy, like the Hittite records, which mention the city of "Wilusa" (Ilios in Greek), which is another name for Troy.

[@afrayedrope1939]

Trojan war was also written by Virgil in the Aneid

[@Some_Guy_ontheNet]

0:13 I like how he's watching Sam O Nella academy.

[@angelcrisis44]

"look it up, Edison was a dick!" -Family Guy

[@ChatHistory]

He was tho

[@Misses-Hippy]

And Hans Geiger, of Geiger-counter fame, was literally, a rabid Nazi.

[@crazyasalways9272]

Fr tho and I get a kick out of learning and sharing my knowledge about people who went toe to toe with him and won did a video on it on my other channel😊

[@megatron2424]

He stole so much from Tesla

[@ElysetheEevee]

Edison was absolutely abhorrent. Edison can invent all over DC nuts, amirite.

[@JoeSmith-bs1kt]

4:18 came out of nowhere

[@alexisjordan9055]

And during September too, smh 😔😔😔 A solid tsk/ tsk

[@peterbyrne7348]

Too soon

[@Somethingaweful]

Just like those planes.

[@LoneWolfgang]

that is so dark

[@Obamama4211]

“Jumping off buildings wouldn’t be popular for another 75 years” 1929+75= wait

[@ChatHistory]

3edgy5me

[@bobbyolivo9163]

*72 lol but yeah

[@toonistiny]

​@@bobbyolivo9163Bru 💀

[@biggestnerdalive8476]

Ok jump to end it all be the one who will break the fall

[@Zel-Veraan]

I literally opened my calculator after reading this comment wondering what historical event from 2004 I was forgetting.

[@elijahcandage]

5:43 As a person from the middle ages, I sure do love .

[@ChatHistory]

Thank you for verifying your experience. I always appreciate reliable sources!

[@Ussonan-Foderation2016]

As someone born in Germany, I can confirm the wifi sucked until only a few years ago

[@deusex9731]

it still sucks at places

[@Ufsve]

Fr

[@gustafoShoe]

Yet another great video, one of my favorite history facts is that the templars used a flag with 2 knights on a single horse to basically flex their poorness.

[@ChatHistory]

And those knights had to have been best of bros.

[@QaRajhCreations]

Adding onto the misconception about Benjamin Franklin: There's little to no historical evidence that he actually ever carried out the kite experiment, mostly because, key or not, he would have been fried or significantly burned by the transference of energy from the lightning strike, as the key would not serve as an exit-point for the current. Franklin wrote a letter about the proposed experiment to a friend, where he may have theorized about the outcome of the findings, but he never wrote down how the experiment actually went down, making it less likely to have occurred at all. The only other mention of the experiment comes in a book FIFTEEN years later, with the only source for the experiment being conversations with Franklin himself. At no point was there collected any data from the experiment, there was never any third party witnesses who could verify Franklin's proposed setup, and furthermore, when a German scientist named Georg Wilhelm Reichmann tried to perform the experiment according to Franklin's proposed setup, he died when the kite was struck by lightning in 1753. In other words; Benjamin Franklin almost certainly NEVER carried this experiment out at all.

[@8beef4u]

I understood the experiment not to be a kite getting struck by lightning, but the coper wire transmitting the charge difference in the atmosphere down the wire to the key where it shocked his hand after sufficient buildup of charge. Which is much more believable. I've also heard it never happened.

[@jojogobbo8795]

4:13 did you seriously make that okay lmao that was dark

[@ChatHistory]

Too soon?

[@johnnymcauliffe1289]

@@ChatHistory I take it you’re too young to have been there; sifting through rubble in search of bodies to identify. Even the search dogs got depressed that they couldn’t find any living.

[@E-1337]

​@@johnnymcauliffe1289 It's a joke, not a dick. Don't take it so hard..

[@mcdonkey500]

@@johnnymcauliffe1289 oh get over it

[@oneone99able]

@@johnnymcauliffe1289you’ve had twenty years to build a bridge and get over it. Maybe get on that lil bro

[@alphamineron]

I love how some of the episodes start with an overly elaborate ridiculous story as if that actually happened to this guy and he thought “I gotta make a video about this”

[@ChatHistory]

Nah never happened to me. *shifts eyes nervously*

[@Avaa-vanilla995]

"Jumping off of buildings wouldn't be popular for another 72 years." Yikes, dude.

[@HailRowdy]

Funny af

[@elsayae]

​@@Rhythm412 it is

[@karmafile7685]

LMAO!!!!! Dang that’s dark! 💀

[@Plzmasn]

Took me a second but jeez dude

[@JustColetonIG]

especially on 9/11

[@John_F_Kennedy-188]

Yes you are correct. The Germans invaded Russia way before winter came in. The reason why Germany is still fighting Russia during winter (and lost) because angry mustache man was impatient that he commanded his generals to keep fighting in Russia because angry mustache man was a little bit impatient.

[@_AstaLily]

4:15 OH THAT TOOK ME A MOMENT

[@finbrackett6802]

Oh my god-OH MY GOD!!

[@CokeGoblin27]

It’s 9/11 today

[@axeman9755]

“Farming and…” My favourite bit. I laughed so hard for some reason 😂

[@melissaberman8244]

1929 + 72 (years) = 2001 …the year that “jumping out of buildings became a brief ‘thing’ in New York City.” 😮😬🤦‍♀️

[@Vitruvius123]

That is terrible.

[@Avaa-vanilla995]

Yeah that was a wild joke not gonna lie

[@ScottBFree]

That’s the point.

[@virendrasinghnegi7085]

2001 mean sep 11 -9/11

[@beacon666]

My favourite historical misconception is that the earth is round… we all know its shaped like a velociraptor

[@Viceroy_Sundercles_III]

I thought the world was a vampire.

[@0_dearghealach_083]

SENT TO DRAAAIIIINNNN

[@Vavalry]

Fun fact: the trojan war did actually happen. They found the actual city of troy and found that at one point, roughly around the same time the trojan war was happening, that the city was burnt down. The leading theory is that troy was a wealthy city state during the bronze age that was invaded by a collection of greek kings who were seeking its riches when wealth dried up in greece itself. Its also possibly the catalyst that lead to the bronze age collapse.

[@timber72]

*led

[@alexisjordan9055]

The way this was actually really helpful 😂😭

[@some_european]

I am from Eastern Europe, and I've got to say one thing: my compatriots(actually teachers) lied to me in school and considered most of these misconceptions as real

[@Dr.Doctor560]

Proof that schools are bullshit and braiwashing

[@DILLIGAFgaming-c8t]

"72 years" Did dude just make a 9/11 joke? Well played sir 😂

[@kevinlapointe4026]

Literally the best channel on youtube, your humor, research, the whole thing! :D thanks and i hope to many more years!

[@Rai-Rai666]

"We all know and know today. " How very true!

[@bryanpena7268]

4:20 is that stickerbrush symphony playing quietly in the background. Just had flashbacks of my childhood playing DK2 on bramble blast, that stupid map with the barrels and thorns haha

[@easytogap]

8:15 talk tua reference

[@js66613]

There's a lot of not existing, coming late to the party, and overall deceiving people going on around here. Seems the past isn't so different from the present. xD Nice video. ^ ^

[@empousa8680]

You are amazing bro, this video was very entertaining. Keep it up brother

[@ChatHistory]

Many many thanks 🙏🙏🙏

[@RazorSharpMC]

Sam O’Nella is a reliable source now.

[@TulpechaidoplaysMC]

6:59 another one to add to this is color TV which wasn’t invented by Americans but rather Mexican inventor Guillermo Gonzales Camarena

[@savagepanda8458]

1:12 Fallout 3 is actually what taught me the truth about this one lol

[@Cinn4947]

Please stop stealing it

[@savagepanda8458]

@@Cinn4947I ended up forging a copy on my playthrough lol

[@Cinn4947]

@@savagepanda8458 Hell yeah 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🏈🏈🏈🦅🦅🦅

[@iam_xrw]

Stickerbrush symphony playing in the back is the best thing I’ve experienced today

[@ChatHistory]

Iconic track

[@michaelfarranto-wg6zw]

"LOCK A DOOR WHEN YA' HEAR GUNFIRE" ABSOLUTELY FUGGIN HILARIOUS. I GOT FUGGIN' FROM YA'! THANKS! MICHAEL! 😂😮😢❤🎉

[@JackTrades1]

This was a very good video you are an entertaining man. I knew the first two, mainly because 7th grade history, but the others i didnt know. Great job! Edit: i honestly thought Ben Franklin just created electricity out of his head, this was good to know

[@ChatHistory]

Thanks, Jack! Glad ya learned something

[@Zel-Veraan]

That gives new life to the galaxy brain meme.

[@SyrianSocialist_]

Funny guy , great video ❤ , you just earned a new sub

[@ChatHistory]

Many thanks! Welcome 😄

[@JustColetonIG]

“Jumping off buildings wouldn’t be popular for another 72 years” unfortunately i watched this on 9/11

[@KARMAFORFUN]

I was taught all this in a school and i never knew there was misconceptions on this stuff

[@gregorycourtney6942]

I love how you put a windows stop error BSOD on an iMac during the declaration signing segment, brilliant :D

[@gordonilaoa1275]

Great content! Got all the jokes and cues haha. Awesome.

[@CorinnaAtHome]

Those pauses were comedic gold

[@georgied8110]

Holy shit you got my family’s patent for the brush lamp in your video! We also had the brush motor car company and electric street lighting (you are welcome)

[@samuelbraun849]

Little fun fact about Carl Benz: he was so hesitant about testing his invention in the field, that his wife decided to take it for a ride one night, proofing it was working.

[@Lacuckaracha]

Can you do a series to summarize history and its different civilizations?. Starting with ancient humans then Mesopotamians ect.

[@ChatHistory]

Ancient history is definitely a topic I can explore. I appreciate the suggestion!

[@Niasonxxbfbbapakdmd-qr8kw]

3:20 🤓actually Ben didn't use a kyte but a glass bottles and three metal polls

[@itsmealex8959]

Fun(?) fact about the 1929 stock market crash myth about brokers jumping from windows. A German doctor did actually (accidentally) fall out of a window the day the crash began and people assumed he was a broker and rumors spread it happened multiple times.

[@dekuboidonut4552]

I grew up in an American school and you were so wrong about being taught to avoid gunfire, we were taught to run towards it to initiate a wild west style duel.

[@markronerts4890]

In New Jersey they taught us to return fire.

[@Miloradsfriend]

Nice production but the president of congress was an unrelated position that was there to simply preside over congress and was not an executive position. George Washington was the first president. If anything John Hansen had a position more related to the speaker of the house.

[@ChatHistory]

The more you know. Thanks for the info and for watching!

[@Golden284-fan]

4:13 dont think that 9/11 joke got past me. God damn dude.

[@samramirez2538]

Fun factoid ancient Egypt had ancient light bulbs powered by batteries made of clay containers that held vinegar and copper rods they were known to hold roughly 30 minutes of charge

[@brandonferrell3773]

The president one is extremely misleading

[@PrincessYounga-xz8sk]

Love your videos you helped me in one of my history homework

[@tannerrobeson188]

I was just wondering if you ever used aquatic ambience as a background track. Now I know you have lol

[@TheHidestHide]

The German invasion of Russia one is incredibly misleading. Yes, it wasn’t winter the entire time, but I don’t believe that’s a misconception as you propose it.

[@ProfPlump-ug3xe]

I read a theory that it was more likely that the city of Troy fell from something unrelated like a plague/earthquake/internal struggle, and the Greeks were like “nah bro we did it with a sneaky horsey”.

[@TheHive616]

"it would be another 72 years before jumping from buildings became a 'short-lived fad' in New York." Yeah, very short lived. There was one day in particular, people took it a little too far...

[@TheHive616]

Seriously, of all the 9/11 jokes I've heard... That's probably the most clever and subtle way to get a nationwide "ooof"

[@TheHive616]

Bramble Scramble! He's playing it in the background, everybody has to drink!

[@Slaughtervomit]

Fact checking with Sam o’nella is what I do too

[@LilKaijuPH]

Right when i looked at the thumbnail, i immediately remembered Benjamin Franklin and his Kite experiment.

[@bear_IV]

while i am no longer becoming a historian your videos will stay with me, go get some subs mann keep up the great content, also is that nicholas cage 1:40?

[@ChatHistory]

I will try my best and yes! Glad someone noticed. I hope to keep your historical interests!

[@Zel-Veraan]

I didn't even see that the first time!

[@CarnageCoon]

the edison and ford facts gave me an idea for a video suggestions: greatest (worst?) inventors and their inventions

[@kaw8473]

I remember learning about the Trojan horse in grade school as fact. In the words of a wise man "imagine what we'll know tomorrow" -the Men in Black

[@karakreativevlog]

Benjamin Franklin actually sent his SON out to fly a kite in the middle of a storm.

[@allibetke2181]

Yay new random facts to give my grandma at the worst times

[@ChatHistory]

Hopefully not slipping in the shower

[@allibetke2181]

@@ChatHistory if she slips in the shower it'd be a fact about floor stickers and how they save lives 😂

[@ChatHistory]

@allibetke2181 *grandma slips* "Oh yeah thats reminds me"

[@TheDeadTheories]

The only one I didn’t know was the president one. Neat

[@oxyllos]

ACTUALLY 🤓☝️ german soldiers spent a lot of time on the territory of the USSR in 30s while they been learning war tactics, so technically they’ve “invaded” the USSR even earlier!

[@bramvanreusel4687]

I love how almost all these “wrong facts” are about America

[@TheInkPitOx]

First: That's interesting. Second: July 4 should be renamed Declaration Day and August 2 should be called Independence Day Third: So he was the de facto first President Fourth: He discovered how to contain lightning, thus proving that lightning was electricity Fifth: I never knew about this one Sixth: Interesting Seventh: Interesting Eighth: It's debated whether he or Tesla did it Ninith: Ford invented the first mass produced car. The first cars were made by Benz, Daimler, and REO. So Olds invented the production line and Benz invented the gasoline car? Tenth: Interesting

[@KoenDeKapoen]

Saying the Trojan horse did not exist is jumping to conclusions to fast.

[@CiaranPixelz]

Hey, could you tell me what the song from 3:35 is muffled in the background? I distinctly remember a show I watched 10 years ago using it at some point

[@ChatHistory]

Not sure. It was a stock "jazz" music clip from Pixabay

[@walnzell9328]

There have been light bulbs discovered in ancient Egypt. They weren't very good, but they existed. They worked by being connected to a malachite (a form of copper) pole, which, when struck by lightning, would create a short flash of light in the glass bulb.

[@jessemeyer86]

The Sam O’Nella fact check lol

[@brentonm2640]

Love the sam onella nod

[@TexasBean956ALV]

Definitely sharing/watching with my kids🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@The-Eye866]

“Nice” -Benjamin franklin

[@LorenzoLungioofficial]

Even when we are using the loud, bulky lights, Edison didn’t even design the lightbulb, that would go to Nikola Tesla

[@lykonic1763]

OKAY WAIT A MINUTE I was willing to believe that the Trojan Horse didn't go down *quite* the way most people think it did, I was hesitant but accepting of the idea that the Trojan Horse itself didn't even happen, But I was surprised to learn that the Trojan War might not have happened at all, And I'm downright awestruck at the idea that Homer wasn't even an actual person. The level of twists and turns I experienced in the end there just gave me mental whiplash and I'm totally suing

[@Zel-Veraan]

Those Greeks, man. They wildin'.

[@JannPoo]

And for some time people even doubted that Troy even existed until they found the ruins in 1871.

[@Ανδρέας-ΓεώργιοςΣκίννερ]

Henry Ford didn't "invent" the 40-hour work week, either. It had already been a decades-ling demand of work unions throughout the industrial world, and it's first notable implementation was under Robert Owen.

[@Sarcasticwoo]

It took me a solid 5 minutes to figure out the 9/11 joke.😭

[@andersonfamily6820]

Adam even mentions the real story of the revolution

[@felixclarke5214]

2:05 world history sm more interesting

[@rogerdecarbo7105]

Extreme lag- Germans not being used to Russian weather and not stocking the correct equipment Bad ping- the time it took to get supplies from the manufacturing plant in Germany to the Russian front and vice versa

[@Rotogas]

I mostly watch videos on my smart TV and you are the first and only Person that actually made me click the recommendation at the end. Well done sir

[@ChatHistory]

Love this! Glad you like the content!

[@mikesanders8621]

According to Oxford, the Trojan war DID happen, but the stories of heroes and elaborately disguised raids are likely apocryphal. Also, the autocorrect doesn't recognize the word "apocryphal".

[@williamalmonte4906]

Number 10 was legit. Cant believe it happened. Never seen something like that before.

[@josiahcain4176]

I'm not really sure that the German one is really a common misconception. Most people understand Germany got caught in winter like Napoleon dead during the invasion. What the actual misconception is would be the belief that Russia somehow organized a winter counter attack when in reality the mud and cold that came with the winter also effected the Russian military just as much. The only battle that really occured in the winter was urban conflict in Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad where the winter didn't prevent really any offensives given a lack of mud being a problem.

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

I was surprised by the fact that Loyalists outnumbered the Patriots as well!

[@lucasplz2429]

The Trojan Horse thing really got to me ):

[@ChatHistory]

Really got the Trojans too :( or did it?

[@lucasplz2429]

@@ChatHistory good one🤣

[@Kyurem21]

My guy said they were susceptible to extreme lag and their ping was trash and i was like facts bro.

[@lilygamingtheories1410]

Nice Sam ‘o nella reference

[@alyssachey8417]

Not being American, I really didn’t know about the American historical facts. I just wanted to say, here in Canada, we won the war against America. If we hadn’t won, much of Southern Ontario would certainly belong to the US. 😊

[@Misses-Hippy]

TS: 7:27. Your sense of humo(u)r cracks me up.

[@deetzyboywonder9312]

It's you blue Jay and Sam onella yall are why I still watch KZbin

[@peterbyrne7348]

You won't find the story of the Trojan Horse in Homer, although there's a reference to it in the Odyssey. The story we know comes from Virgil, probably working from the same tradition, only 1000 + years later

[@sirloin869]

there will be no shelter here, the front line is everywhere...

[@Ciborium]

"Homer" and the "Trojan War" are all a _social construct._

[@st.michaeluche688]

These gamer terms are the best 😂😂😂

[@williamjones8956]

Feels wrong that most of these are “technically” instead of “these were actually false by their whole”