10 TOTALLY WRONG Things You Learned in History Class | History Countdown

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From Napoleon's height to the birth of flight - tons of stories you were taught in school are not so historically accurate. Find out ten things you learned in history class that were TOTALLY WRONG, in this episode of History Countdown.
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0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Napoleon's Height
1:37 - Ponce De Leon and the Fountain of Youth
2:34 - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
3:30 - The Salem Witch Trials
4:38 - Thomas Edison and the Light Bulb
5:40 - The Fourth of July
6:48 - The Thanksgiving Story
8:14 - The Birth of Aviation
9:43 - Newton and Gravity
10:29 - Marie Antoinette's Famous Quote
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[@keld80]

5,5" is short

[@quintinallen7219]

That Thomas Edison story isn't complete without mentioning Tesla.

[@thestrivingwanderer4889]

Indeed

[@thestrivingwanderer4889]

Edison didn't invented the light bulb he just refined its design

[@kennethreed6938]

@@thestrivingwanderer4889 pipping

[@thestrivingwanderer4889]

@@kennethreed6938 what is pipping?

[@bobshifimods7302]

Even the film 'Current Wars' played down Tesla's role. Interesting that it also questioned Edison's supposed invention of the ligh bulb.

[@ReverenXero]

Edison...and not once do they even mention Tesla.

[@jojones2500]

Lewis Latimer an African American hold the patent for the incandescent bulb, his carbon filament made the bulb work better than the paper filament used by Edison .

[@williamwallace4080]

Holding a patent doesn't mean you invented it, especially since you could easily steal an idea.

[@figgiefigueroa7372]

The Wright Brothers don't have a patent on the airplane. The have a patent on the way the tires are acomodated,in a triangular 🔺️ 🔼 shape.

[@pjballs69]

Lol imagine being an accomplished military leader only for the most well known thing about u is u were short. History really belongs to whom ever documents it lol

[@Snobert99]

If only we had a time machine, so we can go back to study some real life history and settle the argument.

[@danmc7815]

Yes, whoever wins writes the first draft. But, that draft get revised by subsequent generations. The history children are taught today is different than that of the generation that preceded it.

[@KaterinaStClaire]

Mathew Bacon Sellars flew before the Wright Brothers. As a matter of fact, the Wright Brothers visited him and stole his air dynamics research papers. President William Howard Taft appointed Sellars over his Aerospace program that later became NASA. All in a book by his granddaughter, Barbara Sellars.

[@murtiigulgen]

Hezarfen Ahmed Celebi is the first human to fly doing so in 1634

[@figgiefigueroa7372]

Great information!!! I'm looking in to it !!!!! Celeby from Istanbul ! Got it 👍 thanks 😊

[@theallseeingkats6321]

5-5, a shade shorter than the national average back then?? pretty short, especially by today's standards!!!!

[@theallseeingkats6321]

@what. nbba still he was short back then and short today!!!! Idunno why the narrator wants to correct history when there's no need....

[@williamalbert7937]

Not really, he was 5 foot 6 inches tall by british measurment and 5 foot 2 inches tall by french measurment, slightly taller than the average frenchmen

[@Sowhat300]

When I was in the 8th grade, I asked a substitute teacher why the father bird (the male) couldn’t sit on the nest and keep the eggs warm. I was promptly told to go home and have a talk with my father about the birds and the bees. I know teaching is difficult, but junior high school students can be ruthless.

[@btetschner]

Thank you for the video.

[@MaryanneOrtega]

See when I was in school a long time ago I was the kind of kid that got in trouble not really in trouble but I annoyed the teachers because a lot of things didn't make sense I was the WHY kid and I wanted to know everything about everything. You know how many times I got kicked out of class for like 5-10 minutes just to stop annoying the teacher I should say well I did it with a lot of my teachers so yeah with all of my teachers anyway I got kicked out for a bit so that I could stop being what they called quote and quote disruptive to the other kids so history was interesting to make in that fact of why why why why and now finding out more and more that history's to spend nothing but a lie I'm just so glad to know that I kept asking why and this is funny that's why I don't like to be lied to and all throughout history we've been lied to so in all reality like history is nothing but lies don't believe anything history tells you cuz now that my daughter is 11 she's going to learn the same garbage that I'm going to be reading teaching her the real truth

[@STEVEN-STEELE]

Did you have that teacher that you could ask a question on just about anything and know the ensuing answer would burn at least 15 to 20 mins of class. For the most part I did this when not ready for the lesson. But found the stories told were so much more than burning time and how my love of The How and Whys really grew. There is always one if lucky two teachers each year who made the class really something to look forward two and the reason I kept As in Science and Social Studies. I so hate how books and the printed word are falling away. Each book a world unto itself that only required good light with no charger. The pictures painted in the minds eye better than anything one can find on todays LCD screens. So Thank you Mr. Stokes, Mr. Hill and Mrs. Lenard

[@brucevipond2222]

I hope your child learns punctuation.

[@tomdorecife315]

When my biology teacher in college was explaining that people who live in the north or far south are very white, those around the equator are black. I asked why there were no white Africans in the south of Africa and why are Eskimos almost black. He got so angry he could not speak. It seemed to me that they took too few facts came up with a theory then treated it like facts.

[@redmoondesignbeth9119]

My ancestor, Mary Barnes was "disappeared" as a witch in 1662 along with others...before Salem.

[@redmoondesignbeth9119]

@Tracy Lynn 32 people were accused and 11 hung. I've read conflicting reports on Mary. She was the last and some said they didn't know what happened to her. Her husband married soon after. Her crime was having opinions and not going to church.

[@realDanSilver]

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[@redmoondesignbeth9119]

@@realDanSilver Dan What does that mean?

[@realDanSilver]

@@redmoondesignbeth9119 butt dial, lol sorry

[@redmoondesignbeth9119]

@@realDanSilver 😄🤘

[@Viddard]

Nice read!!

[@cynthiaclarke3979]

Napoleon is a short dead dude,Joan of Arc is Noah's wife and Caesar was a salad dressing dude.

[@donnash5813]

I read somewhere that cake back then were the crumbs in bread pans. So saying "Let them eat cake" was let them eat crumbs.

[@CalebHastings]

5'5" is real short...

[@vikzn1607]

Not at that time

[@williamwallace4080]

It was average at the time.

[@staticx2552]

Imagine being that short today

[@andpeggy6048]

I have a friend who’s short that’s mean

[@idyeditbymyself]

He had to use both hands drink out of cup though.

[@matthewzablocki5310]

And i can tell you that we weren't taught any of the "wrong" facts in class.p

[@JaidenPlayslol]

Then why did you click the video lol

[@harrywebb6022]

Its more like he stole the people of Florida land and live he came up with an evil plan,massaquering and stealing, y'all can't see straight.

[@harrywebb6022]

Because i can.

[@Iamrightyouarewrong]

Re-upload, so NOBODY IS FIRST!

[@Snobert99]

Didn't the History Channel previously make an original movie about the Pilgrims and "Indians," reflecting the official narrative?

[@xoxnanxoxful]

Interesting

[@BlenderStudy]

Seriously, while I grew up I learned Napoleon was really short.

[@David-vz7nd]

What about Traian Vuia, he did it at the begining of the year 1906, way before Gustavo Dumont.

[@ferryaditya4649]

It's nikola tesla not thomas who invented light bulb in the right way

[@wondashozen]

11. Ancient Aliens

[@nobodyelse9451]

Aliens did it

[@lynnann5643]

@@nobodyelse9451 8999⁹9999999

[@andpeggy6048]

Those alien conspiracy theory’s shows. Can they please cancel ancient aliens and put something better on.

[@Karlito330]

Napoleon was short.

[@patrickbrinkworth9125]

Not at the time

[@jacksaw7195]

Dam im 5 weeks late to know this was all different to what i learned in history class this year during the pandemic..lol @HISTORY do more of these!!! im interested to learn more !!

[@one-of-uschannel2614]

Thanks, you took my mind off of politics...

[@1day1concept]

Guys talpade from india took first flight on girgaon chowpatty india

[@brucevipond2222]

None of these are new to me but I graduated HS in 1980. We were actually taught to think for ourselves utilizing truths ie facts, instead of feelings. Kids in the USA over the past 20 years have had their heads filled with more reimagined societal history bullsh!t that they can’t function normally. Imagine what it’ll be like in another 20 years. Mush filled robots who only have an over-inflated sense of self importance. We are doomed if something isn’t done NOW. I taught my children facts. What are you teaching yours?

[@JPabloRL]

Thank you for not involving aliens.

[@erict3254]

But aliens are real and the earths flat also🤦‍♂️

[@erict3254]

Just joking about a flat earth bud and like I said aliens are real where else did the Mayans go??

[@kevinwarnock5628]

You are wrong about the Puritans and their celebration to offer thanks. William Bradford's writings are clear that they did come together with Ousamequin Massasoit and his people. The Wampanoags eventually brought three deer to the feast. The relationship was not perfect, but during the lifetime of Massasoit and William Bradford, it did last. And the Puritans did have feasts. Fasts were for specific religious reasons, but not for marking celebrations.

[@figgiefigueroa7372]

Ponce de Leon was looking for the thermal waters ,that were good for his arthritis. Them waters were in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷, 5 towns down the highway 🛣. The towns name COAMO. No need to go to Florida, in 1513, but he make history nonetheless by being the first Spanish Colony in the USA 🇺🇸 The Mayflower arrived 107 years later 1620.

[@BlayneDouglas]

There are several non factual statements being made here.

[@bobshifimods7302]

By whom? Yes the correct word is 'whom' not 'who ' as you were taught at school.

[@showbiz5757]

History is really null amd void because it's (HIS -Story) but i still love it some how

[@jx9728]

Woooow

[@everythingchanges1563]

Joe, exactly me also!

[@alonzoball4639]

Totally wrong thing you learned today: End of slavery did mean end of racism. No, it is still happening

[@ReverenXero]

You know, I was born in a rural community. I never even knew about the "isms" until I moved into a city. Thanks for that America.

[@lipantaza9758]

Alonzo, you speak 100 Dawg! You would go cry to your mother if you received the same hate as White Americans! With free education, and all the Affirmative programs and policies, every non White should at least be MIDDLE CLASS in this America! No excuses if they are not! FACTS!

[@lexc1695]

History is his story... Also the biggest lie we were taught in school is that the pyramids were tombs for pharaoh's and were built on shear man power. Start looking up how much each stone weighs and see how that theory quickly falls apart.

[@jaqenhigar183]

Sorry but 5"5 is still a miniature man

[@bobshifimods7302]

It is in 2020 but people were much shorter then. It's down to diet.

[@kosheronlynobacon1542]

5ft 6in is short

[@kosheronlynobacon1542]

@Dos Mas u believe everything your told?

[@vikzn1607]

@@kosheronlynobacon1542 do YOU believe everything you’re told, you think you’re smart but you just look uneducated.

[@williamwallace4080]

@@kosheronlynobacon1542 considering that they had poorer hygiene, less food and were poorer in general, it isn't hard to believe. It's called applying logic, something you don't know.

[@kosheronlynobacon1542]

@@williamwallace4080 your insult is noted please refer to previous message i sent .last sentence.

[@williamwallace4080]

@@kosheronlynobacon1542 I did, I still believe what I said.

[@matthewzablocki5310]

No. This is even wrong. He took credit for Nikola Tesla's work. And no. What happened on Thanksgiving was Natives showed them how to grow crop and hsrvest so they could survive long could winters. During the feast, Pilgrims brought some of their food. Basically, the first potluck. Lol

[@Brandon-fv5sm]

I was waiting for them to mention that fact about the pilgrims and natives too.

[@RodolfoGaming]

Funny that this video teaches things wrong about wrong things given in class. Why do institutions always manage to make a hash of things....

[@JB-vt5sz]

Why tf is this a reupload

[@bigghago]

Only European “ discover” places with people already there smh stop please!

[@williamwallace4080]

Well that's because natives hadn't discovered cartography yet, shame on them.

[@hylianchriss]

Aaaaand Europeans brought civilization and industrialization. Smh stop please! We'd rather be hunter gatherers for all eternity!

[@deepseeshell8926]

@Malusi Ndlozi you call banging sticks together “civilization” in Africa? You call tribal dances and human sacrifice on pyramids in South America “civilization”? And you call hunting the wilderness in the South Pacific “civilization” in Asia? What a joke

[@zac2780]

Like I thought.... Americans 🤦‍♂️

[@wvance0316]

funny since a few involve European lies. Appropriate picture though, since you are a jackass for that condescending comment.

[@amber-lynne9537]

You forgot to add george washington wasn't our first president

[@figgiefigueroa7372]

Who was it?

[@vistrode9604]

What will Trump’s pictures look like

[@SlimNubster]

Nobody: Literally nobody: Political Fact Checkers: partly false--missing context.

[@tyknotz2691]

2nd

[@RE-bg9ds]

Stole all his ideas from Nikolai Tesla

[@harrycack9936]

This was done in a dumbed down and almost insulting way. You can do better history chanel

[@djwinner44aj8]

first

[@Blak2blue]

Dumb side jokes where way too many for me to enjoy this video.. sorry just my opinion 😕

[@googleuser941]

HE WAS short

[@donwasil7436]

This series or whatever you want to call it is ridiculous, childish and over editorialized. I cant stand this dumbing down and kiddyfying history. I won't be letting my kids watch this trash either. Do better History channel.