15 SECRET Facts About Famous Monuments

[@epolk1968]

They couldn't have added the 50 States in 1924. Alaska and Hawaii weren't States until the 1950s.

[@matthewblanchard9301]

@@epolk1968 Alaska was admitted as the 49th State on January 3, 1959 and Hawaii was admitted as the 50th State on August 21, 1959.....🇺🇸

[@christianthompson3926]

The video says the "feature" of placing the name of each state and when it joined the Union was added in 1924...meaning the stonework was added. The video (which, presumably was made after the advent of the internet in the 1990s) states that "featured stonework" list the 50 states. It isn't saying 50 states were originally featured in 1924!

[@obi-ron]

I'm a Brit, but I know that the last two states joined the US in 1959 because that was the year I joined the human race.

[@koriw1701]

20:30 It is thought that the sphinx originally had the head of a lion which was in proportion to the body size. Kafre later having it chipped down to create his own appearance is the predominant explanation as to why the head is comically small in comparison. Also, it has been generally accepted that the sphinx is far older than the mere 4,500 years given. The reason why the body of the lion has significant erosion on alternating layers is because it was subject to intermittent flooding and drying. Evidence has been found on its body that shows that the sphinx was buried up to its neck for a significant period of time. Thousands of years of the Nile's widely varying water height is another reason why the layering likely took place, because many recurrent periods of standing ground water caused the disintegration of alternating layers.

[@Llew70]

You are correct, it's a shame this video contains Egypt's continued denial mantra of being the one's who built it rather than the one's who found it. If it had been a symbol of Kafre, the pyramid behind (which I doubt he built either) would have been ALIGNED with the Sphynx. Erosion dating puts this structure quite a bit further back in time, perhaps even before the Younger Dryas.

[@matthewblanchard9301]

Why wasn't the Eiffel Tower's Apartment on the Observation Deck mentioned?🗼

[@jason119900]

Dunno. Why did they call the video "15 secret facts" instead of "1,500 secret facts"? A line has to be drawn somewhere, you know. They can't include every possible fact about monuments.

[@bobeg749]

Per the National Park Service website, Lincoln’s hands do not spell out “A" and “L" in ASL. It is a myth.

[@S.Clause]

What do they spell?

[@Llew70]

@@S.Clause The left is an A, the right is nothing but an open palm... an L would be extended index and thumb only with the others curled.

[@danieltx7066]

Per the ASL alphabet, they don't spell A and L

[@bobbyboyd4737]

Click bait. No apartments under the Washington Monument. Shame that. I usually like this content.😢

[@LongWalkerActual]

Thanks for saving my time!

[@sheppardfun5360]

lol, looking at the “apartments” beneath the monument, you’d think giants live there!

[@magpietexas9475]

Don't bother - Clickbait

[@Bigfoot-px9gj]

That's life on KZbin, 90% Clickbait and 10% Quality, and the only ways to tell which category a video is in is to watch part of it or read the comments. Very few people read comments first...

[@tw1356]

Starting with click bait , filed with puff and stuff inaccuracies.

[@magpietexas9475]

I got suckered! A bunker under the Washington Monument?

[@brodriguez11000]

So no pooping in the garden?

[@matthewblanchard9301]

Alaska was admitted as the 49th State on January 3, 1959 and Hawaii was admitted as the 50th State on August 21, 1959. 🇺🇸

[@evolancer211]

"this monumental structure was not constructed in a single effort" That's the in depth knowledge and facts we all watch for. That's not something you get if you take a class or read an article, top notch stuff there The Opera House construction was more of a fiasco than you make it out to be. It was big news back then

[@charlesoosthuizen6339]

Thanks for all the insight, especially Easter Island

[@RH-yc5yy]

Why does this sound like it was narrated by AI Charlie Sheen tho

[@koriw1701]

This narrator has been with this channel since its inception, so, to quote just about every piece of fiction, 'any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.'

[@stevenkidd6761]

Haaa, he really does have a Charlie Sheen sound, just no slurred words 😅

[@RH-yc5yy]

@@koriw1701 I’m not complaining it’s a winning voice regardless

[@RH-yc5yy]

@@stevenkidd6761 hahahaha totally!

[@ChrisKane-]

Hi there! I'm the narrator for this channel and I totally get that comparison to Charlie Sheen all the time. 😋 lol

[@velvetjones1856]

List of 50 states added in 1920? There were only 48 states then.

[@agold2125]

The memorial didn’t even exist until 1922. What a foolish presentation this is. And, you’re correct, of course

[@tajon5394]

That’s not what they said.

[@garymiller5937]

Some beautiful creations. Thank you! 😃😃😃❤❤❤

[@topfives]

Thank you! 😊

[@davidwatts4517]

The names of all 50 states were added to the top of the Lincoln Memorial in 1924? So they knew the future 35 years back then? Stopped watching at that point. Facts matter.

[@stuartm6069]

You're absolutely right, I had to go back and relisten to that part. There are only 36 states listed on the Lincoln Memorial, one above each column. Representing the 36 states, during Lincoln's presidency. Also, Lincoln's right hand does not form the letter "L" in sign language. It is an just open hand, said to represent Peace and forgiveness, while the fist of the left hand is said to represent the War and the struggle to preserve the union.

[@stevethirdcitymo6527]

Stop, you’re both wrong. The FEATURE was added in 1924, NOT all of the future 50 states. The Feature allowed for the additions as time (and new states) went on.

[@stuartm6069]

@@stevethirdcitymo6527 Technically, I was not wrong. The frieze above the columns has the 36 states, The Attic frieze above that has the 48 states at the time of the dedication of the Monument. Alaska and Hawaii are acknowledged on a plaque in the Plaza. This is direct from the National Park Service website.

[@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr]

There were not 50 states in 1924.

[@TwoPaw-Shapurr]

One word..... Illuminati 👀

[@christopherjahn2044]

Lincolns hands do not form the letters A and L in ASL. There 33 states in 1865.

[@agold2125]

You probably meant 36. Thanks

[@dogone7262]

Statues on Easter island are markers for fresh water, even in the ocean where it runs out from the island.

[@scot0151]

@8:21 “it’s amazing, I cannot get left”.

[@DoNotTredOnMe]

Look kids, Big Ben, Parliament! 😂

[@Sabotage_Labs]

24:46 I love the Ravens of the Tower of London. So long as there is a raven at the tower, the Kingdom shall never fall!

[@obi-ron]

As long as their batteries are regularly charged, they'll be there for as long as humankind 😅

[@jameswaterfield]

Big Ben. The MP imprisoned was not imprisoned for refusing to swear an oath to queen victoria, he was imprisoned because he refused to swear on a bible as he was an atheist and, therefore, led to a fundamental change in oath taking

[@whatafreakinusername]

I don’t know how they are now after the big renovation, but the acoustics of the Sydney opera house were actually known to be quite bad

[@neobayer]

Another video filled with stolen content and a deceptive AI generated thumbnail. Don't waste your time.

[@rexlex1736]

These are "secrets?" I promise to keep them a secret!

[@itsROMPERS...]

The things I've always wondered about the Sphinx is, if you look at it from the back, can you see its sphinxter?

[@willscarlet7625]

Only made it to 6:44 as I am wondering where are the secrets. Maybe they cover all of them at the end but I am not wasting any more of my time to find out. 👎🏼

[@kyststudio-epicartadventure]

There are restrooms somewhere at Versailles. My roommate complained that it was just a hole in the floor with foot placement images by the hole.

[@GVanArsdale]

You can poke around a 1:1 replica of the Undercroft below the Lincoln Memorial in the game The Division 2. That game is basically a full digital recreation of central Washington DC. The area beneath the Washington Memorial is cool too.

[@Mr-Probability-Storm]

I have been in the crawl space under Lincoln.. on fallout lmao 😅

[@willieknows2708]

Interesting 😀

[@hoytoy100]

I seem to remember the visitor center being under the Lincoln memorial. So no secret there.

[@DoodleU7656]

That's funny, there weren't 50 states in 1924...

[@tajon5394]

That’s not what they said. They said the feature was added.

[@krislangley6226]

And if you look at most common graphical (non-map) images of the United States, we still aren't. Even a number of on-line retailers suffer from the misperception that Alaska isn't (a) one of the 50 States and (b) isn't located on the North American continent.

[@ericdunn7352]

There is an Eiffel Tower replica at Kings Island amusement park.

[@geraldstiling3735]

🎶Three coins in a fountain ⛲🎶

[@mospeada1152]

I know for sure the Sydney Opera House is NOT a monument and if they had let the architect do his job, it would have been completed properly the first time!

[@MissionHomeowner]

It is Australia's culture.

[@edwardhamm5535]

No mention of Lincoln's sculptor, Daniel Chester French?

[@georgee6303]

This was interesting and the best part was the lack of an AI narrator.

[@ChrisKane-]

I agree 😉

[@jennaholmes6958]

Thumbnail clickbait. Watched this to hear about the secret under the Washington monument depicted in the Thumbnail. But once I got to it in the video not a damn thing

[@plhebel1]

Versailles was disgusting back when the court moved there, one would turn a corner only to find someone squatting under a staircase taking a dump and the fireplaces was the normal place men would empty their bladders and if I could use a word coined by Jan Brady,,, The place reeked in "stinkie-osity"

[@davidgentile5225]

The way it was stated they added new states and the dates that they were added they didn't have all 50 states in 1924 so you're misinterpretation is both Incorrect and impertinent

[@tajon5394]

Huh? I suggest you learn to listen what is said, not what you thought he said.

[@truSN8P]

The Eifel Tower has a "secret" room on top, which is a well known fact nowadays. You not mentioning this is a sacrilege!

[@williamhaden6656]

Marble was from Colorado- didn’t go further

[@TheAverageYouCuber]

This thumbnail beneath the Washington obelisk is not accurate!

[@sguth3]

Fact check

[@markteaney8381]

The sphinx is much older, this channel should be ashamed that they do not confront this truth.

[@ShiaKorchin]

Is that like aqua velva? Lol

[@Rebecca-d7b]

I didn't leave the ground I'm afraid of highest 😅 so I'll wait for you down here.

[@Malingator74]

Just shows you there’s always the ruler’s and the ruled and we never really know what’s going on.

[@johnpaulhenry2566]

Oceanus was a Titan!

[@carleecash241S8]

Why weren't the Roman balistrades (think that's what they're called) on each side of Lincolns throne not mentioned?

[@ClementGreen]

The Versailles gardens are bisex? And it's not the Elizabeth tower, it's the tower of St Stephen.

[@meteora0317]

they werent buried to their heads that years of sediment build up which is a clue that they are far older than we give them credit to be

[@AhmadRashid-q9e]

You missed one of the most famous building in the world. The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem Palestine.

[@ethanlamoureux5306]

Jerusalem is in Israel.

[@gillian-clairepearman3125]

You're wrong! Versailles has toilets, I was there January 2023, and used the facilities!

[@KarenRose70]

Not when it was built

[@alexp2629]

I stopped the video after you stated that Lincoln's hands are shaped to look like the letters A and L in sign language. You can clearly see that's not the case at all. So probably the rest of the video is also BS. 😂

[@DavidJames-v1y]

Just like the names of all 50 states added in 1924. Nope

[@coleplacemb]

Well, his left hand looks like he is forming (or attempting to form) the letter A, but his right hand does NOT look like the letter L. Also, who signs with their hands and forearms laying on an arm rest?!

[@eviehammond9509]

Are you making this up as you go along?😂

[@clubjed6276]

​@@eviehammond9509there definitely wasn't 50 states in 1924 tho

[@nellermann]

kids don't cite this video in any history reports. good grief.

[@kateburns8126]

Most things aren't taught in school. Education is so in need of a mass overhaul. Never stop learning.

[@matildamarmaduke1096]

I love sticky rice

[@itsROMPERS...]

I like it too, but I can't eat it. Diabetes. It spikes my blood sugar

[@montyhinton4971]

Yep not just the fifty states but as the mystery of Easter island is given inthecutting down of the trees on the island.

[@josT-m4b]

i was expecting you to mention about Monument of Axum , Lalibela and many more ancient statues in Ethiopia?

[@MrPlankinton]

Lincoln's hands do NOT form letters in sign language.

[@the23rdbryan]

This is just plain stupid, inaccurate, and wrong. EASY thumbs down and should be removed.

[@9300cadet]

As soon as I hear that voice it's over for me

[@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr]

It is a computer voice but ignorant individuals write the scripts and draw the images.

[@ChrisKane-]

@@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr I assure you it's not a 'computer voice'. I'm the narrator for the channel. But I will try and get some more emotion in there! 😊

[@DoNotTredOnMe]

​@ChrisKane- Why the clickbate pic of a complex under the Washington Monument?

[@mitchellsmith4601]

How can you mention the Lincoln Memorial without mentioning the museum underneath?

[@malik-gs9of]

Hi 👋

[@stevenkidd6761]

✌️

[@topfives]

hallo

[@douglassisson7966]

Numerous inaccuracies, such as the Great Wall as 13,000 miles long. You need to fact check. But an entertaining video.

[@ThatsGot]

❤😂😂🎉🎉😢😢😮😅😅

[@chipmartin7608]

Why is Mao's picture on the forbidden city when he didn't even live there? Why not Pu Yi? Don't the Chinese even know their own history?

[@SteelWolf13]

. . . Does not even mention the Eifel tower had a private apartment.

[@rachristensen]

ASL wasn’t codified unto the 70’s. It would have had to be the signed alphabet.

[@bukreels]

hi guys

[@danieltx7066]

15 famous monuments; 0 secret facts

[@giuliani3570]

In 1924, we did not have 50 states. Try again.

[@earthquake903]

Cholula is the best hot sauce

[@ronherrle141]

You missed the most important one, The Statue Of Liberty!!!

[@christianheichel]

If it's not baroque art dont fix it.

[@clubjed6276]

There wasn't 50 states in 1924

[@flyguyusair]

is Charlie Sheen the narrator?

[@9vHeart]

The Opera House was copied after the Adelaide Opera house

[@phillipjones611]

Why if this is called top 5s is it always the top 15?

[@Coryalan2]

Because nothing matters anymore. Stop asking questions.

[@lisareed5669]

Doric. Not door.

[@4589593106]

48 states on the Lincoln Memorial. Pyramid of Cholula was abandoned and overgrown when the Spanish arrived. They just thought they were building on hill. No serious notion that it was a pyramid until the 19th century. -Stopped watching after that.

[@renstimpy5472]

Fun fact. Under the Washington monument, there is 1000 tons of semen ready to erupt out of the tip of the erected tower

[@twcstransam]

this is so full of incorrect information, this is what facebook fact checkers should be checking Abe's hand does not make an L "The National Park Service lists the idea that "Lincoln's hands are making sign language symbols of his initials "A" and "L" as a myth along with other myths on its Lincoln Memorial Myths web page."

[@donaldcurtis9229]

Parthenon is not in Athens.It's in rome italy

[@itsROMPERS...]

Nope. It's in Athens. Maybe you're thinking of the Pantheon.

[@dukeofhaas]

At 12.02: Does the Great Wall of China extend for 13 thousand miles? Of course not. And if all the "secret facts about famous monuments" were true, how did the producers of this video come to know such secrets?

[@hillterry86]

no taj mahal

[@wogoman]

Thumbnail is misleading. Don’t bother watching.

[@Timmycoo]

Lol I was waiting for you to mention the Eiffel replica in Vegas.

[@CopiousJohn]

What about the one at King's Island in southern Ohio? It is 1/3 scale.

[@SkiBumMSP]

@@CopiousJohn Or the one at Kings Dominion in Virginia about 20 miles north of Richmond. You can actually see it from I-95, especially during the winter when the leaves are off the trees.

[@generalkanevo4291]

I wish countries would divulge the truth so at least these guys could get there facts straight... I don't know how anyone could come to the conclusion that the heads on easter island were carved and then buried in a couple hundred years time.. for no apparent reason lol. I wonder what there theories are on all the heads that are under the sea along the coast of the island 🤨

[@markteaney8381]

Well said very well said thanks for your knowledge on this matter.

[@markteaney8381]

I must say more, I never new that the statues were off the shore line thank you for this information.

[@elijahgrey3904]

Click bait

[@josekentucky86]

Is the the simple history guy,?

[@adamberndt4190]

Kids, the thumbnail is what we call 'Clickbait' and that concludes today's lesson on shity KZbin channels.

[@Jaggerbush]

Life long National Certified RID ASL interpreter here - while that lore about Lincoln's hands loom large in the Deaf community - it's totally false. That was never the intent of the artist.

[@urhurd]

Kasey Kasum if you know you know

[@zbigniewteterycz1571]

SUPER IDEA . POZDRAWIAM WSZYSTKICH .

[@immortaldale]

10:32 oversized hands??

[@williammcdermet6932]

You. Need. To. Increase. Your. Meds.

[@glynchivers9519]

What about the "secrets" we were promised, no sign of them 👎

[@jeanpence7950]

I love your videos, but you need to be careful of using the same word over and over ie "iconic" in this video. Some synonymous are quintessential, archetypal, archetypical, emblematic, representative, seminal, symbolic, classic, classical, historic, ideal, important, essential, model and traditional.

[@JamesKaufman1973]

So just a recital of commonly-known facts, no "secrets" anywhere in this video.

[@ShiaKorchin]

Their, not there

[@alanbaxter8100]

*BS Nonsense*

[@saikatpoddar1359]

Misleading caption. Inept research. Avoid such gibberish....