25 Absurd Random History Facts - Part 2

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

YES! My pleasure. All I did was point people to where they could find some great history content.

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[@RantingMonkey]

I literally just came from your video react to the first one. Great find. Subbed.

[@THExDESERTxFOX]

I subed because of VTH glad to see a part II!

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[@dbach1025]

I came from VTH too. Congrats on the subs. You really deserve it. I have learned a lot and been entertained as well. God bless.

[@mistydlove.5512]

The dog "disarming" a bomb by peeing on it is just epic. I can imagine a dog not knowing wtf was actually going on strolling up to a whole bomb and lifting their leg. 😂😂

[@NEXUSNEST]

Came here from VTH, stayed for your quality videos!

[@IulianYT]

Same here, glad they got over 10k subs in the meantime

[@connarkent282]

Same

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[@sachahector5674]

I can’t believe the quality of these videos. This is original content and probably one of my favorites history channels. What a great find

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[@brianwilhelm3777]

You mean "original content" like there's not other older videos with this information or its not pretty common knowledge?🕵 New to you doesnt make it original

[@hawtozer]

A couple of weeks before his assassination on the 15th of March 44BC, Julius Caesar spent an evening with a couple of his soon to be assassins, and they chatted long into the evening. At one point, the conversation turned philosophical and Decimus Junius Brutus posed the question "what is the best way to die?" Caesar responded with "suddenly, and unexpectedly". You can imagine the unease in the room.

[@Bigdog5400]

I’ve always found it interesting that Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant we’re good friends

[@davidrockdale]

In a single High School Football game, Al Bundy scored 4 touchdowns.

[@Chiquita18852]

New subscriber from VTH. Been loving your recent videos and cant wait to binge watch all your other videos. Thank you so much for your support to Chris. Cant wait till you guys reach 15k subs! you deserve it!!!

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Thank you, Giselle!

[@Chiquita18852]

@@DecadesVideos you're very welcome 😊

[@DevilboyScooby]

#17 Related to this- a Finnish soldier, Aimo Koivunen, once consumed his patrol's entire supply of pervitin when surrounded by Soviets, in order to get enough energy to ski to safety. As a result of the delirium he got lost and went missing for an entire week.

[@Charliekewl91]

Great video, definitely learned something new today

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[@michellejacobcik9946]

I found you through Vlogging Through History. Cannot wait to watch some of your other videos.

[@DecadesVideos]

We can't wait to share more content soon! Thanks for coming by!

[@stayfaded69]

Loving the videos caught a few of them and I love the humor. Keep up the good work

[@DecadesVideos]

Glad you are enjoying!

[@stayfaded69]

@@DecadesVideos of course and one thing not trying to b all knowing but giving a quippy one liner and/or joke for the facts. Even though I love the dry deliver would show us a bit more of that smart wit. Thank u brother for replying.

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@@stayfaded69 will keep it in mind of course

[@leahhafemeister2156]

NOT burlap sacks, they were flour sacks. Flour companies began printing patterns on their flour sacks. If burlap had been used the flour would fall out through the holes!!

[@kristianfox3002]

Burlap is the name of the sack the flour and other products such as rice etc came in

[@samuelrodriguezrivera6856]

love the videos!!

[@cabowerks3973]

One of my most favorite, random history facts I’ve learned was that the prototype for the first modern safety pin was invented on accident. The guy was in trying to invent a better gun lock.

[@FilbeeGaming]

The urine one took me by suprise!

[@connarkent282]

Definitely took the flame

[@DecadesVideos]

The ye olde piss solution

[@Shayrin2]

Great facts, thanks for the work !

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Thank you!

[@jankusthegreat9233]

Fihzy!!!!! My man!!

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hello

[@susaniacuone5758]

The burlap sack story is incorrect. The american feed and flour sacks were made from a cheap but sturdy grade of woven cotton. The pretty floral prints are well documented and much of the fabric ( similar to modern quilting cotton ) and unused bags, quilts, and garments, still exist

[@Hegelundd]

came here from the rdr2 channel, love the amazing content! i'm excited for the growth of this channel:)

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[@Danielle-mg5lf]

I love your show and vlogging through history ❤😊

[@suddendeath2000]

The cigarette lighter was invented and used well before matches were.

[@DecadesVideos]

I'm definitely not taking notes to research for part 3.

[@dorissloan2037]

Not burlap sacks but cotton sacks, tightly woven to. hold flour. Factories would shift the floral patterns around areas, to keep the girls from having the same patterns.

[@naomiskilling1093]

Am I the only one who thinks that marathon runner from fact #20 looks like the Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh?

[@belongtotoday]

Came through VTH, staying and subbed for your humor and content. :-D Keep up the excellent work!

[@TheCamoruneGaming]

Stalin has lots of interesting facts about him. From almost becoming a Monk and going to monastery school for a few years, to his love of John Ford western movies.

[@DecadesVideos]

I heard about his love of Western movies.

[@asszudemi3650]

i love the fact that you included the Elefant Chris mention in his reaction to your first video in this one Good job guys

[@DecadesVideos]

It's how we heard of it and since this video exists because of his kindness, it was worth a spot!

[@Loserssd]

Truly believe you’re one of those creators that once people find they instantly want more

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Much appreciated!

[@davidhatch7056]

The best intro ive ever heard, to anything.. ever.. all time winner haha well played sir, well played indeed!

[@suecrowhurst4393]

Very interesting thankyou

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[@stevenbrennan7027]

Thoroughly enjoyed this one. I will look like the smartest historian in the boozer tommorow night with my new found knowledge, thanks to Decades. In Arthur Morgans voice beside his dying horse "Thank you"

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Oh aye, cheers!

[@MrKippo]

Didnt expect the New Romney Railway to be on this list, amazing that Kents Culture is being noticed.

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[@MrKippo]

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[@bettyir4302]

Not scratchy skin irritating burlap sacks. It was cotton flour sacks that were printed in floral prints which people would sew for clothing.

[@HelFrostKara]

No. 12: Banning the mention of Genghis Khan seemed a bit random. Apparently was out of fear Mongolian's deifying him and potentially leading to an immediate neighbour becoming nationallist? No. 18: You want some Freedom Fries with your Liberty Steak? 🤣 No. 22. Well that sure is coincidental timing 👀👀 No. 23: I assume that maybe relate to wearing armour, you may think they're ready for battle/a fight so could be seen as threatening? (or I'm just having Red Wedding flashbacks lol). Why it would still be a thing is they just probably thought about it (and the legal process can be slow) No. 25: So much for the "native" english then, eh?

[@wedgeantilles8575]

One addition to Nr. 18: In the "war against terror" the US started to call the French Fries "Freedom Fries", because they were dissatisfied with the lack of French commitment. (I guess this will know a lot of people) It is interesting that they already renamed something into "Freedom..." in WW2, I didn't know that :) (As I did not know most of your other facts) One question regarding 10: AFAIK Vespasian put a tax on urine (which was used in the dying process and in the washing process of clothes). It is said that "money doesn't stink" derives from this instance (no idea if this is true). I did not know about Nero. Am I mistaken here? Or is both true, Vespasian put a tax on it's use and Nero put a tax on the trade? 21 is absolutly amazing. As a German, I have never heard this before. It proves yet again, that torture is not a useful tool for extracting deeper going information. (Well, it depends on the kind of information - if you just need information that can be fact check immediatly, tortue does work. E.g.: "What is the password to this computer". You can factcheck the answer of the victim immediatly. Wrong pw? Torture continues. However, as soon as you want more detailed information, it breaks down immediatly. Questions like: Who is involved? What are your plans? are absolutly useless. Because you can't factcheck. And the victim just tells you whatever you want to hear. The information you get is worse than useless.)

[@natalieerib]

Amazing! The one about Russia really tickles me, they didn’t have to prove that they can drink us all under a table THAT hard.

[@DecadesVideos]

Oh yeah nah the prospect of a massive country running out of vodka, the effective birthplace of Vodka no less.

[@paulcowlishaw]

Ghandi was the Ripper. All makes sense now

[@gunterke]

Silly is actually a Belgian town, close to Brussels. They have a good brewery and a fine selection of local beers. The name is unrelated to the English word sily, it just refers to a small river named Sille.

[@the4tierbridge]

Loving these videos! Just one suggestion: maybe cut down on the unrelated stock footage? Half of the section about the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch railway, which as stated in the video is a miniature railway (track gauge 15 inches) was a video of an unrelated standard gauge locomotive (track gauge 4 ft 8.5 inches).

[@thegodlygoatgamer]

A cool video idea could be going over the actual real life Assassin group that operated during the Crusades, just as a homage to your old content

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The Hashshashin

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@@DecadesVideos yea

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@@thegodlygoatgamer regardless of my old Assassin's Creed content on Fizhy I think it'll be worth a video sometime, for sure.

[@milisavstefan8725]

In serbia the is a brewery older than US

[@robertambrosini4442]

#5 was flour sacks, not gunny sacks.

[@lilashelton535]

Fascinating

[@michaelcooper6725]

As to #25, I wonder how far back you could go before modern day English speakers couldn't understand an English king?

[@DecadesVideos]

Would be George II who ruled between 1727 and 1760, he primarily spoke French and German, his English wasn't so great.

[@bryanlasermagiktyler3132]

very well done, and thank you.

[@jep77ray]

VTH pointed me here too.

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Welcome

[@Yo-eq2hh]

Yo

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Yo

[@sanskarmishra5309]

Based

[@shinyshinxlvl9913]

🎉🎉

[@TheMasonK]

That Russian vodka fact is the funniest thing to me. Most of their grain went into feeding their population and the amount of alcohol being made was probably not as high at that point (not to mention much of the alcohol that they had prewar was made into Molotov cocktails) but it’s infinitely funnier that out of context it’s the Russians just enjoying their vodka 😂

[@freeman8128]

Begins at 1:25

[@thplumanns]

Excellent video In fact Hans Scharff wasn't that absurd. He lived in South Africa and was married to the daugther of a British flight top gun of WW1, Stokes or sth like that, from there his empathy and languages. He was in Germany when the war broke out. The book "The interrogator" explains his method, it's 90% data gathering and intelligence, the rest "courtesy". After the war, he went to the US and became trainer for US pilots... no wonder.

[@meemo32086]

Subscribed because of vth. The fact about the depression was wrong. They weren't burlap bags. They were flour sacks. Which are much less itchy and just really cotton cloth.

[@DecadesVideos]

Thanks for the correction.

[@Ron-qe4ul]

Came here from VTH also

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Welcome!

[@stefmyt5062]

Sorry but number 12 is just plain wrong. The proof is that in 1939, Soviet writer Vasily Yan received a Stalin Prize in literature for his work titled "Genghis Khan".

[@freddyjefferson5164]

More random than absurd

[@GRapPhil]

Skip ahead to 1min 26sec. Video finally starts.

[@davidbarkin8269]

Edward the 3rd replaced French and Latin with English during his reign as the defacto legal language of England. This occurred in 1362.

[@ijqdaz]

The elephant one :(

[@MariaTrollip]

Im from south africa and my granny always told us about flour sack panties she had to wear and even made for my mom also. That was worn iduring 1940-50's

[@MariaTrollip]

And at the back the writing showed when bend. Also going barefoot to school walk kilometres and put feet in cowdung to warm it up. True stories

[@MariaTrollip]

@joeroscoe3708 😂😂😂😂😂had no shoes was poor

[@abraxasjinx5207]

"Urine was a common mouthwash ingredient until the 18th century" ... These are our ancestors folks. Imagine what idiocy(s) we currently commit that our descendants will be disgusted by. Pooping in our drinking water and then spending a lot of effort to de-poopify that water will probably seem pretty silly in the future. We can hope.

[@snicksabea]

#2 The elephant was hungry and going to get watermelons.

[@netwrench6570]

Video facts start at 1:30 sort of.

[@AlanEmmons-qw6bg]

You forgot KAAAAHHHHAAANNN!! or Khan in slow motion?

[@Patricia-zh1rd]

Vodka is not made from grain... it's made from potatoes.

[@thplumanns]

Stalin was also a goof singer and he cpuld perform opera aries. Had he only done that... but was Trotsky a better optiln then?

[@kylemartin3746]

The bat bomb that was tested by the U.S. in world War two

[@brucefreadrich1188]

The Romans did not have bottled urine. The bottle did not come along until the 1300s.

[@djquinn11]

Stale urine used for mouthwash? That’s sooo nasty….

[@DustinHoran1]

Am I the genius? Just posted a video of historic stories about some very interesting things I really wish you would watch the video and then give us a more detailed video of some of the stories especially the Spanish double agent

[@AlanEmmons-qw6bg]

You also left out sack cloth and ashes that the peons wore! Oh yes we still wear it to this day!! 😜. Poor us? And stop the war its tea time!!! And there's something fishy about the salmon act, it stinks on ice! And your welcome??😖

[@blacknoise7997]

10:55 I'm a descendant of King Henry IV. I have documentation and DNA testing to prove it.

[@JackFranco95]

Gandhi supported West Ham United

[@everettbateman4741]

This was part 2? What did the 1st video tell us, the sky is blue? Come on people, do some research and find new stories.

[@DecadesVideos]

I presume a lot of these have been explored to death by other channels then?

[@everettbateman4741]

@@DecadesVideos Yes, that is an understatement.

[@DecadesVideos]

So how would you state it?

[@everettbateman4741]

@@DecadesVideos As much as you'd like to think everybody is only loyal to your channel, we watch tons of these on other channels. I get tired of seeing the same stories and facts over and over. No offense intended, it's just frustrating.

[@DecadesVideos]

Okay, I can see that. More obscure facts are the long term objective for a series such as this, and naturally they will get more and more obscure as we're forced to expand the research from episode to episode until we exhaust all our efforts and the series ends at which point we can hopefully fall back on different approaches to making content. That said the knowledge has to exist somewhere to be found for the most part when it comes to topics such as history, so we cannot promise to dish out information you haven't heard somewhere else in the past even though we'd certainly like to.

[@stevenickerson829]

Sorry, buddy, i tried.

[@GugaOnScreen]

gros caca

[@abraxasjinx5207]

9:32 "rapport" is pronounced "rah-PORE", the T is silent. Saying it with the T sounds exactly like "report".

[@michaelbrooks1458]

Oh I say mate that dialect you uns talk jus ain't right to us Appalachian Americans

[@WESTSIDEVILLIAN]

Benjamin Franklin = Jack The Ripper?

[@stevenickerson829]

Too much intro. Not here for you.

[@scottfreckle237]

These were really, really boring

[@thephilster6860]

Hanging an elephant. That's disgusting.

[@ElectricWitch44]

Thanks for the laughs! 😂❤