25 Mistakes That Changed History Forever - List 25 Reaction

[@DonnyTinyHands]

Mistake #1: Woodrow Wilson being elected president.

[@mattm7798]

That mistake alone keeps Teddy Roosevelt out of my top 5 presidents, even tho he did it after being president lol

[@D2RCR]

WILSONNNNNNN!

[@Spartacus-us1eo]

Agreed

[@stalkingcatstudios3698]

Fr

[@robertsandberg2246]

THIS!!!!

[@phen0mejon99]

Franz Ferdinand's driver making a wrong turn needs to be number 1

[@peka003]

austria hungary would found other excuse to attack serbia anyways

[@SaariumDeta]

@@peka003 That doesn't detract from the fact it altered the future immensely

[@username.exenotfound2943]

if time travel exists the you can bet that was a change

[@beornyondur4594]

this and the discovery of penniccilin. I was surprised neither made it to the list.

[@ErminDedicNT]

@@peka003 That may be, but the July crisis wouldn't have happened, and Russia and Germany would't involve themselves in it so much.

[@rainbowappleslice]

I’d love to see VTH do a reaction to the video ‘know your allies: Britain’. It’s an informational video made by the war department to educate their troops on who they’re fighting with and against and it’s a really interesting insight into how 40’s America viewed Britain and in some ways how little Britain has changed and how much Britain has changed in other ways.

[@Dylanhya]

Absolutely! or the video warning about fascism from back in the day, that one's an interesting time capsule as well

[@g3523jaen]

Yes! There is also some for other allied power i think. They also have "Know your enemy". Pretty interesting time capusals of the time.

[@hesky10]

Or the army information films for servicemen station in Germany following its defeat in wwii, the early cold war paranoia is quite interesting

[@tremendousbaguette9680]

23 : Yeah we have safeguards now... **proceeds to crash a probe on mars because of a forgotten conversion from freedom units to metric**

[@TheDesktopOrbinaut]

Lmao the Mars Climate Orbiter

[@adamantu]

Well that is the cost for wanting to be special😅

[@WhatsUp-fe8jc]

Man Chris being born was easily the most important thing that year!

[@infidel42]

"The Russian Royals and Rasputin" ... and nobody knew how the goat got on the roof.

[@oliversherman2414]

The Titanic lookouts would've actually had a better chance of spotting the iceberg with the naked eye than with binoculars

[@TheRealDrJoey]

There's something that is never mentioned, and that is, when you get within a few hundreds yards of an iceberg, the air temperature drops dramatically. But I guess no one noticed, or if they did, they didn't realize why the temp had dropped.

[@swymaj02]

the ship was also built to go straight through an iceberg unscathed. the guys decided to steer instead..... allowed for the edges to slice the bottom like a breadknife.

[@oliversherman2414]

@@swymaj02 Titanic might have survived a direct hit with the iceberg, but it would be completely immobilised and its front would be completely crushed like the HMS Hawke when it collided with Olympic the your before

[@Edax_Royeaux]

8:55 "Their reliance on static fortification like Dien Bien Phu was completely useless against the Viet Minh's guerilla tactics" Completely useless??? The Viet Minh suffered more causalities assaulting Dien Bien Phu then the French even had soldiers stationed there. This is some extreme distortions of history here. Along with the clickbait title, this guy just seems like a fountain for misinformation and hyperbole.

[@dangerclose6303]

He is, his whole channel is!

[@RagnelEric]

You got clickbaited 😂

[@christinesaaty215]

Yeah, I don’t think most of these ‘mistakes’ changed history forever.

[@michaelshelton5488]

I'm pretty sure this is the same dude who once put out a video where he said that being fashionably late was an "American tradition" so it's hard for me to take anything he says seriously

[@abcde_5949]

There's a small mistake in the original video at 23:02, JAL123 had 4 survivors.

[@douglambert990]

And there undoubtedly would have been more if the Japanese authorities had had the rescue parties attempt to reach the crash site sooner.

[@theonewhoknocks8632]

@@douglambert990 and @abcde_5949 I was going to make the same comments while I was watching the video.

[@BrianS_IN]

Also his reference to the "plane was obliterated" . Yes it was once it hit the ground, but he makes it sound like it exploded. The pilots actually had nominal control but the loss of hydraulics due to the bulkhead failure casing the breaks in all the backup lines. This of course does not make things better for the passengers who had several minutes of terror while the pilots fought for control.

[@HistoryRebels]

I hadn’t seen this channel before either, thanks for the commentary!

[@Y0ur_M0th3r]

Oh my gosh, hello

[@aj2k08]

Hey Chris - just tossing my usual suggestion of Jeremy Clarkson’s Greatest Raid Of All Time in the hat again for you to check out. It’s an amazing untold story about the commandos of WW2 and Victoria Cross winners. Great work as always mate 👍🏻

[@shaggycan]

10:30 The story of the fall of the Berlin Wall and Vladimir Putin is an interesting story. He was there in Berlin when the wall fell and Russia pulled out. In many ways that event set him on the course toward where he is today.

[@broadsword6650]

There's a big difference between a "mistake" and a "decision that turns bad".

[@CarterElkins]

Yes, I was hoping this would be a list of actual “whoopsies.” Some of them were, but some of them weren’t even mistakes at all. What part of the nutmeg thing was a mistake? It was totally intentional. Atrocious by our standards, yes, but nothing mistaken about it.

[@davetremaine9688]

17:05 - 17:22 It's bonkers to try and lay the blame for criminals rioting, looting, burning shit down on the guy who caused a blackout.

[@N1CK6477]

The treaty of Waitangi mentioned here really is fascinating as of recently because the continued issues in regards to it today with disputes over which version is the more legitimate version or did Māori cede sovereignty to the British Crown. Also some news, last Friday the Māori King had passed away ending his 15 year reign since 2006. And as of today we have our 8th Māori monarch and 2nd Māori Queen.

[@str.77]

Given that the Maori supposedly ceded something, the version in their language would be more valid. Still, it would be absurd to reverse that injustice now.

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

I used to watch a ton of List 25 back in the day. Good channel.

[@LordRogerPovey]

Talking about pivotal moments, I had one at the weekend. I attended my granddaughters wedding last weekend, it was a lovely ceremony and when I looked at the attendees I suddenly realised that none of them would have been there if I hadn't moved down from London UK on a whim to Hastings UK, met my first wife and she had my daughter, the granddaughters mother. Other grandchildren were there and even a great grandson. It occurred to me that none of them would have existed if I hadn't turned that different corner.

[@elaineandjohn9599]

A very spotty list indeed

[@jackmessick2869]

I don't think breech-loaders were the key. Maybe he meant repeaters. Ripley definitely was against repeaters, thinking soldiers would waste ammunition. Most cavalry had to use breech loaders (can't load a musket sitting on a horse), unless they used pistols solely. Breech loaders were used by some British army units in the Revolution (again, cavalry), so they had been around a while.

[@tihomirrasperic]

in one documentary they said that the tipping point was when one regiment bought Henry rifles and ammunition on its own And then they went out on the battlefield with new guns The southern side was "massacred" and what's more, with Henry's rifle you could lie down and be an "invisible target" for the southerners who had to stand

[@cragnamorra]

An interesting juxtaposition is how the ACW was fought with muzzle-loading rifles as the by-far most common line-infantry small arm, and then five years later the Franco-Prussian War featured breech-loaders as the primary weapon. True that the second war saw fewer overall casualties...but then it was also much shorter; on a month-to-month basis, for example, this European war was probably at least as bloody - maybe even more so - than the preceding American one.

[@Lv-sl3rm]

And yeah the biggest problem with repeaters is that they were beyond bleeding edge moreso than breach loaders. Heck when the US Cavalry did eventually adopt one, they chose the Spencer and went back to the Trapdoors because: 1. The original 1860 Henry Rifles were fragile as heck plus were pretty anemic in terms of ballistics with the .44 Henry Rimfire cartridge. 2. The Spencer itself was a painful to use repeater in of itself and once emptied, was probably more of a pain to use than even a Trapdoor, and the Trapdoor fired the more powerful and standardized .45-70 cartridge as well whereas the Spencers has iirc, .56-56 or .56-50.

[@interloper8029]

Sounds like whoever wrote the script for this video got their flight cancelled in 2017, and decided it was one of the biggest problems in history...

[@Leviticus_Prime]

There is a slight chance that having binoculars could have allowed to watch to spot the iceberg sooner but we'll never know for sure. It was really the weather that made it hard. There was no moon, and there was the seas were unusually calm making it very hard for the watch to see the iceberg. Couple that with the fact that the Captain had the ship running much faster than it dhould have in an area with known icebergs, and it's unclear whether or not the binoculars would have made a difference.

[@RLKmedic0315]

If the lookouts had not seen the iceberg at all it is possible that a more direct collision would have occurred. The Titanic would almost certainly survived a more direct collision and not sunk.

[@tabathacarruthers5122]

I think flashlights would've helped more than binoculars. They had a version of flashlights, right?

[@Leviticus_Prime]

@@tabathacarruthers5122 No. Not any kind that would be powerful enough to help. The distance would be too great.

[@tabathacarruthers5122]

@@Leviticus_Prime I think I was thinking of lamps that would reflect off the ice, making it more visible. Like a lighthouse light but not that big or powerful.

[@Leviticus_Prime]

@tabathacarruthers5122 we are talking about distances that would not allow that. Lamps back then wouldn't be powerful enough to reach an iceberg that was far enough away to allow the ship to move around it. Ships did have lampsto use as spotlights but they were only useful close up. Not bright enough to teach f a r enough to make a difference in sporting an iceberg. Plus, the best way th o a pot icebergs in moonless nights with calm seas is to go by the stars. Th we y look for gaps in the Starfield and need night vision to do that. Searchlight would cause night blindness making it harder.

[@micahdavis1369]

You should check out Karsten Runquists recent video on every presidents favorite movie, I think you’d find it interesting. He goes more in depth on the movies than the presidents but I was wondering what your thoughts would be on why some of the presidents chose the ones they did. Plus it’s another video that makes Wilson look terrible.

[@benmaguire1729]

As always, I love your level headed approach and putting things into "CONTEXT", just in case anyone didn't figure out thats kinda your thing 😅! Love your content dude and your input is always top tier, thanks man!!!!

[@starwarsgenius1679]

Using hindsight, we can see the effects of purchasing or not purchasing companies. Another decision pointed to as stupid was when Blockbuster passed up an opportunity to buy Netflix. Does it change terminologies or company names? Sure, it might. But history itself and what happened doesn't change. We have more knowledge of what happens because we live after those events. People who make financial decisions such as those have very limited information comparatively. I can't look at companies like Excite or Blockbuster and call them stupid or saying how much regret I would have for making decisions which (presumably) weren't worth the investment (in other words, economically or financially viable). I would probably make the same decision. Somewhere out there, in the archives of a university no less, are naked photos of some of the most prominent people in American society. Fascinating. I'm curious, Chris - what's on your list of mistakes that changed history forever?

[@PaulGaither]

I'm so glad to be watching these again, Chris. You have come so far since those early videos. The hard work is paying off.

[@Avatar1977]

Good video with some interesting facts, but the Titanic one is clearly silly because there is no way a ship that size gets going without multiple sets of binoculars, even before you look at all the details that Chris mentions

[@Nebulasecura]

Plus you don't use binoculars to look at the open ocean in pitch black darkness either. Best way to see a berg was with the naked eye

[@richardarriaga6271]

​@@NebulasecuraYeah, binoculars need light to operate. If it's pitch black, it's harder to see through them.

[@arnonymius]

Fun Fact: The V1 was more war-effective than the V2, because it could be intercepted and the British had to put resources into it.

[@Wabbajack-kj2kg]

Would be cool if VTH could react more to Tasting History with Max Miller, especially on pre-colony Americas and medieval Europe.

[@Trippster36]

It wasn't a Microsoft issue causing outages/delays in the airline industry, it was a Crowdstrike antivirus issue that many large fortune 500 companies use.

[@adammcpartlan1453]

i consider myself an expert on Hannibal Barca. i have studied this man my whole life, and even now, i keep myself informed. any time there's a new video or podcast or article or about him released, i immediately want to read or listen because i consider him the greatest general in history (i will die on this hill maybe, but i'm happy to). what this guy said about Hannibal losing the war because of an "avalanche" is the most ridiculous sentence I've ever heard. he led his army over the Alps and scared the crap out of the Italians because they had no idea where he was until he was in their faces; he destroyed the roman army at cannae while badly outnumbered; and had to give up on his hope at getting Rome because of problems with revolts and money in Spain, as well as Scipio deciding to sail across the mediterranean and get in Carthage's face. he did not lose anything because of an avalanche, and to say it was his fault that the war was lost is such a besmirching of his legacy that he should issue a formal apology.

[@CarterElkins]

Agreed. Funnily enough, I remember reading in school that crossing the Alps was a costly gamble for Hannibal because many elephants died along the way. That was the main takeaway. Imagine my surprise to learn as an adult that the crossing itself was actually a brilliant strategy that kicked off one of history’s most incredible campaigns. Hannibal descends from the Alps (with most of his elephants) and proceeds to mop the Italian peninsula with Rome’s armies, despite being horrifically outnumbered in some cases. While not an expert on the subject, according to my understanding his eventual defeat had nothing at all to do with the famous Alps crossing. Am I off?

[@Loulizabeth]

I also remember watching a video about the fact that the powers that be in Carthage were also slow and unwilling to send financial and more troops to bolster Hannibal's army. That the leaders in Carthage possibly still wanted to have Time as a trading partner and couldn't see that they simply wanted to wipe them out. Their lack of understanding, seems like it was another huge reason why Hannibal stopped winning. Is that right.

[@adammcpartlan1453]

@@CarterElkins not off at all. the alps crossing was the only reason any campaign against rome was successful. romans never had anyone cross the alps on them as an army, especially in the dead of winter. it was a natural border for them and as such, was mostly left undefended and un-watched. thats why hannibal had so much time to rest and recuperate his men when they got down into the valley: no one was waiting for him. any other pathway into rome wouldve been heavily fortified with watchmen and watch towers, but the Alps were its own fortification; why bother worrying when no one would dare cross them? to your point about the elephants, i learned the same thing in high school, then saw that sources talked about his war elephants in battle, and i too was confused. it is true that most of his elephants died along the route; only his largest elephant survived. but once he had a foothold in italy, i believe he was able to get more sent directly to him via Carthage even tho the leader of the carthaginian senate was a jealous mf who eventually made sure that hannibal got no support from the homeland at all, however minimal as it was to begin with. rome was just incredibly persistent and fear is a powerful motivator. while the senate would never admit it outwardly as most sources from rome say at the time they had little concern--and the "proof" is that they left the consul in charge of the army during cannae as the head of the army for a fair amount longer, which they took to mean as "no fear, steady as she goes, etc"--i personally view it as rome had burned through so many consuls as leading the army they had no alternatives anymore and maybe just figured keep him in charge and he might learn something from continued encounters.

[@adammcpartlan1453]

@@Loulizabeth mostly yes. carthage was not a war-loving city; they preferred peace and trade. that said, after a second incursion, and one so devastating for rome as this, carthage knew there was no way rome would ever be friendly with them again. thats why (spoiler alert) the attempt by carthage to offer a peace treaty being met with a hearty "go fuck yourself" from rome was a huge, for lack of a better word, bummer. cuz at that point carthage is like "well wtf do we gotta do to beat them?" they kinda stopped caring and hannibal was not about to stop caring anytime soon, and it all fell apart for carthage from there. it also had to do with the head of the carthaginian senate at the time (hanno i believe his name was) holding a grudge that hannibal was doing so well in his campaigns and taking all the glory. hannibal repeatedly asked for financial help, especially when his spanish mines started drying up and revolts in spain grew increasingly hard to quell, and the senate would basically say "nah, hanno said we shouldnt so we wont but hey good luck getting us our glory back we're all rooting for you." in the end, hannibal got screwed by the *gasps* politicians, but scipio gets all the glory. which he should cuz Zama was brilliant, but if carthage thought like rome and backed hannibal all the way, rome wouldve been demolished and the ancient world wouldve been dominated by an african country, not a european one, and all of history changes drastically.

[@CarterElkins]

@@adammcpartlan1453 Very interesting. Thanks for the primer! I've seen some videos on his campaign (HistoryMarche has a really good series), but I should read up more on him.

[@kieranfrancke790]

That was a great video. Not what I thought either but it was really interesting.

[@davew9117]

JAL 123 was not obliterated with everyone onboard. Many people survived the initial crash, estimated between 20 and 50. A difficult crash site to reach as well as a very slow rescue killed many. 4 people survived and one of which said she could hear many screaming and slowly fade away throughout the night. It's a very interesting crash to study.

[@herhseycentralisaperiwinkl7326]

Hiya VTH! :)

[@YeneralYakob]

He should absolutely check out Old Britannia. I absolutely adore their work, top notch production and incredibly insightful and informative.

[@yashjoseph3544]

I think he did do two videos on them about WW1 aims.

[@daviddavenport9350]

Absolutely agree with you about Washington's Trenton Campaign.....the Hessians and British didnt even know in which direction to march!!!

[@gkiferonhs]

My favorite mix-up was at NASA. There were two labs cooperating on a Mars probe. They didn't realize until it didn't answer it's wake-up call that one lab had used metric units and the other Imperial units.

[@JamesC1981]

i remember that one! it caused the probe to crash and burn into mars atmosphere

[@RandomStuff-he7lu]

I guess those systems put in place didn't work after all.

[@str.77]

30:40 OTOH, had Nicolaus listen to Rasputin he would have stayed away from what was to become World War I, which seems a bigger factor in the monarchy's downfall that any damage Rasputin did.

[@leemarshall348]

Totally get it if you wanna take a break from epic history tv since youve just finished the marshals series, but I would love to see you react to their decembrist revolt video!

[@josephdemartino6053]

"That damned Yankee rifle that you can load on Sunday and shoot all week."

[@alan_li-xn5zy]

I don't know if you have watched them yet, but here are two interesting TV series and film recommendations. One is the BBC Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister series, which is mostly satire on modern British politics, so it naturally covers some history topics as well. The second is the ZDF film series Our Mothers Our Fathers, also translated into Generation War. It's in German, but it is a really comprehensive film about World War Two life. It covers the Eastern front and the Home Front. I think both can be viewed on KZbin at a price. I don't necessarily want a reaction video for them but it would be amazing if it can be pulled off. Definitely watch them if you haven't already.

[@doylesgirl73]

I do love List 25 but Chris is right, these weren't all things that changed history forever. I do love the facial expression Chris made when the Bible typo came up with Thou Shalt Commit Adultry. And it's just fun when something from my subscription list comes up as a reaction video.

[@taylerschanks9440]

was sitting here waiting for a new VTH video :)

[@jackmessick2869]

NASA still has similar programming problems. The Magellan Space Probe failed because one unit was expecting data in metric (meters-kilograms- seconds), but the unit feeding that information used the American system (feet-pounds-seconds).

[@Chew1964]

Magellan orbited Venus for 4 years. You are confusing Magellan with Mars Climate Orbiter.

[@jackmessick2869]

@@Chew1964 You are correct. All I could remember is David Letterman mocking the "Magellan Space Probe" on his CBS show ( as a sign of NASA stupidity), but looking into the mission, I don't see why he ridiculed it then. It looked like a success.

[@Billytomtom18]

I’ve been truly enjoying your videos and comments. Perhaps there’s something that you might clarifying regarding Vietnam. Since I grew up in that time I tried doing some research regarding Ho Chi Migh (sp). From my research I found that Uncle Ho as he was known to his people, wanted to be a Democratic Country. From what I’ve read is that he wrote letters to Woodrow Wilson after WW1, which came to be known as the Wilson Letters? Supposedly Wilson agreed to help but never actually did anything. When the French had Colonized the Country, Ho Chi Minh reached out to China for weapons to expel the French ? Another factor was Wilson’s obsession with the League of Nations and never followed through with Vietnam ? I appreciate the diversity of videos that you are sharing and commenting on 👍

[@brandonmckinley1413]

You mentioned Hessians. Fun fact. Senator Richard Lugar's 4th great grandfather Adam Lugar Sr was a Hessian soldier that switched to the Continental Army.

[@daviddavenport9350]

I believe that there was an engagement in the Tennessee campaign where a relatively small number of dismounted Union Cavalry with the Sharps repeating rifles held off a Confederate brigade, while inflicting significant losses on the Rebels.....the Confederates reported back that they were facing an entire Corps of Union soldiers the fire was so intense.

[@aliasinternal9078]

Just I wanted to tell, that I landed in Charloi on my visit to Belgium, took a rental car on the airport and followed the N5 route, passing Quatre Bras and visiting the battlefield of Waterloo. Pure history and emotional moment.

[@douglaswickstrom6736]

The problem that brought down early deHavilland Comets was not the shape of the windows. There were two causes: the fuselage skin was too thin to hold cabin pressure at the altitudes flown, and how the rivet holes were created. Most aircraft rivet holes were made by drilling. Those on the skin of early Comets were punched, which created stress cracks at nearly every rivet hole. The corners of the window frames never failed. All of the failures were where the frames were riveted to the rest of the structure, with some alarming cracks at rivet holes elsewhere.

[@dennis2376]

Thank you. I believe the window shape caused problems with stress. 🤔

[@selinamcmahon9798]

The Mars climate Orbiter (1998) famously missed Mars because the hardware and software were using different units of measurement - one used miles and the other used kilometres.

[@JoeeyTheeKangaroo]

Harold Godwin being shot through the eye

[@tremendousbaguette9680]

That's an embelishment from the tapestry. This was the traditional traitor's death from the stories of these times.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

Not a mistake, it's a risk that could have happened during the battle and Harold fully knowing it.

[@JoeeyTheeKangaroo]

​@@Duke_of_LorraineAlright, it's a mistake to charge down the hill.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

@@JoeeyTheeKangaroo it was the normal procedure, most of the time the enemy retreated once broken. Making a feinted retreat was extremely hard, most commanders would not have expected that.

[@inagaddadavidahoney]

​@Duke_of_Lorraine Still could be considered a mistake for the men who charged since, as I recall, they were not ordered to do so, but were less experienced and broke to give chase. The shield wall had done fairly well up to that point. If it stayed intact and the Normans kept charging and falling back to regroup and charge again, the battle and medieval history could have been very different.

[@AndyHoward]

Blockbuster VS Netflix (in the same vein as Excite VS Google): Netflix came to BB and begged them to buy them out. They laughed at them and sent them away. BB unable/unwilling to change with the times eventually went under as Netflix became a Juggernaut.

[@keiranallcott1515]

6:59 , one thing to add to that , Hitlers entourage was having a massive celebratory event as a few days before that , Hitlers mistress , Eva Braun’s sister was married at his obersalzburg residence

[@e1123581321345589144]

15:52 as far as I know, only the Boeing Dreamliner has those. It's also able to get away with larger windows because of its composite carbon fiber hull. Never been on one of those yet, but I bet they're awesome machines.

[@richardarriaga6271]

I can't see starting a war for nutmeg. Avocados, though, I'll sign up for.

[@haraldschuster3067]

As far as I know the comets crashed because of metal fatigue in the rivets connecting the wings to the fuselage. Shattered windows are uncool but don't bring an aircraft down if the pilot knows what they're doing. A sheared of wing, on the other hand ... and metal fatigue as a result of repeated stress cycles was unheard of in those days.

[@HVACSoldier]

It was a deliberate act on the part of the British, with their treaty with the Māori.

[@renprice462]

“I have never heard about that, but that’s crazy.”

[@EpicWaffle1128]

Yayyy early!!! :3 I love this video so much, keep up!!!!

[@AngeliqueFlippenHarris]

I absolutely love Mike from Top 25.

[@torresmat10]

You should react to "The election of George Washington was weirder than you think" by Premodernist

[@jackosharkpie3892]

Māori and New Zealand mentioned in a VTH video! 🎉

[@jackatthekilns]

I ran into Rebecca St. James at a Steak and Shake in Macon Georgia about 25 years ago

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I had someone try to set me up with her once at a Christian music festival 25 years ago.

[@jackatthekilns]

@@VloggingThroughHistory I enjoyed her first album. Didn't really listen to her much after. Much more of a Supertones/ Five Iron Frenzy kinda guy

[@og_jake]

Hey Chris, not to nit-pick but on the segment on the British Airways error you mentioned that it happened recently with a Microsoft mistake. That was actually an problem with the company Croudstrike's software and the way it worked with Microsoft's Windows kernal. It was Croudstike's mistake not Microsoft. I think Microsoft has been taking a pretty big hit for something they didn't do on this one.

[@svenrio8521]

Microsoft's best PR agent on the case 😂

[@BrianS_IN]

@@svenrio8521 Actually he is correct. It was CrowdStrike that pushed the bug out. The unfortunate thing for Microsoft the software which was to prevent intrusions was only able to be used on Microsoft servers and workstations. It is not used on Linux, Android, Mac etc. It basically borked the whole group of servers and workstations and forced a manual fix to boot the systems back to life. Thus, the standing jokes about Southwest Airlines not being affected because they run on Windows 3.1 and a mainframe.

[@matthewwarlin7421]

Must've been a cold winter in '76. 😂

[@The_One_In_Black]

The spinach thing can arguably be considered a domino effect leading to the Nintendo empire.

[@Sophie-mv7bd]

Gavrillo princip eating a sandwich after trying to assasinate franz ferdinand and then by some insane luck the driver going the wrong way and ending up right next to him seems like something hollywood would make up if it wasnt for the fact that it really happened

[@laneromel5667]

Rommel's absence would have no effect on the D-Day landings. Prior to the landings, the Underground had blown up the phone relay centres, and rail lines. Even if Rommel knew, he had no way of transporting troops and equipment, which were 400 Km away in Calais.

[@puffin7285]

Interesting video but some really strange choices to have included on this list

[@Ghatbkk]

Your comment on history being nuanced struck me in regard to a book I just finished - not related to this video (or maybe it is, sort of). Highly recommended: The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis Very nuanced.

[@jstrahan2]

23:02 There were 520 fatalities, but there were 4 survivors of JAL 123.

[@phantomtitan9792]

Interesting video

[@nateabcde8510]

I was hoping you could do a video about RFK Sr at some point in time. He, in my view, was probably one of the best presidents America never had.

[@BDizzleMySchnizzle]

One of the great unknowns in US history. I personally think he would have been a great President, like S or A tier.

[@justin97410]

The one case where I understand breach loading rifles played a role in the civil war was at Gettysburg during Buford’s day 1 stand

[@visionsofshmuel]

I am surprised that Robert E Lee losing at Antietam because he threw away a cigar (which happened to have his battle plans wrapped around it) was not on this list.

[@Avatar1977]

That last fact about the Han Dynasty was a really interesting one. The whole Three Kingdoms era happened because of that decision

[@inagaddadavidahoney]

The period, or something akin to it, probably still would happen. Throughout ancient/classical Chinese history a weak dynasty led to civil wars with regional strongmen vying for power.

[@MalikF15]

The title probably should say most underrated historical mistakes. Otherwise great video

[@Brockleigh35]

Mistake in the mistake video: Not everyone was killed on Flight 123. Four people survived and were rescued. There were more people that survived the actual crash of the plane, but died of their injuries or exposure due to how long it took rescuers to access the remote accident site.

[@serafine666]

13:32 I don't think the ME262 is traditionally included under the "wunderwaffe" heading as it was a technology in wide development at the time.

[@jdotoz]

Yeah, I mean the basic idea was in wide use in the very next big war.

[@BrianS_IN]

Actually, Hitler's mistake was to try and make it a ground attack bomber instead of a fighter. If he had let it develop as a fighter, it would have made it into production in 43 instead of 44 when the air war was already lost.

[@serafine666]

@@BrianS_IN Fair, although since WW2 was largely a war of industrial muscle, the ME262 would have been a couple hundred fighters at best trying to deal with powers who sent 1000-bomber fleets to Germany just to prove a point. A turbojet aircraft was an outstanding machine, but like the Panther and Tiger made the fatal German error of favoring engineering marvels over simple, inelegant solutions that worked well.

[@joeykonyha2414]

“History is nuanced and it’s all linked.” That’s true. I tell people the road to Pearl Harbor began in 1853 when Commodore Perry forced open the markets of Japan at cannon point.

[@marylynnmazzocco5367]

The Vulgate translated into Latin in the 4th century by St Jerome which was the common language.

[@jdotoz]

And it remained the common language for just about anyone who could read for centuries later.

[@LensOSRS]

Title of the original video is a little misleading, but still great

[@brianflint8036]

Another thing about the Titanic one: Did they really only supply this giant ship with one pair of binoculars? I have two in my truck!

[@HistoryNerd808]

It's not remotely on the same level as these since I think the Allies win anyway but one honorable mention that I don't think is talked about enough for me is the pilot(Koga, I think it was) of the Akutan Zero crashing. The Zero was absolutely destroying us in the Pacific and that crash allowed us to find its weaknesses. I know the Hellcat was already in development but still.

[@shaggycan]

Everytime you go on a flight and land safely...your journey is built on the deaths of thousands of people who died in crashes before you.

[@kobaltteal7139]

Issue with Titanic is the calm sea moonless night and they ran into perfect conditions for a cold weather mirage which would have distorted the horizon as well as any lights like the stars making anything hard to spot til the last second. Also Binoculars are used to observe an object after its been spotted to get a more defined idea of what said object is. Using it to try and see an Iceberg would legit just cause binocular vision which limits a persons overall vision to a smaller field of view which makes missing objects even easier to do.

[@JoshuaGold1]

The video was definitely misleading (really just plain wrong). Very few examples actually had significant impacts on history. I don't think that I'll be checking out the original creater after seeing this.

[@ernestchoi4464]

Go Browns this Sunday. I hate the Dallas Cowboys, and I live in DFW Metroplex. LOL

[@dennis2376]

Boo. :)

[@svenrio8521]

How about another Sabaton song reaction? Or a historical ERB?

[@MrTim2031]

I think the point about the musket/rifle, be they muzzle loaders or repeaters was that the Union had a significant industrial advantage and probably could afford to outfit their troops with a faster firing arm, which would have given them an earlier advantage against the confederacy negating the confederate early wins and ending the war earlier. Basically, the criticism being that the Union did not properly leverage its industrial advantage early enough. Or maybe I’m reading into it too much.

[@shijujin_1989]

the new york black out of 77 is the reason why hip hop era got its jump start

[@glastonbury4304]

The British did well in Vietnam

[@daviddavenport9350]

Spinach is really good in salads of all kinds!

[@twili_mander3]

I would classify some of these things as bad decisions, not necessarily "mistakes."

[@badgerman2229]

Can't forget the greatest album ever being dropped 'The Stranger' by Billy Joel in 77'

[@malachickisawesome]

Star Wars came out the summer of 77 too

[@shaggycan]

The first allied pilots seeing the ME-262 must have thought it was alien technology. Flight without a propeller?

[@ErminDedicNT]

So many of these are overstatemens (if that word even exists)