25 Most Mind Blowing History Facts

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[@manueltapia1859]

Mike thanks for the video. I have been lied at school when they taught that zero came from mayan people 😅 and the Code of Hammurabi has very strict laws and punishments (one involves to cut the nose 😮) but one learns everyday new facts 😊

[@mingfanzhang8927]

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[@mingfanzhang4600]

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[@jessgunn6639]

HAVE YOU DONE A VIDEO ON YOU GENEALOGY STORY? IF SO IS THERE A LINK AND IF NOT WOULD YOU CONSIDER DOING ONE? PS NOT SHOUTING LOST MY GLASSES

[@mingfanzhang8927]

@@jessgunn6639 XD

[@orcaman8794]

Thomas Eddisons electric pen wasn't a total failure. It was bought by a man who would use it to create the first tattoo pen.

[@matthewdrummond1340]

🤯

[@AngelaSchoenthal-nk1lt]

TRUE!!!!!

[@SonjaMorrison-i7j]

Really appreciate your pronunciations. Videos with erroneous pronunciations are a pet peeve of mine. Drive me crazy. Well done, Mike and team, for journalistic accuracy.

[@randalmayeux8880]

Hi Mike, Edison's electric pen went on to be used to create the mimeograph machine, also, in the 1890s, somebody used this idea to create the first tattoo pens.

[@Sister7Fire]

I think we need a whole series of these history facts.

[@julianaylor4351]

Interestingly when the Romans abandon Londinium, it was left as a ghost town as were other British roman towns, for several centuries, whereas many of their settlements in Europe were lived in and rebuilt on for centuries.

[@karenlafrentz]

G'day Mike, thank you for the correct pronouncement of our words. The Emu's won the war because our troops were directed by the idiots of the House of Lords 25,000 odd kilometre's away! Forgot to mention I have had My Heritage since it's beginning but I have never paid for it. I stopped using it ages ago, as I could not get past my father's family before they arrived in Australia. Although I have found the ntz part of my surname is a bastard addition in Prussia! I am NOT adopted and I didn't even know my father's name until I lost the plot at 18! I knew my Dad wasn't my biological Dad, as he was Chinese! My feature's are not even close to looking Chinese lol. I am going to have another look at My Heritage as has a LOT more feature's! Also thank you for another awesome video and yes I talk a LOT too!

[@stephaniebutler81]

I'm related to Walt Disney, too!! Hey cuuuz! lol

[@ryanortiz8836]

ME TOO SMALL SMALL WORLD

[@list25]

What's up!??!!

[@markgwynn133]

Mike, Thank you for never failing to inform and amuse me. Be well. and have a Happy New Year! Mark

[@list25]

Same to you!

[@ScottieD813]

Wasn't "The Year Without Summer" the year that Mary Shelley wrote her famous novel, Frankenstein? I'm going off of memory so I could be wrong. But if I'm right, then there's an extra fact for you information addicts! You're welcome. I think.

[@julianaylor4351]

Yes, the group she was with we staying in a house abroad, and couldn't go out because of the weather. They all wrote or told stories, Mary came up with Frankenstein from a nightmare she had.

[@rossjones5741]

Hey Mike! this wasn't on your 25 list but rather interesting. There is a picture of Herman Goering in front of a TX. flag after he was captured in color. It was the 32nd Inf. Division. The scouts caught him. Ironically, I was a scout in the U.S. Army in the 80's and from TX. small world huh.

[@stischer47]

LOL...the Greek Olympics were done naked because in one of the first Olympics, a runner lost his tunic...and won. The footrace was the most important and prestigious. Everyone figured he won because he was naked, so it was adopted by everyone else.

[@elultimo102]

Due to the male nudity, it was death for any woman caught viewing the games.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

There is another - most likely mythical - story about the nudity. A woman, dressed as a man, supposedly took part and won her sport (iirc, a running race). When she was found out, they banned clothing for the next games. Some versions say she was thrown off a cliff, others that it was the punishment for women turning up to watch in future. Just goes to show how difficult the job of a historian can be!

[@patticampana9458]

Love your channel. As a history buff, I knew most of these, except the joke. Keep being informative, appreciated🙂✌️

[@list25]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@aurthurpendragon1015]

The Epic of Gilgamesh was the oldest book ever written. Hell, even The Odyssey is older than Genji.

[@chasmom]

The Epic of Gilgamesh was a religious poem as was the Odyssey. Genji was written as fiction.

[@oldmangaming6495]

You said Twenty Five for 25 and Twenty One for 24. lol

[@darraghcorr2520]

@oldmangaming6495 I didn't catch that first time. I saw your comment and went back to check. 👍👏

[@edgyfox322]

When you asked who would win the emu war you showed Ostriches not emus.

[@TJ4YUPIBuilding]

I love your videos and glad you came back. Long time fan..❤🎉

[@list25]

Yay! Thank you!

[@richewilson6394]

If we didn't have the year without summer we wouldn't have had Mary Shelley write her book Frankenstein during a trip in Geneva. Along with other notable writers, Lord George Byron, and John William Polidori.

[@Wicked_Knight]

Hmm, i believe i spend far to much time on the internet learning random things about the world over. There's fewer and fewer things in videos like these that either i don't already know something about or that dont surprise me to have happened.. 🤷‍♂️ It is what it is.

[@loraweems8712]

I wish you had mentioned that, even though Edison's handwriting duplicator failed, the descendants of that same "failed" invention are still in use today... as tattooing machines

[@julianaylor4351]

The Mesopotamian zero must have been invented by early accountants, who wanted to balance their ' books '. 😁

[@Tiffan13]

My grandfather was part of the flying tigers during WWII

[@peggysuedavis3395]

I like it when you break out singing! Most words will trigger a song for me and often I do the same. Great work! Love the channel and you too.

[@Lakusus]

How about a list 25 of the most incredible things that have fallen from the sky? Include the 1833 meteor shower that convinced slaves that the sky was, indeed, falling.

[@Jester34152]

R.Kelly swears by the urine as a shower (shampoo conditioner)mouth wash and even exfoliation 😂

[@brentsmith5604]

"if you have 1 sandwich, and I eat it... How many sandwiches do you have?" People before Mesopotamia: "I don't know!!! Someone needs to invent that!!"

[@matthewhetzler4912]

A bakery on Pudding Lane is the most British thing I have ever heard.

[@kobieravenhenderson1756]

Wow, I was 25th to like the video. All your videos are great. Keep it up Mike.

[@julianaylor4351]

I wonder what interesting historical facts someone will list about our time, centuries from now. 🤔

[@nathaeladalyah9681]

I've watched 3 or 4 dozen of your videos so far, but this is definitely one of the best. There was a lot packed in here, and I had to look some of it up

[@cindyhoomalu1566]

My husband heard your intro and told me all about the ghost army. That was later formed into psy-ops in the Army. That one is pretty interesting.

[@nateroseman]

I'd watch naked Olympics, just saying.😁

[@ChIGuY-town22_]

Being adopted means we were just loved more. The only thing I know are their names and nationalities.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

You got picked! Out of all the others there, your parents _chose_ you. You're darn tootin' that you're loved more!

[@JClark-oe2rr]

Lookin' good, Mike!

[@seanwiley558]

Sooo am I the only one who caught the electric pen.... I think that's how Tatoo artists came about.... 😂

[@richewilson6394]

The electric pen was also very hazardous to work with as well because of the battery and its ink supply. Somebody came along and saw it in the shop window and thought it would be perfect for using as a new tool in doing tattooing. They took the machine and fixed it to where they could use it to do ink on a person which before then was done individually by hand with needles.

[@sheilaholmes996]

I had a stamp collection when I was a kid, back in the day.

[@donbrunodelamancha1927]

It was not straight urine. It was highly distilled

[@Bigvenomsnakeboss]

Wait wait! When did mike come back? I stopped watching back you left

[@list25]

September 2022

[@Bigvenomsnakeboss]

@@list25 that's great! You're looking happy and healthy too, I'm happy for yea

[@chucktheruiner588]

I was taught that they used urine to whiten their teeth, not as a mouthwash.

[@davebeech236]

Your pirate joke was terrible. Trying to make pirates smiley, when we all know they're actually Somali. (thank you Milton Jones!)

[@hollye142]

Never fail to surprise me

[@julesstephenson8935]

I think your pirate joke was funnier than the Samarian one, however, I also love puns and wordplay. So, I might perhaps be in the minority.

[@BreadApologist]

A printing press to make information more available by mass producing books and pamphlets and such? Nonsense, it’ll never catch on. What next a way to communicate with others over long distances by way of machine?

[@carmelmhennessy9738]

Happy New Year Mike. 🎉

[@geraldbankhead2780]

You have the eyepatch part backwards, It was used so on daylight raids the pirate could go below deck in the dark and still see.

[@calvinaland]

If that paid advertisement is going to become a regular thing I am going to be unsubscribing.

[@danaandres-wq6lw]

Probably my sleeping meds kicking in but does his shirt look like a night gown 😂

[@KellyNewman-z5r]

🙄 cant believe you showed ostriches , in an emu story 😳😳

[@chelseykimrey5848]

I know so many random facts now because of this channel 😂 ❤❤

[@IrishMike22]

YES!!! Finally 💚

[@mj2495]

¿Because wearing two eye patches is hard...?

[@pattypatriciapfaff4642]

I have Mark Queen of Scots in my family tree

[@TheREALJosephTurner]

It was funnier than the Sumerian joke. Honest!

[@elultimo102]

Mike lost considerable girth in the past 5 years------I wish I could.

[@list25]

I believe in you

[@bearnunnemaker5453]

Is my heritage run by the Mormon Church?

[@timlane9216]

How bad would your breath have to use pee to cover it up

[@paulmayes76]

Yeah your joke was funnier just a little bit

[@jimmcmurray857]

That joke was just as bad hshaha love your lists

[@pattycake8272]

Not funny but way more funny than the fart joke

[@waterwitch8902]

Fire, 1666. Coincidence? 😂

[@Strangestangel64]

If they left off the one....YIKES !! That would be absolutely creepy, fascinating and terrifying, all at the same time, right? Right?

[@mingfanzhang8927]

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[@mingfanzhang4600]

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[@FloopyNupers]

Good stuff homie

[@matthewdobbie6740]

Awesome

[@SwampyColorado420]

I guess the internet is out of new things.

[@real.hatsune.miku.39]

You said 21 when it was 24 lol

[@patticampana9458]

Yeah, but, that pen did do tattoos.

[@JulianneRemley-l2q]

Interesting facts and I used to my heritage to check out my family.

[@retiredtom1654]

Keep up the good/interesting work. This is one of my favorite KZbinrs.

[@curtishughes5430]

Interesting video, great job.

[@list25]

Thank you very much!

[@Strangestangel64]

Learn about...vocabulary. English was obe of my minors in college. I saw the video on "tenses" and knew them all, now please do one on vocabulary, origins of not so often used words. Thanks, your loyal fan, strangestangel64

[@ThomasMuirAudionaut]

Cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) is a cationic quaternary *ammonium* compound used in some types of mouthwashes, toothpastes, lozenges, throat sprays, breath sprays, and nasal sprays. so you probably are using ammonia.

[@julianaylor4351]

Modern pirates wouldn't need eye patches, modern reactions lenses sunglasses do the same job.

[@elultimo102]

My lenses darkened fast, but took a long time to lighten when indoors.

[@julianaylor4351]

@@elultimo102 You brought poor quality ones, get them from a proper opticians.

[@GothGuy885]

just lucky that when Columbus discovered America, he didn't accidentally end up in Australia around this time. or we would be eating Emu for thanks giving

[@loraweems8712]

I've raised emu. The meat is quite good. It's dark meat.

[@GothGuy885]

@@loraweems8712 interesting! i've never eaten it b4, but did have an ostrich burger at the Baghdad Cafe on Rt 66 one time,

[@elultimo102]

I wondered why emus weren't raised for food. Imagine the drumsticks, and the "buffalo wings."

[@chrismills9620]

Emu is delicious

[@midge7451]

The family tree feature on my Heritage isn't new. It existed back in 2020. HNY🎉

[@everybodyslawyersusanbetzj5721]

If pirates really kept parrots, they go for shiny things, including eyes. Patches may have also served to protect the eye if the parrot was on the shoulder.

[@Wheelchairspeeder]

Wow Mike I'm related to walt Disney as well..hey cousin 😂

[@shoxxyryry]

I think another theory about pirates wearing eye patches is to not get double vision when they drink heavily

[@riffdagg6701]

Was that 21? Or 24?

[@thomassschwarz5998]

Close. The reason for a pirates eye patch is they would switch the patch to the other eye so it would adjust to the light change quicker. One eye for outside one for inside

[@PaiviProject]

Wow 👍

[@ddavis4730]

First

[@michaelwalton7776]

Ok. So, what was the oldest recorded "Yo Mama" joke?🤔😁

[@spadelump]

I knew all these facts bar three lol. A well read person on the spectrum knows historical facts to annoy ppl with 😅

[@ThomasMuirAudionaut]

for ''biggest sports brands'' hear '' worst child labour exploiters''

[@genreofstubby]

HAHAHAHA! emus are not ostriches nor do they look like they have mad bird disease. HAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!

[@katnoreiga9762]

I'll watch whatever you put on all great. Keep trying new to things

[@markmcnew8420]

The concept of using zero in mathematics was brought to us by the the Maya the Maya not Mesopotamia

[@Shannonrm]

I really really don't like you but I like your facts

[@BigJeremyBeyer]

The Ghost Army reminds me of the Battle of Rock Ridge.

[@adamruff7013]

Did the electric pen really fail or did it just get turned into a tattoo gun 😅

[@debbieellett9093]

👏👏👏👏

[@eaglebauersrecordcollection]

Civil war field surgeons used urine to sterilize wounds also

[@KathyEvans-fo6uf]

Maskelyne also made the Suez Canal disappear.

[@grenadelauncher96]

please stop your jokes

[@list25]

NEVER!

[@karenharper4318]

Thomas Jefferso. Said beer is proof that there is God

[@jenniferwatts3887]

I pay for no adds so to sneak them in Ur videos is just not on.

[@loridegrande2350]

Im adopted as well and i usec my heritage to

[@seansullivan7928]

Apoarently you cant say "fat butt" on KZbin

[@divyagianani4111]

Zero was invented by Aryabhatta