50 Greatest Historical Events That Never Happened

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[@delphinazizumbo8674]

i know what paper is and I can read, but what's "writing"?

[@rons4297]

You just must attack the Bible. Sadly you will answer for this.

[@willyword3413]

You can't say 50 greatest historical events that never happend, then say May or May not have transpired ..... come on now

[@JesusisLorddeusvult]

Got a big one for ya.... Mohammed of islam is a fictional character..... and there's no historical record for the "great" city of mecca b4 the invent of islam

[@JesusisLorddeusvult]

No maps.. not mentioned by Roman's Syrians... Persians... not a word

[@YoungGandalf2325]

I heard that there was once a KZbinr that had like a hundred different channels and presented on such a wide array of topics that he was practically a genius, a modern day Library of Alexandria. But it's probably just a myth.

[@tripsaplenty1227]

he is real but he's demonstrably wrong about 25% of the time.

[@katsmeow6946]

@@tripsaplenty1227😂😂😂

[@that_celtics_fan]

The problem with this comment is that if you actually watch his channels, it's very apparent that he actually knows nothing about anything he talks about. He just reads scripts. He's done videos on someone on biographics, then he does a casual criminalist on the same person and reads the script and he stops every 5 seconds cause he's shocked by something he just read. I'm not complaining, I love simon, and his side stories are fun, but this is a fact.

[@oracleofdelphi4533]

I heard he had long flowing hair the likes of which all Vikings envy.

[@oracleofdelphi4533]

@@that_celtics_fan dude, don't be "that guy"

[@CartoonHero1986]

The Alice Cooper one always made my friend's mom laugh when people told her this. She was a HUGE Alice Cooper fan and whilst pregnant with my friend she went to one of his concerts, and also had a backstage pass (she had won a radio contest or something). She said when Alice noticed she was pregnant (cause she was barely 3 months along) he went from rock superstar badass character he puts on during shows, to extremely caring mom-friend watching out for her. He demanded the others not smoke in the green room while she was there, made sure she had food and/or something without alcohol to drink, and even gave her his chair so she could sit.

[@nickychimes4719]

If your mother gave birth to your friend, then that person is your brother/sister,, and not your friend

[@CartoonHero1986]

@@nickychimes4719 Correct but I said "Friend's mom" not "my mom" so this friend, nor her mother (father or brother) are related to me in anyway. Hence they are a friend not a brother or sister ;)

[@nickychimes4719]

@@CartoonHero1986 learn to write properly

[@CartoonHero1986]

@@nickychimes4719 Other then issues with run on sentences there isn't anything wrong with what I wrote. It clearly denotes "my friend's mom." Are you perhaps confused by the term "mom-friend"? Which is a reference to the kind of person/friend that becomes highly protective and maternal in their behaviour when entertaining. Like those friends that are always asking you if you've had lunch/dinner, or check in on you like someone mom rather than casual friend. You doing okay there? You kind of randomly went off twice for no reason.

[@tmoney6371]

@@nickychimes4719learn to read properly, he’s clearly correct and didn’t edit because there isn’t an edited note

[@nininoona]

As someone who has a very large tapestry of Lady Godiva's ride hanging in her home, I'm ok with it not being historically accurate. Its a beautiful piece of artwork.

[@urbz6712]

Some of the best works of art come from the B.S. that is religion.

[@josephsmith6777]

A tattoed that on someone's back covering the entire back

[@josephsmith6777]

​@@urbz6712100% and some of the most beautiful work is in or was for the Vatican

[@dalmetherian]

​@@urbz6712Lady Godiva's story has nothing to do with religion. It's about protesting excessive taxation.

[@dalmetherian]

You should have known it wasn't accurate as soon as you heard only one man tried to see her riding past naked.

[@Hykje]

It was under Mythbusters's test of Archimedes's death ray when Jamie Hyneman said "The death ray isn't working -I'm standing in the middle of it and I'm not dead yet."

[@d.l.d.l.8140]

People who put stainless steel exteriors on buildings have to monitor the heat generated at reflection points because they’ve started fires on buildings the sun’s rays are reflected on. And the myth busters are a poor source.

[@melissasaint3283]

Did you hear that since then, Brenden Sener set up a different experiment that shows the Ray might actually have worked? He's 13 years old!! It was a project he was working on for a science fair!! 😂 MIT also ran their own experiments and came to the conclusion it could have been a real, working weapon, btw. There were two big problems with Myth busters. It was a reality TV show, so everything ran on a comparatively tight schedule, and was focused on entertainment with time constraints, which will never be really ideal for science...so when they proved something was possible, that was usually reliable, but when they failed to prove it possible, that often wasn't really a very airtight negative. Look at that first season with the "urban legend" about the guy running at a skyscraper window and breaking it to plummet to his death. They couldn't make it happen. The window set up in their studio was SO strong. But they tried and tried and TRIED till it did.... because the newspaper article had already been dug up by the research team that showed it DID happen IRL. Without that article, they'd surely have declared it busted. The second problem is that our schools dont train the public well in logic or experimental methodology, so of course, we remember Myth Busters conclusions as the last word on a subject. But while it's a good show, their negatives are often NOT the last word. The format has big limitations.

[@davidrogers8030]

Sure some Greek Prof got it to work with individually aimed polished shields decades ago. Also they supposedly changed the system after Einstein's result from 6 being high to 1, and heard Marie Antoinette's quote was her aunt.

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

I remember watching a history show that was either on BBC or Channel 4, featuring Dan Snow and Adam Hart-Davis. and they did it, they made a wooden frame covered in small mirrors that could be individually adjusted, took it to Crete and tried it on a model boat and it worked. the thing is I suspect it didn't set fire to the boats but the sails which would have been much faster and cause chaos. ADDENDUM I have found the show its "What the Ancients Did for Us" from the BBC in 2005. unfortunately the ancient Greek episode is not on youtube.

[@itarry4]

​@@GreatSageSunWukongyeah they'd have been mad not to target the sails. Much easier target and with that much burning cloth flying around its highly likely many ships caught fire due to the amount of oil and others flammable stuff they'd have had on board. It's why they were so worried about even a contained flame let alone the sails going up on ships full of soldiers who'd panic and get in the way unlike possibly trained, experienced sailors who'd have known how to deal with it.

[@legendaryhunter1672]

As a Greek I will say the stories about Ancient Greece are perfect for describing us as shitposters even when the internet wasn't even a concept

[@reedbender1179]

🤣

[@jake_]

The story about the 300 Spartans fighting alone did not originate in ancient Greece though, did it? Because Herodotus never claimed such a thing.

[@legendaryhunter1672]

@@jake_ Personally I view it more as a national folklore and the numbers the Simon described seems more realistic than 300 dudes against a literal army

[@the_cringe_nerd]

​@legendaryhunter1672 was never JUST 300 dudes. There were other men there as well from other city state while 300 of them were from Sparta. It's just that history remembers (due to pop culture and recent films) that we remember it otherwise.

[@bertellijustin6376]

@@jake, well I mean 300 Spartans plus their squires/helots and 700 thespians are the ones who fought the final battle to the last man. Most of the other Allie’s either fled or were ordered away by king leonidas. Depends on who you believe on the last part. The 300 tend to get the credit because they were the ones in charge and had accepted the duty of being the final rear guard to buy time for Greece at large

[@RainbowYak]

Swiss person here - the myth about Einstein's poor performance in math class was actually created by German people's confusion with the Swiss school system. Einstein was born in Ulm (Germany) but he grew up in the Canton of Aargau (Switzerland). Both the German as well as the Swiss grading system use numbers ranging from 1-6. However, most Germans don't know that the Swiss grading system is the exact inverse of their own. In Germany, 1 = A+ and 6 = F but in Switzerland 6 = A+ and 1 = F. Einstein was obviously very good at math, which is why he only ever had 6's in his report cards. The first guy who wrote a biography about Einstein was German, though, and clearly didn't do his research. He simply looked at the numbers and - based on the grading system in his own country - assumed that Einstein must've been a total loser at math. Obviously, that's preposterous. Another well-known myth spread by the same, unreliable biographer is that Einstein supposedly failed his high school finals and had to repeat his last year of high school because he was so bad at math. Einstein did indeed fail an important exam but it wasn't his high school finals. After successfully completing high school, Einstein took the entry exam to study physics at the ETH Zurich. He failed his first attempt, though not as a result of poor math skills. The true reason was that Einstein sucked at French and French was a mandatory part of this exam. Einstein's first biographer probably didn't get this because Germany isn't a multilingual country and French isn't a mandatory language at school. Einstein ended up enjoying his free time and took the entry exam once more the following year - at which point he passed comfortably.

[@EllieD.Violet]

These days Germany is very much a multilingual country. It wasn't back then, though.

[@yalilbrothegonewild8164]

Einstein could not read and write worth crap. And his wife created the theory of relativity

[@oldstockamerican4033]

Einstein was no genius, his "theory" of relativity was destroyed by his contemporaries and quickly swept under the rug. He had "family" in media so.... "genius" 😂

[@EllieD.Violet]

@@oldstockamerican4033 What contemporaries 'destroyed' his theories? 1) Names? 2) Titles of their theses? 3) In which scientific publications can these be found? 4) Publishing date? 5) Which exact parts of Einstein's theses were 'destroyed'? Details. Greetings from civilization 🇪🇺

[@oldstockamerican4033]

@@EllieD.Violet My dear Friend I'm not doing that work for you, I'm only telling you that you've been lied to - Einstein was no Genius. If you do some research though you'll find enough to show you that I'm telling you the truth. It's up to you to find the truth.

[@trevormillar1576]

"George. Did you chopdown my cherry tree?" "Icannot tell a lie father, Benedict Arnold did it and ran away".

[@todddenio3200]

Before continuing to condemn Benedict Arnold as a coward and traitor, maybe you could take a little bit of time and do some factual research on him and afterwards come back and comment on what you found out about him. He is one of the most misrepresented people in American history.

[@DS-ud6ys]

I have this hatchet in my collection. Near mint condition, the head was replaced only once and the handle twice.

[@bigploppa154]

@@todddenio3200Ehh, yes and no. Was Arnold disrespected within the US military despite his heroics? Absolutely. But regardless of how you look at it, he is a traitor. He betrayed the army he had sworn his loyalty to in turn for favors given by their opposition.

[@Hakar17]

​@@RockBrentwoodThis is great 😂😂

[@jackneefus]

When I was a child, the other kids would say "I cannot tell a lie. Popeye did it."

[@BromdenChief]

An addendum for the "Let them eat brioche" topic: At the time when the quote was born, there was a law in France which said that if bakers ran out of bread, they had to sell the fancier bakery products cheaper. The reason for introducing the law was that some bakers made less bread so they could cash in on the fancier stuff.

[@MrSophire]

Hmm, the reminds me of “eye for an eye” law. The reason the law was made was so the people wouldn’t go over board with their revenge. So you only killed the man who your father instead of going in to his house killing him, raping his wife and daughters ( or taking the daughters as sex slaves) then killing them with his sons and household and burning and salting the earth so the land is forever cursed/unusable in case a person did some how survive the rampage.

[@wingy200]

@@MrSophire Rome: "I don't see anything wrong with this."

[@damianjblack]

@@wingy200 Carthago delenda est.

[@annieinwonderland]

​@wingy200 is that Dr Suss quote is in a dr Suss book. Did look it up as it's not Mandela effect

[@wingy200]

@annieinwonderland I have no idea what you're talking about homie.

[@michaelarrowood4315]

Brilliant, Simon! Thank you for this excellent debunking of historical myths.

[@MegaElgreco]

Saying, for example, Solomn's stories were likely embellished, is hardly debunking. It is the opinion of scholars thousands of years later that perhaps some things were exaggerated. While on some of these saying x figure wasn't even born at an events time, is factual, some of the rest is conjecture. I do find it interesting we can take this information as gospel but the rest not😂.

[@pirobot668beta]

Do an episode about David Mech, the researcher that coined the terms 'alpha', 'beta' and 'gamma' when studying Wolf behavior. What he didn't realize was that natural wolf-packs are extended families, while his Wolfs were all orphans from un-related packs. The 'orphans' behaved with aggression and violence, establishing pecking-orders...they were 'strangers' to each other. He's been trying for decades to get people to stop using the term 'alpha male'; they never existed, it was bad science.

[@billyjoemacallister9524]

Bah! Next you’ll be saying Sigma male isn’t a thing. If I wasn’t Sigma what I would be doing with all these DMT and raw elk??

[@cosumel]

Those “alpha males” are like alpha software. Unstable, irrational, and not ready to be released into public.

[@melissasaint3283]

Yessssss!

[@melissasaint3283]

​@@billyjoemacallister9524 😂 right? And a "sigma wolf" just describes a grown male son who is off trying to find a mate. I saw the saddest thing one day....questions online where people were trying to find out if Sigma came before Alpha in the Greek alphabet, to I guess confirm that their ideas that they were "Sigma" personalities also meant they were better than an Alpha male. I wanted to take them by the shoulders and be like "oh honey, no ...please, you can't get your education off of Reddit and TikTok, this is no good"

[@Fatherofheroesandheroines]

​@billyjoemacallister9524 don't forget the bears.

[@IamNasman]

I would imagine Ceasers last words were more along the lines of ‘Ahrgghh, arghhhh, help, murder, arghhh, arghhh, gurgle, gurgle!’, rather than ‘et tu brute’.

[@waitwhat1029]

I always just imagine him saying ouchimus and falling over...

[@pollauritsabrahamsenjq1618]

It just says arrrgh

[@thirdcoast2995]

Shakespeare's version is better, accurate or not.

[@gomahklawm4446]

@thirdcoast2995 That's subjective, a matter of opinion. Most people prefer the truth over lies...

[@thecrippledone3325]

Those are words of a coward not a Caesar

[@SuperNovaRider]

Being a German, I can attest to the fact that the sentence of JFK "Ich bin ein Berliner" is grammatically correct and is something that a German, that wants to express that he is from Berlin, would say. If a German wants to know if the other German is from Berlin, they may ask "bist du ein Berliner" (are you a ). It is regularly used.

[@NeilCWCampbell]

Awesome. I always thought it was the whole. Ich bin heist vs mir ist heist? Glad to be corrected by a native speaker. Danke schön

[@SiqueScarface]

@@NeilCWCampbell It is even more complicated. First, while in Northwestern Germany, the jelly donut is indeed called "Berliner Ballen" or short "Berliner", it is not called that way in Berlin, where it is named "Pfannkuchen" (pan cake), while what others call a pan cake is called "Eierkuchen" (egg cake). So no Berlinian at the time would even have understood "jelly donut". (Germany famously has many words for the same food throughout its country, and especially words for bakery items vary so much that whenever a German comes into another part of Germany, he has to relearn the words for ordering his staple foods at a bakery.) Second, there is indeed a subtle difference between "Ich bin Berliner" and "Ich bin ein Berliner". Its connotations are very different from what the popular story tries to sell to you. If you are saying "Ich bin Berliner", you are telling that in fact, you are from Berlin, born and raised. But if you are saying "Ich bin ein Berliner", you imply that there are many other also coming from Berlin, and you are one of them, hence you use "ein" (one of many). Whoever put that German quote into John F. Kennedy's speech did a marvellous job at finding the right words. Because that was exactly what John F. Kennedy wanted to express: We are with you. We feel with you. We fight with you. We are of the Berlinians, despite not being native to Berlin (which would have been "Ich bin Berliner").

[@igor_kossov]

The myth was worth it for inspiring Eddie Izzard's hilarious bit from Dress to Kill. "It's slaaang, he's Ameeerican, he's a DOOOnut. Fucken Doonut!

[@SiqueScarface]

@@igor_kossov But someone from Berlin, who is supposed to misunderstand John F. Kennedy, is just staring blankly, because instead, he does not understand the joke.

[@alo5301]

Biste een Berliner, Atze?

[@skyhawk_4526]

I had to laugh at the painting of the young-boy version of George Washington holding his hatchet and looking exactly like a miniaturized version of the middle-aged adult George Washington. Lol.

[@DM-kl4em]

Hahaha. The hypocrisy is ironic too. A fictional story about the first American president is falsely represented as fact, all for the purpose of teaching kids that you should NEVER tell a lie under ANY circumstances.

[@davidfinch7407]

I "learned" about the supposed death of Catherine the Great way back in 1978 in Advanced Placement European History. It felt like AP History had given me special access to hilarious history stories that I could use to make my friends laugh and girlfriends recoil in shock. I credit this with being one of the reasons I love history. I remember being sad when I found out it was all bunk.

[@banhammer3904]

Same here. Mine printed off a whole chapter of lurid tales, and gave it to us to take home and read. He gleefully said that he was peddling smut. There was also a story about Rasputin having a massive wart-covered wang and Martin Luther dying on the toilet trying to poop.

[@markrossow6303]

Had AP Russian History semester

[@riverotter68]

The TV sitcom The Bing Bang Theory repeated the lie as fact

[@jdodds1612]

The George Washington silver dollar story is almost certainly true. However it really wasn't that impressive because a dollar went a lot farther back then

[@skippy987654]

Brilliant

[@stevenredpath9332]

😂

[@JohnBickner]

It had his face on it

[@mickyhorn6731]

Badum tsh

[@nancypine9952]

When I took English History in high school I was told, flat out, that King John was surrounded by angry barons who forced him to sign the Magna Carta under threat of death. I never heard the apocryphal stories, and didn't know they existed.

[@mikereid1195]

Me too.

[@GBfanatic15]

same

[@algini12]

John's reign began in a bad way. The nation was bankrupted by his brother Richard, who was legendary for selling whatever he could to fund his crusade to the holy land. He then shipwrecked on the way back home in Germany and costed a huge ransom. Then Richard died of a siege wound, and John then had to raise taxes on his Baron's which angered them, and caused the whole Magna Carta thing. It's also kind of hard to fund wars to keep your lands in France if you got no money to do it. Maybe he was a bad king too, but he was dealt a bad hand to start with.

[@damianjblack]

​@@algini12I have a fondness for John. If he and the Pope had both been a bit less stubborn, things might have worked out better for him.

[@AnotherPointOfView944]

That time Atlas carried a giant pancake on his shoulders. Still true for flat earthers.

[@jodyfitzpatrick1679]

Hahaha this killed me 😂

[@captainspaulding5963]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@B.V.Luminous]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Timbo6669]

Thank god….i thought Atlas was an ancient dwarf trying to ten pin bowl!?

[@fainitesbarley2245]

Clever!!

[@CheesecakeDevourer1350]

I love the sponsors Simon decides to work with. They’re never stupid scammy crap and they’re pretty relevant to him and his content. And he’s always great at advertising them.

[@johngaran6379]

I'm beginning to think all these historical figures were replaying these events over and over again in their heads. Then, a few years later, thought, "If I would have said...., it would have been a lot cooler." Then they realized, "I'll just make everyone believe I said...."

[@aldunlop4622]

As I always say, "never let the truth get in the way of a good story".

[@DoctorMantisTob0ggan]

They were having shower thoughts before they had showers

[@white_isnt_a_race2338]

Welcome to history

[@Bubbaist]

I read an article by a car dealer who saw a scruffy man walk in and thought, “He looks like Alice Cooper. He’s not buying anything.” So he let his coworker take care of him. Turns out, it was Alice Cooper, and he bought 6 new, high-end cars.

[@travisinthetrunk]

I’ve never heard this story, but Lionel Ritchie has a very similar one.

[@oldfrittenfett1276]

I have a similar story. An old, strange looking man walked into a "forever 18" store and bought a ton of cheap jewerelly. A friend of mine worked there. Turned out, it was Alice Cooper who bought some "dirty Diamonds" to throw to the audience in his "dirty Diamonds" Tour. I was at the concert, he threw cheap jewellery into the crowd.

[@rosemadder5547]

​@@oldfrittenfett1276 I went to an Alice Cooper/Rob Zombie show. I had guitar picks thrown right on me and I got swamped... Everyone's beers spilled on me... My own beer as well.. I couldn't even get a hold of a pick 😂 A person gave me one though 😅 I didn't see what Alice threw out in our crowd but he threw stuff as well by the handful.

[@honeybadger3570]

​@@rosemadder5547 I got hit with and snatched Korn's drumstick while in the mash pit at an Ozzy concert (and DefTones) when I was 17. I had the drumstick and concert ticket framed and still have it almost 30 years later 😊 🙏🏼 So awesome someone gave you one after being mauled bc of them 😅

[@route2070]

Alice Cooper has a syndicated classic rock radio program. Listening to him on the program and how calm and normal he is makes me find him the God father of shock rock pretty funny.

[@jessrose4301]

Back in college, my British Literature professor mentioned Martin Luther and how he nailed his 95 theses to the church door. One girl with a horrified look on her face raised her hand and asked, "Why did he nail his poop to the door?!" My very dignified professor burst out laughing and took several minutes before she could continue.

[@TexasTimeLord]

Actually the 4th Doctor was caught by Newton sitting in one of his apple trees, and the Doctor explained all about gravity and the Laws of Motion to Newton during dinner later that day. It's well documented.

[@mizstories9646]

I thought it was the 14th doctor. Also, what is this gravity you speak of? Did you mean mavity?

[@Mrgoofyoops]

Actually, it’s gravy tea. A rather odd comestible derived by straining day old gravy through a paper filter in an attempt to render something useful from a nasty leftover. The laws of motion describe the convulsions that follow the consumption of the gravy tea.

[@marcbeebee6969]

​@@Mrgoofyoops 😂

[@SydNixon]

Archimedes actually said: "I'm a streaker!"

[@ronangaffney7365]

No russel t davis you can’t rewrite history the way your rewriting the basis plot of doctor who lemme guess newton overcame gravity by the power of being a woman and despite being a literal genius he didn’t realise he could just let it go

[@CaptainQuark9]

Awwwww, c'mon, Simon... SURELY you must know that it's "Et tu, BruTAY"! He might have BEEN a brute, but his name wasn't 'Brute'.

[@draconity]

I was gonna say this but then I realized it’s Simon, he has been unconscious until these shows started

[@Borninthe9ties]

Come on now, the dude just regurgitates information in an entertaining manner. He isn't some genius.

[@mlw5665]

Brutus was a hero. Sic semper tyrannis! (Motto of Commonwealth of Virginia, not a suggestion)

[@norrinradd8952]

This comment is better than the video.

[@Dr_Larken]

He’s taking a page out of HeckleFish’s book of pronunciations!

[@TonyCharity206]

Love your work! Another great video!

[@the-chillian]

3:40 -- The silver dollar indeed existed in colonial America. They just weren't minted by any American or English authorities. The "dollar" was in fact a silver Spanish peso coin worth 8 reales; the "piece of 8" of classical pirate lore. It was very commonly circulated in the American colonies where the name of a similar German coin, dollar (originally "thaler") became attached to it. Hence the slang which persisted into the early 20th century of a quarter dollar being referred to as "two bits". Since the coin was sometimes physically divided into 8 pieces to make small change, the prices on the New York Stock Exchange, founded in 1792 which was before American money was standardized, quoted prices in half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenths of a dollar before switching to decimal in 2001. (Yes, it was that late.)

[@dearthditch]

I so hated the stock market as a kid. (Dad was a broker). Dividing dollars into bizarre decimals made no sense. But they apparently liked it 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@williambowling8211]

And the phrase "two bits" meant 2/8 of a real eventually meaning $0.25.

[@the-chillian]

@williambowling8211 I said that though.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

I'm no numismatist, but I'm pretty sure a silver Spanish peso and a silver dollar are not the same coin.

[@the-chillian]

@@ThatWriterKevin The peso (at the time also called a "Spanish dollar") was not exactly the same as the later US silver dollar, but if you said "dollar" to a colonial American, they'd take you to be referring to the peso. See the Wikipedia article "Spanish dollar" for a starting point.

[@lisamartinbradley1039]

Kevin, the one about Ozzy is true. He talked about it on his podcast or reality show, or it may have been an episode of The Osbornes Want to Believe. It was supposed to be a rubber bat but someone replaced it with a real bat. Although, the bat was not alive, it hadn't been dead long which is why all the blood poured out when he bit the head off. He said he was angry when it happened and the guy who did it got fired.

[@johncentamore1052]

He also said he went to the hospital that night for rabies shots

[@ferretyluv]

Yep, I remember that VH1 interview.

[@lisamartinbradley1039]

Oh, I didn't see the VH1 interview. The one I saw was recent, like last year. He was with his son.

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

Um... biting off a dead bat's head is _not_ enticing your fans to kill a bushel of live kittens. That can hardly be considered "true." Perhaps it's "the strangest game of telephone ever," but I certainly wouldn't call it "true."

[@AndrewJohnson-oy8oj]

I imagine that was entirely true. That said, I am imagining that which how drug-addled his brain is, he could have just heard the story third-hand and created a memory of it being true.

[@marcels2598]

Regarding Einstein. I heard the grading system is the reason for the myth. In German the grades are not A-F, but 1-6 (1 is the best), in Switzerland it is 6-1 (6 is the best). Einstein had 6s in algebra, geometry and physics. This would look very bad, had he graduaded in Germany. But he graduaded in Switzerland. (Oh, and there was a time, when some germans did like to talk bad about Einstein...)

[@Lodrik18]

We (germany) had a child show "Castle Einstein" and the opening song had a line "even Einstein had a D in math and was later a total genius (Selbst Einstein hatte nur ne 4 in Mathe und war später mal total genial.)

[@Csaurer2370]

​@schizoafekt In Switzerland it is basically like that: 6 perfect, 5 good, 4 just sufficient, and everything less than 4 is not passing a test.

[@marcels2598]

@schizoafekt D (or 4) is mostly considered as a bad grade in germany. But that is not the point Lodrik18 did want to make. 🙂 The song he mentioned (like the show) is well known by the millennials in germany. The 4 there is just an artistic choice (better rhythm than 5 or 6). But it plays into the myth that Einstein allegedly did had bad grades in school.

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

I always assumed it was because normal math bored him. Like many savants nowadays, they're so far ahead of the class that they just don't do the work, and get bad grades.

[@Nariasan]

Switzerland just has to do everything the weird way around, don't they? 😅 First Schwiizerdütch, then a bizarre grading system... 😂

[@pabrowncoatbrewer7154]

When I was younger, there was a DJ on Philadelphia radio that used to say this. If Mama Cass had given that ham sandwich to Karen Carpenter, they’d both be alive today.

[@heywoodjablome5380]

Ashamed to admit it, but I laughed

[@utterlyviolet]

@pabrowncoatbrewer7154 Pretty sure plenty of folks told that joke.

[@pabrowncoatbrewer7154]

@@utterlyviolet Others very well may have. But not on Philadelphia radio when I was of school age. John Dabella was that DJ.

[@NeilCWCampbell]

I laughed but I'm not happy with myself 🤣 Still smaller planes safer, if that plane had been smaller the big bopper would still be alive. Miss you mama Cass 😢

[@samedwards6683]

Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative video. Great job. Keep it up.

[@amata415]

Vlad, the Vegetarian… That’s good! Has a nice ring to it.

[@jasontoddman7265]

And that's why Count Duckula (A 1980s British TV cartoon character) was portrayed as a vegetarian, I'll bet!

[@gloriamontgomery6900]

Vlad the Vegan?

[@TranscendianIntendor]

Vlad the Putin works for me.

[@littlerave86]

Caesar protesting with "but this is violence" is the epitome of irony.

[@melissasaint3283]

Right? What would Gaul have to say about whether violence is an appropriate political tool, Caesar? (Side note, my autocorrect kept Cha ging Gaul to Gail, which made me laugh out loud. I'm picturing a lady with a burgundy sweater and a Brooklyn accent, sticking her nose into the room and being like, "See, Caesah?? What did I keep telling you?? Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword!!"

[@littlerave86]

@@melissasaint3283 Not even Gaul itself. Afaik, even the Roman senators protested against his exceptional violence during his campaigns there.

[@longiusaescius2537]

Not really

[@Mexalen81]

It's the equivalent to "Dr. Strangelove" 's scene: Gentlemen! You can not fight here. This is the war room.

[@jacob4920]

Factually, he's correct. I mean, MURDER truly is a violent act. I'm not sure that any human being would be inclined to disagree with that logic.

[@rambojohn272727]

I always thought the Gordian knot was a lesson in thinking outside the box, and a testament of Alexanders ingenuity and problem solving skills.

[@DeliveryMcGee]

The real reason Columbus had a hard time getting somebody to pay for his voyage was that the ancient Greeks had figured out that the would was round and even had a fairly close idea of its circumference. The people with the money in Columbus' day knew those figures, and they also knew how far it was to Japan going the other direction over land. Columbus got his math wrong and thought he'd be sailing 4400km; the courts of Europe he asked for funding had better mathematicians and knew it was closer to 20000km. They didn't think he'd fall off the edge, they thought he'd starve a quarter of the way into the trip. Luckily (for Columbus and the Spanish Crown, not so much for the people he "discovered"), there were favorable winds and a continent they didn't know about.

[@m.c.martin]

Depends if you believe the Knights Templars version or not

[@samrevlej9331]

@@m.c.martin What the hell are you talking about? The Templars were wiped out almost 200 years before Colombus's voyage and they had nothing to do with Atlantic exploration.

[@m.c.martin]

@@samrevlej9331 well they fractured into a bunch of small groups, but they still referred to themselves as that behind closed doors, allegedly

[@normative]

@@samrevlej9331Because Columbus had a Templar-looking cross on his sails and his father-in-law was part of the order that was a sort of successor to the Templars, a lot of conspiracy crackpots have cooked up fanciful theories about links between them, and secret earlier Templar visits to the new world. None of this is taken seriously by real historians.

[@PatrickKniesler]

There have been arguments that European fishermen knew of the Americas but did not reveal the locations of their fishing grounds, it is possible some royal advisors knew about this but recognized that trying to explain to Columbus that his math was wrong would be unnecessary since he was already happy to sail off into almost certain death.

[@AndiSplatterpunk]

I learned most of these in school and now you tell me they weren't true?! I'm an old woman..I can't start over, for fucks sake

[@onebigd313]

😭

[@desperadox7565]

Seriously? What kind of school would teach such nonsense?

[@georgeporgy7568]

@@desperadox7565 Most schools taught this stuff. I remember hearing about Washington chopping down the cherry tree in school.

[@desperadox7565]

@@georgeporgy7568 As real history?

[@georgeporgy7568]

@@desperadox7565 Yes, and even worse my mother was raised in the south and they still taught in school that the south won the civil war. I was also taught taste regions of the tongue.

[@solaura6218]

The Moses parting the Red Sea is about freedom by escape from tyranny. Totally appropriate & blindingly obvious.

[@davidm1383]

Chastity belt…..I’m thinking Robinhood Men in Tights lol

[@keithclayton1271]

Naked Gun 33 1/3, the prison shower scene 😅

[@aaronstark5060]

That’s going to chafe my willie….

[@oskarskalski2982]

Regarding this segment ... i never thought that i would love to hear Simon imitating "fap" sound.

[@anthonydesisto2328]

Fetch the locksmoth

[@howardmaryon]

Mel Brooks genius.

[@gorgha3988]

Simon: We all know the earth is round. Flat earthers: What WHAT WHAAAAAAT???

[@matthewfors114]

im surprised they havent spammed the comment section yet

[@historyofnerdom6111]

@@matthewfors114 They have no interest in learning about actual history

[@banhammer3904]

Nah, man. It's hollow, not flat. Keep up with the trends.

[@timothydunn438]

My theory is that the flat earthers really know better, but like to trigger the pompous. I've thought about claiming it myself.

[@matthewfors114]

@@banhammer3904 nah man, its the moon thats hollow. didnt you see that docudrama "moonfalL"?

[@BarbaricAvatar]

This video is like picking through my memories: Didn't happen, didn't happen, didn't happen etc..

[@Max-zg2ci]

Caesars last words were most likely “OWWW! Stop that!”

[@ColinWrubleski-eq5sh]

According to Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster, Caesar's wife lamented after the fact, "I told him. I told Julie, 'Don't go!', but he went..."

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

Impossible. The English language didn’t exist yet then.

[@fainitesbarley2245]

Or ‘for whut! I didn’t do nothing!’

[@davidmacdonald1695]

@@j.a.weishaupt1748Much English is derived from Latin. Your move.

[@davidrogers8030]

You can't beat Carry-on's "Infamy, infamy. They've all got it in for me."

[@samanthac.349]

There’s an episode of Outlander where Claire (who is from the future) is a bit star struck to meet the pre-revolutionary George Washington. He began to talk about his childhood, and she mentions he used to chop down cherry trees. The look on the Washington’s face is well done by the actor because he was so confused why she, a woman he just met, said that. 😂

[@josephsmith6777]

Was he 6ft 3 and a red head 🤔 because he was a ginger and a epic alcoholic drinking up to liters of whisky daily

[@crhu319]

Had he already started the 7 Years War by being an idiot disobeying orders, which killed his career in the British Empire even though they won it?

[@eldritchhummingbird]

The gordian knot story isn't about solving a problem through brute force! It's about solving a problem by thinking outside the box, and taking advantage of loopholes!

[@midnite_rambler]

Regarding "Burning of the Bra". It most certainly did happen, at least here in Australia it did. There were many, many rallies with Germaine Greer, (a leading Feminist writer at the time), where many of the women in attendance DID take off their bras and burn them. And how do I know? Well I was one of those in attendance at several Melbourne rallies. Some even went completely topless and got arrested for Indecency.

[@teomac]

That’s where Newton got his idea about gravity.

[@reedbender1179]

Yes,these events did take place,I saw them with my own eyes.😵‍💫..a beautiful sight to behold.😍 The protests that is. 🤨

[@lesliekilgore648]

sorry, but not your Country, OURS... the story is about OUR ladies and protests in the US, not yours. you guys have your stories, we have ours. Simon specifically said the story was about American women.

[@carlgibson285]

​@@teomac I know I'm 4 months late but that's the best comment I've read in ages! 😂

[@kibathemechanic4967]

Simon: "The book of Kings was likely embellished to make Solomon look better than he was." I & II Kings: A literal laundry list of mistakes and sins made by Kings, FIRST OF WHICH WAS SOLOMON.

[@AbnerSolano]

Was likely? This is such poor science. You decide "you" dont belive it , so you say it is so. Well done.

[@tallionsnow8210]

What does science have to do with literature or written word???​@@AbnerSolano

[@lesliekilgore648]

@@AbnerSolano history isn't a science... history is a LIBERAL ART... so is literature... the bible is literature... next time, pull out a dictionary or just look it up online if you don't own an actual paper dictionary.

[@helenamcginty4920]

The bible was written by scribes from Judea. They attributed stuff done by leaders of the northern Hebrew state of Israel to David and Solomon. Watch Kedem a brilliant channel. Series of 24 half hour conversations with Israel Finklestein. Archaeologist. Also lectures by others on Oriental Institute channel. The bible both old and new testaments isnt just literature its part fact, part faction and part fiction.

[@keepthechange2811]

​@@lesliekilgore648Historical narrative

[@cmdub97]

Just for obnoxious context, that red sea parting that Ben Franklin designed looks like something that would make a red sea periodically.

[@vlamm676]

Alternate video title: 50 Short Recaps of Previous Simon Videos

[@vaulthecreator]

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Nero had actually fiddled while Rome burned but I have serious doubts a musical instrument was involved. If you know what I mean 😳

[@patrickdare5356]

Maybe Nero diddled while Rome burned?

[@alphanerd7221]

Like there was anything he could do about it.

[@normanpearson8753]

Lyre ?

[@mybachhertzbaud3074]

My favorite line, "History does'nt repeat itself, Historians just repeat each other"😜

[@deaks25]

Diogenes sounds like an absolute chad and I am certainly going to go watch the Biographics video on him after this.

[@brettevill9055]

Silver dollars are a lot older than you think. The US silver dollar was an imitation of or replacement for the Spanish silver dollar, which was common in circulation in the Thirteen Colonies and the early years of the United States - they were legal tender in the USA until 1857.

[@BullScrapPracEff]

A bag of guineas of a piece of eight...

[@rakim126]

They use Spanish coins in Moby dick

[@LisaBeta-42]

It is even older - look up Tolar in the english wikipedia or Joachimstaler on the German site - St. Joachimsthal was a place where they minted a lot of silver coins between 1519 and 1528 - later they dropped nearly all the surplus 'h's in the German words* so TAL is basically a valley and the Dollar derived its name from that part of a placename. * the anectote about the orthographic changes in the German language goes like this: about 1908 the German Kaiser stated, "as long as throne and althar are not threatened, I will not object!" Meaning: do not endanger my position or the power of the church and everything will be fine. But they streamlined the written language leaving those two words (and some others, that get all written with 'th' in English too) in the fancy way of "more letters than necessary"

[@callaway085]

So many channels that I turned up the playback speed so I can watch more! Simon and the crew are on top of everything.

[@barrysmithers5816]

On "et tu brute", I remember how they handled that in the superb HBO/BBC adaptation. The long pregnant pause in dialogue, Caesar trying to speak, with everyone watching and thinking "say it, SAY IT!", before he goes with nothing more than an accusatory glare.

[@damianjblack]

THIRTEEN!!

[@littlerave86]

A "Berliner" is not a jelly donut. It is somewhat similar but not in a donut shape at all, it's like a bread roll. It is said it was invented in Berlin, and it was originally made by placing the round dough in a pan filled with a couple cm of oil and flipped over, giving it its typical three-striped look with darker, fried dough on top and bottom and a brighter stripe of softer dough in between. It's then traditionally filled with jam and covered in powdered sugar, though these days a lot of variations exist. Due to the use of the pan, people in Berlin call it "Pfannkuchen" (pancake), which they're being made fun of by the rest of Germany, who call an actual pancake a pancake (which the people in Berlin call "Eierkuchen", eggcake), but they staunchly defend their name choice. This pastry has a couple different names in Germany, but most agree on "Berliner", esp. in the West, in the south it's more common to call it a "Krapfen" or "Kreppel", but nobody would bat an eye if you called it a "Berliner", just don't call it a "Pfannkuchen" outside of Berlin.

[@LisaBeta-42]

Basically a Berliner Pfannkuchen. Tried to buy some Berliner in Bavaria, which got a shocked response in the bakery, because they had a special kind of bread they called Berliner Landbrot (and they did not have that many loafs of bread left for just one buyer). The sweet stuff I really wanted to buy went as Krapfen there. Today the jam gets injected into the dough and if you start eating the thing with those vampire marks facing away from you, it might end quite messy😋

[@SplendidMisanthropy]

"Outside of Berlin" meaning outside of East Germany. And don't even get me started about Plinze.

[@littlerave86]

@@LisaBeta-42 Well, quite a unique experience there lol. In Cologne there's a different type of pastry called Krapfen, so when I ordered a Krapfen there, expecting a Berliner, they explained to me that it's something else around here, instead of just handing the wrong thing to me.

[@TiltedWatcher]

We should all just stop arguing over the name, and agree on calling it Marmeladendöner.

[@coreyprichard9915]

I love that your ads ain't years long, your like the only channel that keeps them short and sweet. Half of us get hit with long KZbin ads, last thing we want is long ads within the video

[@ferociousgumby]

As I was walking down the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today - Oh how I wish he'd go away!

[@paulsarnik8506]

Who wrote that? I know it's from at least the 40's 🤓😎✌🏻

[@ferociousgumby]

@@paulsarnik8506 Me granny said it to me when I was a wee tot. I think it's just one of those nursery rhymes no one knows the origins of. (Hey Simon! Could you do a video on this?) ORRRR, it might be Edward Lear, who wrote a lot of clever poems back in the day. Sample: Candy is dandy, But liquor is quicker. AND: Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses. (Or was that Dorothy Parker?)

[@felixjones9198]

Its a poem called "Antigonish" by William Hughes Mearns.

[@petemorris8499]

MAD Magazine version: The other day upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I think he's from the C.I.A.

[@ferociousgumby]

@@petemorris8499 I LOVE IT!!!

[@jerryherrin458]

Hey hey hey! Atlantis exists! The ancients just flew it to another galaxy a long time ago!

[@LazyIRanch]

I like the song that Donovan recorded about Atlantis... 🎶"Waaay down below the ocean..."🎶

[@Suspect0077]

He’s gonna feel so dumb when he learns about the Stargate.

[@WonderboyWDE]

Yea but when they got to that far away galaxy the Wraith wound up hunting them into extinction unless they ascended, is the story I heard.

[@damianjblack]

Bend your kozars!

[@b.jamindamour2008]

So Zeno basically theorized the speed of light, but his explanation is about as useful as knowing that a piece of paper folded 34 times can reach the moon. Good luck getting beyond 7 folds.

[@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock]

Huh? What does the speed of light have to do with the impossibility of motion?

[@CemKalyoncu]

Not speed of light but plank distance...

[@donrobinson3872]

“It looks like you’re going to have to deal with another night of medieval handstuff….” 🤣😂🤣 - Bravo sir !!! 👏

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

Legend has it that listening to Simon Whistler's voice while playing Minecraft, a practice that began in the humble days of TopTenz, is the most relaxing activity in modern times. Perhaps it was just a myth invented by one lonely commenter, though...

[@Mentocthemindtaker]

Hahahaha, I'm literally doing that!

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

@@Mentocthemindtaker I knew I wasn't alone!

[@jenrosejenrose7417]

True story: My third grade teacher said to the class that Columbus discovered the world was round and I was like, "No, that was the greeks" and she got mad at me and punished me even though I brought in my source.

[@MultiCappie]

The amazing thing about Simon Whistler's enunciation is that he sounds exactly the same at 2X speed.

[@JusticeAlways]

He sounds like Alfred Hitchcock at 0.5x speed. 😅

[@davidmacdonald1695]

Caesar’s last words were “Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me!”

[@TheDmitriProject]

Actually, that’s a misconception. His true last words were: “Ravioli, ravioli, give me the land reformuoli!”

[@kalajel]

@@TheDmitriProject Actually, that's a misconception. His true last words were: "Galileo, Galileo, Galileo Figaro, Magnifico."

[@damianjblack]

​@@kalajelwas he just a poor boy from a poor family?

[@MeMe-fz1ou]

@@kalajelthese last two comments are epic

[@MeMe-fz1ou]

@@damianjblackepic 😂😂😂

[@davidd6171]

Great video! The moment when Simon said 10:20 "It's Albert fucking Einstein!" is the best!

[@plektosgaming]

It is interesting in how people always need to find fault with the best minds and most competent people. The current trend where it's considered "normal" to be divergent in some way is proof of this. Or the idea that smart people are socially inept ( and on and on). This sense that everyone must be somehow equivalent. Again, sorry, but some people are just smarter and/or lack any mental problems at all. Einstein was simply good at everything. Some people really did roll all all 17s and 18s for their stats.

[@Bubbaist]

About the salting of Carthage, a Roman city was built there just after the fall and the ruins can still be visited in Tunisia. I always wondered why they built a city on top of land they had just ruined.

[@captainspaulding5963]

Because it then became a "Roman City" by default! No matter if the land is usable or not, it no longer belongs to the enemy

[@Bubbaist]

But there extensive buildings and streets there, all of which are Roman. All the Punic buildings are in rubble under the Roman buildings.

[@captainspaulding5963]

​@Bubbaist that's exactly what I mean.... after the battle, you build your own city on top of the ruins, or you take over that city if it is still standing! The way things worked back then, you now expanded your territory.

[@Bubbaist]

Oh, ok. Still, why would they build a large city with only worthless, salted land all around? Of course we now know the answer, it wasn’t salted after all.

[@byronofrothdale]

Surprising since the province of Africa would be eventually settled by Marius's soldiers making an important granary for the Roman Republic.

[@d.l.d.l.8140]

Salt was highly valued at that time, it doesn’t add up when you can just come back every few years and kill everyone.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

True. To be 'worth one's salt' is to be worth one's pay. _"Salary:_ from the Latin _salarium._ Sal is the Latin word for salt.

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@michaelkirouac3680]

“Medieval hand stuff” GOLD

[@TheTravelerww]

Columbus' famous argument with Isabela of Spain was not that the Earth was round not flat, but an argument over it's circumference. Columbus wrongly believed that the Earth was a lot smaller as he had converted his units wrong and thought Asia was much closer than it was. He only ever set foot in the Caribbean thinking it to be Japan, never going over to Main land America which he is no credited with "discovering"

[@crhu319]

Columbus didn't believe that. It was a scam he was pulling on behalf of his true boss Portugal.

[@jonathanmarsee813]

"Going to have to settle with some Medieval Hand stuff 👏👏👏"! Best part ever!

[@hutch76093]

Case Eliot’s daughter had said in an interview, “Mom was Jewish and would have not been eating a ham sandwich.”

[@michaelashley2855]

Case ?

[@esaedvik]

@@michaelashley2855 Cass* Elliot* ""By the time she got back to her flat, it was evening the following day," continues her daughter. "She was hungry, and her dancer made her a sandwich from the only thing that was in the flat, ham, and left it on her bedside table. She never even took a bite." What also still upsets Elliot-Kugell (the daughter) is that the ham sandwich myth plays into another issue which was present throughout her mum's life - weight."

[@XiledxGhost]

Love these sorts of videos!! Keep it up! Great informational content here‼️

[@TheSpeechCoach]

Excellent mythbusting, impressive storytelling, well composed, edited and delivered!

[@hyperchord]

I can't wait to show how smart I am when people reference these popular anecdotes

[@ponfed]

People will just hate you for shattering their illusions. Trust me.. I've been there.. try telling them that "fuck" isn't an acronym..

[@desperadox7565]

But who really believes these stories?

[@desperadox7565]

@@ponfed Fuck comes from Latin, so obviously it's not an acronym but what is it supposed to be an acronym for? I'm curious now.

[@ponfed]

@desperadox7565 The thing you see go around is "For unlawful carnal knowledge" or "Fornicating under consent of the King.".. It drives me crazy...

[@desperadox7565]

@@ponfed Quite absurd.🤣

[@JeffUmstead]

The collars depicted are from the 1580’s. That’s 200 years before the story. I would be angry as well if I had been washing a collar for 200 years...

[@pioneercynthia1]

Yeah, that's a bullshit story. Ruffs are nothing like celluloid collars.

[@PeterFraser-hp3rs]

Thanks, these Sideprojects video are definitely going to become a favourite of mine. Here's a fun fact I picked up from CoPilot about W. C. Fields you might find interesting (if it's true!): If the theatre wasn’t full, Fields would dramatically throw himself into a nearby body of water and pretend to drown. It always caused a commotion and, at the end of the day, “put bums in seats”.

[@wedgeantilles8575]

47:00 As a German I am completly baffled by this. True, I was born in 1980 so later than this happened, but I have NEVER, not a single time, heard it with a negative touch. Nobody and nowhere have I EVER heard that anybody attributed "Berliner" to "jelly donut". Because it just simply makes 0 sense. "Ich bin ein Berliner" - is a grammatically completly correct sentence in German if you want to state that you are a residendential from the city Berlin. Yes, you can skip the "ein" and just state: "Ich bin Berliner" - that would be correct too. But JFK was spot on with "Ich bin ein Berliner" and while in some areas in Germany a "Berliner" is a jelly donut too, that does not make his sentence in any sense incorrect. We - like most languages probably - have many words that have different meanings. A "Bank" can be an institute where you get money. Or it can be a bench where you sit down. Both is "Bank" and it depends on the circumstances what it refers to. And "Berliner" is a citizen of Berlin as well (in some parts - not in Berlin itself!) as a jelly donut. Fascinating to hear that this was supposed to be ridiculed in Germany when it absolutly never was and there would be 0 substance for laughing about it.

[@rottenhead8385]

Thank you! I was taught that the German people understood what he meant and that it was well thought of and highly recieved. This video is full of wrong nonsense, worry not.

[@Carewolf]

While the story is complete bullshit, it is still an okay joke. I am a Danish!

[@lesliekilgore648]

it is a joke and meme in the US that has been circulating just here for the past oh... not too long... it was quite taboo here to speak ill of a dead President. at least in public. so if it was a joke here around the time he made the speech in 1962, he was assassinated the next year in 63, so it didn't circulate much back then. i think George Carlin the standup comedian first made the joke in my memory in the 1980's. he's probably the #1 reason anybody here would think of that speech in any way... even if they were alive and grown up enough to remember 1962.

[@jl.4563]

I was told that the customer with the french fries turned into potato chips was King George the Second or third. The chef hated King George and after he sent the French fries back the chef thinned-cut the potatoes as revenge and King George ended up loving them. Was aired on Nick Jr educational shorts back in the 90s. Lol

[@williamwenrich3288]

The biggest problem with the stock market crash was that so many people had bought on margin.

[@THE-X-Force]

This whole video is like: AKKSHUALLLYY 🤓

[@traeygage8647]

Haha the volume and pace changed when you started in on Vlad the Impaler. Man crush? Me too man, me too...

[@Francis-m2d]

Re: Atlantis, what I read, albeit a long time ago, was that Plato got the story from the Egyptians and there was a mistranslation into Greek of the island's size; it was supposed to read 40,000 square miles but Plato saw it as 400,000 square miles and so realizing it could not fit into the Med., he moved it out past the Pillars of Herakles...

[@crhu319]

So it was Thera or Crete?

[@Francis-m2d]

@@crhu319 Thera.

[@therealehack-k2u]

Crete isnt even 4000 square miles, never mind 40,000 square miles, thera is only 35 square miles

[@Francis-m2d]

@@therealehack-k2u Um, you mean a bit more than 3200 square miles, yes?

[@therealehack-k2u]

@@Francis-m2d thera or Crete? Thera is modern day Santorini it's roughly 35 square miles, while Crete is obviously a much larger island but still way smaller that 40,000 miles, like I said it isn't even 4000 square miles...

[@Chihirolee3]

The Peshtigo Wisconsin fire happened at the exact same time as the Chicago fire and was worse. Between 1,200-2,500 people died, and to this day is considered the most deadly wildfire in US history. But nobody talks about it because it was not an urban city.

[@desperadox7565]

Are there cities that are not urban?😎

[@Hillbilly001]

When legend becomes fact, print the legend.

[@noahcaplan7681]

As someone who works at the Betsy Ross House I have some problems with how Simon is presenting this. First, I want to say that Betsy Ross was not a seamstress, she was an upholsterer. I know it seems like a silly thing to make a deal out of, but they’re different. Upholsterers would work mainly on house furnishings that would use different materials often than that of a seamstress. While both would use sewing techniques, they are two completely different trades. Next, Betsy Ross was never credited with designing the first flag, outside of the possibility of changing the stars from six points to five. Six pointed stars were quite common, just look at Washington’s HQ flag. Also, the Grand Union Flag was not an official US flag. It was an unofficial flag of the Colonies that was really only used by some naval ships starting in 1775. The Flag Resolution of 1777 named the Stars and Stripes as the first official flag of the United States of America. Some other questions I commonly get asked is why would they choose Betsy. John Ross’s (Betsy’s first husband) uncle, George Ross, was a signer of the Declaration. Also, Betsy and John had been commissioned to make bed hangings for Washington that are still at Mount Vernon. So she had connections.

[@pooryorick831]

Many of these were presented to me as fact in primary school in the USA in the 1960s. All the stuff about Columbus, George Washington, the Pilgrims, Ben Franklin. All of those stories were in school textbooks 50 years ago. Hopefully things have changed.

[@aapex1]

Me too.

[@captainspaulding5963]

I've only been out of school for 20 years, and I was taught the same things.

[@oskarskalski2982]

US primary effusion was never held in high regard. Throughout 20th century there were numerous challenges to teaching theory of evolution in US schools. The most recent was in 2005. Thank God (pun intended) that done judges in higher courts are still sane.

[@moviestargf]

it has now they don’t teach them anything smh

[@trevormillar1576]

"Latin should be compulsory in schools, because history proves people who speak Latin never stab each other". - Boris Johnson.

[@christopheraliaga-kelly6254]

Having had to endure years of government under this charlatan and consummate liar, you should trust nothing that comes from him!

[@Cybergorf]

As a member on Roman nobility Caesar actually spoke Greek.

[@johnb6723]

Lol.

[@damianjblack]

"All I said was there's a wasp on my toga!" - Caesar

[@Myself-im9xi]

Any father going through the family courts know despite the horror, there is a good chance the lady who wanted King Solomon to cut her child in half could be the mother.

[@angiep2229]

I freaking love Diogenes.

[@host_theghost507]

I have it on pretty good authority that Fred Flintstone wasn't actually locked out of his house by his sabretooth cat: there was no glass in the window so he could have just crawled in anytime he wanted. Also, Dino wasn't his pet dinosaur because there were no dinosaurs in cartoon caveman days.

[@MeMe-fz1ou]

And every day was leg day for the Flinstones and rubbles 😂😂😂

[@charlottemund684]

I watch all of his commercials because it's always something i might buy bc its usually something really helpful

[@SandySalmansohn]

My cat liked the sound of the relaxation/sleep app. I think it was the “Calm” app.

[@petychka2]

It’s not “Et tu Brute (“Broot”). It’s Latin and it’s the vocative case: “Et tu Bruté” (“Brutay”)

[@melissatitus2271]

The Pilars of Hercules has been long established as being the Strait of Gibraltar

[@Konradius001]

From what I was taught in school, this was because some 2000 years ago, there were actually still islands in the strait left over from the collapse of the mountain range there (the collapse itself was a couple million years ago). This also made the passing of the strait a lot more dangerous. Not sure if it is true btw.

[@plangineer1375]

#43 Title says "Jimmy Stewart" but the quote shown and spoken was "Jimmy Carter." Given the context, I'd believe Jimmy Stewart was the correct reference.

[@abc-eb7rq]

How could Washington have thrown a silver dollar across the Potomac River? Money went further in those days!

[@LKMNOP]

In the 1980s or maybe 1990s, I don't quite remember, the Chicago Tribune finally put this story to rest. A reporter made up the whole story. Absolutely made it up. For one thing, the man who supposedly saw what happened as he stood at his door couldn't have seen it because there was a building in between his place and Mrs O'Leary's barn. For another thing, you don't milk cows at night. After the story was published or maybe within a few years as I said my memories a bit hazy, the mayor or the governor publicly exonerated her and her cow completely. Would people don't realize about the story is that it almost got O'Leary killed and she was vilified for all of her life. People believe this story and they went against her hard. One reason the blaze spread so quickly with Chicago was mainly built out of wood. The water tower that survives survived because it was made of stone.

[@budgreen5559]

Cows get milked in shifts on commercial dairy farms which includes night time.

[@user-tc5pl3zw3h]

"...Nero may have orchestrated the fire..." Brilliant. Well stated.

[@TheMasterOfTheFrets]

I believe the Moses parallel that Franklin drew was based on the Pilgrims coming to the US out of England. England being Egypt, the Red Sea being the Atlantic, and the US being the promised land.

[@HittokiriBatosai]

An additional note on Carthage, Rome herself colonized the city and erected Roman Carthage on the ruins of Punic Carthage. Would be the height of counterproductive if they salted agricultural lands they would themselves need for centuries.

[@The_Lost.Archivist]

Apologies for the inconvenience … of loving your channel! Thanks for another great one!🫶✨

[@andrewcomerford9411]

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