25 Lies You Were Told By The History Books

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[@bhuthemanakuma7557]

Can you do true invention that Nikola Tesla did. Please,he let up the world.

[@marjoriejune9787]

Hitler wasn't german, he was austrian and jewish

[@dirtyred3590]

2%

[@marlingmcreynolds1836]

My parents told me that anyone who thought the radio show of "the war of the worlds" was real was not really listening. They said that announcements were made every fifteen minutes stating that it was just a show and not real.

[@billblack7840]

In addition to the announcements Orson Wells played multiple characters. His voice was rather distinctive.

[@moniqueengleman873]

See how many people were completely misled by their own interpretations. Just like now.

[@markjohansen6048]

@@marlingmcreynolds1836 not surprising that people would be confused anyway. Even today, there are people who believe that MSNBC is real.

[@JosephKeenanisme]

The response in the yellow tabloid papers was because radio was a new technology. Television, movies, and the internet all faced the same sensationalism and lies from the older established media companies when they were new. Even railroads faced it. If you go faster than 25 miles an hour the skin would rip right off your body... "humans weren't meant to go that fast".

[@nancyekstrom8409]

Don’t blame teachers for historical mis information-as a teacher for 43 years, we are required to teach the adopted curriculum, true or not. For the most part, the American history that I taught my fifth graders was the same as that which I learned as a student many, many years ago. Since my retirement, I have realized that much of what I taught was simply government propaganda. So disheartening…. A great book to read: Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen.

[@DivergentDroid]

His follow up book Lies Across America is good too. I discovered his work when I was in about the 9th grade. I used shortwave radios and CNN was new. I'd hear live reports of atrocities happen in real time from over seas then 15 minutes later see CNN spin the story! I was awake and questioned everything. I was not popular for that.

[@waynemartin8925]

Kinda sad aint it?my kids tried not to let their schooling get in z way of their education;especially z youngest. He slept or read interesting books,to him,from grammer school to graduating high school. Think he is z smartest of us all.?has a better vocabulary than me&i'm college educated &73.he is almost 25...

[@GoddessFourWinds]

That is an incredible book! I wish I could find my copy! It's so eye-opening.

[@dearthditch]

I was taught only one 🤯 was used on Japan and that there was only one manned moon landing. This was 1983. Dunno what our history teachers learned as kids 😅

[@Mike-t5h7x]

I always knew , I think , that it's not the teachers' fault what we learn but it's the beauowcrats . Although teachers have a union and should ban together to demand that the history books should be changed, as well as every parent & citizen. How's my gramer ? Maybe we should change that t ! 😮😢 Maybe the whole education system should be reworked. America is only as strong as it's most ignorant. Just like we are only as strong as our weakest link. We'll I guess U get the idea. Now how do we go about it ??

[@Kiddman32]

Nobody ever said Lindbergh was first to fly over the Atlantic. It was always stated in history books that he was the first to do it solo and with no stops. Said books failed to mention those other previous achievements, I'll give you that...

[@rexking6241]

And lived to get fame.

[@bearbryant3495]

I'd be interested in a deep dive into Lindy, I've heard he had some questionable connections in Europe.

[@macforme]

Wasn't he the first to fly across the Atlantic *NON-STOP*? A tiny detail that gets omitted often.

[@seanmalloy7249]

@@macforme first to fly _nonstop and solo_ across the Atlantic. In 1919, John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew a modified Vickers Vimy bomber nonstop from Newfoundland to Ireland. They carried some 200 letters, the first transatlantic airmail, and were presented with the _Daily Mail_ prize of £10,000 by Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for Air, for the first crossing of the Atlantic by airplane in less than 72 hours. Two weeks previously, the first aerial crossing of the Atlantic had been made by a trio of NC flying boats, making six stops along the way and taking 23 days, but with only NC-4, commanded by Albert C. Read, actually completing the crossing, NC-1 and NC-3 having been forced down during the crossing.

[@macforme]

@@seanmalloy7249 Thank you for this info.... I didn't know about Alcock and Brown.👍

[@kay-vo6cs]

I actually did know that the Statue of Liberty was copper. It was common sense. Seeing copper awnings and the dome on the local Court house slowly turn green was one clue. Also, wearing a bracelet that turned my wrist green when I was in jr. high really freaked me out until I was asked if it was copper! It's amazing what you can learn by just observing

[@Sn33kyy]

I understand not everyone knows the same things due to life experience but i thought the statue of liberty thing was at least one thing everyone knew

[@michaelwenzelow8309]

George Carlin said it best... "Your history books were written by the winners."

[@OldDemonTooth]

That quote goes back thousands of years before Carlin. It originated in Latin.

[@paulsarnik8506]

AND George got THAT from, well, a whole lotta old guys from, you got it! HISTORY!😀

[@CMDHistoria]

History is a pack of lies agreed upon by the victors is a quote often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte

[@KathyLou42]

George was drubbing from history. Some say Winston Churchill in 1848, others go back to 1746 and the Battle of Culloden where the quote was "it is the victor who writes the history and counts the dead". Probably goes further back than that but that's the oldest verified quote. (History minor here).

[@KathyLou42]

HATE AUTOCORRECT! George Carlin was cribbing not drubbing.

[@amourflower9893]

Rosa Parks was not the first African women to refused to move to the back of the bus, when told by a white bus driver. Claudelle Colvin was actually the first young women to be told to move to the back of the bus by a white bus driver in Montgomery AL.

[@TravelingBibliophile]

If I remember correctly the ACLU decided to push Rosa’s being the first because Claudelle was a single mother.

[@ransakreject5221]

Rosa was just asked to go back one row. She was never in the white section. He may say this in the video. I won’t know cause I’m stopping watching early because the nonsense in it.

[@jeanpence7950]

I don't really know any errors, but mostly fun facts. James Madison decorated his home in colors from Pompei, which had just been discovered. When his house was being remodeled a decade or so ago they discovered a mouse nest with bits of wallpaper from the time of Madison. This is how they knew the colors. :)

[@jeanpence7950]

Also, Lincoln used to keep important papers in his hat. Boys would tie strings across the road high enough that only Lincoln would trip them. These would knock off his hat and send his papers flying. :)

[@daviddickey1994]

Now I want to see a video about all the lies told by people who claim the history books are full of lies.

[@72rwbt]

@@daviddickey1994 Amen we have been lied to the past 4 years about absolutely everything. Media is the dealer that stands on the corner passing out the drug of deceit

[@c.m.brisson5085]

Retired English teacher here- I often co-taught with history and science teachers, and we all learned a lot that way. It used to be that teachers could alter the curriculum after/while doing research, in order to be up to date. Thanks to extra standardized testing, among other factors, there isn't time anymore.

[@tyleranibaldi5315]

2:00 the wright brothers were in fact the first men to make a sustained ACCELERATED flight in a powered aircraft though, there were many before them that had technically “flown” but none of them were powered flights if i remember correctly.

[@Gomes-p5o]

Not at all. What they did was make an object fly for a certain amount of time due to a launch, that is, all they did was create a slingshot. The person who really created controlled flight, that is, the one we know today, was a Brazilian named Alberto Santos-Dumont.

[@tyleranibaldi5315]

@@Gomes-p5o yes, that’s right. i knew abt santos-dumont i couldn’t remember his name to save the life of me but he is the father of powered flight.

[@Gomes-p5o]

@@tyleranibaldi5315 Yeah, the only reason I remember is because I'm a Brazilian myself haha

[@OldDemonTooth]

@@Gomes-p5o Absolutely NOT. Their accomplishment was SELF-SUSTAINED flight. Flight that used on-board power to keep aloft. Don't spread misinformation, please.

[@Gomes-p5o]

@@OldDemonTooth "was Self-Sustained", proceds to say that needs "on-board power" to keep it. I don't need to argue with you. You already contradict yourself. Have a good day sir 😃

[@babserella2778]

I also believe Eliza Schuyler brought several slaves into her marriage with Hamilton. Phillip Schuyler definitely owned several. Also, we’re not out here claiming Lindbergh was the first to fly across the Atlantic. His accomplishment was doing it solo.

[@OldDemonTooth]

Yeah, this dude is an idiot that leaves out information to make his list.

[@rodneyhaney3157]

and non stop.

[@brianmcenany1501]

What lie in a history book has to do with the color and material of the Statue of Liberty? As a matter of fact, I'd argue that you probably didn't pay attention in history class and they most certainly covered that the gift from France was made of copper

[@Kayessee]

The one that messed me up the most was that the national bird of the united states was taught to be the bald eagle and then recently Biden signed it to be official. I was taught that it was official and have been thinking that for decades.

[@markjohansen6048]

Lindbergh: Lindbergh was the first to fly SOLO across the atlantic.

[@lindickison3055]

Uh.....dont forget the fly!!! Haha! (Atlantic flight just about HAS to be nonstop....not many spots for landing!)

[@Firecracker321g]

Useless fact: Kangaroos can't hop backwards.

[@nathanmace8186]

Thats not useless. If I need to run from a kangaroo, I should run behind it

[@aspendaffy]

Emu's can't walk backwards either. Just another useless / useful fact.

[@Firecracker321g]

@nathanmace8186 lmao, I didn't think about that

[@elultimo102]

Elephants can't jump.

[@buckysgirl4945]

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

[@stischer47]

Most of the "lies" you talk about I didn't learn from history books or from my history teachers, but from "popular myths".

[@caroldragon7545]

I'm a retired elementary school teacher. We had a history textbook entitled "In All Our States". In the section on the south it talked about the cabins for the workers on the plantations and the illustration showed cute little houses with yards. In discussing the chapter and letting the kids bring up the omission of information about slavery, I told them to look over the first few pages of the book and see if they could figure it out. The book was published in Atlanta. We also had two paperbacks about PA and the information about Benjamin Rush was different in each of them. I made sure that each book was given to one half of the class and assigned the pages about Benjamin Rush for reading homework. When I posed a few questions about Benjamin Rush the next day, we tallied the answers and the kids started comparing the booklets. This led to a discussion about accuracy in textbooks. Children should learn to question and verify before believing printed material and things they hear.

[@footscorn]

Most notable omission is Edison's claim to be the inventor of the light globe . The rightful inventor was Joseph Swann.

[@44hawk28]

Copper of exposed to Atmosphere gets a patina on it that is green in color, verdigre just happens to be a European word that means green for all intents and purposes. But the reason copper turns green is due to Patina that it gets on it.

[@billmullins6833]

Lindberg WAS the first to fly the Atlantic SOLO and NON-STOP! THAT was his accomplishment. Others flew across the Atlantic before him but nobody had ever done it totally alone and without stopping to refuel.

[@1lxpg]

The title is somewhat of lie itself. The Lindberg accomplishment was that he flew across the Atlantic non stop solo. Not that he was the first to fly across the Atlantic. Also the picture of Washington crossing the Delaware in a boat, is a representation. I don't know anyone who thinks it is the actual boat. This whole list has a lot of nitpicking in it.

[@Trebor74]

78 people had already flown across the Atlantic. His feat wasn't that special.

[@seanmalloy7249]

"...who do you think gets up in the boat, moves to the front of the boat, and _stands_ in the front of the boat? Crazy George, that's right. And the guy in the other boat painting him -- what about him?" 😁

[@nathanielschwartz425]

3:38 Actually, it was broadcasted on October 30th 1938. Halloween is on October 31st.

[@Sticky1]

How do you find this stuff

[@list25]

We have an amazing team of writers.

[@robertmahenski7660]

I know I'm late to the game, but I found your channel today and subbed after the first video. Great subjects presented in a fun format. Good on ya, mate.

[@list25]

Welcome aboard!

[@billymidgett4064]

I wish these were cited so we can know where your information comes from and can research.

[@WayneTwaddell]

I feel like he mostly just made stuff up. Guiltier than those whom he accuses.

[@Livinthelife1992]

@@WayneTwaddell So True....Columbus was accused of all sort of horrible acts against the indigenous people that he had contact with...what is with this guy.

[@nelsonchick7348]

Regarding the Statue of Liberty, you could have told how she was intially supposed to be garding the mouth of the Suez Canel but the King of Egypt refused it. The Unites States was the second choice of france.

[@averteddisasterbarely2339]

The original name of the statue was Egypt carrying the light to Asia and it was to be dressed in Muslim clothes but they said it was to expensive so , a redesign was made for her to be dressed as a roman goddess and renamed it liberty enlightening the world !

[@stooge5172]

Yes, they definitely cut a lot of corners building the Titanic. They should have used steel rivets for the hall. But steel back then was very expensive. And they required special equipment.

[@switchmasterluke1630]

And Mike didbn't even mention the fire in the port coal bin!

[@maryrosekent8223]

hall=hull?

[@drewisaac9884]

12:59. Rivers other than the Nile that flow north: Mackenzie river, Rhine river, Vistula in Poland, the Ob, Taz, and Katanga rivers in Siberia, Orinoco river, and Oder river

[@BarbaraWalker-t1g]

I live near the Bighorn River in Wyoming which also flows north.

[@michaelryan2416]

The Titanic was made from substandard materials, but only if judged by today’s standards Harland and Wolfe the builders of the vessel were using what was considered primo parts at the time

[@toughl24]

Most of these aren’t in history books. These are things your aunt told you in the 90’s and you only just got around to googling it

[@fuzzywolf63]

The Earth being round is also in the book of Job. When he says he stood upon the circle of the Earth. The Hebrew word used foe circle should have been translated sphere.

[@GoddessFourWinds]

But but but how can there be a dome over the earth if it's a sphere and not just a flat circle?

[@fuzzywolf63]

@@GoddessFourWinds what "dome" are you refering to?

[@nevergiveup-db6fp]

The firmament do you know like a snow globe? It’s in genesis.

[@fuzzywolf63]

@@nevergiveup-db6fp Oh yes it was a larger spherical vapor canopy that surrounded the Earth.

[@baileygardner5301]

You can trust your math teacher because those numbers don’t lie😂

[@1969chgoodwin]

Didn't you hear ? Math is racist now 😂

[@enjarichards8100]

Your story about Spartans showed Roman soldiers in Roman armor with Roman weapons. The soldiers shown fought about 400 years after the Spartan heyday. Not a minor error, it's similar to showing conquistadors in a story about the American Civil War. Wrong place, wrong time, wrong country.

[@DIYDomTheBuilder]

So what if Hamilton owned slaves? That’d be like if we eventually outlaw gas cars d/t their neg. impact on the environment & then 200yrs from now people condemn Elon Musk b/c it’s revealed that he owned a collection of classic/exotic cars w/ gas engines. Ohhh 🙄 the shame… gimme a break.

[@1969chgoodwin]

Most of the founding fathers were abolishionist. Plus during the civil war free black men in the south owned over a 1000 slaves

[@Slainte-Mhath]

If Wellington said that hing about the playing fields of Eton, it was about Officers, not soldiers. The Rank & File did not go to Eton. Also it would more likely be about what the saying says: "The Playing Fields" not the classroom, so it would be from paying the Eton Field Game, a form of football and cricket, both games have planning, team work and other skills an officer can benefit from. Sadly the officer class generally thought they were a lot better than they really were. Don't forget it was Rain that most likely defeated Bonaparte, his tactic of bouncing cannon balls into the enemy ranks could not work when the cannon ball didn't bounce. Had it not poured with very heavy rain prior to the battle and the French gained the upper hand the Germans may have joined on their side. They took their time arriving most likely so they could join the winning side.

[@markfrank5937]

Also, when the Dark Ages is taught, there were always hints that the entire planet was experiencing it, but that is a lie

[@maryrosekent8223]

In Islamic countries it was a time of enlightenment…for instance, Islam introduced the concept of ZERO.

[@markfrank5937]

@maryrosekent8223 most of the world progressed. It is crazy teaching it was a "Dark Time". 😂

[@lindickison3055]

Not stated, per se.....just led to assume😢

[@markfrank5937]

@lindickison3055 exactly.

[@kubek]

As for gladiators: Often their weapons were dull so that they wouldn't kill each other by accident. Gladiators were rented for a fighting event. If one died, person organising the event (the one who rented the fighters) had to pay up full amount of fighters value. And they were expensive. There's a record of one super rich guy who didn't care and organized a fighting event in which 11 gladiators died.

[@rexking6241]

How about the fact no one talk about how violent the Renaissance was. It was the time that kingdoms became nations.

[@Cindy-xg6yn]

That foot binding tradition was horrific. My maternal grandma was lucky enough to be born at a time when they stopped it. Unfortunately her older sister wasn't so lucky.

[@grannyrice8983]

The green color on the Statue of Liberty is called patina. rings inside a tree trunk, it is merely a sign of life and actually makes the knife stronger.

[@lindah3879]

I am 43 but my history is my grandfather built the first radio tower in Cleveland. His name is Frank Murphy. My house was 100 yrs old when i lived there & the tower was long gone... its a whole thing

[@multiyapples]

Thanks for telling us the truth Mike.

[@gabriyelp]

7:45 I remember finding out that Antonio Meucci was the true inventor of the telephone when reading through an "old" encyclopedia for a school project when I was about ten years old (in the 90s). I was confused about how more recent versions of the same encyclopedia and other recent books didn't include it before it was brought up by politicians.

[@johnmarks2821]

Love your hoodie!

[@alecharris6915]

The Vikings and Irish knew about the americas long before Columbus it is even said that he had charts that he used when supposedly he discovered America

[@PaulVandersypen]

I know about the Vikings being the first Europeans landing in the Americas before Columbus, but could you please elaborate how the Vikings and Irish KNEW about the Americas before Columbus? Your comment is the first I've ever head about the Irish being world explorers.

[@barrydoyle8636]

St Brendan, or Brendan the Navigator as he was known, there are chronicles that laid claim that his voyage is dated to AD 512-530, where he discovered the north east coast of the " America's" also Viking explorers from Norway also discovered the same region. Although there is very little physical evidence of both, 1st native peoples lay claim to these events, more so the Viking explorers. Both discovered the new continent a full millennial before Columbus in 1492. This is what I was thought in primary school in Dublin, Ireland. I am aware of recent archaeological digs in Canada where there is evidence of Viking artifacts being discovered.

[@PaulVandersypen]

@@barrydoyle8636 I am in Canada, so I know about the Viking artefacts in the Maritimes. St Brenden is new to me.

[@seanmalloy7249]

I don't think Columbus had charts, or he wouldn't have held the belief that he did -- he, like many others, was convinced that the Earth was round, but he believed that the _size_ that had been determined for it was wrong, and that the Earth was much smaller, so that it would be feasible to cross the ocean headed west to reach China. That's why I typically refer to the US Columbus Day holiday as "Incompetent Geometer Day'.

[@alecharris6915]

@@PaulVandersypen st Brendan the Navigator was known for exploring and the Irish had been fishing off of New Foundland for a long time. The Irish were not exploring just fishing and they landed to trade with the natives. They were just trying to survive not explore

[@janusatthegate6201]

People have been making devices to fly for hundreds of years.

[@OldDemonTooth]

That is why the Wright Brother accomplishment was SELF-SUSTAINED flight. This idiot doesn't make the distinction.

[@josearellano203]

It's great to see this accurate information. Thank you for clarifying it. America is a continent, not a country.

[@velkanzi]

Depending on the education system it is 2 continents ...

[@songbird716]

Is that a Musketeer on your shirt? That was my high school mascot. We were the Greenup Musketeers

[@johnanderson9765]

It's the old logo of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

[@TheGtown95]

The first thing is that it’s remarkably easy to “NOMINATE” someone for a Noble Prize. He didn’t win. Almost anyone can nominate someone for a Nobel but the chance of them winning is slim. Edit: you just have to be in government, university faculty, etc.. and one of the only conditions is that they are alive. Getting nominated is stupid easy.

[@eriqutube]

Where can I find that EXACT hoodie? It's my favorite outfit you wear!

[@Datrebor]

What about the Hindenburg disaster? I was taught that everyone aboard died and so did many on the ground when it fell. Now I hear some survived(?).

[@paulsarnik8506]

Yeah but ol' Shickelgrupper ( not gonna even TRY to spell it right🤷🏼‍♂️) kinda spoiled it with that whole "Poland Thing!"😮. 🤓😎✌🏼☮️

[@codyott1982]

Einstein once said "everyone is good at something, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it'll appear stupid."

[@vanhetgoor]

Calamity Jane did not die from ammonia or alcohol but from something that is not to be mentioned on KZbin. And it would make the movie only visible for those over eighteen.

[@MoniqueDamphousse73]

pneumonia (a lung infection characterized by phlegm and coughing), not ammonia 😉

[@vanhetgoor]

@@MoniqueDamphousse73 Thank you for correcting me, at least I got the 'monia' right. By the way, ammonia is bad for your healt as wel.

[@tonyfield2360]

Re the last one: Wellington was referring to his belief that a well fed man was an effective man. Consequently, the English soldiers were fed a lot of beef. So what he actually said was “The battle of Waterloo was won by eatin’. “

[@garybamford1066]

And that's where beef Wellington comes from.

[@jenniekelly571]

Columbus didn't discover the Americas. He discovered the Bahamas..😢

[@philipethier9136]

OK. The Vikings came to North America. But the natives harassed them so much they left. Columbus is the guy whose landing in the western hemisphere led to the continuous European presence here.

[@mikmik9034]

A university is nothing more than a grouping of colleges. A colleg may stand alone but a group of various sciences being a university is better?

[@jessieflores8788]

Also, there were 2 brothers from Italy who built a plane that flew successfully in the 1700s. You've forgotten that part.

[@boycottactivision]

I see Time Stamps, I hit the like button.

[@Obie1209]

Hey Mike!! Love your videos and as a history teacher I really enjoyed this one!! And, I think I may have passed your test…lol. One thing that could have been included was the sinking of the Lusitania…the Germans claimed it carried weapons and the British and Americans denied that. But Robert Ballard proved the Germans were right. The ship sunk in 15 minutes from 1 torpedo, but when Ballard found the wreck, it had another hole where the weapons exploded and hastened the sinking. Keep up your great work!

[@howardgriffin9912]

Lindbergh was the first to do it NONSTOP!

[@neskire]

Richard Pearse of New Zealand may have flown a heavier-than-air machine nine months before the Wright Brothers. Pearse's ambiguous statements make it difficult to date the aviation experiments with certainty. He experimented with flying up to 1909.

[@thesonofdormammu5475]

This should be called "Dumb things people think because they didn't listen in history class".

[@seanmalloy7249]

2:54 -- The claim that Einstein was bad in (or failed) math was the result of German and Swiss grading systems being reversed -- both graded 1-6, but one had '1' as the best grade and '6' as the poorest, while the other had '6' as the best grade and '1' as the poorest. The people who made that observation used the wrong scale.

[@kellygriffin8232]

As a North Carolinian, I take offense to the Wright brothers comment!!!! What else are we gonna put on our license plates if we can’t put “First in Flight” anymore??!! lol 😂

[@charlayned]

As a historian, particularly of Antebellum South, Slavery, and Texas, I have found so many misconceptions of the time. I think one of the biggest concerns the slave owners. Everyone sees the plantations with the small cabins with dirt floors and seem to think that owners would kill or maim the slaves for the slightest infraction. While plantations had a lot, usually between 50 and 200-300, most owners had one or two, and they worked with the slaves. Most were treated better than the plantation slaves were. Yes, it was wrong to own people, but in that time (and centuries before) slaves were common in many areas. There were northerners in the United States who owned slaves, even during the Civil War. There were Native American tribes who owned slaves. There were Mexicans citizens living in the U.S. who owned slaves. And, there were black slave owners, a couple of them in Louisiana had large sugar plantations. And none of that was taught to me in history classes in public school, I learned all of it at university. Slavery was an awful institution and, sadly, it's still practiced in some regions of the world.

[@thehomeschoolinglibrarian]

Slavery legal or not is practiced everywhere including the United States. It isn't just sex slaves either. Immigrants are often trafficked for labor and held in bandage.

[@karlmilne6446]

It also should be noted that most African American slaves were sold into slavery by other Africans not white men as some would have you believe.

[@seanmalloy7249]

And another great lie of history is that Lincoln freed the slaves. If you go and actually _read_ the Emancipation Proclamation, it declares all the slaves to be free, but only in those territories in rebellion against the federal government -- not in any of the remaining states of the Union, and not in any part of the South that had been taken under control by the Union Army. It declared slaves to be free only in territory Lincoln, at that time, had no authority over, and was entirely a propaganda piece, with no actual force. It's also interesting that it caused significant numbers of desertions from the Union Army once it became widely known -- it seems that many people who had enlisted in the Union Army were willing to fight to preserve the Union, but not to end slavery.

[@MarinaFeldner-w1v]

To point 13 is to say that Phillip Reis also invented a telephone

[@michellescottlillian8694]

Hey Mike! 😂 I believe the answer is 2% and yes I blame not only schools for this but parents as well. Sad that they have no clue about alot of things like the Holocaust.

[@sparkyprojects]

Dark ages- 500 to 1500, Oxford University founde in 1096, and that's older than the Aztecs ;)

[@ArrigoLombardi]

it's really crazy how nobody is talking about the book the censored guide to wealth, it changed my life

[@buckysgirl4945]

Washington was also so seasick he was discharged from the Navy. He spent his first six days on ship puking, and not eating.

[@lenbuckholtz2740]

i heard that, too. MORE important, which bucky? i was called that as was my dad back in the 50's & such. he was born in ohio. You from there? are you a cousin or somesuch?

[@gregorygarcia7807]

a list of the seven arts may be needed here! thx! good job!

[@Hillers62]

At 7:59 ...Elisha Gray actually invented a fully function telephone (as opposed to the Meucci prototype)...Bell just got to the patent office before Gray did...

[@Gawainer]

The universities appeared in the 11th century, which is medieval, not the dark ages (early medieval). In politics, the Roman empire's unitary government and its extensive road system prevented the constant warfare of the entire medieval period, and the trade networks based upon the Roman control of the Mediterranean disappeared. The Roman prohibition of torturing suspects who were citizens was completely forgotten. Roman justice was based upon evidence, whereas medieval justice relied on honor. I swear on my honor as a noble that I didn't do this. That created centuries of skewed justice for everyone else. People forgot how to make glass or plywood or Roman concrete. They also forgot the techniques of architecture. Medieval buildings were built by rule of thumb.

[@markcuffe4610]

Love his sweater!!

[@RiseoftheLibertarian]

Its worth pointing out that Telsa claimed Marconi was using 17 of his patents. So, I would say tesla had more to do with inventing the telephone than either. The Surpeme Court overturned Marconi's patent in 1943 in favor of Tesla.

[@sandybruce9092]

Nicola Tesla was cheated out of so many things, and he died penniless! Edison and a few others were out and out crooks!

[@DaLink25]

The first manned flight ever was on November 21st, 1783, when Joseph and Jaque Montgolfier took off in a hot-air balloon in Paris.

[@shastaham7630]

I suppose it may depend on your definition of the word powered. Is the tendency of a lighter-than-air gas to rise to lower atmospheric pressures a form of power as opposed to the performance of an internal combustion(or electric) engine? It'S an argument based on (and solved) by accepter definition of terms used in physics.

[@karenstacymayne4156]

I also heard that Paul Revere‘s ride was not as it is portrayed.

[@keithwise5894]

Most of this is nitpicking things that may or may not have been taught. Calling them lies is a lie in itself.

[@zinnbeck9319]

I wonder if the Spartans were forced to read the Iliad in school.

[@BangleWish]

2% . It’s hard to think history is important when you think the Earth is flat. 😢

[@Thestargazer56]

We are likely living in a "dark age" now. Writing, photography, and painting are changing media. Everything is being digitized, and sometime in the future, it will be undecipherable. I even have many photographs that I scanned in the early 2000s and their format is no longer supported, and I can no longer view them. (. mix files, from Microsoft I believe) there will be many more proprietary changes, I am sure. Computers won't be around and/or their codes will be lost, especially if we catastrophically lose the electric grid. Then digital will be useless, making all the digitized writing, information, and pictures unusable and obscure.

[@kathyowen3714]

Probably 2%

[@dewaller2112]

Love the throwback hoodie! Gough Buck's !

[@list25]

Thanks, but the "Bucks" are Milwaukee's NBA team. The spelling you're looking for is "Bucs", short for Buccaneers. There is no "K".

[@jimbeckert7946]

Lindburgh made the first NON-STOP flight. The Wright bros made the first POWERED flight. Details matter.

[@Nico-rl1vq]

Correct: Airplane pioneers were NOT just the Wright brothers, and they weren’t the first. The French-Brazilian who pioneered air travel was Alberto Santos-Dumont. Born in Brazil but raised in France, Santos-Dumont is credited with several aviation firsts, including the first controlled, powered flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft in Europe. His most famous aircraft was the 14-bis, which made a successful flight in 1906.

[@sandybruce9092]

I always get a good laugh about the Wright Brothers being the first - especially because I live in North Carolina and my license plate reads “First In Flight”!

[@virgilpalmer2427]

Henry Ford was given the greatest medal that a civilian could receive, by Germany, in the Nazi era, by Adolf Hitler. Because Ford helped the Nazis during the Nazi era..

[@keithk1559]

That hoodie is 🔥🔥🔥 from a Bears fan. ✌️✝️

[@shellyroke]

Andrew Jackson devoted the President when told not to invade Florida. He took his army through Florida and massacred Seminole and other native tribes, and forced the Spanish to leave.

[@GoddessFourWinds]

Andrew Jackson was one of the worst presidents we've ever had, right up there with Little Bush and Trump.

[@johnmyers5315]

@@GoddessFourWinds Get your history right. Jackson was the first Democrat, was a slave owner, and just like every Democrat since, was corrupt and treacherous.

[@Unknown17]

@@GoddessFourWinds Does it bother you being blind or are you used to it?

[@michaelcouzens5633]

The statue of liberty would look great if polished copper is underneath

[@kaseyking1114]

I'm calling a Mandela effect!!!! I'm 45, and I WAS taught in school that Betsy Ross not only came up with the design for the 13 star flag, but also sowed it herself. 😮 the fuq

[@PaulVandersypen]

Sewed. Sowing is the planting of something, usually seeds, although the phrase "Planting the flag" exists.

[@stogie43]

Love your videos and your shirt. Go Bucs!

[@hermeswings1925]

We need a "Fact Checker". NOT!!! 😮😅 LOL!

[@Skyrocketwebdesign]

My great great great great great grandfather was flying airplanes in the 1700’s. Of course there’s not a lot of evidence to back that up.

[@Albanach-je1nk]

Not true the history according to Ronald Grump states thst the American rebels took over the airports to prevent the British army using them.

[@Kiddman32]

"Aware of their own history" is sorta vague. HOW aware?

[@gaylewalton1342]

This seems to mostly be the historical lies told in Hollywood.

[@burtonwilliams5355]

And as the late, great Paul Harvey said: ''And now you know the rest of the story. Good Day!''👍 And 2%.

[@beautifulnatur5]

The fact that nobody talks about the forbidden book called The Gilded Nexus of Prosperity speaks volumes about how people are stuck in a trance

[@jakesmith-m2h]

I used some techniques from that book to make money, and I can truly say I'm earning more now

[@partsunknown1679]

😂

[@debbiecamp2205]

The world is not flat or cats would be pushing things off the edge.