Every Common Misconception Debunked in 6 Minutes - the Paint Explainer Reaction

[@roerd]

As for number 6, I don't think I've ever heard someone claim that Santa Claus was created by Coca-Cola. What I did hear though is that the wide-known depiction of Santa Claus wearing a red and white coat was popularised by Coca-Cola, and that before that, his looks were usually different (e.g. a brown coat).

[@jerseyjon73]

True...the story always was the image of Santa Claus (fat, jolly, red/white suit) was Coca-Cola...not Santa himself. But even that is an urban legend. The reality is, the image of Santa Claus isn't Coca-Cola but political cartoonist Thomas Nast during the Civil War. He drew a political cartoon depicting Santa the way we know him now.

[@V0liathon]

And original Santa was a pagan folktale, who was associated with psychadelic mushrooms😅

[@defgt432]

Ever heard of saint nicholas?​@@V0liathon

[@V0liathon]

@@jeffslote9671 Yule or Christmas?

[@mattm7798]

Well said. My mom has a santa figure wearing blue. That said, I really do enjoy the coca cola version of santa.

[@triforcehero6006]

Honestly, I feel like for a lot of these ones like Napoleon being short and Vikings having horns, these things are so infamous for being "misconceptions" that the idea that they're misconceptions are sort of misconceptions in and of themselves.

[@Crimsrn]

these are only known as misconceptions in the historical community. most people I know who don't study history think napoleon was actually short and that vikings actually had horned helmets

[@IowanMatthew683]

A lot of these misconceptions actually come from the 19th century due to industrialization and Romanticism. Industrialization allowed for the mass production of books and literature due to inventions such as the steam-powered printing press. Romanticism convinced European/American artists and authors to romanticize their past in a way that was not necessarily historically accurate, such as the idea that Europeans all thought the Earth was flat before Columbus and the many misconceptions about Ancient Rome.

[@triforcehero6006]

@@Crimsrn idk man, when's the last time you saw Vikings portrayed with horned helmets in pop culture. Shows like Vikings or The Last Kingdom are FAR from historically accurate, but even they avoid the horned helmets myth.

[@Crimsrn]

@@triforcehero6006 i still see horned vikings 24/7

[@triforcehero6006]

@@Crimsrn where?

[@thefourshowflip]

13:45 This is a common point of confusion, the whole comparing percentages of gene similarity because there’s some crucial nuance that often gets left out of the picture, and that context is at what “level” of analysis are we taking for this comparison. For example, when we say that humans and chimpanzees are 99% related, we don’t mean the exact same genes in the sense that if you looked at the nucleotide sequence, they would be identical. In this context, that comparison is saying: we both have genes encoding two eyes/ears/etc; we both have a midline symmetry to our bodies; we both have genes which encode hair production/growth and for teeth and nails; we both have genes for a four chambered heart…some of those types of genes we share with other species and even phyla (like how sharks also have teeth) , others we don’t (we share with only mammals genes responsible for mammary glands). This is in contrast to when we say that siblings are about 50% related-in this context, we ARE talking about the exact genes…genes for the same shade of eye or hair color, genes for whether you are lactose persistent… Unfortunately, this video didn’t cover that well at all, but for one thing it’s not a biology channel and for another, the format of a short video like this just doesn’t accommodate it either. Hope that helps

[@ryankline1164]

Thanks, I've always been curious about that. I mean we definitely don't look 99% similar. That would almost be "twin" species, though by your post it seems that would have to be 100%? I dunno, genetics are my weakest biology.

[@thefourshowflip]

@@ryankline1164 There are major differences, one of the more noticeable being the morphology of our feet-we lack the opposable thumbs on our feet that chimps still retain. We also are bipedal which has other anatomical characteristics associated with that. Chimps have 48 chromosomes, we have 46. Besides this, however, we must also remember to differentiate between the presence of a gene and its expression. Genes are like ingredients in a recipe book, but the ingredients written on a page do not spontaneously generate the recipe. That still requires other steps; it requires someone to choose that recipe, then gather the ingredients, prepare, and cook them. The timing genes are expressed, for what duration that expression continued…if that genes expression is dependent on the expression of another gene, was the precursor sufficiently activated to trigger the subsequent gene expression? It gets very complicated (and quite frankly, above my pay grade) very quickly the deeper we dig. If you want to dig deeper into it, an excellent place I’d recommend starting with is a playlist on YT called “Human Behavioral Biology”; its a full semesters worth of lectures from a Stanford course taught by Dr. Robert Sapolsky, and he does the best job of explaining all of these intricacies of anything I’ve ever seen. His area of study is behavioral, but the course is introductory so it covers all of the fundamentals very thoroughly as well as in application to human behavior. 10/10 on that lecture series.

[@fusionwing4208]

When i heard that part I took it as we all have roughly the same genetic codes, but the active genes greatly differ between everyone. Its entirely possible for offspring to have active genes from older ancestors of theirs, such as a disability gene that the great grandmother had but never really showed until the great grandchild (hence the idea of history of certain disorders in the family). So I immediately assumed he meant we all have a large amount of identical genes, but each individual has different active genes

[@thefourshowflip]

@@fusionwing4208 That’s part of it, surely. For example, even identical twins aren’t truly identical in any sense but their shared genetic code, but differences in how those genes are regulated can result in different “outcomes”. Even something like one of the twins having less space in the uterus can result in differences in gene expression. That is just part of the picture; another part is that it’s important we properly qualify what we mean when we talk about genes-do we mean a gene for teeth or the genes for a specific set of teeth. Tigers and humans both have genes for teeth, so we can be said to share genes for teeth, but we don’t share the same set of genes for teeth, as we clearly don’t have the same type, size, or numbers of teeth (we have 2 more than tigers). So it’s very important to be clear when we speak of genetics, what “level” of analysis are we using in our statement. From my experience, this is a big source of confusion as people tend to switch between these “domains” in the same discussion without distinguishing between them as they do.

[@dash4800]

Yeah, even with the chimps it's like we'll all species on earth have the same building blocks and all mammals have even more in common and so on. Just to have cells that have the same structure and function means chimps and humans would have the vast majority of the genetic code the same. Basically it's like saying the sears tower and the united center are nearly identical because they use 99% of the same materials to construct. Yes 99% of what goes into a building is in its parts and construction, but the 1% that is its design is clearly what matters.

[@odyssey5696]

Can you please react to Mr. Beat’s “every president’s favorite president” video?

[@EddieHD_]

As a European history nerd can I ask what the fascination Americans seem to have with Presidents?

[@odyssey5696]

@@EddieHD_ well, to start off, usual the majority of voting citizens choose them as our leader and they kinda sorta determine how the state of our country is. For me, it’s not like I’m fascinated by them, more like they exist and I learn about some so I choose to learn about all.

[@Kumofan]

⁠​⁠@@EddieHD_same one older countries have with kings/emperors. They represent distinct administrations through time & sometimes the general public views that got them in power.

[@inhisglory960]

​@@Kumofan i've never heard anyone from an older country be fascinated by a king or an emperor

[@Kumofan]

​@@inhisglory960 ​ Periods in English and Chinese history, among others, are largely classified based on their ruling monarch / dynasty. Historians dedicate their lives to studying even individual monarchs and their rule. It's not uncommon. Queen Victoria, Henry VIII, Cromwell, Mary Queen of Scotts, Philip II, Gilgamesh, Napoleon, Louis XIV, Qin Shi Huang, and Genghis Khan, among various others are all names most people would recognize. Fascination with leaders is not something unique to Americans. I understand many people dislike Americans and it's amusing to comment on their unique tendencies, but let's not be disingenuous here.

[@derekfnord]

Another common misconception: There is no such thing as an "alpha male" human. The concept was taken from a study of wolves, and extrapolated to humans by guys who want to believe they're innately superior babe magnets or something. It's not even true for wolves. The study in question has since been determined to be inaccurate in some ways and misunderstood in others; it's own author no longer stands by its conclusions. It studied wolves in captivity, which changed their normal behavior. In the wild, wolf packs typically consist of a single breeding pair and their offspring who have not yet set out on their own. So the other wolves don't defer to the "alpha" male and female because they have some kind of magically dominant personalities. They defer to them because they're the *_parents_* .

[@Obi-WanKannabis]

I find it funny that in modern "scientific" consensus gender is a social construct, but alpha status isn't.

[@GiordanDiodato]

in fact the guy who came up with the "Alpha wolf" myth has tried to get the book pulled from circulation.

[@TheMeditorEditor]

16:34 - Yeah, it's true. What makes sushi "sushi" is the rice. The inclusion of fish or other protein is just for flavor or creative culinary inclusion, but even if you take away the fish and replace it with, I don't know, plantains, it's still sushi. Same way that a sandwich is still a sandwich even if it doesn't have cheese, lettuce, and/or tomato. The consumption of raw fish without the rice is called sashimi, which is why you often see the two terms (sushi and sashimi) used together but not interchangeably when eating out; you have a sushi course, fish with rice, and a sashimi course, just the fish.

[@jdotoz]

Marie Curie was originally buried in two coffins, a lead one placed in a normal wooden one. When they exhumed her body for transfer to the Pantheon, they intended to place the lead coffin into a new one built for her niche, but they found that it didn't fit. As far as I can tell, her remains didn't show signs of significant radioactive contamination when they opened the lead coffin, and I believe her body (still a body at that point, having proved very well preserved) may have simply been placed in the unshielded new coffin. Pierre Curie's remains, however, do seem to have been noticeably radioactive when surveyed in 1995. I'm not sure what measures were taken with them.

[@EmpressMermaid]

Ooh, fun! I found this video 34 seconds after you posted it. I feel so early. BTW, when they say "no slaves but rather paid laborers" in ancient Egypt, that doesn't necessarily mean slaves never existed there. Egypt has a nearly 5 000 year history. Circumstances changed a lot over time.

[@GiordanDiodato]

slaves did exist in ancient Egypt, but they were more like servants.

[@TheIrishNational]

7:39 Spanish flu broke out in WWI, not WWII

[@charlesburns7391]

After

[@colton2680]

@@charlesburns7391ehhhhhh during

[@Task32]

​@@charlesburns7391no, it started during. Countries just didn't report on it to avoid giving the enemy information. The reason it's called Spanish flu is that the Spanish who were not at war were one of the few who did report the real numbers

[@EvTheFlickFan]

@@Task32Yeah. I think I heard it hit Britain and France and maybe Germany before hitting Spain. I think I'd really like to look more into the history of disease and epidemics, but for whatever reason I just haven't yet. Maybe I should start soon.

[@miguelcantarell8259]

As a Mexican, I would like to add some context on the Cinco de Mayo fact. It does celebrate the Battle of Puebla (1862), in which our vastly inferior army defeated the best army on the world, the French. The French at the time were led by Napoleon III. After the battle, the French were so ashamed that they sent reinforcements and eventually captured the capital, leading to the second Mexican empire. The reason why the USA celebrate the day is because they couldn’t help with the defense against Europe powers as the Monroe Doctrine stated since they were fighting the civil war. When they heard about the invasion, I believe they braced for the worst, just to get news back that the Mexican army, composed in great part by native indians, defeated the professional French army, so they celebrated the date as a way to humiliate the French. We Mexicans do commemorate it as a heroic day in history, but we all know we were swiftly defeated after the battle. Our actual independence is September 15th when we actually have a huge party. If anyone wants to join in the conversation, feel free to do so!

[@CarterElkins]

Very enlightening! As an American, I would submit that folks here don't generally observe Cinco de Mayo for the independence thing. In fact, I'd bet the vast majority of Americans don't even have any idea what it's about. This is because since our culture is such a melting pot, several of our holidays are really just opportunities to celebrate the various sub-cultures that make up our people, and the reasoning for those holidays are really just a pretense. So Cinco de Mayo is just an opportune day to celebrate Mexican heritage, just like St. Patrick's Day for Irish, Mardi Gras for Cajuns and Creoles, Oktoberfest for Germans, and Columbus Day for Italians.

[@redraptorwrites6778]

I like dinosaurs so a few to add are that Dinosaurs are not actually lizards despite the name translating to "terrible or fearfully great lizards". They were archosaurs, more closely related to crocodilians. Dinosaurs are not cold blooded or ectothermic. They were warm blooded or endothermic. T. rex was not the ancestor of chickens. The two lineages branched off from a common bird-like ancestor by the early-mid jurassic. Pretty close in terms of dinosaurs but not a direct ancestry.

[@ancalagon3740]

The whole list could be made of dinosaur misconceptions. Feathers, T-Rex eyesight, lineage, which ones lived at the same time, how active they were, 'movie monster aggression' ...

[@markadams7046]

The books of The Bible were not selected at the Council of Niceia. Dan Brown spreads this false rumor in the DaVinci code. The Bible coalesced over centuries, and to this day still includes extra books in some versions, like The Ethiopian Bible that is used in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church for example.

[@beminem]

11:28 her name is claudette colvin, i believe she’s still alive today

[@greasybaffon7201]

She actually just passed away today, aged 84, I was sad to hear 😔

[@justinqueso9644]

@@greasybaffon7201 Wait what? I searched her up and she's still alive

[@greasybaffon7201]

@@justinqueso9644 whoops I got her confused with Robert Towne, who wrote Chinatown

[@asheep7797]

She is! (age 84)

[@derekfnord]

16:30 - Caffeine is a diuretic. People hear that and make the leap to "Oh, coffee must dehydrate you!" without considering that the minor diuretic effect of the caffeine isn't nearly enough to offset the water that's in the coffee itself. The most you could say is that coffee's net contribution to your hydration will be slightly less than an equal amount of plain water's would be.

[@TheAlexSchmidt]

The lightbulb fact is incredibly misstated if it includes Tesla, Edison had already made the lightbulb by the time Tesla started working for him. It is true that there had been many lightbulb designs before Edison's though. Joseph Swan made a commercially viable design independently of Edison in England, so Edison had to work with him to manufacture bulbs there.

[@Pleau1]

The thing with the laws of physics is that they came from our observations of the universe around us. They are laws only in that we have not seen cases where something occurs against them, however, it's not impossible that there is such a thing, it would just mean we would have to revise our "laws" of physics.

[@CarterElkins]

Correct. I think that's essentially what he meant, that when we encounter something that seems to "defy" the laws of physics, what's really happened is that we've discovered that the laws of physics as we understood them are simply inaccurate.

[@Gruppetstudios]

A note on the last fact: Ub Iwerks' name is pronounced just like it looks: Ub (rhymes with tub or sub). He was born with the name Ubbe, but that, too, is pronounced the same as Ub.

[@sookendestroy1]

"The vomitorium is not a place where romans would go to vomit" Have you smelt the exit and entrances of stadiums? They would have been both lol

[@michaeltelson9798]

The first one, there was an older BBC history show on Ancient Egypt. Next to the remains of the workers village they recovered a lot of papyri about daily life of the inhabitants. Love letters, risqué subjects, and just daily stories were among what was found. One chief supervisor and his wife had love letters and they were even able to locate their home. The marriage practice was to date another and when it seemed the time to marry the potential groom would wrap his belongings into a bundle and try to enter his beloved’s family home. If accepted they were deemed married. He could be chased away as well which was an emotional and social blow. Two or three papyri were found that told of one rejection. Archaeologists find all the important stuff in the garbage dump. The Viking Horns came about from a performance of a Wagner Opera “Die Walkure” as additional ornamentation.

[@luapkcuhs]

Chris in a flannel makes him look like a badass historian

[@sonofeditz8480]

💯💯

[@Andreyas-ou7fq]

He does look verry cool in that suit.

[@craigorr9713]

Randall Munroe (XKCD) on the lightning trope: "They say lightning never strikes in the same place twice. 'They' are wrong. It is a little surprising that this saying has survived; You'd think that the people that believed it would be gradually filtered out."

[@JanHurych]

I did not expect the Spanish Inquisition.

[@RLKmedic0315]

Well, their chief weapon is "surprise"

[@orwellboy1958]

@@RLKmedic0315 No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

[@jackmessick2869]

​@@RLKmedic0315What about fear?

[@B30WULF2]

⁠@@jackmessick2869or ruthless efficiency?

[@viclorenzo5016]

*Looks at thumbnail* *Sees "Earth is a sphere" listed on common misconceptions* *Puts on tinfoil hat* Hah! I knew it! Earth is not a sphere like everyone says! Earth is a giant frosty donut flying in space!

[@skindred1888]

There's many in that lil group that have changed their view. It's now...a flat earth...that sits upon a massive globe of ice. So...a globe...but with extra conspiracy

[@KittenCritters]

The Coca Cola santa was created by one of my ancestors about a century ago. While he often gets miscredited with creating the modern depiction of Santa his drawings definitely popularised it. Hence why it’s a common misconception

[@David-fm6go]

16:50 After all these years, VTH is still VTHing creators. Love it!!!

[@TheAlexSchmidt]

Also "blood is thicker than water" always meant what people think it means. That it originally meant the opposite is a misconception itself. There are a few sayings that can mean the opposite of what was intended (like how "a few bad apples spoil the bunch" but you might refer to "it's no big deal, just a few bad apples" or how "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is supposed to mean an impossible task but is often used now to mean "someone who overcame adversity all by themselves.") but that's quite rare.

[@Kdot19]

15:40 this reminds me of the fun fact that a squirrel would have to fall 4800 miles to die from falling. This is approximately the time it would take a squirrel to starve to death since their terminal velocity isn’t high enough to kill them on an impact

[@DeveusBelkan]

"Genetics doesn't determine race" is probably better phrased as "genetics does not support the notion of race." The qualities we might associate as defining a particular "race" are trivial compared to other genetic differences -- which we overlook because they may not be as readily apparent. It is a mistake to assume race exists because of surface qualities -- after all, we don't think people of different hair colors belong to a "race" of people.

[@JustAnotherAccount8]

Yep, the concept of race was invented and holds no basis in reality. Even the word caucasian for example is quite outdated as "white" people didn't originate from the caucus mountains, but instead from a variety of locations.

[@AdamNisbett]

There’s also no individual gene that distinguishes races (i.e. if you have the gene you are race A and if you don’t you are not race A) Rather each gene contributes towards various features and we then categorize certain stereotypical combinations of features from a given region as a “race” even though there’s no distinct boundary.

[@Deepwang84]

​@AdamNisbett there is no individual gene for intelligence, but intelligence obviously comes from genes. These arguments made against race are tiresome and almost completely done because of political realities rather then any sort of actual genetic argumentation. Race is obviously a real genetic category or as he said you wouldn't have parents that are white exclusively making white children and vice versa for example. Science is heavily regulated by politics and always has been Hence why scientific findings seem to magically support whatever is political convent at the time. Countries with different political climate don't think race isn't real currently. China for example which if you have noticed is where lots of human genetic research is coming out of in the last 20 years 100% believes race is real and still uses quite a bit of racial science.

[@AdamNisbett]

@@Deepwang84 the point is that it’s a completely continuous range so the divisions are somewhat arbitrary. Yes, physical characteristics are influenced by genetics. And so closely related people are going to tend to share more of them. People in my family tend to be mostly blue eyed and pale skinned because my parents were. But some of my nieces and nephews have dark eyes and very tanned skin. Does that make them a different race? We share just as much genetics as the nieces and nephews that look more like me. In my case I’m not even referring to a “mixed race” family - I enjoy genealogy and have traced the trees for everyone in the family and both myself and some of my in-laws have done DNA testing to estimate what regions our DNA is from and it’s all reasonably similar (mostly NW Europe). All ‘race’ is, is the categorization we apply when a given population remains isolated long enough that certain familial characteristics tend to become found throughout a majority of the population. But soon as populations migrate, or political barriers adjust etc, you get different combinations as things are re-mixed. In the Caribbean for instance a typical person has a combination of ancestors from Africa, Europe and indigenous American. But they’ve blended over centuries so have a set of characteristics that doesn’t exactly fit any of those original populations - is that now a new ‘race’? You might be tempted to argue it is, but then what if say someone with entirely Native American ancestry moved to Europe and married someone who had one parent from Spain, and the other from somewhere in West Africa. Their children would likely have very similar features to the people in the Caribbean, but would have zero history tracing to the Caribbean. What race would they be?

[@Deepwang84]

​@@AdamNisbett By your logic colors don't exists because we cant tell where blue or purple begin and the other ends. Therefore according to your logic there is no color. Blue, Red, Green, Etc don't exist which is obviously not true and a logically fallacy. I really don't want to argue with someone who unironically believes that race isn't a real genetic thing. Its frankly a religious view that has nothing to do with any sort of data, logic, etc. and nothing will convince someone otherwise the same way arguing against a religion using science or facts is pointless. Which is why its only actually believed by a tiny group of goofy people.

[@SkulShurtugalTCG]

4:30 To be fair, there was probably not much of THAT, either.

[@faktantarkistaja1347]

13:25 Skin or eye color is hardly a "race". Those are just simple traits. The word "race" doesn't have any defined biological or physical meanings.

[@antonakesson]

Hence why Slavs, Jews, Aryan and so on was "different races" for a little while. The most pedantic differences and bigoted stereotypes just to basically declare oneself superior and the others inferior and hence deserved to be treated badly. I have always hated the concept of human races as I have always found it to be so pointless.

[@jvieceli]

Was coming here to say something similar. Race is a social construct and has no basis in biology or indeed in the Bible which says in Acts 17:26 that God made from one blood all nations (Greek ethnōs). There is only one human race.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

correct, It's a social construct based on a hotch-potch on looks, ethnicity, culture, etc, and it's defined by both the inside and outside groups.

[@justsomeguy3077]

It's funny how the Christian right and the left both think humans are exemptions to genetics lol.

[@swymaj02]

8:17 he fell out with Gauguin, who left the studio. he cut his ear in unstable rage, and a postman found him. That's how a biography i read as a kid went.

[@David-fm6go]

5:55 Yes, The openings if brought together were about the same square footage as a door. Had a door sized hole been blown in the ship in any one location, it would have survived. Instead it was inflicted as a series of gashes along 1/3 of the ship, compromising five compartments. Too many to sustain buoyancy. Another misnomer about Titanic is that if it had more life boats, more people would have survived. They only had time to properly launch two less than what they had as it was, with the last two being floated off the deck (one partially flooded and the other upside down). If they had more boats, it would have slowed down the boarding process and it is possible even fewer would have survived.

[@shawnhirsch4667]

While blood is thicker than water is an idiom about familial bonds, it is also true. Not sure why he said it's not. Blood is both denser and more viscous than water.

[@jdotoz]

The original idiom referred to blood shed together with comrades, not the shared blood of relatives. Basically, the bonds forged through shared struggle with peers are stronger than the family ties. Many people today use it to mean the opposite.

[@GiordanDiodato]

the original idiom goes as follows: "The blood of the Covenant is thicker than the water of the womb"

[@oldeskul]

I had heard that Van Gogh lost part of his ear in a duel with a friend after a heated dispute, and that he and his friend concocted the story of him cutting off his own ear as a way to avoid him losing face(pun both untended and unintended).

[@captainthorrek262]

As the husband of someone with a seizure condition, NEVER try to put something in their mouth.. Roll them on their side in The Recovery Position.

[@nickjeffery536]

Regarding the tallest mountain one, if you exclude "island mountains" like Mauna Kea, then Everest STILL isn't the tallest mountain from base to tip, as Base Camp is already a good way above sea level - the tallest entirely above-water mountain is Kilimanjaro (also, the tallest mountain known to man is Olympus Mons on Mars...)

[@wgreenjr81]

2:48 the assertion isn't that Coke "created" Santa, but rather that they were instrumental in the now popularized characteristic images of him, essentially their art department gave us the first ubiquitous images of him.

[@reptonplaya]

11:41 Thank you for bringing this up. It is a rarely spoken about black history fact.

[@terryloh8583]

One that I would add is that the Bible never describes Noah's Ark as a boat, despite most artist's renderings. Apart from rough dimensions, there is no description of a keel, a mast, oars, a rudder, anchor or any other object or structure that would describe a boat. The Hebrew word translated as 'ark' (ta-va) is only used one other time, and this is in reference to the basket that the baby Moses is placed in.

[@jamiefrontiera1671]

I've known the wet hair was a myth forever. I always air dry my hair and growing up in Texas but going to college in New York, I didn't let the fact that it was 25 degrees outside stop me from going to cafeteria. My response to a coworker on a "cold" Houston day when she tried to tell me this was "Well, it hasn't happened for the 20 years i have gone outside with wet hair in the cold before, so i doubt it will happen today."

[@deejmix7510]

Will you guys be visiting Hadrian's wall? Also great video!

[@phillee2814]

Darn! I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition! The sign for sparing a gladiator was a clenched fist with the thumb inside, indicating a sheathed sword - an extended thumb in any direction was the sign to finish off the opponent. The reason for Antarctica being the largest desert is not due to a lack of precipitation (there is plenty) but the lack of liquid precipitation, which is almost unheard of. It is not short of snow though, and that is precipitation just as much as rain is.

[@MainMan10]

18:17 this is kind of splitting hairs, but the great persecution was mainly overseen by Galerius who was one of the emperors of the tetrarchy.

[@dishonorableknight9340]

VTH you can't ignore Epic History's Battle of the Wabash forever. It's literally Ohio history. This is your destiny.

[@McBeard1987]

I heard somewhere that "rule of thumb" comes from falconry where you'd place your thumb over a falcon's feet when it's on your arm to keep it from flying off.

[@TacSprint]

Might just be me, but I never believed that "lightning never strikes the same place twice" as a literal thing, but that it was just an exaggeration to express how unlikely it was for lightning to strike the same spot more than once.

[@ryankiesling2885]

Yes it’s true there is no waiting period to report a missing person, the problem is that many police departments will claim there is and will not file a report. They will just tell the person making the call to wait 24-48 hours. I’m sure there are many false alarms, but not accepting missing person reports right away has lead to so many unsolved cases of missing or murdered people

[@sookendestroy1]

Funny enough you hear all the time from police even that they cant look for a missing person unless 24 hours have passed, heck even then most police will respond to missing persons requests with "if theyre an adult im sure theyre being responsible for whatever theyre doing, they probably just chose to disappear and theyll be back when they're ready." Ive even heard cases of police doing this for missing kids, replying to every case with "they probably just ran away, not our issue"

[@sefhammer6276]

10:31 I would assume it has to do with apple and fruit was practically synonymous back in the days. For example: we call it a pineapple not a pinefruit

[@thefirstechlon5522]

Ya i accidentally learned why people think the forbidden fruit was an apple while looking up the origins to pineapple. Interesting stuff

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

Hey Chris, you should react to a video called "Stopping at McDonald's in 1989", where the guy is vlogging at a McDonalds, in 1989. Seems more like 1983 to me though. It would be nice to get someone who was around at the time to do a commentary about it. There's another similar cool video by a Spanish vlogger who vlogged himself on top of the World Trade Center before it was destroyed. Super HD footage. That one's called "SUBIMOS a las TORRES GEMELAS 3 meses antes del 11 SEPT"

[@Barrett727]

5 second rule. Total agree few people actually believe that. It's not the "5 second rule" it's the "I still want to eat that rule" 😂

[@Thraim.]

17:12 I'm actually surprised you didn't know that.

[@jeffwalker6815]

#41 - these studies were the inspiration for the Great Cornholio

[@twylanaythias]

The Titanic disaster was Apollo 13 sans ground control - an insanely convoluted chain of events which, if even one hadn't occurred precisely how and when it did, the disaster wouldn't have happened. In most regions, an inch was defined as the width of a specific individual's thumb (usually the regional potentate - king, emperor, whoever). When someone needed a quick measurement and didn't have an actual ruler handy, using their own thumb was usually accurate enough to get the job done. Literally "a rule (as in "a measurement") of one's own thumb".

[@Ranadicus]

The origin of the fire was "un-cow-n." My understanding about "flying on broomsticks" was it refered to using opium, something common in the day. Opium was best absorbed through thin membranes so women would apply it to the end of their broomsticks and insert it, well, we'll say where the membranes were thinnest. I'll let you imagine that for yourself rather than paint the picture.

[@brianstacey2679]

4:35 - That is as loud as i have ever laughed for a Vlogging Through History video.

[@garrettlenzen]

On number 44 I think a distinction can be made between race and ethnicity. I think the point he was trying to make was that we are all one human race. Within that human race there are many different ethnicities.

[@gorlithia]

In the Philippines (or in my area at least) older people believe lightning is more prone to hit a gecko so they kill it whenever they see one to spare their house of fire from a lightning strike, but I guess that's not a misconception, just a superstition.

[@Vohlfied]

17:27 1st World: NATO-aligned 2nd World: USSR-aligned 3rd World: Unaligned 4th World: Not advanced enough to participate in WWIII

[@riceserket4093]

I was just watching ''Why Didn't Spanish America Unite Like Brazil?'' by Icebulb and noticed you were in it for a second at 25:10 I'd also recommend you to watch some of their videos

[@nsnick199]

10:55 #30 is incorrect. It was said without evidence that the full phrase was "the blood of battle is thicker than the water of the womb", but the saying dates back to 13th century German with the generally accepted meaning (with the water referring to baptism)

[@TrekBeatTK]

What I’ve heard regarding the Genesis fruit thing is that it’s a latin pun that led to depiction as an apple, with “malum” being used as the word for apple but also for evil. Interestingly, Michelangelo depicts the fruit as a fig in his paintings, which has lots of other fun Biblical symbolism attached.

[@jdotoz]

They do try to cover themselves with fig leaves, which makes fig as good a candidate as any other contemporary fruit (which may not even include apples).

[@ytubestolemyhandle]

I always thought that Titanic could probably survive a direct hit with that glacier better than carving the whole hull open on it like a can opener by trying to steer away from it. But I guess the sudden deceleration would probably injure or outright kill more people than actually drowned there, so I guess it all probably worked out as well as it could have..

[@Fryepod3628]

Ah, glad to see Napoleons Marshall's being donen😂 Joking, can't wait to see more historic battle feilds!

[@herogibson]

Unfortunately a lot of police departments help perpetuate the 24 hour missing person myth. Pretty common that they wont do anything about it until at least 24 hours have passed.

[@jianehc]

can you please vlog France and the American revolution by the Megan Daily

[@TweeterAndTheMunkyMan]

Hope you have a wonderful time whilst over here in Bonnie Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jabber1990]

you can see the great wall from space if you have a picture of it!

[@antispiral2705]

Oh, i didnt know you where going to visit my home country, hope you enjoy

[@D2RCR]

History Matters did a hilarious video about how wild the Wild West wasn't.

[@Why-D]

The Spanish flue was not during WW2, but WW1. And as they were neutral and had no censorship at that time they reported it first. Through the mystery plays around Christmas in Medieval times, you needed a fruit and apples were available, as you could keep them a long time through the winter and some may even had a bright red colour, so that fitted as a contrast to a green tree.

[@Bowling_Dude]

so the last fact is actually disputable but the timeline in witch Ub's estate claims the story of Mickey Mouse to be does not allign with the first film to fearure mickey mouse, Plane Crazy. While Ub was the animator for this film, it is said he created the design for Walt Disney where as Disney's estate claims Walt Disney drew Mickey Mouse on a train ride back to LA after being let to by Universal Pictures animation department. Disney's side claims that walt simply showed the drawing he had done on the train to Ub and asked "can you animate something like this."

[@djd8305]

Greg, you're no one trick pony! You've got a fantastic range of knowledge. And ability to explore your ignorance:)

[@jeffking4176]

This is a really interesting one. Hopefully there will be more of these. 📻🙂

[@w.randyhoffman1204]

Another suggestion for a reaction: toldinstone's "The Most Distant Places Visited by the Romans". Thanks for your consideration!

[@ericveneto1593]

Have fun! Watch out for Nessie!

[@nickcarnevalino7462]

"i wont pause at every one" -> proceeds to pause at the first 8

[@nickdepanfilis7895]

Have fun in Scotland!!

[@David-fm6go]

14:08 Its mainly about debunking scientific racism from the early 20th century and before, which at points embraced Darwinian thought regarding evolution, but tended to reject genetics and genetic diversity. This is where concepts of purity of the blood came from, leading to the preference for inbreeding among the elites (which stretched back eons of course). This underpinned the push for eugenics and also the tendency of segregationist politicians to stoke fears of mixed race couples and relationships. Genetic diversity leads to resilience to adverse conditions, while lack thereof does the opposite and leads one more susceptible to hereditary illness.

[@kzsd1227]

13:26 I think a more important explanation is that race is a societal construct used to group people. Certain groups used to be considered "not white" and now are considered "white" such as Italians. It was not a genetic change that caused them to go from one racial group to another, rather it was a change in attitudes and perspectives toward such groups of people.

[@lavabeard5939]

I was told in art class in 3rd or 4th grade that van gogh severed his ear and sent it to a woman that rejected him

[@soupordave]

Five second rule? We always used a 10-second rule for dropped food.

[@Ceractucus]

I believe it was also quite common for gladiators to fake wounds and death using pigs blood.

[@brianbrady139]

For number 62, Coffee is a diuretic so it makes you pee more when drinking so people believe that is forces the liquid out of your body prematurely there for drinking to much can be bad for you, but in actuality the effect on the body is so minor that for the regular coffee drinker there is little to no effect on hydration, and do to the amount of water in coffee some people my actually experience hydration

[@tylernero6671]

The sugar one is an example of correlation not causation, man it must be this cake that has all these kids rawled up and not that they're at a birthday party, it must be the candy and not that Halloween is fun

[@johnmcmanus2447]

If i remember correctly, the first girl who refused to give up her seat was 15 and indeed pregnant. She also, and i may be wrong about this so correct me if I'm wrong, was either violent or belligerent when ordered to give up her seat, so Rosa Parks was chosen as she was a better candidate due to her passive resistance

[@kobiecarter8029]

don't know if anyone has mentioned this but, the title of your video says "6 minutes" but the original video says "9 minutes". Just wanted to point that out to ya! Love the videos and have a safe flight!

[@scooby149999]

Coffee dehydrating myth is about the Caffeine in it. It is a diuretic so it makes you pee. But there is a certain caffeine content/concentration that makes it hydrating/dehydrating, but normal coffee isn't at that level.

[@jdotoz]

Plus the fact that the caffeine is delivered dissolved in a lot of water.

[@firingallcylinders2949]

Have fun in Scotland, I have family there, it's a beautiful country.

[@agin1519]

Canaries are named for the islands which were named for dogs.

[@wally4golly]

Looking good Chris! Hope you and the fam have fun in Scotland. Say hi to my families castle.

[@AugustusHistory]

Another great video VTH!

[@theDENIMMAN]

"Every scientist builds on the work of previous scientists" To your point there: Charles Darwin didn't come up with Evolution, there had already been theories about it floating around and being discussed and debated for about a century before him. He just came up with a better theory of it than what came before

[@theDENIMMAN]

Also on the Titanic: the Titanic was done in by really just...insane bad luck. Like you said it ran into the incredibly rare one scenario it couldn't survive. I'd have to find a source again but I believe it was only about a 5 foot gash in the 5th compartment that really did her in. Just that little bit of extra damage but her 1 compartment over her limit and sank her

[@CarterElkins]

@@theDENIMMAN That's correct, I heard a historian specializing on the Titanic talk about this recently. Ironically, it turned out to be the captain attempting to avoid the iceberg that sealed the ship's doom. They were heading straight at the berg, and had they simply rammed it she likely would have survived. But hindsight is 20-20, and it's clear he was doing the best he could under the circumstances.

[@theDENIMMAN]

@@CarterElkins first officer but otherwise yes largely. And to William Murdoch's defense I think trying to avoid the iceberg was the right call as if he hit it head on it would have caved a lot of the front of the ship in, killing a lot of people. Not as many and the ship would have survived but it would still be a disaster

[@Yabaeagle]

Coming scotland come moray its the best

[@alexortiz7425]

Have a safe trip

[@Chamomileable]

44 is an incredibly strange one to include on this list. I see a lot of modern science trying to just ignore the idea of human genetic haplogroups and therefore a massive amount of anthropological science. We aren't gumball machines, just like every other animal isn't. You don't just pop out a random color lol.

[@trentonebel9088]

In Portuguese law, you can’t report someone missing until 72 hours after, no? I’d heard that, but don’t know if it’s actually true.

[@ch.3569]

Hello, Someone who has put in several missing persons reports (Work related). It all depends on the circumstances of the persons disappearance on weather they classify them as missing. Always best to call and put it on the polices radar

[@Channel-23s]

13:54 true I agree but it’s also fascinating when two white parents have a black child and find out one of there ancestors/relatives was black or half black it’s quite interesting or the case of the UK twins one ginger white girl the other a darker girl with different hair but they are the exception more likely we look like our parents or a combination

[@nrrork]

That's just what the mother told her husband. 😊

[@patman4394]

During the segment discussing the origin of the Spanish Flu, the text says that Spain was neutral during WW2…when the World War in question should actually be WW1. Still cool though