Every Historical Misconception Debunked in 10 Minutes

[@RoughRouser]

“Cleopatra was of Macedonian-Greek descent” Somewhere a Netflix executive is screaming in anguish

[@floricel_112]

Don't worry, her grandma told her afterwards what's what

[@chefj523]

I remember learning about that in school, I can't belive people still get it wrong nowadays

[@martinh8784]

My grandma told me that Cleopatra was a lizard alien from another dimension. Of course, I believe my own grandma and not the other strange one.

[@RoughRouser]

@@martinh8784 lizard aliens built the pyramids donchaknow 😜

[@italkalot8876]

Tell that to hundreds of thousands of blacks thinking they were Egyptians pharaohs and shit

[@vincentb5431]

The reason why ninjas are portrayed as wearing all-black is actually very interesting. In Japanese theatre, stagehands - the people who move props around during a performance - were usually dressed black as to not distract from the play. In some plays however, one stagehand may actually be an actor in disguise - an actor who portrays a ninja! Nobody expects a stagehand to pull out a weapon, so it's a very surprising twist - just like a ninja.

[@SuperSky9]

I'll stick to belief that ninjas wore black because no one could see them at night when they were jumping rooftop to rooftop.

[@Doublemonk0506]

​@SuperSky9 , that's not really practical. For one, most ninja were lower class mercenaries. They couldn't afford expensive dyes and a very expensive dye, and black was very pricey during feudal Japan. Second, black is not a good color to wear for stealth. Ninja practiced many methods to control their movements as they snuck to the target's house. That would be meaningless if the color of the outfit provided an outline, especially if archers were able to see it.

[@SuperSky9]

@@Doublemonk0506 1. I was talking about modern "Ninja" we see in games and movies, not historical ones. 2. The modern Ninja sticks to the shadow which is black in color which compliments their cloths. Not to mention, Modern ninja operate at night so the Black cloth and Night sky work as a great as a camouflage.

[@ShadowMoon878]

Historical Ninjas would actually be dressed normally to blend with the people. They would disguise themselves as beggars, rickshaw pullers, massuers, servants and even prostitutes. Also, Ninjas are lower than the lowest class of people, since killing people using underhanded means are considered dishonourable. That's why most of them are either mercenaries or servants of their lords, like the Iga Clan who served the Tokugawa Shogunate, or the Fuuma Clan who served the Hojo Family

[@OwenLearnsDrawing]

@@SuperSky9except shadows don’t have color, and the night sky is dark blue.

[@scotandiamapping4549]

0:08 a fun fact to add to this, only one member of Cleopatra's dynasty actually spoke Egyptian, that being Cleopatra herself

[@thatisaduck]

im surprised 'napoleon was not actually short' isnt in this video

[@luchat4917]

everybody heard about it

[@DerVarg]

That's because he WASs actually short, smh

[@ShinobiPhoenix-YT0]

He/they covered it in a different video.

[@RoughRouser]

@@DerVargnot really. Fairly average height for the time, but the English had no problem depicting him as small since they despised him. His elite guard of troops surrounding him were also unusually tall, making him seem small in comparison

[@Aureus07]

Yeah, by modern standards he would be considered short however his height was average for time ​@DerVarg

[@ManVanIran]

Wait wait wait so you're telling me the world did NOT end in 2012????

[@Aupsic-hh5sy]

What the point is trying to convey is that Mayans didn't try to predict the "end of the world", like the misinformed media and conspiracy theorists heavily implied back in 2012.

[@leighz1962]

The world ended but Idiocracy started

[@theactualTVB]

Nope. The world ended on May 21, 2011 and we should’ve listened to Harold Camping

[@dixieboyz1]

Big if true

[@JoanaRoseRamos-wr6lb]

Whoa i did not know that😱

[@ChildDevourer83]

Fun fact: we will never know about the Trojan horse or anything related to Troy anymore is because one man decided to use DYNAMITE for ARCHEOLOGY

[@Lydia-Chlamydia]

The Trojan horse was likely a myth, the only evidence we have of it are from likely fictional stories.

[@mcsy98]

oh fuck that guy… I wonder how archaeologists feel about him when even regular people like you and me who know little about archaeology are already pissed off… the mental anguish must be immense

[@karlos1008]

It was kinda funny and sad walking around Troy and seeing huge chunks of the old layers blown out, while some archaeologists carefully dug through it lol

[@axelhens7831]

Faster 😉😁

[@gabrielho1874]

Who's the dumbass who thought chucking explosives was a good idea?

[@DefrostedChicken]

On cowboys: The reason they're called "cowboys" was because their mandate was guiding and protecting cattle over long distances, in a time where transporting them by train wasn't possible, as railroads long enough were still under construction.

[@SuperSky9]

Also, 1 out of 4 Cowboys were Black.

[@Doublemonk0506]

​@SuperSky9 , and another 15% were Mexican. It's where we get the word buckaroo from. Buckaroo is an English corruption of the Spanish word vaquero

[@jeffersonarches7436]

If horseboys (those who guide the horses) were a thing, what would they ride?!

[@VivaSepulchre]

​@@jeffersonarches7436 guess they'd resort to mounting each other 😂

[@christopherbacon1077]

@@VivaSepulchre Obviously cows

[@Squeakky]

1:30 I find it so ironic that this is a story told to teach young Americans about truthfulness, yet it’s a fake story and not even true😭.

[@TSMaster]

Literally every fable ever

[@Littleyonder]

For No. 14, it would be more accurate to say that the Hundred Years War was not a single, century-long conflict, as the medieval economies of England and France couldn’t sustain such. Instead, it was a series of smaller-scale campaigns into France by the English that are lumped together into a wider war. (I’m not a professional historian, btw, historians, feel free to correct me)

[@IAmTheRealHim]

I’m a historian, you’ve got it all wrong dude

[@Gefehhka]

Damn, he got you innit?

[@FracturedPixel]

8:50 in school we were always taught to remember it with "Divorced, beheaded, died - divorced, beheaded, survived"

[@Rice_two]

Oversimplified reference?

[@fishfingers9205]

@@Rice_two no

[@Yahoolius]

​@@Rice_two Well yes, but actually no

[@ShadowMoon878]

Horrible Histories from the CBBC.

[@noahhamilton5974]

I'm king henry VIII, i had 6 lonely wives, some might say I ruined their lives....

[@qzy-179SanTzxkW]

Who tf ever thought that b4 Columbus or the vikings discovered America, it wasn't inhabited?

[@maximiliougaming993]

You would be surprised to see how much the people were self-centered back then 😂😂

[@octamaster5000]

Nobody, everyone knew people already lived in America. The reason why people said "Christopher Columbus discovered America" is because he essentially began a continuous connection with a new continent.

[@SuperSky9]

The question is not if people existed on American continents. From West's POV, The western explorers didn't know of the existence of the American continent, or its inhabitants. Also, even though they know about North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa wasn't explored until the 15th century CE by the Portuguese. It was also the Portuguese who excelled at African slave trade compared to the rest of Europe or Arabia. The southerners in USA tried to copy the Portugese but failed.

[@ghazelthegreat3248]

​@@octamaster5000exactly and that my friend us what makes it a misconception, because introduced is not discovered they are different people should have said "columbus introduced america to the world" or something like that

[@angryvaultguy]

It was discovered for the western world since they didn't know if it existed. So an explorer finds a land that while inhabitant was not known by the western world it's a discovery for the western world Also the native don't have maps while Europeans did

[@magicsebi3664]

Half of these: Oh wow, didn't know that. Other half: Who the FUCK actually believed that shit??

[@TakedaIesyu]

Half of these: "Huh, that's neat! I didn't know that!" The other half: "I mean, okay yeah, but you're really missing the point." Like, the Eastern and Western Romans were culturally distinctive enough that we call one "Roman" and the other "Byzantine," just like how Mainland Chinese and the Chinese who live on Taiwan are culturally distinctive enough that, while both could be called "Chinese," we refer to one as Taiwanese instead.

[@Lydia-Chlamydia]

Well, after the fall of western Rome, the “Byzantine” empire was still known at the time as the Roman Empire

[@RedContingency]

AKSHUALLY IT WASNT SPREAD BY RATS IT WAS THE FLEAS….who were on the rats

[@GulaschTrade]

Im only 2:55 in and don’t want to watch a vid where he is saying the dark ages where not that dirty

[@Lydia-Chlamydia]

@@GulaschTrade “I’m only 2:55 into a video about misconceptions, and I don’t want to learn that what I believed to be true was actually false”

[@Sprog_]

Also the Paul Revere thing, he didn’t say “the British are coming” because they themselves were British. Historians agree he would have probably said “the regulars are coming”

[@extraterrestrialfascisti7625]

Columbus isn’t credited with creating civilization in the new world. He is credited with finding America for Europe which was beyond the known world at that time.

[@funbricks1]

The Titanic was NOT called unsinkable before its sinking. It was called "practically unsinkable" and "as unsinkable as it's possible to make one liner" but it was never just called downright unsinkable. This was exagerrated after its' sinking to envoke sadness or something

[@Cruzazulini]

Great work, as always! But 5:46 that's not a picture of the Mayan calendar. That's the Aztec calendar

[@Jellyfish146]

Mayincatec

[@ivonnesaysmiau]

Cleopatra being actually greek/macedonian (im unsure which one is correct) should be taught more to everyone so there are less confusions

[@thomasmccolm7803]

It doesn't really matter man

[@xShadowChrisx]

@@thomasmccolm7803 the truth always matters

[@SuperSky9]

@@thomasmccolm7803 It does matter, If people are willing to believe a Cleopatra was black because of some stupid tv show, than stating the truth is the most important thing in current times. Same goes for Slavery already existing even before Europeans went to Africa Because it was introduced by Arabs.

[@Dr_AcE_]

Macedonia is macedonian 🇲🇰

[@WaitForAntonio]

@@Dr_AcE_ "Macedonia" is not North Macedonia. You guys have nothing to do with Greece

[@Orrinn123]

9:17 Another thing about the bermuda triangle is you can pretty much pick any area of such a large size that has that much air and sea traffic and you’ll find a similar number of incidents

[@welton9748]

I don't care what the video says, Cleopatra was African. Source: my grandma said "trust me, bro"

[@CoffeeFiend1]

Cracks me up how people get offended by the people of the African continent "never doing anything for humanity" like they literally started humanity and formed the first civilizations. But some chick from overseas becoming influential in a small region of a foreign continent is the end of the world.

[@Matheus-xp6xq]

@@CoffeeFiend1 Sub-Saharan africans have done absolutely nothing to this day

[@kringle7804]

To be fair at that point Egyptian really doesn't have a firm identity aside from Egyptian people form nubia greece and many more civilizations were all mixed into egypt its fair to assume Egyptian blood got mixed but you cant really determine what that meand

[@xShadowChrisx]

@@CoffeeFiend1 the first civilizations were formed in the middle east, not Africa, and by Indo-Europeans.

[@SuperSky9]

@@CoffeeFiend1 If your source of history is a movie, you're an idiot by default. Also, Africans "never did anything for humanity" is true. Africans didn't even invent the wheel ffs.

[@Thymesicle]

the invasion of the soviet union started in june but it lasted more than hitler expected. In fact the battle of moscow was from 30 sep. 1941 - 7 jan 1942

[@lukewarmoatmeal6441]

Right. His falter came when winter arrived and he didn’t stop to wait out the cold costing a devastating amount of soldiers and resources.

[@HELMBREAKER47]

Longer than my last relationship

[@Thymesicle]

@@HELMBREAKER47 HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHa.................... fuck we're lonely...

[@HELMBREAKER47]

@@Thymesicle oh nah I got a girl now lol

[@Thymesicle]

@@HELMBREAKER47 congrats!

[@Fast_and_Ferbious]

Some of these facts feel very nitpicky like the 100 Years War or the spread of the plague through the fleas ON the rats. Still a great video🤝

[@pinknintendoswitch5907]

It’s not nitpicky at all because that indeed is a big misconception. People would think it came from rats as individuals but it actually came from the fleas so if a single flea was found on let’s say a bed they would still think it must’ve been some rat. Pretty informative

[@Doublemonk0506]

​@@pinknintendoswitch5907, also, the oriental rat flea can still spread without rats. They also seek out rabbits and squirrels.

[@SirSnipington]

@3:37 that is actually wrong. They did wear those hats, if you search in real photos of cowboys you’ll see in pretty much every photo people are wearing hats because they would work all day out in the blistering sun so the hat kept the sun off their face and neck ☝️🤓

[@awilk418]

I wondered that as well. It might be more accurate to say that the modern version of the cowboy hat was not really in use yet and cowboys, along with pretty much every other man at that time, wore various wide-brimmed hats.

[@jackdeniston6150]

@@awilk418 Pretty much everything is a ´simplification´ rather than misconception.

[@askylibrarianoftheoceans4102]

On the one about Paul Revere -> He wouldn't have said "The British are coming" regardless of how discrete he wanted to be because, at the time, the colonists still considered themselves to be British. In other words, he wouldn't have said it because he _was_ British. Most likely the message was "the regulars are coming."

[@mattjones5987]

Actually the Patriots refered to the British as red coats, since their soldiers wore a uniform that consisted primarily of... a red coat. The odds are their nickname at the time for them was "Reds." More significant, Paul Revere was only 1 of about 50 who rode through the countryside warning the people.

[@bookhouse70]

37 - missed the opportunity to debunk the whole thumbs up/down thing

[@Yea___]

2000 years from now someone is gonna make a youtube video and say "America did not speak English. While English was the main language used for everything, some people spoke other languages"

[@PhilipHaseldine]

in 2,000 years time the vast majority of people won't understand this video, any more than we could understand someone speaking to us 2,000 years ago. That's the mistake people make when they fake time travel videos saying they're from the future. If we couldn't understand them, they'd be more realistic.

[@Robert-cg1id]

Paul Revere didn't even complete that ride. He surrendered to the British almost immediately. The ride was actually performed by two other lesser known men, Prescott and Dawes. Paul Revere was a lot more famous at the time, however, so he got the credit. He did introduce forensic dentistry to America, to help identify bodies in the war by their dental work. And 150ish years later, his descendent invented the fluffernutter sandwich.

[@Lechuga1815]

#4, I'm pretty sure everyone knew that America had indigenous tribes. When people say he "discovered" America, he was the explorer that effectively paved the way for European colonization efforts that would change the future of the Western world forever, and was either the first person or one of the few that realized there were 2 physically separate continents on the planet.

[@geraldmalott7814]

Columbus died not knowing there was another hemisphere, he thought he had found a route to India to the very end.

[@ironiccookies2320]

7:50 The West technically didn't fall in 476. Syagrius still ruled parts of northern France until 486 and Nepos still ruled as the Western Emperor in Dalmatia until he was murdered by his general Ovida in 480 who then became the warlord of Dalmatia until the region was conquered by Odoacer in 482. As for the East, Trebizond survived until 1461. The emperors are from the Komnenos dynasty who ruled Byzantium but were overthrown so they fled and established Trebizond. And although the nations did fall, the people's lives didn't change. Somebody in Gaul would've still had Roman traditions and still spoke Latin but were ruled by Germanics. This would've been the norm for a couple more centuries until their Latin began to change.

[@goblinoide]

3:05 "The black plague was not spread by rats, but by the fleas on said rats." In other words... it was spread by rats.

[@RoughRouser]

Erm, acktualy, because it came from the fleas, it would be wrong to say it was spread by rats 🤓

[@ShinobiPhoenix-YT0]

The thing that actually transmits the disease to humans spread the disease. You might as well hyper extend it to humans spread it anyway because of the conditions they created that brought the "diseased" rats. Most people don't even know what the Buponic Plague is or why it was "stopped" by the advent of increased health conditions and acts of cleanliness (a little more work than just "soap").

[@goblinoide]

@@RoughRouser Without the rats the fleas wouldn’t have been able to spread it.

[@CoffeeFiend1]

@@goblinoide Indeed I dunno why we didn't just let everyone mingle during COVID it wasn't spread by people it was spread by 'science jibba jabba stuffff on and in the peoplez'.

[@CoffeeFiend1]

Without a lot of contextualized caveats a lot of these are simply swapping one misinformed myth for another.

[@JohnnyJamesGio]

6:31 I was NOT expecting that :D

[@PFD60]

Love this type of content man. Keep up the good work

[@illvminatvs3194]

>Mayan Calendar >uses Mēxihcah Sun Stone

[@SuperSky9]

Mēxihcah Sun Stone was used to when talking about end of days as well.

[@illvminatvs3194]

@SuperSky9 the mayan calendar doesn't speak of the end of days, it delineates the ba'ak'tun long count

[@SuperSky9]

@@illvminatvs3194 k...

[@thelonleyUchiha1]

@@illvminatvs3194 exactly but idiot Americans didn’t realize that

[@ItMeRobin]

shoutout to william henry harrison who did not get pneumonia via his long inauguration speech, which caused him to die 30 days into his presidency

[@KAZVorpal]

A bunch of these state PROBABLE things as if they were absolute fact. It also takes some very arguable opinions, like the "no dark ages" and state them as fact. And then it pretends some things nobody seriously believes need to be debunked. And then there's the absurdity of pretending this is ALL misconceptions, instead of "the ones we decided to list".

[@mariuskoch3564]

Do every territorial dispute next

[@steveminero5228]

0:44 columbus actually discovered America, he made the Europeans and Asians know that there's a continent past the Atlantic or the Pacific respectively and discovered the natives that there are other continents than theirs, furthermore Leif Erikson arrived before but never showed up to the rest of the world that he had put a step into another continent, and the tribes he traded with didn't get to know that there are other continents until centuries later when Christopher did.

[@bruhmoment11111]

According to the people fighting the "discovered" statement, there can be no such thing as discovery because whatever was discovered already existed. It doesn't matter that Columbus was the first to find and bring back information about two whole continents to the civilized world, because to these people, just having existed is enough of a defense against being "discovered".

[@macjalac5845]

​@@bruhmoment11111 So Newton never discovered gravity because it already existed? Discover something literally means removing the cover of something, revealing it to the world.

[@steveminero5228]

@@bruhmoment11111 "there can't be such a thing as discovery because whatever was discovered already existed". Then newtton never discovered gravity, Darwin never discovered Evolution (Who actually didn't, he doesn't even mention once the word evolution in the origin of the species) Marie curie didn't discover radius and a large etcetera. That statement is simply absurd. I'm not taking about a "civilized" world discovering something, when Columbus reached America he also brought to Europe natives in order to show them that there are other continents and made a grand announcement to the Spanish crown who spreaded that discoverment in such a way that later on many other European countries wanted to get there after Columbus, Leif Erikson simply never did a similar thing, think of it, after Columbus there was many other explorers from all Europe, a hundred years after Leif Erikson went there, no one even remembered in America who he was.

[@steveminero5228]

@@bruhmoment11111 to add up, even if you want to defend that "there's a debate around it" then It doesn't fit this video where there are mainly actual facts and this is sold as a fact when, even if absurd it's a debate.

[@pelinalwhitestrake3367]

Columbus didn't discover America, he thought that he landed in Indies. It's Amerigo Vespucci the one that discovered America.

[@Modo942000]

Ironically some corrections here also include some misconceptions...

[@LoggieSeay]

In a similar vein to Germany's reunification, I always have to correct my students thinking that the Korean War caused the division of North and South. In fact, the division is what caused the Korean War.

[@nerdlord314]

0:54 Erik the Red discovered Greenland before his son discovered Newfoundland

[@sailfree1572]

Paul Revere did not make a midnight ride. He and two friends looked suspicious to some British soldiers in a pub and he was arrested that night. His two companions escaped. Revere happens to rhyme with “Listen my children and you shall hear…” in Longfellow’s poem.

[@GodofToast]

2:55. It’s also worth saying that the ‘hundred years’ war’ is a Victorian invention. It was actually made up of multiple different wars. Henry V’s war was entirely separate from Edward III’s war

[@ntpgmr]

It's more accurate to call it a century-long series of conflicts caused by a dynastic dispute rather than a war how we think of it

[@kogn5338]

On cowboy hats: They did wear hats during the old west (to protect from the sun) but not the ‘cowboy hat’ we know today. Most common was the bowler hat, but also popular was the ‘boss of the plains’ hat (a flat brimmed hat with a round top) and all kinds of sombreros.

[@PhilipHaseldine]

Yeah it's people thinking they all wore Stetsons which is misleading. That's only in films. Also they weren't having gunfight duels at high noon every day.

[@mojolmao1752]

Bro made a career out of making powerpoint presentations

[@TheChoosedOne]

bros teachers are proud

[@leighz1962]

His teachers probably gave him a C for his presentation about a career in presentations before telling him to be more realistic and lick boots.

[@davidclemensen8952]

@@leighz1962

[@CaritasGothKaraoke]

don’t call people “bro”

[@mojolmao1752]

@@CaritasGothKaraoke ok bro

[@JoJoDUmberto]

5:14 In italy there's a saying: "Quando c'era lui, i treni arrivavano in orario" wich means "When he was there, trains were on time". ps. In Italy many people refer to Mussolini with the pronuns He or Him

[@Gattygoon]

Everything that I learned is a lie. I'm not sure that I should even believe this video. I'm going back to bed.

[@JenNittahl]

"Damn, I really wish there was a Saga" Vinland:

[@TheNendroidPlayer]

Here before it gets views Also good content, no introduction, just straight to the context.

[@Bean_Soup]

The “Columbus never discovered America” is such a trope. Of course indigenous people lived in the New world for thousands of years. Columbus was remarkable in that he connected two previously disparate halves of the world who would have otherwise not came into contact with each other for an extremely long time. The Vikings that settled in newfoundland did nothing in the region aside from harvesting lumber. In the respect of forever affecting the course of two histories for humanity, Columbus did effectively discover America.

[@Poopopotamusgaming]

Correct, the right way of putting it is Columbus introduced the Americas to the rest of the world, which was much more monumental than anything the vikings

[@ShinobiPhoenix-YT0]

That's like something something didn't exist until you brought your culture to it... I guess most of Africa didn't exists without until the "Dutch Trade". Or a different analogy: It's like saying Apple invented the smartphone. In fact, it would be more accurate to say culture popularized and glamorized Columbus's journey to the Americas to give people something to focus on and people really don't care to think deeply about anything. It's obvious American Indians literally were here and established their own culture. It's almost like people keep downplaying the cultural relevance of "non-white" skinned cultures, especially Asian (West and East), all POC-dominated regions (such as West Indies, South America, and parts of Africa) and aboriginal cultures (various, but including the American Indian, the Innuit, and Australian aboriginal). It's literally why there's so much focus on the Greeks, the Romans, and even the Vikings (the ones we accept as white). We don't even accept the BLENDING of said cultures either. Even Columbus is essentially white and depicted as (light skinned Hispanic) until someone needs him to be Spanish during race conversations, which is why they fight for him so hard.

[@gorkaaustin5306]

Yeah man but let’s not give him that much leeway which words like “remarkable”. Read “A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies” by Bartolomé de las Casas who is one of our most vital sources of the initial colonization of the Americas and was also present on one of Columbus’s voyages. Hispaniola under Columbus was Ground 0 for one of the most destructive periods of mankind’s history, and its ultimate effect and repercussions on the entire American continent, that of which is mostly contained within the exploitation of Latin America.

[@ShinobiPhoenix-YT0]

@@gorkaaustin5306 Another example related to something already put in the video is how much people contribute "The British are coming" to Paul Revere and not the other people with him who went further and didn't get arrested. Same with how people don't understand what actually happened with Rosa Parks or even the other people involved in the movement. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a great movie for this point: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." The legend isn't true, it just became the thing people want to believe.

[@Bean_Soup]

@@gorkaaustin5306 "lets not give him that much leeway with words like 'remarkable'" my guy Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. He was still a remarkable person, not for his ownership of slaves but rather his political influence in his life. That you would want to disqualify someone's consideration for being a remarkable figure in history because of whatever other X thing they did is an slanted and disjointed way of viewing historical events.

[@hkayakh]

5:15 correct. He made it run on rosemary.

[@indi.91]

There's a story of an Irish monk, Saint Brendan, that suggests that he could've been to America about 500 years before the Vikings

[@SHDUStudios]

2:29 this definitely comes across in many pagan circles, where ritual purity is incredibly important and some of these techniques are still in use in medicine and hygiene today.

[@Nozume]

To number 27. The first Autobahn is between Bonn and Cologne. It was "build" by Konrad Adenauer. At that time the mayor of Cologne and the first Chacellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

[@swigytown]

"they also did not wear cowboy hats" *shows picture of them wearing cowboy hats*

[@anthenyiscool2758]

*Thorvald Erikson led the vikings around what is now known as Canada, not Leif

[@jackthumbikomkandawire8591]

Fact: Christopher Columbus and his crew clapped manatee cheeks thinking they were mermaids

[@CeilingCatMSM]

That is just disgusting

[@rolfe23]

The Hundred Years War wasn't a single everlasting conflict, it was a few wars separated by periods of peace. - Edwardian War (1337-1360) - Caroline War (1369-1389) - Lancastrian War (1415-1453)

[@gerald957]

Disney’s head was cryogenically frozen. I talked with his head at Disneyland a couple years ago

[@hubguy]

It’s funny how some cowboys were depicted considering even 50s and 60s shows depicted figures like Lucas McCain as ranchers

[@hkayakh]

0:19 oh so that’s where Lyre Lyre, Rome on Fire comes from

[@PhilipHaseldine]

No-one in history has ever thought that all of Henry VIII's wives were executed. Also Mussolini although he did not make the trains run on time, he did a lot to sort out the Mafia in Italy, with many fleeing to the USA to form the Cosa Nostra as a consequence.

[@MeliesCinemagician]

If Paul Revere went riding around shouting "the British are coming," everyone would probably think, "yeah, so?" Most everyone in the American colonies at that time considered themselves British, even those who wanted independence. He probably actually said, "the Regulars are coming," referring to the British troops.

[@Gold79Gamer]

Well there is probably millions more historical misconceptions to cover

[@TheSimplePaint]

So, Cleopatra wasn’t Egyptian, cowboys didn’t wear cowboy hats, and the world didn’t end in 2012? My entire life has been a historical glitch in the matrix. 🧐💥

[@robertkarp2070]

The Cowboys was the name applied to organized crime syndicate that Wyatt Earp was fighting against that included the shootout at the OK Corral. That's why cowboys had a negative connotation added to it.

[@noahe.2590]

Something tells me that the Italians were inspired to make pasta from the Chinese noodles because of already existing trade between the two.

[@toasted_donut2308]

talk about the 300 Spartans killing 20 billion Persians by themselves

[@Jamesthe1]

3:22 Being a cowboy was also seen as a very filthy job, as you smelled of manure and were therein not really allowed into places like a saloon. You also could not wield a gun in most cases, mostly because it going off would scare the cattle.

[@Emilator93]

0:33 the real discovery was creating maps an nagigation routes to come and go

[@RoughRouser]

@@Emilator93 maybe the real discovery was the friends we made along the way. Oh shit they all died of disease

[@ElBadVibes]

Here in Mexico, putting cement shoes on people and throwing them on rivers, lakes or the ocean, its no lie or myth at all, although it does inflict terror amongst population XD

[@shecallsmehandle567]

My grandfather did jump during the crash of the stockmarket though and it was because of the crash

[@catrap5287]

1:36 emphasis on the "truthfulness" part

[@fearlv1rattata]

Ok now I'm questioning the integrity of this list after #48.

[@ShadowMoon878]

Divorced, beheaded and died. Divorced, beheaded and survived. I'm Henry the 8th and I had six sorry wives, some might say i ruined their lives...

[@professorx881]

My great great grandfather actually did kill himself during the stock market crash of 1929 by jumping off a building.

[@davidhartley4716]

Sure... Walt Disney's BODY might have been cremated... The "head" of the company is on ice deep in the bowels of Disneyland's secret underground city

[@jeffsmith4393]

I think number 11 is missing a bit of information. Religious practices like these were often more symbolic and people (in all classes) in large cities did not fully understand proper waste management. I mean thats why there was a black plague.

[@Michael_the_Drunkard]

The black plague was not caused by bad waste management, the virus came from outside of Europe.

[@Lydia-Chlamydia]

Cities did understand waste management, and people did attempt to stay clean (examples such as theories on Miasma, where people believed illness was caused by foul scents) did mean that there was a fair amount of hygiene. This just doesn’t mean hygiene was particularly efficient. Through most of Europe, there was minimal efforts from governments, lack of sewers, methods of disposal, etc. and with no understanding of germs, people and especially objects were rarely cleaned efficiently. Interesting story though, there are records of during the great plague that cities in England would dip coins in vinegar when trading, since just by chance people happened to learn this prevented disease from spreading through trade.

[@randallpetroelje3913]

Only killed “10’s of thousands “- oh bless their black hearts that it wasn’t in the hundreds of thousands or millions.😢

[@---df5sr]

Columbus did technically discover America in the same way i discovered a new coffee shop i like yesterday

[@jentegeeraerts1119]

Something that bugs me in this one is how the argument for a story not being true is lack of evidence. (Nero playing the lyre and the Trojan horse) All we know is that there's some sources that say he did, and none say that he didn't. The issue with the sources we do have is that they might be unreliable because they seem opinionated so we don't have any definitive proof. As for the Trojan horse, it's a giant WOODEN horse. If it was ever real, the wood used would already be long gone so looking to archeology for proof is not a great bet. (Maybe some nails/metal bands could have survived, but it'd be almost impossible to prove they were part of the horse) it's unlikely it was real because it's kind of ridiculous that the Trojans wouldn't have noticed a bunch of Greek men hiding in it, but there's no proof against it either so we simply don't know. TL;DR You can't just say something is false when there's a lack evidence, that just means we don't know.

[@mahatmaniggandhi2898]

infact leibniz's notation was so much better that we still use it today

[@neoselket562]

9:32 that picture reminds me of the calvin and hobbes comic where a runaway train, airplane, chasm, and gas leak are all targeting one guy's house lol.

[@andrecatorze391]

Make one about the serial killers who were never caught.

[@davidyoung]

The Disney one should be 'not cryonically frozen'. Cryogenics is a legitimate branch of physics.

[@gerechtsdeurwaarderpeter6311]

There is a stark difference between "They did not use a Trojan Horse" and "There is no archeological evidence". For example, just because a criminal does not leave any evidence of their crime (say, killing a hobo with no friends and no family, leaving no body), does not mean he did not do it.

[@gerechtsdeurwaarderpeter6311]

What I am trying to say is, do not make such bold confident statements if you do not have definitive proof, especially when talkkng about historical events.

[@PhilipHaseldine]

I think it's probably poetic license as seems amazingly impractical and risky but we'll probably never know

[@gerechtsdeurwaarderpeter6311]

@@PhilipHaseldine yeah, probably, but like you said, we will never know, so you can not make the claim that they absolutely did not use it etc.

[@joeylawn36111]

#21: While the Germans didn't invade the Soviet Union in the winter time (it was June of 1941), the Soviets were indeed ill-prepared for the invasion, as they kept Stalin their preparations and Putin off defensive measures. And they certainly did Nazi it coming....

[@TimtheToolman349]

Can you make one about every dimension please?!

[@jeffreysmith694]

Love your work. Please create a playlist. I'd love to bookmark these great vids.

[@bell110]

I agree with most of this, but I'm tired of people pretending Columbus wasn't a groundbreaking figure for modern life. No one has said people didn't live in the Americas. Columbus discovered the Americas for Europe knowing it was probably a death sentence. If Columbus didn't discover the Americas, I think it's safe to say we would still live in a stagnate class base system.

[@terrlaw328]

Columbus was a slave trader and murderer. Such a good Christian !

[@sasvkeee._]

looked at the thumbnail and got more and more shocked as i read that these werent true..

[@CaritasGothKaraoke]

I didn’t expect the subject of #35

[@rwmullis79]

I feel like we’re splitting ears on some of these.

[@PhilipHaseldine]

Don't you mean splitting hairs?

[@rwmullis79]

@@PhilipHaseldine ear hairs

[@TNOBasedBatov]

The first one got grandmas reeling lmao

[@ayedonkno467]

VINLAND METIONED?! 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥 WE BE FORGIVING PEOPLE WITH THIS ONE

[@Tomanroamn]

8:10 Vincent Van Gogh did not cut part of his ear, his brother did in an accident and he made the crisis up

[@robertkarp2070]

Trojan Horse, there's no evidence to disprove it either. It was wood very well used as firewood for all we know, afterwards. Back then things were passed on by word of mouth, giving material for Homer to use when writing the Iliad.

[@luckiiko]

the day i found out the trojan horse wasn’t real was the day i stopped believing in happiness

[@Banana_Fusion]

Nice video once more!

[@TheRavenLord1]

That’s what Disney wants us to know. Hence why they say he’s not frozen.

[@portalwalker_]

Well the Mayan Calender didn't predict the end of the world in 2012 anyways, because the world didn't end in 2012

[@PhilipHaseldine]

It;s like saying every calendar we have predicts the world will end at midnight on 31/12/2024. We don't think that, and they didn't think that about their ones as they weren't dumb.