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[@raymiemiller1455]

Saying the Everglades is filled with crocodiles and not alligators is also a mistake. The Everglades is actually the only place on Earth with both alligators and crocodiles - and there are far more alligators (about 200,000 alligators compared to only about 3,000 crocodiles).

[@TheAmazingallan]

there’s a reason they’re the Florida Gators and not the Florida Crocodiles!

[@opusmaximum]

Thanks! I knew that I remembered that correctly from CSI Miami.

[@Hexagonal_Goblin]

Can’t wait to see this next year!

[@damianhugh]

came here to say this i study everglades restoration 😭

[@petersmythe6462]

I certainly saw a lot of crocodiles (not just alligators) there. Are you sure there are only 3000?

[@pattonorr7572]

As a Memphian, as soon as Sam went “one last remaining religious pyramid…” my mind went “BASS PRO! HE’S GONNA SAY BASS PRO ISNT HE??

[@cobytang]

TBH, It is a pretty damn awesome pyramid, and built in a city bearing the name of an Egyptian capital no less. Plus it's also a pretty damn awesome Bass Pro shop as well, with a pool, AN INDOOR POOL!!!!!!! Just to sell you outdoor equipment while being indoors. That is my Boris Yeltsin Clear Lake supermarket moment.

[@KarryKarryKarry]

@@cobytang Does the indoor pool have fish in it?

[@uninterestedcat8429]

Lol

[@bravoyankeezulu]

thank you Ryan Hailey

[@21Kyzix12]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIqoXmR-m7eYh9E

[@JadenRiley6494]

Ahhh the whole start-off-with-something-that's-way-worse-so when-you-say-the-actual-issue-it's-not-as-bad tactic. I love it

[@Aegis23]

@@JadenRiley6494 just report them for spam. They replied on each and every top comment here.

[@theskicker8856]

@Emotional D Nice try, your acts over, bum.

[@theskicker8856]

@peter Your acts over to.

[@newlineschannel]

yep

[@robohand]

Unironically, yes, same. :D

[@thevoidwalkerbr]

"This cookie is a MILLION TIMES too big" yeah small mistake

[@ellifsyaa]

Same 😞

[@IshijimaKairo]

Make it then.

[@cheesedaemon]

The cookie is a lie.

[@EebstertheGreat]

How hard could it be to make a cookie bigger than Singapore? We should get on it.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@EebstertheGreat There's got to be enough space in the Outback or something.

[@treavormiller9552]

When you find out the whole video was made just to troll the Flat Earthers

[@briansonnenfelt7125]

The Navigator on my sub trolled the crap out of our squadron nav (basically his boss) by wearing a flat earth hat one day underway. He (squadron nav) came into control asking how can the Navigator on a sub believe the earth is flat. The Navigator kept it going for about a day before it got to be too much. Great times.

[@kershaad]

Are the flat earth comments just from people trolling or are there actually that many people walking around lacking such a fundamental grasp of reality?

[@quack4123]

@@kershaad It’s hard to say, there are probably some people in both camps. But it’s difficult if not impossible to distinguish trolls from genuine comments.

[@CoryTheCoder]

@@kershaad I forgot where I heard it but I heard a joke that all flat earthers are actually just actors paid to distract us from real issues

[@jjbailey01]

Flat earthers exist solely to troll those who say the science is settled.

[@SamTaylorsVersion]

The fact that this video is still 7 minutes is hilarious

[@Periwinkleaccount]

No.

[@TaoDragon_]

@Emotional D shut up bot not a coip

[@TaoDragon_]

@peter lmao shut up bot

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

Lol at a near 750 km diameter cookie. 🍪

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

Everglades doesn't have Alligators? Since when?

[@prim16]

As a representative of the Mario-shaped Earth community, I am appalled that you catered to the bogus theories of the Flat Earthers. Princess Peach will not be amused when I tell her about this.

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

Mama mia.

[@bathamsteryt]

This is the one non round earth theory that I can agree with

[@mattyt1961]

She won't care, you're princess is on another earth

[@prim16]

@@mattyt1961 lmao

[@masahirosakurai64]

Same bro.

[@keencar]

Every mistake accounted for just 7 minutes. Thats impressive

[@edwinhuang9244]

Na we'll still waiting for him to correct his mistake about London and the City of London.

[@jannesmeyer2972]

It's only 5.5 minutes if you don't count the advertising at the end...

[@DidierLoiseau]

@@jannesmeyer2972 at the risk of starting a heated discussion, I would actually say it is 4:50 😏

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

@@DidierLoiseau I'll go get the popcorn

[@Aegis23]

@peter e off dude with the damn spam.

[@f1ggyc]

You kind of made a mistake in the mistake video again (probably on purpose...) The property developer who run 20 fenchurch street added a sun shading system back in 2014 so the concaved skyscraper is no longer able to kill people.

[@Kyunin9]

That's a shame, I really wanted it to still be operational.

[@sucyshi]

I was expecting them to make a joke "except none of that is true" but they never did

[@metrazol]

Oh, it can still kill people, it's just biding it's time.

[@davidmcgill1000]

Sounds like a deployable death ray when one is needed.

[@boarbot7829]

Ah damn you beat me to it by 7 minutes!

[@Thebreakdownshow1]

I love how they celebrate their mistakes keep up the great work HAI

[@RedPaladin42]

Unlike a certain Sam from Wendover

[@xXI3igfootXx]

I already knew #1 was a troll, because Sam would never make a mistake when it comes to planes.

[@boarbot7829]

Mistake IN THE FIRST FEW SECONDS! The walkie-talkie heat ray issue has already been fixed with coatings and shading structures.

[@techodehormigon]

@peter omg peter griffin (real)

[@AndyHappyGuy]

Well we’ll have to make it correct again don’t we?

[@dani.munoz.a23]

He also made a mistake 5 seconds in pronouncing ñ as a normal n

[@boarbot7829]

@@dani.munoz.a23 pronouncing something wrong isn’t really a proper mistake. It’s not a factual error.

[@TJ-vh2ps]

Yeah, the article he put on the screen suggested that they knew about the issue (though not how bad it would be) and that they could fix it by spending more money.

[@joseville]

When making mistakes leads to making more content, is that really a mistake, Sam? Or did you just find the key to never-ending content?

[@wongjunkit6205]

Infinite content glitch

[@formorian5]

Regarding the caduceus, here's a culture question. How long do you have to use a symbol wrong before it eventually becomes right? Symbols can change in meaning, just like words can.

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

Christians have definitely been using the cross wrong since 1096 AD.

[@jasoncole1833]

Like the swastika, it was originally used by I think the Hindi and it meant something good but now it doesn’t

[@JohnCooper-gm6mn]

And how many times do you need to misspell a word before it's accepted that its spelling changes... 🙄

[@formorian5]

@@JohnCooper-gm6mn please excuse my stumpy fingers making mistakes on my phone and my tired eyes failing to catch those mistakes

[@eloujtimereaver4504]

@@jasoncole1833 It was originally used by the everyone, and is still used by more than half the world.

[@krispykrisps7108]

The Caduceus is both correct and incorrect. It’s the symbol for the staff of Hermes, the god of way too many things to list, but there is one in particular that’s important: god of alchemy. He wasn’t originally the god of alchemy until the Greeks combined him with his Egyptian counterpart, Thoth. In particular, dating all the way back to 100-400 CE, it was the symbol inscribed or stamped on concoctions both alchemical and pharmacological, namely occultist sticks. What is an occultist stick? Well, since medicines were typically dispensed as a solid, alchemists would mix tree gum into the ingredients and fashion the medicine into small rods. When you needed to take your medicine, you broke off the end, mixed it with honey/oil/water, and slurped the result. Anyway, before the medicine fully hardened, the alchemist would stamp the prescriber, the ingredients, the disease it was meant for, and… a Caduceus symbol. Why? Maybe it was the symbol for the god of alchemy. Maybe it was the symbol for commerce. Maybe it indicated it was a treatment for the eye because the mythical Caduceus “charmed the eyes of men”. Maybe it was because snakes were the symbol of immortality, shedding their skin to be reborn anew without disease or age. Maybe it was a fad. No one knows. Much, much later, it would indicate the presence of mercury, which was a beloved medieval treatment (since medieval European alchemists believed mercury was the basis of all things, including the human soul). Then it became the medieval symbol of pharmacy. While the Rod of Asclepius would be more apt for medicine, people were using it as a medical symbol before some guy in the US Medical Core. In 1556, president John Caius of the Royal College of Physicians of London had a Caduceus rod made and every president afterwords would carry it. Funnily enough, a replica of that rod was given to the American College of Physicians in 1954, which was 40 years after the US Medical Corps adopted it. TL;DR: Ironically, while not the symbol of the practice of medicine, the Caduceus is the symbol of the medicine itself.

[@thatstarwarsnerd6641]

The way I heard it, because it was a symbol of messengers, it was used by the military to distinguish non-combatants, which led to its adoption by the medical corps

[@SparklyFoxy]

Actually impressive how you managed to explain quite a lot of mistakes in just around 7 minutes. I actually find that pretty great.

[@owencollins8561]

I was half interested

[@Nobi36]

Same

[@pyeitme508]

Lol

[@JoseRodriguez-lp7rs]

2:33 that’s a mistake. Not having diplomatic relations is not the same as not recognizing a country. Bhutan recognizes all countries in the UN, but only has formal diplomatic relations with the ones you highlighted. I.E you can enter Bhutan with a passport of any country not highlighted in that map. You can recognize a country without having diplomatic relations, for example the US recognizes Iran and North Korea but has no diplomatic relations (I.e. no embassies) with these countries. You can ALSO have diplomatic relations with a country despite not recognizing them, for example the US and Taiwan. So no, Bhutan does recognize those countries, just doesn’t have embassies in them.

[@hyunjongbyun9574]

No, the US does not officially recognize North Korea, she instead recognizes South Korea as the only legitimate government in the entire Korean Penninsula.

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

But why does the US not recognize Taiwan?

[@JoseRodriguez-lp7rs]

@@EdyAlbertoMSGT3 because they’re cowards pandering to the ccp

[@effbar2400]

@@EdyAlbertoMSGT3 big daddy China will get mad

[@FrozenBusChannel]

@@EdyAlbertoMSGT3 because China is a huge jerk that'll screw up everyone if it happens

[@Logarithm906]

I really hope you're including 0:09 that you highlight the convex part of the building while explaining that it's concave.

[@hamzamotara4304]

Everyone makes mistakes, like that time HAI incinirated my car.

[@krazymusicguy]

The building in London (the Walkie-Talkie), they put up up screen to cover some of the upper floors in 2014. Ironic starting a video about mistakes with a mistake.

[@Inspirement]

I thought so too, until I realized it's probably intentional so that they can bring it up in next year's mistake video. Consider it an investement for the future.

[@ori3645]

*walkie-scorchie

[@theojaquenoud419]

You made another mistake in this video, one of your comments in the Flat Earth montage section was someone disproving flat earth by explaining that the angles of a triangle on earth's surface add up to more than 180 degrees.

[@cube-nite]

Yeah, isn't it weird he makes three mistakes in his video about mistakes (Which only has like 5 mistakes that aren't just typos)? The 'flat earth' comment that's actually disproving it, the highlighting of the convex part of the building instead of the concave part, and the fact that the death ray has since been fixed.

[@CertifiedSlamboy]

@@cube-nite Also - the Everglades ARE filled with alligators (and some crocs, yes). Which makes me think, is this whole video just satire?

[@cube-nite]

@@CertifiedSlamboy Maybe he will reward whoever finds all the mistakes lmao

[@TheHylianBatman]

The mistake video is my favorite every year because I get reminded of stuff I saw at the time and get to learn about stuff I missed at the time or that was gotten wrong. I really appreciate that he always corrects his mistakes.

[@germen2631]

It's great to finally know the reason of people mistaken Earth for a globe. It was just taxes! Great video, lol. Saving that joke for later was just beautiful.

[@drcgaming4195]

idk what those people even think when saying that lol. idk how the earth being flat is financially beneficial for any government oh and also idk why they always talk about nasa. its like america is the only land mass ont he planet lmao

[@hhiippiittyy]

@@drcgaming4195 Flat earthers don't really make that argument. They are usually religiously motivated or contrarian idiots who want to feel smart.

[@bane2201]

@@drcgaming4195 They seem to believe that the Round Earth "theory" (aka, fact) was started by NASA, but people have known that it's round for millennia. Eratosthenes gave a good measurement of the circumference of the Earth in around 200 _BCE._ And people have known about that for almost all history - despite what people think, educated people have known the Earth is round since then, even during the Dark Ages. Maybe NASA invented time travel and got someone to forge that manuscript attributed to Eratosthenes, but I doubt it. But I do think they think America is the only landmass. Tell them that gas prices have gone up around the world and watch their brains autocorrect that to "the USA".

[@ungabunga2415]

how do so many people find an educational channel, but refuse to learn that THE EARTH IS A GLOBE

[@SoulSukkur]

5:26 I feel bad for "Math is not for the faint of heart" getting lumped in with flat earthers for explaining how flat the earth isn't.

[@milohdd]

It's funny, you'd think educational KZbin would be the last place you'd find flat earthers

[@iiTsukiidiscontinued]

I was super confused when you used a flag from lord of the rings for Australia. Glad that got cleared up!

[@shaydailly]

New Zealand's flag is not from Lord of the Rings.

[@iiTsukiidiscontinued]

@@shaydailly Whaaaaaat really????

[@MrKross-tc9yy]

​@@shaydaillyYOU DON'T SAY?!?!

[@puzzLEGO]

I fully believed you at 1:06 with the size of that cookie 🥺 now I just feel sad for believing it

[@keencar]

Mistakes expressed as an Emoji: ⚕, 🇦🇺, 🍤, 🇧🇹x🇫🇷, 🕋=🛕,🐍,

[@anustubhmishra]

nah he is just getting free content that why he is doing this

[@GI_Jimbo]

cough Real Life Lore

[@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou]

Bold, or savvy? He's basically monetizing his own mistakes, which is just good business. Almost makes me wonder if he intentionally makes mistakes so he can keep making these videos every year...

[@kangsate3459]

Two birds one stone

[@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou]

@@kangsate3459 Two girls one cup

[@fanficfan8599]

It is this annual video that shows why I respect this channel so much... Not that many are willing to post a video not only saying they screwed up but explaining how they screwed up.

[@saphinfection1333]

I love the fact that in the deluge of flat earth comments, there's just one guy giving a neat math lesson.

[@himagainstill]

Bonus point for #5: Cicero was part of the educated elite class, and at that time the language of the educated elites of Rome was Greek. Latin was the language of the common people. Related fun fact: Julius Caesar used to exaggerate for the sake of leaving a profound legacy, so his quotes include things he said but also things he claimed to have said. To this day, the way to tell the difference is which languages it's attested in. If it's Greek and Latin, he probably said it. If it's only in Latin, he probably made it up after the fact.

[@squeaknsqurriel7060]

As a kiwi the flag thing always makes me a bit grumpy, not because people make that mistake, but because we have a flag that fails at being a flag and no one is going to fix that any time soon

[@kice]

As a fun fact, most of the HAI mistakes videos have been in my "KZbin ask you if you want to watch again" recommendation box. THE BOTS, THE BOTS THEY KNEW EVERYTHING.

[@sedzanithilivhali882]

Today's mistake: 2:32 you made Bhutan look like a giant lake by highlighting it in blue

[@FerfishMX]

You missed that in the Nike Vaporfly episode, at 0:06, it said that “the runner made it under two hours” and in the screen was a timer watch with the “>2” letter on it. The sign for “less than” is “

[@christopherstarnes9933]

Still an error in #3. You got the location correct, but the change from alligators to crocodiles was incorrect. The Everglades is the only place on earth where both alligators and crocodiles live together. (Not really together but in the same area)

[@BarrettCharlebois]

Honestly fam, I love your regular content, but I LIVE for these mistake videos. I’d watch you screw up all day long and still be a subscriber

[@andrewchapman2039]

Honestly, credit to that hollow earth guy for at least having a *different* crackpot theory.

[@JoshuaGoudreau]

A mistake about airplanes? AIRPLANES? Who do you think you are, Sam from Wendover? Stay in your lane, HAI!

[@leo.girardi]

First mistake: I do believe the wall on the London building between the two yellows lines is Convex. It is the other wall that is Concave. I'm glad you have enough humor to start out a video about mistakes with a mistake.

[@lukemadams]

A mistake at the beginning of the mistakes video! They put special panels or some shit on the building in London shortly after the problem became apparent, so it's not a death ray any more

[@thomilo44]

I thought the mistakes just started from the begionning of the video, because the surface you're tracing on the building isn't the concave one, but a convex one.

[@espeon200]

You heard it here first, people: HAI will quit making videos about bricks and instead focus on the global flat earth conspiracy.

[@hofimastah]

1st mistake in this vid. The building has been fixed and doesn't melt anything any longer

[@Dinnerspoon]

It amazes me that Sam is not a robot and can make mistakes. You learn something new everyday

[@Ben4A]

no no, it's the AI part of HAI, I'm sure Sam doesn't make mistakes, ridiculous 🙄

[@tehdoctah2404]

Making a joke about New Zealand = Middle Earth is one thing, not clarifying that it is a joke on a video that is supposed to be clearing up factual errors is reprehensible.

[@djnimrod]

Totally agree with ya there

[@Jackb27]

Thank goodness was so confused when I saw our flag everyone forgets about us 😢

[@drcgaming4195]

@@Jackb27 australia does so why not the whole world ;)

[@impalamala]

@@Jackb27 probably for the better. Leave us be, cruel world.

[@Jackb27]

@@impalamala trueee I like it lonely in this corner by ourselves

[@der.Schtefan]

"Gravity is literally just a theory, things fall down because of buoyancy". 😂

[@danieltabask2697]

As a spaniard, I was very pleased to know that France is not recogniced by Buthan but Spain is.

[@kkm969]

It's rare to see a complete video of all the mistakes been made by a channel rather than seeing it somewhere gone missing in a wave of comments or in a description.

[@aaryamangupta]

HAI is spoiling us with so much high quality content :D

[@kicking222]

These are, without a doubt, some of my absolute favorite videos that you do.

[@MrSiddhesh004]

Another mistake in the latest video titled "The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating", if you pause 0:15 seconds, you say under 2 hours but have the graphic up for greater than 2 hours.

[@YouAreBreathing]

I love this video series. It's full of misteaks I never notice before.

[@tanmayarora8730]

He confused flag of Australia with middle Earth middle Earth flag. Moral :- "be careful while choosing free stock photos from internet"

[@gejyspa]

You do realize he was kidding, right? It's actually the flag of New Zealand (where the Lord of the Rings movies were filmed). As far as I know, Middle Earth doesn't have a flag for the entire place.

[@heaththeanimalman5684]

I'm from Memphis Tennessee and you gotta love the big fish in the bass pro pyramid.

[@822dudes9]

🤔🤔Pretty sure there was a math mistake in one of the video..... FOUND IT!😜 In video "Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds" -> You said 200 tomatoes from 1 tomato. And then plant all 200 to get 4,000 which should be 40,000. Because 200 × 200 == 40,000. I was proud of finding the mistake, please don't tell me that I myself, have been mistaken 😓

[@vinnylcomusic6136]

That's a lot of tomatoes!

[@harshmishra811]

You really have no life

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I'm glad that, for #1, you revealed the true government secrets. Normally, you would just talk about bricks, but now, you're talking about the brick wall that's infinitely tall that you encounter if you attempt to go to the South Pole.

[@EverythingTheorist]

Don't jump the gun, we've got 4 months left in the year. :P But yeah! The humor of this channel is so cheap but that's what makes it good.

[@htpkey]

I'm beginning to think you made these mistakes intentionally so that you can create a funny compilation video about it a year later. But all jokes aside, you are showing great integrity for publicly correcting your mistakes.

[@dontforgetyoursunscreen]

2:57 society surpassed the need for France 14 billion years ago 200 million years before time even existed

[@sphericalcat1434]

How many times has Sam mixed up < and > is amazing.

[@selkiefluff]

Okay, now I really want to look up how and why Bhutan cares more about Poland than it does for France, apparently.

[@heidirabenau511]

What I think is funny is that Bhutan has a territorial dispute with the PRC yet Bhutan doesn't recognise the PRC or the ROC, so basically the don't recognise that a place called China even exists, despite the fact that Bhutan has a territorial dispute with the PRC

[@engineeringvision9507]

They just don't have relations. North of Bhutan? Nothing there. Bhutan was part of the British empire yet Britain doesn't exist, but also Australia and Canada do. That would be very hard to explain.

[@kiarva]

YES NEW MISTAKE VIDEO OUT BEEN WAITING ALL YEAR FOR THIS

[@tianyongchew2708]

0:06 You pronounced the name of Viñoly as Vinoly, but n and ñ are inherently different. So congrats on having yet another mistake to resolve in next year's mistake video regarding the previous year's mistake video. Keep the tradition going strong 💪💪

[@Skradgee]

I feel like “Trasnatlantic” really deserves some kind of special Internet award

[@weee50]

You didn't even list the fact that in the previous mistakes video, you missed the fact that in the previous mistakes video, you missed the fact that at 5:18 in the "The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery" video, you said "$484,463.5" but put "$484,206" on the screen.

[@Lucky10279]

😆

[@raiknightshade3442]

Me seeing the thumbnail: ah, the New Zealand instead of the Australia flag, classic mistake

[@thepug991]

Too bad everyone doesn’t do this. Shows a lot of integrity guys! And you made it fun to watch!

[@bragapedro]

1:05 I always thought the cookie was supposed to be a joke and the number was completely made up lol

[@dagamerking]

Not sure if this is a mistake but when you mentioned that the airport in the Everglades is in the wrong spot you mentioned that it was full of crocodiles which isn't completely true. Since the Glades are brackish it's ideal habitat for both Gators and Crocs.

[@ish_]

5:26 the one guy who was trying to debunk flat earth but made it into a section with a bunch of flat earthers instead lol

[@spudgunn8695]

Whilst Cicero was indeed a Roman, the most common language spoken in Rome was.... Greek. Latin was only used for government work. Everyone else spoke the Greek language of the time.

[@analander9222]

That's not true. While Greek was used by academics, people still use latin all over the empire (the western half at least), and that's why the Romance languages were Romance and not Greece.

[@spudgunn8695]

@@analander9222 um, I did say in Rome, not the Roman empire. You know, the city itself? In fact, Greek was the lingua franca of most of the Italian peninsula at the time of Cicero.

[@greatwolf5372]

Possible, there were a lot of Greek slaves after all. The educated upper class also knew Greek but it was not their first language. The commons all spoke Latin. So I would say Latin followed by Greek were the languages of Rome.

[@timothystamm3200]

@@spudgunn8695 that's still not completely right because locally originated proletarii would have spoken Latin. That actually helped Caesar look like a populist because he didn't speak Greek as well as his fellow Patricians and favored Latin. Greek was a sign of education or origin from outside of Italy and the Western Empire. So Latin wasn't just the language of governance in Rome. P.S. slight edit for grammar and to make subtext text. The Proletarii were the vast majority of Romes citizens and outnumbered the slaves and freedman especially if you're looking at single origin. Most of them were local because the other likely way to end up in Rome besides being local to the west and then ending up as urban poor was to be brought in as a slave and freed. So the majority were local poor, lower middle class/working class and didn't have the money to get educated in Greek. Greek was a prestige language not the common tongue.

[@F.-VonEverHeck]

The situation you're describing here is more like how it was in the eastern part of the empire: the lingua franca there was Greek ever since the Hellenistic period. This area had been ruled by a Greek speaking upper class for a couple of centuries when the Romans conquered it, and since Greek was also a prestigious language to the Romans, they kept the Greek bureaucracy in place. Eastern Roman governance was only partly in Latin. As for the common people, although most still spoke their own native language, some also spoke Greek. This was never the situation in Rome itself. The Hellenistic kingdoms never ruled Rome, so Greek never was an official language in that part of the empire. The only people who knew Greek where Greek slaves or members of the aristocracy (like Cicero), but their first language was still Latin. It's also clear that common folk in Rome and most of the west spoke Latin, not Greek. Not only do we have many inscriptions from that period in a variety known as Vulgar Latin, it's also very clear that Italian, Spanish, French and a bunch more languages spoken in what used to be the western Roman empire are derived from Latin. Many people probably don't know that the use of Greek was widespread in the eastern Roman empire and among the Roman elite, but I've never heard someone say Latin wasn't spoken in Rome. Exactly where does Latin come from then, and where did you find this story?

[@Shiny_7413]

I can't believe Sam from Wendover forgot the earth was flat, good thing our good friend HAI was here to correct his mistake

[@CitiesForTheFuture2030]

We're not thru 2022 yet... will there be a part II or are you confident you will not going to be making any further mistakes for the rest of the year? 😁 A mistake only becomes an error if you refuse to learn from it... 🤗 Typos are actually quite an interesting psychological phenomenon - how the brain fills in "gaps" so that you can read a passage 10x and still miss the error. One of the best was to proof-read your own work is to wait a day or two before proof-reading - the mistakes jump out at you almost immediately. It's so frustrating! Perhaps an interesting topic for you to explore?

[@cookiecraze1310]

5:24 that big block of text is actually someone disproving flat Earth with the power of science and differential geometry.

[@joshuaadams8240]

Few KZbinrs will actually admit they're wrong. Good job 👍

[@A_Casual_NPC]

That last one made my laugh out loud. These videos are always a treat

[@quuaaarrrk8056]

What worries me is how many people seriously would agree with their Number 1 mistake.

[@nederlandsefrhd]

HAI’s watch mojo era

[@nobodycallednobody2826]

You mean every cheap, lame joke? Just kidding, your vids are great, and although I haven't heard cheaper jokes, they are the best ones at the same time. I just can't get how you can sound so funny and carefree here whereas the videos you make at Bendover Productions are truely some of the most information dense vids out there.

[@TheGamerbeasts101]

@Emotional D They're not cheap... they're HAF (Half as Funnny)... BA DUM TSSS

[@JefflikeselsieaLot]

He also didn't realize it's Plutonium 239 not 139...

[@daandanx]

You really need to do a halt as interesting video, the episode where it finally just stops. Whoops, typo.

[@SamTaylorsVersion]

Not yet

[@nikitakucherov5028]

I live right where you originally said the Everglades was located, I vividly recall thinking to myself, no way!! Its way South of here. Cool to see it fixed in this video

[@sealeogaming]

That wasn’t the flag of “Middle Earth”, that was the flag of New Zealand lol

[@trackerjacker0]

That's the joke

[@lycheejuice7453]

Tf is a new zealand

[@sealeogaming]

@Tracker Jacker, oops my bad lol, I took the vid seriously.

[@kyaniremonger5041]

im used to it now no one really thinks we exist now

[@samyakjainjss]

In your Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive video, you said Plutonium 139 instead of Plutonium 239

[@ghosthunter0950]

1:11-1:27 made laugh so hard lmao.

[@ChristianBehnke]

It's okay to be vulnerable - thanks for sharing Jake. ❤

[@thevoidwalkerbr]

Considering LOTR and The Hobbit were filmed in New Zealand what is basically an expansion of Australia you guys werent sooo wrong

[@sujimtangerines]

Mistake for next year to continue the mistakes in the mistakes videos about mistakes.

[@spyone4828]

In the Daily Show's book America, the Book they call New Zealand "Australia's Canada". They further explain that, while New Zealand is not Australia, the differences are only important to people who are from one or the other - implying that this is also the relationship between the United States and Canada. Many New Zealanders of my acquaintance agree.

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

🍁U! S! A! 🍁U! S! A! 🍁

[@ElectraFlarefire]

The Australian Constitution even has a spot to say that if NZ ever wants to join, they can and how it'll all work if they do. Just for the moment New Zealand hasn't taken us up on the offer. Maybe one day, the whole place is basically Tassie, just with worse roads. :)

[@hyperhero2]

@@ElectraFlarefire fat chance of that ever happening mate 😂

[@niikau]

The flag you thought to be was Australia the thought to be the fictional middle earth by someone I forgot is a mistake The flag is a country. It’s the flag of New Zealand. :)

[@aardvark_04]

New Zealand isn't real though???

[@niikau]

@@aardvark_04 Then where the heck do I live? What am I stand on? Am I standing on some ancient country in the middle of nowhere? All jokes aside. Yes, I have a feeling this is a joke. If you are being serious then go to school, but I doubt you are being serious.

[@ChrisWar666]

@@niikau Ugh, these government operatives being paid to lie about the existence of a fictional country. Next you'll tell me the Earth isn't flat! On the back of four elephants 😑

[@aardvark_04]

@@niikau Yeah I'm joking I also live in New Zealand

[@niikau]

@@aardvark_04 Oh- sorry But I was also joking, *New Zealand isn’t real*

[@zac9311]

Correction: the everglades is notobale for being the only area containing BOTH american aligators and american crocodiles

[@DHD-]

To add to that, alligators are far more common. The American Crocodile is rarely seen in the Everglades, as it's a threatened species.

[@AntiCommunists]

I find how you say 2022 VERY OFFENSIVE and swear word notice at 2:04

[@staceyhall7962]

I assume it was irony talking about the 20 Fenchurch St building, colloquially known as the 'walkie talkie', because they have since added a non-reflective film to glass to stop this from happening. But the videos of being able to fry an egg from the building are still pretty fascinating.

[@MorganPhillipsPage]

1:45 we just gonna ignore how this is the flag of New Zealand? not some fictional place in a book

[@spectrum7821]

You mean middle earth? HAI said so

[@MorganPhillipsPage]

@@spectrum7821 "fictional place featured in *a book*" If you Google "middle earth", 'new Zealand' is not there, it's a fictional map.

[@user-zz3sn8ky7z]

It's a joke, New Zealand was where they recorded LOTR

[@Chobo077]

@@MorganPhillipsPage the joke propably is that new zealand was used as the recording location in the films

[@sambolton5244]

Thank you for apologising four using the wrong flag. I feel much better now

[@thevoidwalkerbr]

"We willl strike France of the list of real countries"YESSS BASED

[@benw4409]

As a Brit I have no choice but to stan even harder after that comment.

[@nfernus]

As a person of middle earth, I accept your apology for your accidental insult

[@dinoboyoutuification]

It's not that Clarence Thomas doesn't like gay people or women, it's that he has a very specific take on what the US constitution allows the federal (emphasis federal) government to do. Honestly, I still don't understand enough of his thought process, but it seems like if the founding fathers could do it, you can too, and that includes growing and smoking weed.

[@jeremiahderosas9355]

Why all of my favorite Creators Uploading Today? Loving it HAI!

[@FacterinoCommenterino]

Today's fact: A duel between three people is actually called a truel.

[@Nobi36]

Ok botter

[@orbislame]

Triuel