More Weird Historical Coincidences

[@Sideprojects]

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[@jwenting]

snake oil works as well or better and costs less.

[@ChineseKiwi]

@@jwenting to defend them, if you actually look it up, Healthline does a good pros and cons of the product. It can work if your underlying medical condition causing the baldness is treated by it. The medical products are generic versions of Finasteride, Minoxidil and Ketoconazole. FAR from snake oil. As KZbin is a US based company thus US media law, medical product advertising is allowed.

[@meinkamph5327]

Will you advertised poisonous food products if I pay you too do so ? ? ?

[@jwenting]

@@meinkamph5327 he already does. That shady brand of US breakfast cereal that's illegal to sell in Europe...

[@viridiscoyote7038]

Clearly, your hair migrated towards the chin.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

Simon knows he doesn't need hair, the souls of the children give sufficient energy to grow his beard, and that's what truly matters

[@elizabethwesley4233]

He has so much beard he can only open the right side of his mouth

[@StevenLockey]

Simon got through the whole bit on curses with zero sarcastic remarks! So proud! 🤣

[@Kiefsti]

The restraint he showed was masterful!

[@dahken417]

Anyone know way he covers that stuff when he hates and doesn't believe in it? The videos where he complains are annoying and the ones where he doesn't appear disingenuous.

[@themaplebeef]

That's because that curse was real and Simon knows it. You don't jokearound after someone unearths the remains of a warlord who killed 17 million people...then the next day 20 million of their own people die at the hands of warcrazed Nazis.

[@JaelaOrdo]

“It’s a great idea to dig up the body of a guy who once killed 5% of the Earth’s population.” - Stalin

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Meh, Stalin was responsible for more deaths than fellow moron, Hitler.

[@MahraiZiller]

There’s an even easier explanation for the crossword clues. All the words now seem weird because we don’t use them much, but they were very common in the 1940s (when even the phrases “by Neptune” or “by Juno” were quite commonplace) - indeed the fact they were common words lent them to be used to name operations without giving the nature of the operation away. The inclusion of strangely spelt us states in English crosswords has been a thing since crosswords began, because words like “Utah”, “Idaho”, “Ohio” or “Wyoming” can be very useful to link into a crossword to make other answers fit around them. This practice coupled with the commonplace nature of the other words involved (plus almost every crossword in history has used “sword” or “gold” in it somewhere), makes this not a coincidence as much an absolute certainty of fate. No need to invoke moles or even the possibility of soldiers with loose lips. Just language and crosswords doing what they always do.

[@hughmann9017]

tl;dr Hang his bloodline on their family tree. Very interesting, thanks.

[@MahraiZiller]

@@hughmann9017 where the heck did that come from? I’ve reread my comment and for the life of me your response fails to make sense. Are you ok?

[@Bubbaist]

Tamerlane’s body was removed once before by a Shah of Iran, Nader Shah. As they transported it to Iran, Nader Shah was assassinated. The body was quickly returned to Samarkand. If you ever get to Samarkand, the mausoleum of Tamerlane is really something.

[@michaelpipkin9942]

Can you cover the history of The Thunderbirds? Or mix it with The Blue Angels.

[@toddlerj102]

Cheers Simon, great vid as always 👍

[@MyBohemianDreams]

I had no idea that Serbia had so many television antennas in 1914. 😉

[@jeffrichards1537]

I shave my head with shaving creme and a mach 3 razor in summer and let my hair grow out in winter. In summer just a goatee and winter full beard. Its all about staying warm lol.

[@mokdumoknonsharrall1868]

DID YOU JUST SAY MACBETH IN YOUR RECORDING THEATER!?!?!?😰😱 🤣

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@seekcamera2638]

Your hair is reversed / upside down🤣 nice beard🧔

[@eggsngritstn]

Samarkand, Uzbekistan was part of the Soviet Union in 1941, so flying the mummy 'back to the Soviet Union' would be better said 'back to Moscow' etc.

[@GuntherRommel]

Simon, you look like an absolute legend bald and bearded. Don't lament that you went bald, be glad it didn't drag out and look like shit for a decade and a half.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:45 - Chapter 1 - Shakespeare & the bible code 3:55 - Chapter 2 - The president's assassin's brother 5:40 - Chapter 3 - Starting & ending WW1 8:35 - Chapter 4 - Read the warnings 10:15 - Chapter 5 - Crossword puzzle

[@oldwolf9403]

Simon? YOur hair isn't gone, it just crawled down to cuddle your chin!

[@BBulletin]

Just to be safe, is anyone messing with a warlord's tomb right now? It would explain a lot! 8-)

[@susanrobinson910]

Nah, I am convinced that we are feeling the results of a Monkey’s Paw wish for the Chicago Cubs to win a World Series (finally) a few years back!

[@twocvbloke]

It's a strange coincidence that the logo for Keeps is a perfect cross-section of the drive belt for my washing machine, crazy... :P

[@gordonwallin2368]

Fun video, Simon. Happy Holidays from the West Coast of Canada.

[@SicknessOnCan]

Half of these coincidences couldve been seperated into another video called "The Butterfly Effect"

[@joeyr7294]

Simon you sound a lil tipsy when you said assassination 🍻 5:50

[@joniroxanne96]

I fucking hope Shia LaBeouf isn't Gavrilo's reincarnation; the resemblance is frightening! 😱

[@jenniferberg7979]

There's a great Drunk History episode on the Booth brothers!

[@keepperspective]

So biographics on Tamerlane then? He sounds awful and fascinating.

[@biocybernaught3512]

Comercial ends at 1:15

[@FreeFallingAir]

Conspiracy theory 987656- Simon actually has long luscious hair, And has a Babyface with absolutely no beard...it's truly amazing what they can do with CGI, And before you call me crazy just think... I mean have You personally rubbed his head? Maybe you've run your fingers through his Beard? Nah? I Didn't think so....we got to get the truth out there..THIS FARCE HAS GONE ON LONG ENOUGH OH great video as always! Keep up the great work! And tell the truth!

[@mikieswart]

i want to rub his head for good luck maybe then i could start 47 youtube channels, too!

[@FreeFallingAir]

@@mikieswart that'll work!

[@VosperCDN]

I knew about the D-Day crossword bits, but not that the same chap also made one that used Dieppe ... whoa.

[@stevecenters4506]

3:01 passages, 5:22 consolation

[@cynicalminion]

am i the only one who heard "the KGB, or king james version"???

[@bryandunbar6446]

I heard KGB

[@SpencerGD]

2:25 that repeat line 😶

[@gabbyn978]

What, if the whole thing went the other way round, and the notoriously unidentify-able author decided to choose his pen name from entries within the King James' Bible?

[@marysee6134]

My Dad always said,, grass does not grow on a busy street.

[@majstor76]

Fun fact: Franz Ferdinand had a bulletproof vest

[@ronaldguild3627]

Amazing.

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , all . 🐺

[@force1535]

read the warnings was the best

[@Sadsoft]

When is Simon going to start pitching ED medicine?

[@christinescreativitycabine280]

Poor, poor Simon. His hair is never coming back.😪

[@Nepheos]

gotta admit, when you said KGB the first thing I thought of was way more russian than the King James Bible.

[@razzle1964]

‘KGB’? ‘…run a quick eye over some passengers’? I’ll have some of whatever Whistler’s smoking.✌️

[@townfanjohn]

Not sure you are the right man to sell keeps but good effort

[@justcarcrazy]

5:20 "small consolidation"? Surely you meant "small consolation"...

[@JeyGore]

Lol. At the exact same time he said that line I was reading this and got confused for a second. It sounded like he said it right at first

[@TheQuickSilver101]

Those were some crazy coincidences!

[@user-dg9pu4pe9d]

Another weird one: Wilbur McLean and the start and end of the American Civil War

[@sheriburke8276]

Are you HG Tudor???

[@thetrevor861]

Simon ! I don't mean to be picky, but I am anyway, so bear with. 5:19 'consolidation'. Really ? I mean, ! (I am available to vet and edit your scripts and turn them into English. Do please let me know.)

[@benmonia7105]

No freakin way the crossword was a coincidence. Utah and Omaha sure…. But ALL of them? Seems sus.

[@ransakreject5221]

Mathematically it’s a certainty that there would be bizarre coincidences. Coincidences are a certainty.

[@MH-Tesla]

@@ransakreject5221 not this time. The Germans simply chose to believe in the other intelligence sources... sources that were working for the allies. The crossword leak was all too real. The US buried it as coincidence to cover just how close they were to disaster.

[@deplorablekunt]

“Consolation,” not “consolidation.”

[@TheJediCaptain]

Rule 39: There's no such thing as a coincidence.

[@king_ofdogeii268]

RIP Simon’s hair.

[@ravenhill_of_yore_1968]

watching this whilst blasting 'don't fear the reaper' by blue oyster cult.🎄

[@ransakreject5221]

Prefer burning for you

[@roberthepburn7461]

Most real friends are not friends because you have hair and if that is the case then maybe you should raise your bar for friendship

[@ChIGuY-town22_]

The Bible, meh it's an ok storyline, there's better books.

[@forsaken841]

says the guy who lives in the era where every main character is basically Jesus.

[@mathieuleader8601]

Crossword fans are known as cruciverbalists

[@erictaylor5462]

It's good to be 1 out of 3 sometimes.

[@martinh2783]

This would be some of those circumstances that people unfamiliar with the law of large numbers would call a coincidence.

[@Fendelfull]

Coincidences are an inevitability within the law of large numbers, and might be thought of as less astonishing or less miraculous , but they are still coincidences. Whether we err by attributing meaning to them doesn’t change this fact.

[@TravisJRaasch]

Notification Squad!!! :D

[@effectivemarketing975]

Calling "Black hand" terrorist group is controversial to say the least.

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Ok, Snowflake.

[@andrewkappler5503]

U no its bad when stalin is like "fuck rebury this man"

[@MitchCyan]

I’m saving up for a hair transplant.

[@gregdavies4241]

Make a video with a sponsors message of say 30 seconds and I’ll watch it. The sponsor message on ALL these channels are now so long I go out of my way to skip through them. Some of them it’s like 20% of the video length with adverts on top it’s getting stupid

[@thomascook2418]

Wow I need to get off drugs I thought the thumbnail was xaxax bars lol

[@Gayoinion]

Not people just learning there are major changes and “mistranslations” to the kjv bible

[@who_is_Lou_S]

I'm early for once.

[@EAWanderer]

What are the odds huh? Super! 🤩👍👍 Wow now that raises eyebrows and opens open mouths! 😮

[@Fendelfull]

…. some small consolation…. Sorry.

[@stevefox3763]

Yes I did know, you have pushed keeps a million times. Skip.

[@jamiearnott9669]

I#ve got something of a weird coincidence to sum up the new COVID variant OMICRON=MORONIC

[@MiscMitz]

Wow. I'm early

[@barrydysert2974]

me2

[@justsomepersononyoutube9271]

First-time

[@jordanpeters3746]

Is it a "strange coincidence" that IESOUS CHRISTOS anagrams to OSIRIS SET CHOUS (Chous means "a measure of capacity equal to 12 cups".)? The bible does say (in Romans) that Christians are people who believe in the NAME of Jesus Christ ... rather than merely believing in him and his teachings.

[@Eldorado1239]

What would "Osiris Set 12-cups" be supposed to mean...? If you somehow change the C for R you can get "Osiris Set Horus" instead, by the way.

[@jordanpeters3746]

My understanding of the Egyptian Osiris myths (that were around since the beginning of the Egyptian civilisation) is that they had their origins amongst people who migrated from further North .. where the seasons were more pronounced. Osiris is Summer, Set Winter, Isis Spring, and Nephthys, Set's wife, is Autumn. Set killed Osiris then Isis resurrected him. Set killed Osiris because Osiris seduced Nephthys. Chous, the 12 cups, is the 12 signs of the zodiac. Conclusion ... Christianity was concocted by someone (a Roman?) who was familiar with both Egyptian and Jewish (and Greek) religious beliefs and practices.

[@Eldorado1239]

@@jordanpeters3746 Interesting! That seems to be a sound conclusion. I will definitely try to keep this in mind next time I "research" anything related. Quotes because it's simply out of interest. There are other, often non-cryptic and plainly visible aspects that give away it's artificial, tailor-made nature. Or using your word, concocted. Things like Winter Solstice takeover and conversion into Christmas or strange hate for the symbolism of horns which have always been a positive, peaceful symbol connected to plenty. Point is - I can absolutely see a "think-tank" group of experts on various religions and traditions being hired to create a new religion that would be able to absorb as many people as possible. No matter what religion or tradition your lineage is connected to, there should be something relatable enough for you to be absorbed. Be it something that proves your old religion is "evil" or something that is in alignment with your beliefs. I hope my wording is not too confusing, should have written this outside the little Notifications drop-out menu...

[@Fendelfull]

Such things being anything other than coincidence would be even stranger. Why would someone construct a random anagram from those Latinate spellings of Egyptian namings of old gods and cups? Even if there was some methodology for decoding the name into those words, and the encoder had faith that future brethren would be able to unscramble his Word Jumble as he hoped, what value would it be to anyone? Who was to be fooled by the jumble, and why encode it in the first place? Seems like a lot of cleverness being applied to no end, and a lot of faith being put in folks of the future deriving meaning from a word game. Also seems more likely that folklore gets commonly interwoven in the traditions of adjacent or colliding cultures in messy ways and may emerge over many generations from the cauldrons of human civilization in ways that don’t require the occult esoteric machinations of secret societies of shadow word scramblers. But I can’t pretend to understand the interests of ancient scribes.

[@AdmiralSavol]

Why not wear a wig Simon

[@kittty2005]

Why not do like President Biden did years ago : hair plugs, may be expensive but hey you're worth it ,you're Simon Whistler !

[@keithprice475]

The crossword case? I think there has to be a connection and the most likely candidate is unconscious telepathy. Of course, the reality of telepathy is not admitted (to put it mildly!) by scientific orthodoxy, based as it is on philosophical materialism, but in fact, the evidence for its existence is overwhelming.

[@archstanton6102]

What fact checked and peer reviewed evidence ?

[@dahken417]

@@archstanton6102 I don't think there are any that are successful. The people who believe usually say: a) that anything biological is to some degree hard to pin down because of variables b) these abilities are mystical and affected by things we don't understand c) ThEy ArE hIdInG tHe PrOoF

[@archstanton6102]

@@dahken417 I agree with you, but Keith did say the "evidence is overwhelming", just want to see what this is.

[@dahken417]

@@archstanton6102 Curious myself, but I figured you'd probably get some trollish non-answer from them.

[@archstanton6102]

@@dahken417 perhaps I should point him towards James Randi's site? I believe the prize is still up for grabs.

[@Pepsi_Addicted]

first

[@MrYTGuy1]

Utter crap. This type of video makes people less critical and more conspiratorial. Just what we need

[@BooTub3]

Robert & Gavrilo were HOT 😩