Surprising Facts About Marco Polo

[@Brekner]

Man, I bet sitting and listening to his tales would've been a blast. He traveled so much! What a man!

[@rKAL-EL]

History man…it’s awesome. Praying for a time machine 😂

[@gmac5112]

He was very hard to find in a swimming pool!

[@Oli-kg1ct]

Brilliant

[@KirbyTheMemeMan]

Uncharted!!!!

[@tylerhackner9731]

Yep lol

[@IMeMineWho]

Aw!

[@chickennoodlesoup3301]

You beat me to it!

[@Hallows4]

Read/watch “In the Footsteps of Marco Polo”. In the early ‘90’s two guys spent 2 years retracing his entire route from Venice to China and back, documenting every instance where his writings were proved accurate and where they deviated.

[@jonhall2274]

That sounds cool, I'm going to check that out! Is it on KZbin or some streaming platform?

[@Hallows4]

@@jonhall2274 I don’t know about streaming, but you can buy it in either DVD or digital form from Amazon, I’m sure.

[@johnnypottseed]

@@jonhall2274 pretty sure it's on KZbin I found a doc with the same title from PBS. Not sure it's the same doc hallows was referencing or not but it probably is.

[@trashpanda9357]

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[@jessfawkes5727]

Wow that’s dedication

[@ganondorfdragmire2818]

As an Italian very close to Venice I was expecting much worse. Instead I found a well thought out and balanced video. I cant put more likes, so i comment!

[@gardengeek3041]

I too was pleasantly surprised, and particularly glad it's gets the stamp of approval from a living Venetian.

[@davidlancaster8152]

He had a fantastic life and spent decades in lands no European had explored. How could he not of had incredulous tales to tell?

[@PelicansPreston777]

*have

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

@@PelicansPreston777 Thank you

[@darthsilversith667]

@@PelicansPreston777 Where is this have supposed to go..? I see nothing wrong with what he wrote.

[@PelicansPreston777]

@@darthsilversith667 How could he not HAVE had incredulous tales to tell. He has had tales to tell. "He of had tales to tell" makes absolutely no sense.

[@darthsilversith667]

@@PelicansPreston777 potatoes potato’s 🥸🤷🏻‍♂️

[@akramgimmini8165]

I was so fascinated by his Adventures as a Child that I got interested in History That's why im here so thx Marco Polo :)

[@SJ-gz2jy]

I love this narrator & his sense of humor so much!!!

[@rc59191]

I'm still angry Netflix canceled that Marco Polo series that show was friggen AMAZING.

[@ethanskelton9695]

Literally came here before I’m starting that lol. I’ve gotten into good biopicseries the shogun one is great, band of brothers is awesome. Vikings was awesome but the fused a lot of history together there. You got any other good ones mate?

[@rc59191]

@ethanskelton9695 The White Queen is a favorite of mine the battle scenes are low budget but the story is awesome. Then there's The Tudors and a Spanish show called Hernan that's about Hernan Cortez in Mexico that's really good. My favorite of all time though is probably gonna have to be Da Vincis Demon's which follows a young Leonardo Da Vinci and his time as a war engineer in Florence and The Borgias in a close second.

[@sallykohorst8803]

Very interesting story thanks for sharing.

[@tjoyce1971]

You forgot to mention that Rustichello was the leading author of King Arthur romances, which were basically the period equivalent of fanfic, so it's not a total surprise that there may be some embellishment in his text, he kind of embellished things for a living.

[@HabrenOdinsdottir]

But there's no doubt that magic does exist.

[@Ackamemnon]

this my favorite channel to watch, weird history

[@Tully_23_32]

An interesting topic to look into could be explorers Bourke & Wills & their exploration of the Aussie outback where rescuers were just a day late getting to them & found their dead bodies.

[@solanaceae2069]

Marco was so famous he even has a game of tag named in his honor.

[@technicaltapir9741]

Age of empires intensifies.

[@NewMessage]

Fun Fact: He meant for the game to be called "First name/Last name".

[@IsmailAbdulMusic]

Marco Polo, really experienced a lot and seen a lot. Pole, and merchant sailors wrote down what they saw when they witnessed giant flightless birds knows as elephant bird

[@davidt3563]

Netflix cancelling the Marco Polo show was a crime!

[@TempleofBrendaSong]

And replacing that with Cuties as well. ABOMINATION

[@hmj1116]

Marco Polo was a true hero his trips to China was really true I believe he did went to China.

[@ashlpss]

im smarter then u

[@NosyRosieunderthebed]

He might of seen 👀 a lot. And, had a lot of fun. ❤

[@PaiviProject]

Wow. I didn't know anything about him. This was quite interesting. He sure seems to have done a lot of traveling. I'm pretty sure his life was pretty crazy.

[@lindseyharalson490]

If I can’t find my husband in the store I yell Marco and he’ll respond with the obvious polo until we find each other 😂

[@lizzybearstar1661]

That's awesome I do same thing with my best friend when we ever go we go shopping together we always end up getting lost and I'll yell Marco and then she'll yell Polo but a lot of the times people give us some weird looks every time we yell it.

[@margaretlowe5220]

Has a stranger even say" Polo"? I would!

[@lizzybearstar1661]

@@margaretlowe5220 not as of yet

[@GypsyGirl317]

That's hilarious and very cool! 😁

[@garycarpenter6433]

I'd love to hear about Christopher Columbus and Ponce De Leon

[@BryanKeferl]

Now do a video on Sir Francis Drake!

[@RavynAngelDarck]

How about a video on Magellan?

[@jlshel42]

It would suddenly end when they get to the Philippines

[@RavynAngelDarck]

@@jlshel42 oh yeah, not pretty at all

[@oneshotme]

I'm sure it was a little of both Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@shortbakedvideos7487]

QUESTION: CAN YOU GUYS PLEASE DO A WEIRD HISTORY ABOUT WATER PARKS AND WHERE THEY CAME FROM? I can imagine that some ancient civilization from the jungle would slide down a waterfall or something... PLEASE AND THANK YOU

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

Marco Polo in Eiyu Senki: "Is this about me?"

[@roblesius1413]

Can you do a video about cold war bunkers or American nuclear preparedness in the 1950s/60s? :)

[@CJRealHoops1]

"in 1259 or 1260, they left Constantinople just before it was sacked". Very odd choice of words. Constantinople was sacked in 1204 by the Crusaders and 1453 by the Ottomans... I assume you mean 1261 reconquest of the city by it's previous Byzantine owners, but this event is never called a sacking.

[@LordWhatever]

The problem is that Marco Polo has been put on the same chair as Christopher Columbus when historically both men did travel to those places. In the other hand we also have the Chinese government promoting the idea that Asia was isolated from any exterior influences during that period of time. Is a bit of a sticky situation where historian can't agree.

[@kagyu1]

In Tibet , the Karma Kagyu lineage is headed by the Karmapas. The second Karmapa was Karma Pakshi who went to the Mongols to calm them down because they were out of control harming people. The Karmapas wear black hats. Marco Polo refers to the magician Pakshi, who wears a black hat. He was said to have performed miracles to impress the Mongols so they would receive his teachings on loving kindness and compassion.

[@lostfound8112]

I finally know why my character kept on saying Marco polo when I fell in pool lol

[@soumilarora3578]

Hi can you make a video on life in kaiser Reich

[@gardengeek3041]

Though I dislike the pugnacious tone of the narrator, it seems a guarantee that this is not robot voice based on robotic research. Altogether, a good summary of a huge topic that I haven't thought about since middle school. Good attention to dates. It inspires me to learn more, maybe read a history book.

[@urbanoutdoorsman5654]

How about an episode on Vasco de Gama?

[@haleydonaldson3396]

Can you do a video on Braveheart William Wallace

[@chiwicim]

I love how this video is 12:54. 1254 was the year he was born.

[@NASCARFAN93100]

Marco Polo is a Legend

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks for this! 🗺 #WeirdHistory #MarcoPolo

[@rKAL-EL]

Parco Molo. Nice lol

[@smashapumpkin]

Parco Molo 😂, that actually made me laugh!

[@paxofpayne]

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story

[@rashaaboras9529]

I've been following your channel for years now and always been a fan, one of the reasons was cause I thought you have no bias but apparently I'm mistaken, in this video the narrator stated that Marco polo traveled through "israel" which is strange since the country was established at 1948. By the time Marco polo was born Palestine was ruled by the Muslim abbasi Khalifa from Iraq. I guess weird history shouldn't be accurate as long as it fits a certain narrative or ideology.

[@lizzybearstar1661]

Oh shit I don't know we're allowed to make mistakes and I'm screwed

[@NoName-hg6cc]

Thank you for finally debunking the myth on pasta

[@elizabethbarringer2791]

I read the biography of Marco Polo and it told that story it was a very old and musty book and fell apart as I read it unfortunately I will tell you this it would make a marvelous movie it had so many unbelievable and amazing things in it I have to say it's the very best book I have ever read. It was titled the journeyman and unfortunately isn't available at the library's in my area. I had also learned that when Christopher Columbus died he had a copy of that book among his personal belongings. And I also saw a video that said it was in print before the Bible was actually in print that I don't know ?

[@baliyae]

He had quite a life.

[@feresmourali5783]

Please make a video about Emma Goldman!

[@tylerhackner9731]

Your pool party friends loved talking about him

[@Dustinwhy8]

When i play that game now, I take my swim suit off…”Oops…looks like you found me!”😂😂😂

[@lizzybearstar1661]

EWWW LOL 🍌🤣

[@lincoln5o]

Can we get a video about Woodes Rogers?

[@josephbrink278]

Yay weird history

[@ChacoteOutdoorRecreation]

Truly he did not speak of all that he had seen and done, even today those who travel into the world of the Asians will only see and hear what is allowed or permitted, and some of what you see you will never comprehend as it is well crafted mystery whose meaning, and purpose has been lost with those who crafted it. In the former United States years of this type of craftmanship have made the Indian portrayed by Disney something that Hannah Duston (born Hannah Emerson, December 23, 1657 - March 6, 1736, would find amusing. I will tell you if you have reservations about Marco Polo's observations look to the actions of the Khmer Rouge in this time. If you still are not convinced that this craftmanship is active, think about the African, the Cosby show and Rwanda or simply stroll the streets of what is left of Detroit or Chicago and many other places, and the truth will find you.

[@wickidbloodymetalqueen7901]

MARCO!!!!

[@The105ODST]

*in the farthest place in the pool.* ...polo

[@lizzybearstar1661]

"POLO" * While being as quiet as a ninja slipped out of the pool*

[@santhoshreddy3882]

Yes he came to Warangal, India and mentioned Queen Rudramadevi in his book.

[@RavenBlaze]

Wow

[@italianlifestyle7911]

Forget how to speak Italian accurately, for sure.. but to have forgotten the language altogether, I doubt it! The facts may not be so accurate obviously given the amount of time passed since then, but legends aside, one truth prevails: he was one of the most iconic explorers in the world! 💚🤍♥

[@davidt3563]

If the Khan was going to have Marco go and handle various issues in far away towns there was no way Marco would not have been able to speak & write the various dialects.

[@garycarpenter2980]

I'd love to hear about the Spice Road and the Silk Road...... were they the same or were they separate

[@scottnotpilgrim]

Was going to say something about the pool game but was beaten to it, I admit defeat

[@DuranjrJuan]

That will happen.

[@gmac5112]

Could have been you but it was me😋

[@chickennoodlesoup3301]

I was going to say something about being beaten to the joke, but then I saw this. You beat me.

[@ThatRandomFastingGuy]

Video length is 12:43, you geniuses 😅

[@ThePhysicalReaction]

He also regularly appears in swimming pools - to this very day

[@TheVermifuge]

The guy in the thumbnail looks like Charles from Ross Creations 😂

[@DomozoveoGZ]

You guys should make a video on being a mercenary during the congo crisis

[@rvingtheusa]

I have talked with many who have traveled to the very same place and everyone has a different perspective of what they experienced. I was also told by one gentleman that he enjoyed talking with me as, I had also traveled and understood that what I was hearing was not a travelers dream but, facts from their observation. Some experiences may have been embellished as like any reflection. AKA the fishermen catch. Gets down to 2 people witness the very same event yet, normally as the human mind translates it differently. Even when words are written the, final print has been reworded to create more interest or shorten a overly worded event.

[@knives_on_static]

I just noticed the guy talking in this video sounds like the narrator in the cartoon clone high........which has characters that are clones of historical figures. This is a channel about history. coincidence?

[@mandiemoore3272]

I have a neighbor who is the most horrible dog owner you've ever met in your life and I want to smack him simple every single day but I digress point being his dog's name is Marco and the dog gets out all the time and as he's screaming through the neighborhood Marco I have to scream back Polo I can't stop myself my husband tells me it's mean but I can't help it

[@tinkywinky2854]

Made my day 😊

[@mrdethbuzzard4885]

I would do the same thing

[@lizzybearstar1661]

That is not mean that is genius level unlocked

[@elliottruggera4196]

I was told to leave a comment so hear: im bouta cooooooo 🤠🤠💨💨👈👈✈✈🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

[@markbussey593]

Marco Polo more like Marco YOLO

[@davidetoffoletto9981]

"Kingdom of Venice" killed me as a Venetian. We were literally one of the two o three Republics during the Middle Ages and Reinassance Era

[@lloydwagner3709]

4:23 "Israel", in 1271??

[@namxhuynh]

Hmmm I don’t think foot binding existed during mongols time. I could be wrong but that’s in the 1700-1800 time

[@Mande1985]

No one ever talks about being a kid and finally learning Marco Polo was a person and not just a game played in the pool.

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

Ha

[@iliabortsov-shrago5587]

"The kingdom of Venice"? Seriously?! The ***kingdom*** of Venice? That thing which never-ever existed because Venice never had a king??? Dude!!!

[@lizzybearstar1661]

My best friend and myself when we ever go we go shopping together. We always end up getting lost and I'll yell Marco and then she'll yell Polo, but a lot of the times people give us some weird looks every time we yell it.

[@tablasolo]

You guys should do Ibn Battuta

[@aaronmurray9257]

I feel he must have seen so much in 24 years, too much to tell infact hence his death bed quote. As with any information it gets altered through the generations and theres always less than intelligent people thats guna call you a liar, even that happens today.

[@amistry605]

The only thing I knew about Marco Polo before this video was the pool game 😲

[@hopefullyhigh]

Did he know as much karate as the netflix series has lead me to believe?

[@callmedru]

Did you mean kungfu, young cricket?

[@lizzybearstar1661]

@@callmedru I believe the term you mean is "Young Grasshopper."

[@happy_bubble7]

In 6th grade we were taught Polo brought back not pasta, but pizza. Thanks public school...

[@grapeshot]

What are they saying now did he actually exist as a historical figure and actually traveled to the Far East. Since Marco Polo seem to be in a pretty common name in Renaissance Italy.

[@kenw9681]

Rustichello made up the entire story, and tried to make it seem real by including information in it that had trickled back to Europe about the Orient from caravan stops, that were near Europe's eastern borders. This video explains that other Europeans who read Rustichello's book, in his own time, called it a book of lies. I also read a non-fiction source years ago, whose title I admittedly can't remember, that said that there was a street bum in the same jail that Rustichello was in whose name was Marco Polo, who had been jailed for public drunkenness. It went on to say that Rustichello may have used his name to create the fictional traveler to the Orient, named Marco Polo. Update: I did actually read the book, "The Travels of Marco Polo," in the early 1970's, when it was required reading in an English class that I was in, in my junior high school.

[@NoName-hg6cc]

Yes he did

[@thecensoredmuscle563]

To much accurate sightings, and events for him not to have existed. Anyone saying he didn't exist, nor did his travels happen, are just stupid people. Alot of modern day historians try to disprove history without any bases like the soviet union did. The whole denying history started to happen in America in the 60s.

[@golgumbazguide...4113]

Explore Golgumbaz ,south india

[@djmit44]

There’s a 50/50 chance I’d you ask me because when he said “I did not tell you half” he might have meant more, or he could have meant less.

[@derrickmcadoo3804]

It's difficult to believe any history from the 1200s.

[@questfortruth665]

Never did find out when he had time to invent a game played on horseback while clubbing a ball around a field!?!

[@donHooligan]

...or make those cool shirts.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

As a good friend of mine says, 'I doubt the existence of ''modern scholars'''.

[@toyamwarr]

What psycho doesn’t finish their Oregon Trail game?

[@cherylcampbell9369]

Oregonians! Lol😀

[@lizzybearstar1661]

The dead kind LOL

[@a84c1]

Here's a fun fact out of the pool fish out of water.

[@Beast-lz6we]

I know I’ve said it before but a video on Hunter S. Thompson would be amazing. You could even tie Johnny Depp into it because that’s was his role model.

[@sandrawilburn5766]

Tall tales or the truth? No one knows. I believe that he went where no European had gone before. I am from Arkansas, the state was discovered in the 1500's by Hernando de Soto. Do you have any weird history facts about him?

[@btetschner]

I have never read the book (which I really want to read). Considering there is skepticism still today, there is a good chance that he at least exaggerated some parts of his journeys. In my experience, people tend to be more unrestrained with lying when there is no reasonable way to verify something is either true or false.

[@SalM1]

Talk about Santa Ana!!! His homosexuality and the fact that his leg had a bigger funeral than he did ! :)

[@JaseNeverSleeps]

MARCO!!

[@paulcowlishaw]

Marco.

[@lizzybearstar1661]

"POLO"

[@JDWanko]

How about Capt. Cook?

[@nplshow]

Biggest fact is he never actually played a game of Marco Polo

[@tyrellhill12]

There were no tomatoes in the old world until America was Colonized… Tomatoes are native to the Americas, so modern pasta was not eaten by Italians in the early centuries. At least the comment that involves tomatoes

[@Onlyinohia]

We’re learning him in history 😂

[@davidmushinski8196]

Back then people always embellished story's it was 1259. And of course our modern news never embellish story's now a days.

[@gavinvalentino1313]

#1 surprising fact: in the ultimate of ironies, *he did not, himself, own a swimming pool.*

[@johnsheetz6639]

Watching this to see how to find him in the pool.

[@AbiyBattleSpell]

U DIDNT COVER THE SWIMMING GAME