The Most Lethal Household Inventions In History | Hidden Killers | Absolute History

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[@nosuchthingasanonymity291]

i adore the welsh guy. he's describing horrific deaths and smiling like a madman and i respect that.

[@EGLately]

i think he was trying to flirt with the host but didn't realize he was flirting about horrible deaths. lol

[@hypernatremix]

I came here to see if anyone else noticed. He lit up the more gruesome things got 😂

[@baddie1shoe]

My favorite is when she’s pretending to drown in a foot of water because it’s so shocking. 🥴

[@mrsteamie4196]

It's crazy because there are some bits where he seems just utterly depressed xD

[@exspiravit6920]

Yes I'm sure he couldn't help himself!! He must have just had to be flirting with the fkn host. Jesus Christos

[@andersonpc2010]

It's strange to think that those skulls were once people like any of us. I can't help but wonder what their life was like, their experiences, things they've seen. That's why I love history.

[@threefreaksonaleash6619]

My thoughts exactly.

[@Ten80pete]

This! History in a bottle is interesting, but so many choices, opinions, and "logic" only makes sense in full context. That's what I absolutely loved about this series, the experts and hostess provide as much context as possible.

[@lysirishfleur3030]

My father once said I am very old and have lived many decades through many times. The thing that doesn't change are the fundamentals of life. We get up go to work. Pay our bills. Have a home. A family. Live. Love. Die. Every generation throughout history.

[@CieraMychele]

At the very least I would imagine that one guy/girl must have had the worst pain ever idk how they even lived life with teeth like that. My enamel gets slightly too thin and my teeth react so painfully to cold and sugar. Can u imagine with teeth like that??? Omg

[@kirbyis4ever]

Well things are much more cushy for them now: They're dead! That aside yeah it's fascinating to think about. What did you do and how did you end up a skull...

[@cheshirecat6518]

And yet teeth STILL aren't considered important by health or even dental insurance. 🙄 This, even though tooth decay and infections have been known to be the cause of heart disease for yeeeeaaarrrs.

[@Kristalya]

The US needs to step it up with their healthcare! It needs to be available for everyone! 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️

[@wastelandwolfman5389]

I have medicaid in the US and my teeth are completely done for. I'm young and struggling with a plethora of other health issues. And yet, it covers only $750 which is absolutely useless. I hope things change one day. And I pray for those in the same or similar situation.

[@gigiwallace6645]

@@wastelandwolfman5389 I feel you🤦🏾‍♀️ I'm now pregnant, and have been trying to get a tooth removed for two years! At this point, I might just do it myself

[@Ingrid922]

@@wastelandwolfman5389 My medicaid does not include dental, my kids does though. But not braces.

[@Ingrid922]

@@gigiwallace6645 I'm so sorry, I had a molar that cracked several years back. No dental insurance. I think it was around $200 to get it pulled. The roots were wrapped around my jawbone a bit so it was hard for the dentist to pull, and good that I didn't try to do it myself, which I had also considered. It broke into pieces as he was trying to pull it out. It was lucky he was strong because that thing was stuck.Yikes! Good luck to you and perhaps look into a dental school if there is one in your area. They sometimes have cheaper deals. No more chewing not completly popped popcorn. I wish you the best with your pregnancy. I have three children myself. I got on medicaid when I found out I was pregnant because I had no insurance and I had just lost my job because I was sick. That was a good move, I ended having more health isuses so I was glad to be on medicaid.

[@ashleynoble2880]

The dedication of her submerging herself in a creek and struggling was wild.

[@tertiaritus]

I've seen some people here not giving her enough credit because it's shallow water. It's a stream. It can mess you up hardcore especially when you're lugging around soaked wool around your whole body.

[@gorillaau]

​@@tertiaritus people should try it with t-shirt, jumper and jeans. That's bad enough, even with synthetics.

[@tertiaritus]

@@gorillaau and at 12°C. Absolutely miserable experience

[@gorillaau]

@@tertiaritus Those same people that probably hasn't tried swimming fully clothed either. It's exhausting! If you are wearing heavy boots, they alone will drag you down.

[@mirabel5540]

@@tertiaritus it’s almost like they missed the entire point of a hidden danger lol

[@msbrightside181]

When my son was 17, he nearly died from ingesting "deadly nightshade", or, belladonna. It grew wild in a few areas of out town, and he and his friends wanted to try the "high". We found him sitting in the middle of the road, chewing his shoe. Obviously, he survived. He wouldn't have made it in the Tudor age.

[@vircanem4268]

Good he s alive

[@visassess8607]

Teens are so dumb lmao

[@Luboman411]

You can get high off belladonna? I did not know. I do know that Renaissance aristocratic ladies put drops of belladonna in their eyes because it dilates the eye pupils by a tremendous amount. Having big black eyes was seen as "sexy" in the Renaissance period. It's also the reason this plant is called belladonna--that's Italian for "beautiful lady."

[@vircanem4268]

@@Luboman411 it can get you high but it can also get you dead

[@msbrightside181]

@@Luboman411 I knew that about the eye drops, it's fascinating. Unfortunately, in larger amounts, it def can kill. Teenagers can be so dumb.

[@monroerobbins7551]

I respect the hostess, our narrator, for being willing to reenact certain things to provide further information. I imagine a lot of the things she did was unpleasant, especially the wool outfit in river thing. Respect to her!

[@muslimsocialist9310]

Same here..I love history ❤😌

[@Foundry_made]

@@the_rachel_sam like our host, get a couple PHD's, a professorship, be trustee at a couple of colleges, and, most important, since it's TV, be smoking hot. That's how you get that job.

[@fabledfantasty7343]

@@Foundry_made Yes, she is 🔥

[@DreamingCatStudio]

Not to mention the death-defying corset!

[@sealyoness]

Thanks, I can fall into water with my clothes on any time. Lol. I'm not going to clean a rush floor, though. It'd be probably easier to build a new hovel.

[@debbieharris1628]

I've seen all of these but having them in one long video is sooo nice ❤ I fell asleep listening to this video last night and I woke up an expert in all the ways your house is plotting to kill you.

[@aob4214]

Over Christmas Eve until Christmas Day fell asleep through it too had a bit of a nightmare very nebulous can’t remember much but no it was bad probably due to this seeping into my subconscious when I slept😒😂😃

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[@MaryOKC]

LOL! 😆

[@117Pinkyflower]

I’ve watched it over the course of 3 days. You have to give it to them. Who new all the household killers!

[@ashleelarsen5002]

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[@tertiaritus]

Me: man I wish I made a playlist so I could re-listen to all of these while napping before work Absolute History: don't bother fam I gotchu

[@tonguepetals]

I’ve been trying to grab all these episodes into a playlist, it’s so nice that they did that for us. Now I don’t have to go hunting for all the episodes and I can binge watch killer history and chill.

[@Meg_of_all_threads]

I raised you: waking up with this episode playing! 🤣👌 I felt asleep on another episode and the autopay was on. I'm not mad, this is very interesting!

[@SearchIndex]

I always giggle when I wake up in the middle of the night and this is playing 😂

[@tertiaritus]

@@SearchIndex especially when it's that Welsh guy who's hella giddy about horrific accidents Some whiplash to wake up to that))

[@alanaamaherr6302]

I do shift work and this is definitely what I go to to fall asleep ahaha but I love it

[@NehnBellanaris]

One thing that they missed about the baby bottles in the Victorian era is the fact the rubber 'straws' that were used on them, is that some of the milk that the babies would drink through them ended up getting stuck in those straws, and because they couldn't clean them out, the milk that got stuck would mold. So those infants weren't just drinking the bacteria that was left over in the bottles, they were also drinking the mold that was growing in the straws as well.

[@sheltowee8079]

Ah the molds good for ya, gotta get a balanced diet!! Bahahaha

[@robgillan2493]

These people also lived in houses full of lead and mercury and open electrical cables in super wealthy houses and gas lighting in others LOL. I think mold was the least of their worries

[@NehnBellanaris]

@@robgillan2493 Uh, you do realize we were talking about the infants, right? Not the adults.

[@robgillan2493]

@@NehnBellanaris and you think lead and mercury was totally safe for infants? Gas lanterns were safe for infants? 🤣🤣 Come on, just think for 2 seconds

[@NehnBellanaris]

@@robgillan2493 I was merely stating a historical fact, if you don’t like it, that's your problem, not mine.

[@maddiejoy6619]

I used to work in social services and worked with two children who had those broken off, rotted teeth with only the roots left. Their parents had been putting Mountain Dew in their bottles and sippy cups from the time they were babies (they probably also weren't brushing their teeth or not brushing them enough, but I don't know that for sure). Thankfully, modern dentistry and antibiotics were able to get the kids healthy again. I can't imagine the pain they must have been in.

[@kellyshomemadekitchen]

I have an aunt and uncle who did the same thing (putting Mt Dew in their baby’s bottle) and their teeth came in black and rotten. I was a teenager at the time and swore to myself when I had children I would never let them drink soda til all of their teeth came in. Well, when that time came, my kids didn’t even want sodas bcz they’d never had it. Moral of my story? Neither of my children who are grown now have ever had a cavity.

[@francegamble1]

My mother put Pepsi into our bottles and tried on my own kids. Only caught her the one time with my now 14 year old son. I paid so much money in repairing his baby teeth by the time he was 5. Luckily, I cut her off from our lives when he was 4. I now pay a lot to keep their teeth healthy every 6 months, and the dentist says that the damage she did when they were babies wasn't permanent. They have now all had three years of no cavities. I paid a lot to save my own teeth, too. All 9 of my siblings had dentures by the age of 20. I still have most of my own teeth. Only missing three, and I am okay with that.

[@kellyshomemadekitchen]

@@francegamble1 myself as well as to missing three teeth. My parents didn’t put soda in my bottle but allowed me to drink it at the age of 2. When I was five and went to the dentist for the first time, I had 5 cavities. 🙄

[@tertiaritus]

The very thought of giving an infant a fizzy drink in a sippy cup does my head in

[@maddiejoy6619]

@@tertiaritus mine too. I don't get it, personally. I mean, my son gets watered down apple juice, but that's a lot less sugar and acid.

[@katbird2699]

To be fair I think death by "escaped bear" might not quite fall under the minor injuries category

[@assajventress3204]

On the other hand dying of getting hoofed in the grundle and busting a teste is right up in there.

[@katbird2699]

@@assajventress3204 _o o f_

[@kcototheyoyoyo]

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[@Gantradies]

@@assajventress3204 to be fair, that could have been either bleeding/infection, or heart attack, from what ive heard...

[@assajventress3204]

@@Gantradies it was a joke. Relax.

[@lexifeldmann5353]

a Properly fitted and worn Corset is quite nice. I have a curved spine and wearing a well fitted, not over-tightened corset actually helps my back pain immensely. I wear one to school sometimes, I also do a lot of Renaissance Faires and it helps with the time and amount of walking and standing around I do. The overly tightened corsets of Victorian times is just awful.

[@sarahamira5732]

Yeah, ngl I've thought about wearing them before, I have a decently large bust and have issues with posture because of it, I've always wondered if perhaps it will help

[@Fiona2254]

A corset doesn't have to be tightened that much. I have a bad back and it helps to have one on when I'm all day on my feet. Also: mamy pictures of the era were retouched to make the subject look better as photographs were sometimes a once in a lifetime thing. There is evidence of retouching to make the bust, waist and hip area look "ideal." The advertising is drawimgs with bodies obviously exagerated, as a Barbie's body has been, to atract buyers. Most of the shape women had back then was an agregate trick of the cut of the clothes, the bustle and the corset and not due to overtightening thought there were many "fashionable women" who did it wasn't all of them.

[@ubroberts5541]

Interesting. Moderation is the key to healthful living, I say…

[@donnabaardsen5372]

The corset you wear is not only very therapeutic, but looks great, too.

[@islaillish7022]

Would they help or make it worse for healing broken ribs? I have alot of back pain and it's hard to keep myself straight but it relives the pain. Idk a thing about corsets though.

[@projectionv.accountability1010]

My sister was one of the kids whose nightgown caught on fire due to an open heater grate. She was hospitalized for 9 months, but lived.

[@ritageorge8748]

We had a similar Grate many yrs ago but it was in Calif& seldom steam would rise& a coffee table trapped us kids after trying to poke-To hear how unsafe it is when you wouldn't think till awful happens-good warning

[@stephaniecruzado384]

I'm glad she's safe

[@projectionv.accountability1010]

@@ritageorge8748 Ohmygosh, that's so scary. My family was also in California. Honestly, I'm not sure how humanity has made it to adulthood!

[@rtkellogg]

WEIRD FLEX BUT OKAY HOSS

[@reanbowlerd5988]

@@rtkellogg not everything on the internet is a flex, not everyone is as desperate to brag as you are

[@Luna.3.3.3]

I never tire of these wonderful documentaries hosted by the wonderful Dr. Lipscomb! ♥ Not ashamed to say I've watched all of her series about half a dozen times. She's part of what I call the 'new guard' (Dan Jones, Dan Snow, Helen Castor, Kate Williams, Janina Ramirez Neil Oliver, Lucy Worsley, - a few you night not think of as 'new gen') David Starkey got me HOOKED, (and still watch re-runs despite his politics🙄) I also love Bethany Hughs, Joanne fletcher, Waldemar Januszczak I'll say it again, NO ONE does historical docs better than the UK!! 👏👏 ~Love from Canada 🇨🇦

[@singenstattatmen5096]

I also adore the historic documentaries hosted by Tony Robinson! He brings such childlike joy and wonder to learning things, it's wonderful. ❤️

[@LazyIRanch]

I love this channel too! I learn so much, and I love that they deal in facts. There's a major "history" channel on KZbin that makes me want to scream because of the lies they promote. It's usually some woo-woo nonsense, like "Giant 20 foot human skeletons found in Florida! Proves that the Nephilim of the Bible lived in N. America!" Then there's at least an hour of nothing but the typical weirdos who usually discuss how they were anally probed by aliens, absolutely no physical evidence of anything. It's the "5-minute Crafts" of history channels.

[@MoriKitsune]

As someone who's deeply interested in historical fashion, the sheer dramatization of the corset bit had me rolling my eyes the whole time. Tightlacing was never the rule; it was always an exception. There are many articles from the Victorian and Edwardian eras against the practice for both health and aesthetic reasons; a "wasp waist" was viewed as ugly, unnatural (remember that even makeup during this time was designed to give a pure, "natural" look,) and a deformity. The "tiny waist" silhouette illusion was achieved by separate garments like bustles and hip pads, as well as padding and ruffles in the under-layers of bodices. Metal eyelets simply helped save time during production and helped keep the eyelets' shape consistent and more damage-resistant. The goal of corsets wasn't to vastly change your body shape, it was to give your torso and your garments structure- to hold up the weight of heavy petticoats and skirts as well as bustles and such, and to help you keep good posture throughout your day. Corsets were not worn to sleep, and a properly fitted and worn corset doesn't cause pain or injury at all. In the case of pregnancy and post-partum, a properly fitted corset would actually act like a modern belly band/belly wrap. When the maternity corset extended to the hips, it would give your hips and lower back more support and mild compression to help relieve pain. Post-birth, corsets would help physically support you as your organs and muscles settle back into place after birth.

[@SickSusie]

I know I've never been pregnant, but pregnancy corsets look so more comfortable than the belly tape they advertise for support now of days.

[@cheddarbeansoup]

That's very interesting, actually! Loved to learn more about corsets and how they actually were used. Thank you for sharing!

[@christinareynolds8179]

@@SickSusie there’s women today who have seen pregnancy corsets and love them.

[@AMiniki]

I just commented something similar. I rolled my eyes so hard that I got to say hello to my brain. I’m so tired of this myth. Not only there’s documentation regarding how it was discouraged to tight lace and enough surviving patterns that clearly show the construction of a corset. Just basic common sense would tell this so called historians that corsets were not killers when worn properly; women of all social classes wore them, do they honestly believe that a factory worker, a maid, or a seamstress would be able to work so actively if corsets were perpetually tight laced and uncomfortable? 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@johnnycash578]

oh man you're too serious wtf are you even getting at crack a joke will ya! what a stick in the mud ? lol lighten up francis

[@ladyhotep5189]

Now this is how history should be taught! I love this channel.

[@ci6516]

This is how the history channel used to be

[@Anna-Rose-]

I agree. Make it interesting for the children and they'll do much better.

[@ashleelarsen5002]

3:46:15 oh no, I'm so sorry

[@MermaidKerenay]

Always love hearing Dr Lipscomb narrate. She is pretty and intelligent and I've learned a lot from her watching these videos ❤

[@kaecesupbron1315]

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[@felix9080]

History is always my favorite subject. I love learning things from our precious past.

[@mothhbugg]

Same! I read so much about it. I also cry about it, but I love history so much! And I love how interesting it is

[@majorwellington1858]

I’m glad you guys mentioned that you love history maybe you could look into this because the documentary did not mention the Haitian slaves that funded the sugar movement there were Haitian slaves just for the production of sugar. The French found out how valuable the land was in sugarcane and boy oh boy they tortured the Haitians just for Production of sugar

[@sarahamira5732]

@@majorwellington1858 Not to be rude to the Haitians but... No shit? You can find governments exploiting minorities for profit everywhere since before the beginning of properly recorded history. It isn't that surprising. While you obviously have the much more well known example of the transatlantic slave trade, you've got the much more similar example of what happened in the Congo. Regardless, why would this documentary mention that? That has to do with the Haitians and the French, this documentary is about historical eras of England, maybe the UK at the most expansive. It would make about as much sense for them to bring it up as it would to bring up the Americans containment of the Japanese-American ethnic minority in concentration camps. While yes, it happened and it important to learn about, it really isn't directly pertinent to the subject at hand

[@lorenrobertson8039]

@@sarahamira5732 There were white slaves also, so many peoples have been enslaved throughout history! Look what the English did to Scotland! Yes, I am of Scottish decent for the most part. But they murdered and enslaved the Scots that they were able to capture. Many of those that came to America at that time were sent as slaves. Slavery is an abomination! This world is a cruel place and many have suffered and still are. Women of all races have been enslaved probably more than any single race of people. Still are. So are children. It is still going on! One day I believe my God will free us from these chains and take us to Heaven where we no longer will suffer. Love one another. Look to the inside of a person, not the outside. That is how I roll. I have had major traumas in my life that I am scarred from. Once kidnapped and used badly. I won't blame a certain race for this, but that crazy person that took me and the heartless men that used me, and the women and men that didn't help save me. I was dying when the person got scared and left me at an ER. I am old now. And I have prayed for that person many times over and try to forgive but cannot forget. History should not be forgotten.

[@Anna-Rose-]

@@lorenrobertson8039, how horrible. I wish I could hear your story, and know that I'm praying for you 😥

[@denmark23]

The scary part is that we still think we know everything now

[@lorenrobertson8039]

Right!

[@icycoatl3185]

Well, we definitely know not to put loads of arsenic in wallpaper. Progress!

[@joannecollins1818]

Oh, we don't know everything....

[@tresand9595]

Who on earth says that? I think we are pretty honest about our current level of knowledge and how we still have so much to learn...

[@MilkyWhite1]

I think he means we think that we're safe in our homes today, but there probably are things in our homes that are killing us too that we don't know about.

[@flyingdutchman4794]

3:00:00 I had one of those US-issue chem sets when I was a kid. When I saw that it contained lead nitrate, I consulted my set of encyclopaedias so helpfully provided by my parents. I obtained some hydrogen peroxide from a pharmacist friend and set about the task of making nitroglycerine. I produced a woefully impure sample from my chem set, bubbling the gas driven off from heating the lead nitrate through the H2O2 to produce nitric acid, then treating about 60 mL of corn syrup from Mom's kitchen cabinet with the resulting liquid. I also made gun cotton. The folks took the chem set away from me when they found out what I was up to.

[@drswaqqinscheckingin7210]

did you ever get the chance to light off any of the nitroglycerine?

[@stephaniecruzado384]

Are you ok

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

When something blew up or caught fire, you learned, right?

[@iamanempoweredone6064]

At 12 years old my father gave me a “making pyrotechnics” of which I faithfully and successfully made lots of fireworks and thankfully survived… despite the fact that the pharmacist at the drug store sold me any chemical that I needed including salt peter.

[@TheQueerTailor]

In 2014 my dad very nearly died from “teeth”. He was born with a congenital heart defect that left him vulnerable to infection. He needed some dental procedures but wasn’t given pre or post treatment antibiotics because he wasn’t considered at high risk of infection because he had very good heart health (he was in his mid fifties, worked as a firefighter and was and is generally super fit.) He ended up with endocarditis and had to be on iv antibiotics for months and ultimately needed his aortic valve replaced with a mechanical valve. Thank god he survived and nearly ten years later is still super healthy and still in the fire service. (He’s actually seen the experience of smoke catching fire on a large scale in house fires and in training fires, it’s called a flash over.)

[@Emilythematerialgurl]

Im so sorry for your lost wow thats terrible i hope karam gets them refusing him help that killed him just wow

[@maddie1499]

I am always so excited to watch these! The lives people in history lived are fascinating!

[@mothhbugg]

SAME

[@mothhbugg]

LOL in 100 years people would be looking at OUR fridges lol

[@lorrainearmstrong7587]

@@mothhbugg They will be scouring the garbage dumps, you mean LOL

[@elizabetha2601]

@@mothhbugg and OUR homes

[@elizabetha2601]

@@mothhbugg and medicine of today

[@profile1674]

Honestly, if it were 3 hours of Dr. Suzannah Libscomb reading a phone book out loud, I'd still watch it.

[@SculptedThoughts]

Yikes, lol I guess you're the ASMR type.

[@lorenrobertson8039]

I agree, she is so well spoken as well as attractive. I love that her teeth are not perfect! It lends her character. Hate the generic perfect straight white teeth of all the stars and famous people, as well as the wealthy people here in the US. I don't condone poor dental health, but after becoming disabled and unable to be a nurse anymore with that decent salary, I can no longer afford even the most basic dental care. If I have a tooth go bad I have to have it pulled. And all those thousands of dollars I spent on my teeth over the years means jack now. I do still have my pretty caps on my front top teeth. I was given Tetracycline as an infant close to death from pneumonia that ruined my adult teeth. I didn't smile without my hand covering my mouth until I was in my mid 30's.

[@mollflanders9314]

That's terrible. I can tell you live in America, too. No dental coverage. Smh. 😞

[@MilwaukeeWoman]

I would if she took the booger nose ring out.

[@kathypatterson1287]

@@mollflanders9314 I live in the USA and have dental insurance.

[@halyvan]

I need more from Suzannah! Hers are my favorite historical documentaries

[@mandymagnolia1966]

I love hers and Lucy Worsley’s docs 😊 Lucy has some fun ones

[@G_Robb]

She is great, and I'm so envious of her amazing hair!

[@monroerobbins7551]

Agreed, her and Lucy. I love Suzannah, she’s a good hostess and narrator for the documentaries, and also defies the notion of what a narrator for a history documentary is usually visualized as: a young lass with a nose piercing, a bright smile, and adding more personality and inflection that gives tones to certain topics, then different ones for others. It adds intrigue, as well as giving the documentary more of a flow, rather than a monotone voice all throughout. Plus, I like that she actively participates in lab tests, same with Lucy. :) I dunno why, it just gives off a vibe of them being more invested, and I appreciate it.

[@AshleyLebedev]

Same

[@DJMarcO138]

@@monroerobbins7551 and can we all just admit that she's not only endlessly charming, but stunningly gorgeous too? It's almost unfair that she has that many things going for her at once, lol

[@tgaming8745]

Purge worms from the body in the spring?!?!?! WTF!?!?! I can't tell you how happy I am to live in today's times if just for one reason... I don't have to purge worms from my body every spring..... DEAR GOD MAN!!!

[@GypsyDove]

You'd actually be smart to do so today. Especially meat eaters are exposed to parasites an they cause many diseases.

[@HoneyQuint]

Sounds like an illbred retrd

[@Iburn247]

Right?😂 history is fascinating

[@karanfield4229]

I will watch anything Suzanne Lipscomb narrates. Her passion and enthusiasm for anything historical is so authentic, you cannot help but be swept along with her. She's also so beautiful...😇

[@cartergomez5390]

I have to look her 🆙

[@Snocone333]

I'm glad it's all in one vid now

[@SonamyShadow13]

I wish that this show hadn’t been cancelled. Would have loved to see one on 2000’s lol

[@smileyeagle1021]

Okay, now that I know that asbestos was known to be hazardous in 1898, I'm even more furious about the fact that it was used in the construction of my house when it was built in 1963.

[@Angus1966]

The had open air asbestos mine pits in Australia.

[@tamarasorbo1550]

@@Angus1966 excuse me what? Wow 😳

[@RemoWilliams1227]

@Cal well we can't let pesky lung cancer cut into profit margins now can we?

[@marylancelot]

Asbestos was used as fake snow in movies in 1930s and 1940s. For example, the snow in Wizard of Oz is asbestos!

[@davidarundel6187]

Asbestos was used right up into the 1990's , as a sprayed on ceiling decoration . It was also used in train cartridges for noise reduction and insulation .

[@BanaDoyabad]

I knew a few of these from watching Mr. Ballen. He covers a lot of history in his stories.

[@glenn-younger]

Informative and highly entertaining. Thank you for sharing! And, of course, it makes you wonder what hidden killers will come out when they look back on our times.

[@kathypatterson1287]

When we replaced our gas stove we had to get a plumber in to change the gas line to it, as the "code" had changed.

[@glenn-younger]

@@kathypatterson1287 I'm in Italy, and they're always changing the coding, too, especially on electrical wiring and gas installations like radiator heaters. I don't know where you are, but our buildings are made of cement rather than wood so the 220v wiring and gas lines have a different installation than wood or steel buildings.

[@NunyaBusiness-kv3cg]

It will be the evil if giving puberty blockers to children. Absolutely disgusting and evil.

[@glenn-younger]

@@NunyaBusiness-kv3cg Oh. Yes. That would be in the look-back-in-history books under the chapter title: What were they THINKING?!?!

[@anyasviews8415]

virus 🦠 vaccines 💉

[@MajorShanks]

36:06 "Death from crushed testicles after playing games at Christmas"

[@stevo68]

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd be super keen on playing those games.

[@katehenry2718]

Just WHAT would those games be????

[@SculptedThoughts]

@@katehenry2718 reindeer games

[@realjettlag]

Darwinism didn't even take Christmas off in 1558.

[@dalestaley5637]

Merry Xmas 👀

[@joeottsoulbikes415]

The first house I owned was originally built as a small one room farm house on 4 acres in 1885. Over the years it was built onto and "upgraded". I found the electrical up grade was to have the 110V 200Amp service from the street run through a screw in knob fuse 120Amp fuse box. Behind all the 10 a d 15 Amp fuses were pennies minted before 1920 so it was actually copper. Why was this done? Because most modern electronics are 20Amp a d you have two to four plugged into each outlet. That would cause glass fuses to blow all the time. The penny let you overload your outlet. From the old old fuss panel it connected to 15 guage knob and tube wires as the main for the house. So basically everything looked good inside the house. In the walls it was about to burn down.

[@lorenrobertson8039]

Sounds just like my grandmother's fuse box which was actually outside under the eve on the front porch roof! I used to change those fuses out for her!

[@tertiaritus]

That's such a cool find. You uncovered a hidden killer

[@mickideg1837]

I remember my dad doing that with pennies. I remember those old fuse boxes. I think the fuses cost five or ten cents. The fuse boxes were intimidating looking 😳 lol

[@joannecollins1818]

Now that's some interesting history !

[@christ1804]

I bought a 1946 house. When we gutted it, we fount the entire upper level was powered by one electrical cord, from the 1940's!

[@traceej4685]

OMG I so happy for this! I watch these episodes constantly and now I can watch them all back to back in one 3+ hour block! Thanks!!!!!!!

[@mothhbugg]

HIYA!!! it’s so funny that out of everything FRIDGES where hidden killers! There fridges really are running on the road.

[@SculptedThoughts]

I totally assumed when I saw these long ones that it was originally a movie and the clips were broken up. It's the other way around?

[@traceej4685]

@@SculptedThoughts I assume they were as that’s how I first discovered and watched them. This video is only a year old while the separate videos were older. I’m sure it was a series and there are some separate shorter videos that were edited out from these series too.

[@meredithgrubb4497]

Y'all did so good with this. I would have kept watching even if it went on for 5 or 6 hours. It had me hooked and kept my attention. Super interesting and the host was phenomenal.

[@bonniegrrl]

I loved this episode of The Deadliest Homes In History! I had NO IDEA wallpaper could be so deadly back in the day! 💀

[@rdallas81]

Wallpaper saved lives in early Communism Russia. People would lick the glue when they were starving.

[@MyNameIsGhost]

That's insaneee to think that the chimney was what paved the way for multi floor houses

[@lyndaprado2311]

I didn't realize it until it was almost too late but I had an ongoing tooth infection in several teeth. It was painful at times but I would go to the doctor who would give me antibiotics and the pain and swelling would go down so I thought the infection was gone. Come to find out, it was just temporarily eased a bit. Then, one day it came back with a vengeance. My husband took me to the doctor again who said that if he had waited one more day (he had taken me in immediately) I would have died.

[@chattahuffman5117]

So did they pull them or just give u more antibiotics?

[@masterson0713]

Then what happened?

[@lorenrobertson8039]

Loved this trip into history! I can name so much of what is mentioned being part of my own life being born in the 1960's. We have a family cabin built by my great grandparents that was wired with this thick black wires...and it is still in place and used to this day! New wiring was used for the newer wiring. We had an "ice box"! Used to love trips to the ice factory with my Gramp. My grandmother on my father's side was a hairdresser, and for as long as I can remember she kept the electric permanent wave machine in the shop! As well as other historical beauty items once used from the time her husband died from melanoma in the 1940's and she was forced to go into the workplace. Even in our lovely home which was completed in 1961 (by the way I now live in my own brick home also built in 1961 and is much better built than new construction). But we did have lead based paint used mainly, or perhaps only, on the oil based paint. I remember my parents telling me to never peel or eat the paint from my bedroom window seal. Which I do not recall ever peeling, much less was it appealing for me to eat. I bet that my baby bed also had lead paint...it was enamel also. I recall most of my family wearing or having clocks with radium glow in the dark dial numbers and art. I still have them! As the keeper of much of my family's historical items no telling what all I have that is dangerous. My spiritual father died from mesothelioma. Their home was two very old homes pushed together with added on portion in the middle...most likely they had asbestos in the home insulation and other areas. And I worked with the sweetest lady, actually had been my great grandmother's hair for years. Her husband worked in a factory with asbestos and died from it as did the friend and all 5 of their children. Today's world is filled with so much pollution yet it is just ignored. I do not like the boom in development and the fast throwing up of hideous apartments and crowded suburbs, not to mention every neighborhood looks the same everywhere now. Few private, family businesses replaced by generic big franchised shops and restaurants. Glad to be old, disabled, and closer to the end that the beginning of life. I always said I was born too late...feeling more comfortable with the elderly and even with older friends. Thank you for the long video...I have already watched the more modern era part of the show.

[@colbysmith6009]

I was so fascinated by your story thank you for sharing. I'm 20 and love hearing stories of older generations and how they grew compared to my upbringing. Happy holidays!

[@moondancer9066]

@@colbysmith6009 I'm happy to hear a 20 year old say that. ❤️ It gives me hope for the future! I'm 59 and painfully disabled and ready to leave this world. All the joy is gone from life. So much less freedom now. Lucky for you that you don't know what you're missing. ❤️ Merry Christmas!!

[@surprisesofjoyfulness8147]

I hope that you have a Lovely rest of your life. You are really sweet and interesting.

[@lovelygirlbuyah5989]

@@moondancer9066 59 yrs of age is way too young to be ready to check out. I hope you can find a reason to enjoy the rest of your life.

[@brendaburnsskelton2884]

Loren Robertson, yes ! to all you've said. To add to that , our dad worked at a government instillation, the "Atomic City" , back in the 40s until retirement but when I was about 6-8 years old , he brought a mayo jar of mercury home and we would pour a little bit into the palm of our hands to play for hours with it . He never told us not to play with it, but one day the jar just disappeared. As I got older and we played "hide -n-seek" , the other kids would call me out because they said they could see me "glowing in the dark". I'm lucky , I can say I've never had any health related problems that I know of because of direct "exposure" to that liquid Mercury , but out of 1,200+ workers there where my dad worked , 975+ ended up with thyroid cancer and most died from it , but not my dad.

[@donnabaardsen5372]

Absolutely fascinating! My love of history is fed by the potluck of it this channel provides. Always well done.

[@zenpowersgaming5511]

I really enjoyed this video. It was extremely well narrated, and the information it provided unmatched by any other series on the matter. Bravo! You made learning FUN!

[@randyandbethbiggs410]

My great Aunt Clara's friend died of being a radium girl. This is a fabulous series.

[@stephaniecruzado384]

I'm so sorry for your loss

[@Rose-ry6gm]

Corsets aren’t actually that bad. Tightlacing wasn’t practiced as frequently as it’s believed. I suggest watching Bernadette Banner’s videos on them.

[@blueeyedscorpio7]

I was thinking the same thing.. I was like, I know I watched a few youtube videos talking about the untrue things people would tell about how corsets were worn back then. You're not suppose to make it so tight that you can't breathe in, like they show in all the movies.. it's suppose to be fitted to your body structure.

[@sharaburton6987]

Yeah, I imagine the added weight from the machine and going up and down the stairs at a rush, over and over, was more the problem While a woman MIGHT go up the stairs several times a day, she prob wouldnt be doing so in an unladylike rush, and not over and over in a row.

[@yamikowakun]

i recommend karolina żebrowska's channel too!

[@blueeyedscorpio7]

@@yamikowakun Most definitely!

[@angelan2599]

@@blueeyedscorpio7 aa

[@melissasanchez4551]

I absolutely loved this. So interesting and I learned so much. I have always been infatuated with the Victorian era. I make lots of crafts from this era. My whole room is done in Victorian handmade stuff.

[@chicka-boom7540]

Ooh do you have any good sources for your crafts? That sounds so fun

[@bridgetkaufman1]

very cool! we need pics!? or go-to videos!

[@jenniferjoseph1560]

That is awesome! I love the Victorian period and history! I make crafts too! I also love Victorian steam punk!

[@Pringle28single]

I bet it's beautiful

[@marymenone5096]

@@chicka-boom7540 E

[@nasaratijbetts2705]

Not even from Britain but I’ve watched this whole series front to back

[@kathywagner1164]

I just "discovered" this Gem, and will be following in your shoes! This is so interesting, I think if history/science would have been presented this way in high school, I might have been obsessed long ago! Where IS the beginning point?

[@isla9928]

Absolute history is one of the best accounts on youtube ever!

[@rabbit0877]

Agreed! A1!!

[@r3dcoat397]

Better than Chad Vader:Day Shift Manager?

[@muddyhotdog4103]

Unfortunately Absolute History keeps showing the same twenty year old documentary (the Syphillis Enigma) spreading this debunked theory to people and making the world dumb. The genome of v. syphilis has since been mapped a couple years ago and it did come from the Americas and native introduction. The whole "syphilis enigma" theory of the early 2000s has since been debunked, and bones of those found in Scottish monks were found to be dated wrong (shellfish diet messed with early carbon dating) and other experts looking at other bones -Pompeii for example- were shown to be a different bacterial infection. 5 years from initial contact is plenty of time for it to start spreading rampantly in other societies (which is also why it only started spreading after contact years later with the Americas). This Tudor doc was unfortunately made right before scientists finally mapped v. Syphilis's genome, and the whole enigma theory was still thought to be possible.

[@mickideg1837]

I'd like to get a book with all the old remedies that actually work.

[@davidarundel6187]

Culpepers complete herbal , first published in the mid 1700's . Has plates of the herbs to aid in identification , and the manner in which they should be prepared . Namaste 🙏👍

[@mickideg1837]

@@davidarundel6187 THX!⚘️

[@barrywainwright3391]

I have a big book on home remedies.

[@thamojster]

I always liked these documentaries, but I was always kind of morbidly amused by the guy who always seems to be happily describing dangers as "absolutely lethal" at least twice per episode

[@Kristalya]

He is so hot! ❤🔥

[@drage0]

YESS FINALLY A KINDRED SPIRIT

[@tertiaritus]

He gets so giddy every time

[@anitralarae_mahjacat]

He's like The Perfect Mortician. Gently explaining the most Absolutely Morbid Details with an Empathetic Smile.

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

I love this. It is a compilation of four videos: the dangers of the Tudor home, the dangers of the Victorian home, the dangers of the Edwardian home, and the dangers of the Post-War era home.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

I'm a fan of post war deaths. The gas geyser kept me awake that night, for sure

[@donnaelkins186]

Such an awesome video. Enjoyed every minute. Thank you. God bless.

[@refacholopes]

Thank you "absolute history"! Many argued that syphilis was a South American Indian disease! which is impossible if they were already aware in 1497. A short time ago in Scotland, they found graves with bones dating back to the 12th century and showing signs of syphilis!

[@lolaali5158]

Ive heard that it was a New World disease as well, and also that there's evidence of it earlier than European contact. But there is such a thing as Endemic Syphilis, which usually starts in childhood, and is spread through things like sharing household utensils-- it is not a STI. I wonder if that's the discrepancy? Venereal syphilis would probably have caused a bit of upheaval in the Medieval world, even if they were accustomed to the endemic type 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@refacholopes]

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[@muddyhotdog4103]

Not true. The genome of v. syphilis has since been mapped a couple years ago and it did come from the Americas and native introduction. The whole "syphilis enigma" theory of the early 2000s has since been debunked, and bones of those found in Scottish monks were found to be dated wrong (shellfish diet messed with early carbon dating) and other experts looking at other bones -Pompeii for example- were shown to be a different bacterial infection. Unfortunately Absolute History keeps showing the same twenty year old documentary (the Syphillis Enigma) spreading this debunked theory to people and making the world dumb. BTW 5 years from initial contact is plenty of time for it to start spreading rampantly in other societies (which is also why it only started spreading after contact years later with the Americas) Tldr: syphilis did in fact come from the Americas.

[@muddyhotdog4103]

@@lolaali5158 yes it's an evolved form. The genome of V. Syphillis form has since been mapped and shown to originate in the Americas though. There was some bones found in Scottish monks having it that were wrongly dated at the time, and bones found in Pompeii that resembled it but found to be something else ( funny cuz they were in children's bones and it only wreaks havoc on bones later on in the infected in life -so that should've been a red flag that it was in kids bones). Either way, people keep watching the "Syphillis Enigma" documentary that popularized this old world theory almost 25 years ago (which was heavily criticised by experts in the field at the time) and it's still shown on Absolute History despite the genome being mapped a few years ago which was the smoking gun that debunked the theory. It did come from the Americas after all

[@jovicanedeljkovic1885]

The electricity we use today has nothing to do with expensive electricity or Edison, but we all use Tesla's electricity like many of his other scientific discoveries.

[@suziecreamcheese211]

Actually I’m allergic to sugar, whenever I eat it I break out in fat.

[@katehenry2718]

I noticed that! Boy! are we slow to recognise these things.... just like the old days and arsenic.

[@stonerman15]

Ha

[@jek__]

don't you call me pudgy portly or stout just now tell me once again, who's fat?

[@SoulDevoured]

Your name makes it even better

[@surprisesofjoyfulness8147]

So that's what's wrong with 65% of the population! Allergic to sugar!!!!! I'm definitely allergic to Rolo Ice cream. Makes me break out in fat too!

[@justtriss2893]

I’ve watched these before but having a super long almost marathon of this is awesome

[@nicoleh3703]

This was an amazing watch! Thank you for the fascinating history lesson! Subscribed and will definitely watch more of your content!

[@dannydetonator]

The "safe mercury substitute" shown at 54:28 is very likely warm gallium, pure or amalgamated. To handle pure mercury with bare hands are relatively not much more dangerous than lead or plutonium238 for the skin. Main danger is breathing it's the fumes for long or swallowing any. It won't make a big difference to actually pour either of the two metals or their amalgams on skin without lesions, at least in my experience. In my final 2 years of high-school, my classmate brought in a 0.5l jar of mercury, weighing several Kg. If anyone did that today, the school would likely be evacuated. As a state-sponsored boarding school, minders left full responsibility of what we did in the dorms to us. Making explosives, radio-stations and war-films to name a few. The plan with mercury was to make a satellite receiver for TV. Before working out how to do it, we got mesmerized by it's physical qualities. So funny, we started to play. Making it run in shapes, akin Terminator-2, dipping our fingers in it.. The guy who obtained it even slurped it and let it spill out of his mouth trough teeth. The latter is dangerous in hindsight. Very exotic sensation, taking it's the 'heaviest' liquid metal at a body temperature, about double the density of iron. Unfortunately also the easiest to evaporate, so don't do this at home :). In the end, the 'satellite' receiver did receive very strong signal from all kinds of terrestrial sources and backgrounds. The free satellite TV remained uncracked though. Oh, the nostalgic days of post-USSR pre-digital world without internet of around the turn of millenium.. We did grow up quite healthy, i assume. Holes in my memory are rather of psychological nature, than that of mercury. Might also be from hundreds of other hazardous chemicals i worked with in a shed. If you really did significantly poison yourself with quicksilver, you'd likely feel that on your skin first. We all have a full naturally occurring periodical table in our bodies. The key to something being poisonous or curative is in the concentration. The latter depends on molecular arrangement and your bodymass.

[@tertiaritus]

This sounds whack, I love it. Where are you from?

[@laurastabell2489]

Mercury fumes rapidly with purple vapor from being heated but also will fume from biological activity. If spilled, it rolls slowly down hill and congregates in wetlands, ponds and lakes at the bottom of the water, top of the muck. Bacterial activity peaks in summer and fall can bring a very lethal type into the air, DiMethyl Mercury. It can cause psychological changes. Hypersexuality in both sexes, increased violence in men. Increased pregnancy in women, shyness, apologetic and possibly stammering behaviors. ADHD is possibly lead and mercury damage combined.Lead slows brainwaves, mercury increases epinephrine in the brain increasing brain activity. Children exposed in utero are hypersensitive to mercury's effects (then sensitive to exposures from things like thymerisol in vaccinations, eating fish like tuna, living in the impact zones of coal power plants and post industrial areas, and living near mercury contaminated water). If a mother is exposed during the first trimester, the sexual differentation "switch"(ie, boy or girl) gets stuck. Some of the outcome can be physical. There is an epidemic of boys being born with malformed penises from various toxin exposures right now. (BPA also causes problem in boys) It could also cause mental differentation issues from changes in neurological development. In the post civilization past, changes would occur from mercury released from volcanic activity. The response of animals leaving before an eruption is possibly caused by temporal and limbic system triggered "inner voices". In humans it can feel as though "from God", or just toxin induced irritability and dissatisfaction, that cause a "run away" feelings desires or dreams. One symptom of both lead and mercury are religious feelings, auditory hallucinations. Deja vu feelings are a good indicator of neurotoxin exposure. Metallic mercury doesn't absorb very well, even if ingested. If it sits on the skin from Nair hair removal cream or spermacidal cream, it could cause more harm. If the people playing with it spilled it in the building, it will find cracks in floorboards and slowly vaporize into the room. Probably a few "haunted" houses from that or old mercury thermostats, barometers, etc... The amount of mercury in one thermometer can contaminate a 10 acre lake. That's small compared to coal power plants in the mid west that have destroyed northern New England and southeast Canada. Chlor Alkali plants in Lousiana and other places have done incredible damage also. The hat making industry was historically the worst offender resulting in "Mad Hatters". I live near an area that is highly contaminated from mercury due to hatting, Danbury Ct. and Norwalk Ct. In my town, locals used to set up cottage industries to supply Danbury and Norwalk with raw materials resulting in local contamination from "felting ponds" . Mercury was used to shrink or felt the fur or fibers. Ponds were used to wash the mercury out of the fur. It was also used to kill weeds along railroad tracks. Edison needed some mercury for an experiment once while traveling in his private lab car. He supposedly went and collected a test tube full from the tank that dribbled it out along the route on the tracks. Its likely run down into wetlands along the tracks by now. Possibly vaporized by high tension power lines along many tracks. Arsenic was used also and still remains in the RR track soil.( and later paraquat, agent orange were used on tracks also.) I've studied for years and now started to lecture, teach, consult on phytoremediation, detoxing homes, personal medicine research on toxin, pharmacology( toxins in plants herbs and foods), genetic and other health issues. Phytoremediation is using certain plants and cropping methods to clean toxins from soil. Certain bad genes, and toxin exposures, make some individuals more suceptable to toxic exposures, foods and drugs etc...Its fascinating and a never ending area of study. Rescent toxins far outnumber what was produced in the past. Your personal body burden of toxins is over 120 different toxins in your blood! -so don't add more by playing with mercury!

[@mollflanders9314]

Wow!😲

[@meganlee162]

Mercury is demonized because it can be used to generate (free) electricity.

[@marjorieculp5407]

My daughter broke one of those Mexico souvenir keychains that had Mercury in it. Just a speck the size of a pea. They evacuated the school had me bring clothes down for my daughter to change into, and were walking around in hazmet gear!!! I couldn't believe it.

[@petenielsen6683]

It is somewhat rare to hear that we are ahead of the UK here in the USA when it comes to things like safety regulations. The hostess said there are no fire retardant regulations for pajamas even now. Here in the States there have been at least since the 1970s. I remember the labels on mine as a child having "do not remove" tags similar to those found on pillows and mattresses that specifically mentioned fire resistance.

[@janetpendlebury6808]

There are definitely fire regs in place with regards to pjs in the UK. In 1953, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) passed the Flammable Fabrics Act, later transferred to the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1967. In 1975, the sleepwear portion of the act was enacted which required children's sleepwear - ages 9 months to 14 years - meet a standard to create flame resistant products. And the The Nightwear (Safety) Regulations 1985.

[@mariemarie3140]

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[@DarlingDaintyfoot]

I was surprised to learn that the UK has much less stringent regulations for what can be used as filler for plastic surgery. Of course, that could just be because of all the shady things companies here do to make it so their product is the only option.... Hmm, that would actually be interesting to look into. Does anyone know anything about that?

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

They cause cancer. You know. Just use cotton and no huge amounts of loose fabric. Cotton burns under duress. Not as easily as synthetics.

[@rtkellogg]

USA IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN EURO BULLSHIT HOSS

[@n.p.5810]

Omg. So proud of Dr. Jelena Bekvalac who would say that i will se my people from serbia in this kind of documentaries. Greetings to all history addicted from Berlin❤️

[@florasoft5016]

The thought of what dentists used to be like wipes out any romaticised notion of wanting to live in this or that past era - in a millisecond!

[@gic8849]

I love this so much. It took me a week to finish this upload, but that just goes to show how good this show is - I kept coming back

[@DreamingCatStudio]

What a marvelous insight into these ages. So many dangers, such slow scientific progress, always resisted and poo-pooed by greedy manufacturers. Nothing unusual there. I was heartbroken to hear that my beloved hero William Morris contributed to arsenic poisoning. We who are watching are descendants of those who survived every one of these dangers. Whew! Subscribed!

[@GypsyDove]

Greed indeed. Even when they know we'll the scientific aspects an dangers to health much continues even today. Research the so-called food processed garbage all the words most don't understand in the ingredient list. Greed is the monster.

[@AlyRoad]

Need to acknowledge the elephant in the room lol. Edison stole a few of his "inventions" including ones from Tesla.

[@Am_Elia]

It’s true!! Tesla worked so hard, dedicated his life to his inventions and innovations. Absolute genius. He got screwed over in life and doesn’t get deserved credit today.

[@buffspringtrap]

The Dude had a whole on work shop were he would pay people for their invention.

[@buffspringtrap]

Like it's literally down to the fact he owns the patten for the invention he more an investor than an inventor

[@AlyRoad]

@@buffspringtrap Not saying he didn't buy some but he didn't buy any of Tesla's he took them and had Tesla expelled from the US where he died in poverty.

[@buffspringtrap]

@@AlyRoad wow yeah and some people praise the man... he's an elephant killer

[@frog9908]

Well done doc. 4-hours long but informative history of our own demises to Improve life

[@EGLately]

The narrator could literally tell me about anything and I'd be fully immersed. She's just so easy on the eyes and that voice. I live in america too so half this stuff doesn't even apply to my history. (A lot of it does too tho. The US made so many of the same mistakes as the UK did in these products. Our grandparents were nuts)

[@ursalaminor8457]

One of the best lines caught on any documentary; Re: Sugar Nuts… ”That sounds naughty” Lovely and well done doc! Super important history. Manic depression is also magnified or aggravated by sugar. If it does that to teeth what is it doing to nerves?

[@tacocattotoro6022]

I'm obsessed with Victorian era

[@Aedmun]

I'm wondering what would be deemed as lethal killers in our homes now... I'm think mobile phones and multiple power adaptors

[@PtwibbieN09]

Given the state of humanity… I’d say any/all housemates would be the primary threat 😖😦 today.

[@katiekane5247]

How about the ridiculous levels of aluminum, strontium, barium etc. It's not tested at the nanoparticulate level to keep the public unaware. It's inside, outside & everywhere. Even supposedly pristine areas have this. It's coming from aerosols being deployed in our skies daily. This is proven, patented & occasionally admitted to.

[@brandonm949]

Painkillers, both on their own and as a gateway to stronger opioids

[@servraghgiorsal7382]

I'm not sure, but I've heard about offegassing from laminates

[@servraghgiorsal7382]

, Solvents and items from carpets to drywall, to paints

[@stonerman15]

These documentaries are so good! Thank you.

[@Tokirus420]

Best doc I've seen. You did a wonderful job with this, thank you! I learned so much and didn't even have the urge to pick up my phone.

[@murielbaith5445]

You're actually hyperventilating because the volume of each breath is smaller, so the person wearing a tightlaced corset had to breathe more breaths per minute to maintain minute ventilation. The other problem is dead space, the air that moves in and out with each breath that is in the airways, but not in the alveoli where oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide.

[@readdeeply9278]

Crazy to think that lead is still the problem. Currently, in Milwaukee, WI over 70% of the city has tap water rife with lead; the entire water system is run through lead pipes straight to your kitchen sink. And of course there's Flint, MI and about 100 other cities in the US with undrinkable water. Also funny is to remember that the word "civilize" means, literally, to improve. Life in 2021 is odd.

[@sky.the.infinite]

Straight up. Life at any point.

[@fabledfantasty7343]

I'm sure there are a lot more cities in the US, that have a dangerous level of lead then what we are aware of.

[@elizabetha2601]

There’s a bunch of places in metro Detroit

[@fabledfantasty7343]

@@elizabetha2601 Yeah, ur right, people have been dealing with that for a minute now! There is/was, a good doc. about that situation & those people that are having to live like that, on Netflix last summer. I was surprised at how interesting it was.

[@stonerman15]

Thanks government

[@moondancer9066]

My stepfather was killed by electricity. And he was an electrician! Hint; A case of beer and electricity don't mix.

[@h4zmat_01]

i'd argue they mix too well

[@trix1227]

Sorry I don’t mean to laugh But something about your comment made me laugh sorry about your loss though

[@jenniferrodriguez1351]

Loved spending my last 4 hours with you and learning things i never knew about!

[@pixelapocrypha]

I love that so many of these are just like 'oh and also sometimes they would just explode'. Idk why but it just gets me that so many of these are deadly ON TOP OF could also just freaking explode lol.

[@powerq21]

This was really enjoyable - both informative and entertaining. Excellent narration, visuals and graphics. Top work, well done! Thank you!

[@Tinthia82]

What I love is that they've always labelled women as being the weaker sex. When you watch these history documentaries, I would say women were anything but weak!

[@aprilgraham-tash1124]

Such a truly interesting, &educational, video covering the household dangers over the Centuries - I thoroughly enjoyed it!! 🖒🖒💕

[@Scottocaster6668]

Boy do I fancy Dr. Lipscombe. Now this is a history lesson. Remember, if one has a STD, Do not kill a chicken,(still warm of course) and place it on the affected area.

[@stephaniecruzado384]

I will definitely keep this in mind

[@Scottocaster6668]

@@stephaniecruzado384 That would be wise 😆.

[@isaaccutlip5815]

I've watched this host before and she get me so flustered. She is and angel

[@johnnygibbs9944]

These history stories are interesting and the way you tell them keep you drawn in, it also helps she is beautiful!

[@rayhatter8315]

I love watching these and now they are all together much easier. BUT for the Victoria era, they never sat the fact that only a tiny amount tight laced. They never say if she is tight laced into the corset. Most woman set it comfortably. Only high class woman and the "Professional Beauties" tight laced. They could do that because they were expected to be decoration and didn't have to take care of anything physical. The fainting that happened "all the time" was more a social construct too. Some did faint from tight lacing but not the exaggerated amount reported. I love the old documentaries but would love some updated ones that use the knowledge we have now.

[@Lucy_Sammy_2]

They actually did say only a small number of woman did this at 1:22:09 Probably couldve emphasized this more but they did say it

[@InkanSpider]

The fainting more likely was caused by the rampant amount of tuberculosis, which in it's active form will make people faint from the lack of oxygen

[@monroerobbins7551]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the fainting thing was a domino affect: people fainting from too tight of lacing, or from disease, or low blood sugar, the like, but then it becoming a social fad, to get attention or give off a “delicate air” or whatever.

[@LoveAhiru]

So true. Like people could misuse the corsets and tightly lace it if they didn't know. But i think what most people forget is that today people still use corsets and can function well. Like it sounds so ridiculous, especially if you were to replace the word corset with bra.

[@rayhatter8315]

@@LoveAhiru People don't wear their bra right a lot of the time now days. Its a lot more complicated to go bra shopping then corset shopping. And because of the material that was used the more you wore the corset the more it would conform to your shape. Also the "Whale bone" used was actually the teeth plates.

[@DrRyan82994]

that’s crazy how people were ingesting radium. i mean yeah, really not an overly dangerous material, but even not thinking about radiation, it’s an ingredient in paint, wild

[@assajventress3204]

Dont forget drinking it in water for "vitality" aka tumors the size of a raccoons brain.

[@JCAuto24]

Watching the Tudor part of the video reminds me of visiting the bartrams house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where there were a very large amount of plants they used for all different types of diseases and stuff or even numbing for tooth extraction in some cases

[@davidarundel6187]

The choices in Tudor times were the Alchemist - which is where the term "mad as a hatter" came from . The other option was the Apothecary , or herbalist , often female , and seen as a witch , often , yet folks went there in preference to the Alchemist .

[@Luboman411]

You visited a "physick" garden in Pennsylvania. North America has a whole different suite of medicinal plants--way more diverse--than what is found in England. Native Americans had all this knowledge cultivated over thousands of years, but the English settlers were not too keen on learning the pharmaceutical secrets of these North American plants and stuck to English medicinal plants. Too bad. That would've been great knowledge to have now, since I bet we can find all sorts of different drugs from native North American plants.

[@eternalenigma1628]

I love these, not just because of the history but because they don’t treat people who came before us like they were stupid for not knowing things when there was no way to know them.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Disagree. Electricity and water don't mix. They knew that by the time the guy came up with a tablecloth you plug LIGHTS INTO! Brilliant. Eh?

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Or the coffee pot that unplugs itself from the pot when it's done, and there were outlets (no GFI then) right by the sink...?

[@ingridakerblom7577]

That safety Guy, Nathan is the best part off the episodes! 😅 It's like he is REALLY tierd (or stoned) & have a really hard time to not start laughing at all the not so good ideas, that they had in the "olden times".. I know he reacts to, the reactions off the people behind the camera, that we don't see.. but still!

[@blueyoshi8231]

Such a charming lady.....and those ringlets are to die for!

[@kallyb1998]

What we eat makes our teeth deadly to us. Honestly the tooth segment really made me brush my teeth after getting shivers in my teeth😩😂

[@drewmcconnell5240]

Yes me too, had to scroll through the comments to make sure I wasn't the only one lol.

[@rumblejungle5590]

They should do a follow-up series on dangers of household items in 2021 to lend some perspective. Far more and worse today.

[@JM-fo1te]

Really? How so?

[@rumblejungle5590]

@@JM-fo1te Processed food, food deprived of any nutrients, maragarines and other trans fats leading to heart disease, pesticides, non-stick chemicals in carpets, containers and cookware, plastics in seafood, anti-biotics in meat. More people die daily from the effects of exposure to these carcinogens then Victorians did from arsenic-laced wallpaper or other goods.

[@makettaja]

@@rumblejungle5590 you get the point. It's unbelievable how food these days really is and how healt organizations keep pushing the wrong diets. And then we wonder why cancer is skyrocketing

[@JM-fo1te]

@@rumblejungle5590 lol found the vegan

[@jek__]

@@JM-fo1te Really? Dingus. Nothing they listed even hinted toward that you meme-brain. There are many dangers of modern foods, and many more still that we don't know exactly how bad they are. For example titanium dioxide is about to be illegalized for public safety in europe. That thing thats in 99% of white pills made in america. It's not going away here any time soon, youre literally directly swallowing metal just so the company can dye their pill white, nothing more I wouldnt say its necessarily worse today in all regards, its better and some and worse in others. Modern food is less likely to kill you quickly, but more likely to kill you slowly and in insidious ways. In running away from organic dangers we ran too far and now inorganic dangers are far worse. I wonder how they used to dry wheat in that time, one of the major reasons wheat is such a problem is the glyphosate they use to dry it which then gets consumed, I wonder if they were any better in that regard. Its also just hard to know exactly what we're doing wrong without the privilege of hindsight

[@rayindahay]

Utterly fascinating- you have also presented this in an interesting way for me that I’m invested and it’s relaxing

[@kathyevans3654]

Absolutely one of the best history lessons I've ever had

[@geegstar]

So interesting to hear people speak with passion about their knowledge of these topics!

[@scarlett3599]

“Died from an escaped bear” that made me chuckle

[@BeeKool__113]

So fascinating!!! Very informative and enjoyable videos.

[@teague9910]

These shows are super amazing! I love this stuff, keep them coming please!!!

[@naomifisher6200]

Absolutely my new favorite channel. Well done and I love the host. She's just perfect.

[@Spike-ee6om]

This documentary is excellent.

[@OramiIT]

Arsenic in Victorian households...... If only you all knew what was in damn near EVERYTHING in your homes today. Plenty of arsenic still around don't chew on your electronics.

[@EMcKelvyF]

Rice

[@katehenry2718]

Gram said to rinse the rice before cooking.. never knew why. Good tradition though. Ditto gets rid of the little flighty bugs.

[@EMcKelvyF]

@@katehenry2718 rinsing and cooking rice only reduces the arsenic content by 50ish%

[@SoulDevoured]

Arsenic is in everything because it's a naturally occurring compound. It's in things used by every major industry because it's in almost everything extracted from the ground (crops included!) The concentration is deemed safe. Not sure how they measure that but it is certainly unavoidable. Carbon monoxide is something we live with too and we've been back and forth for decades about how much is too much.

[@uhmokay5995]

I think I'm in KZbin premium. This is TOO GOOD to be free.

[@asho0]

This is my comfort video and I rewatch it every few months ❤😅

[@DaemlichesStueck]

Same. Also the other hidden killer videos

[@leshall3013]

I am not sure how many times I've watched this, but every time I hear the professor say. "It seems really naughty" I have to chuckle, its so cute when she says it.

[@richardstever3242]

Being cute isn't enough to keep me hooked, but in this case it sure helps. Suzanna is very thorough, has just the right English accent and presentation.