10 Historical Facts That Will Seriously Mess With Your Perception of Time

[@passthebutterrobot2600]

The T-Rex is closer in time to the smartphone than it is to the Stegosaurus. By the time T-Rex appeared on the scene, the Stegosaurus was already about 100 million years extinct, and they walked around over already-ancient Stegosaurus fossils.

[@tfranken1561]

Pass The Butter Robot it's funny how a lot of people think all the Dinosaurs lived at the same time. Then there's the people who insist they never existed at all.

[@joshbaker8478]

The Earth is only ~6000 years old. Read your bible! Don’t believe everything “ science” tells you.

[@updownstate]

@@tfranken1561 That's bc the US public education system is crap. Everything I learned could have been taught to me in three years - and I got an honors diploma and a scholarship.

[@matthewreynolds8025]

@@joshbaker8478 Please tell me you're being sarcastic.

[@shanequinn7409]

@@tfranken1561 please don't turn this into debate about faith

[@noahjohnson1054]

I am currently 22 years old and I met Rosa Parks when I was 5 years old at a Kroger grocery store outside of Detroit. Also my Dad met John F. Kennedy at the age of 13 when he was campaigning or president in 1960.

[@karensills42]

Wow!

[@shanequinn7409]

I thought rosa park was killed

[@evilpimp2475]

Nice made up story kid

[@uralwong799]

@@evilpimp2475 She died in 2005

[@whattheheck1000]

@@evilpimp2475 The timing all checks out, I believe him. 22 in 2019 = born cerca 1997 = met Rosa Parks cerca 2002, 3 years before she died. Dad born cerca 1947 = 50 at the time. My maternal grandfather had my mom's younger sister when he was 49. February 10, 2020 5:04 pm

[@Seventeen_Syllables]

A couple more for you: Neil Armstrong walked on the moon before anyone figured out how to put wheels on luggage. An early fax machine was patented in Great Britain in 1843 by Alexander Bain, 33 years before Alexander G. Bell received a US patent for the telephone in 1876.

[@bradlemmond]

And it took a long time after that to put decent wheels on luggage.

[@drewpamon]

Most people rich enough to travel and buy luggage also could afford to have someone carry their luggage.

[@steveno3141]

There is more computing power in your smart phone than in the Apollo rocket that put Neil Armstrong on the moon

[@RaithGyaron]

@@steveno3141 One level of Angry Birds couldn't fit on a Duck Hunt cartridge.

[@Hugh-Man0006]

@@bradlemmond right!?

[@Hettilo]

My favourite is still that cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than to the building of the pyramids

[@petitecontrebassiste]

yes! this still continues to weird me out and my head, while knowing the numbers, can't make sense of it.

[@MB-xo2lx]

This was from Vsauce, wasn't it? ☺☺☺

[@damianmcloughlin2151]

daisychains Surely that would be in reference to Time and not distance,

[@petitecontrebassiste]

Damian McLoughlin by numbers I meant the dates of each event, sorry.

[@passthebutterrobot2600]

We need to return to the moon before 2035, otherwise the first moon landing will be closer in time to the Wright Bros first flight than our return to the moon.

[@HIHaiki]

one century from now a youtuber ( if it still exist ) will state the fact that driverless cars were invinted before women are allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia

[@eansba88-]

And it will be a nutty then as it is now!

[@davidm5707]

Then they won't need to drive!

[@danibutcher]

Women in Saudi Arabia have been allowed to drive since June 2018.

[@pasmuis]

@@danibutcher thats the point, or did you think selfdriving cars were invented this year?

[@danibutcher]

Haasz The op said in a century a KZbinr will say “driverless cars were invented before Saudi women can drive”. But Saudi women can already drive. What didn’t understand about what I said?

[@LadyWhinesalot]

my grandparents were born into a world without cars or phones...my grandson can travel anywhere in the world he pleases and can talk to anyone anywhere anytime

[@christopherclewlow6634]

The world shrinks as traveling and communication technologies improve

[@jamespeden9472]

My mother was born in 1919.

[@cameronrichardson1576]

Please reply

[@jamespeden9472]

@@cameronrichardson1576 who?

[@cameronrichardson1576]

@@jamespeden9472 Ganieda Morgan's grandparents apparently were born before cars or phones. First "steam carriage" was made 1801 so those grandparents must have been born before that.

[@eamonahern7495]

2 grandsons of John Tyler, the 10th president of the USA, are still alive. John Tyler was born during George Washington's tenure meaning only 3 generations of the Tyler family have spanned the rule of every president of the USA.

[@worldtraveler930]

Now That Is Truly Incredible!!!

[@paulherzog9605]

And the last Civil War widow just died in 2020

[@paulherzog9605]

@monny287 That is something

[@gimzod76]

The pyramids were already anchient when King tutankhamen ruled Egypt

[@justinbeath5169]

@Joan In Florida what makes you think that

[@Didi_Meow_Records]

@Joan In Florida Humans ** can be small minded, petty, and competitive liars don't be that person that ropes an entire group of anything to fit in a nice fancy box >_

[@Didi_Meow_Records]

@Joan In Florida I understand what you are saying but again you are talking peoplw and not "the deceptive cult of archaeology" as a whole. And who are these other colleagues that you speak of? Um archaeologists?

[@M0rtanius]

@Joan In Florida were the pyramids alien spaceships, then?

[@Didi_Meow_Records]

@Joan In Florida i think you overestimate the average youtuber and saying they are simple minded liars does not imply "most" if you said "most" or clarified prob wouldn't have commented, but i do because it has been pretty common on KZbin in general.

[@fhetty]

Oxford University is almost a thousand years old...I just can't wrap my head around that!

[@noahjohnson1054]

Slayer Sigma That’s a lot of year books

[@scottanderson8167]

Slayer Sigma and they’re just as anti-knowledge now as they were then!

[@daydreamer8662]

Remember, it was not even the world's first university. That distinction belongs to the University of Bologna

[@updownstate]

And for most of those years women were not allowed on campus.

[@paulriggall8370]

A complete dump!

[@sussekind9717]

The wooly mammoth is not a descendant nor an ancestor of the Asian elephant. Rather, it shared and diverged from a common ancestor known as primelephas.

[@stephaniebaker6001]

I never knew that; thank you for this interesting bit of evolutionary information. (And how amazing is it that biologists are musing over whether they could, or should, clone these behemoths?)

[@Whiteknucklebear]

False, dinosaurs weren't even real

[@_Arminius]

@@Whiteknucklebear They were real, they were on Noah's Arc! Check YEC for the evidence.

[@Whiteknucklebear]

@@_Arminius naw Bible talks about laviathin and such. Dinosaur the word wasnt even invented till the 1800's not a single dinosaur skull has ever been found. Its all a lie to control and well as create the false oil scarcity check out crroww777 on youtube...

[@YouTubecanfuckagoat]

Robert Richardson I had mused on his morphology myself, you may be onto something.

[@MrInitialMan]

Cowboys from the wild west of old appeared in motion pictures--the great cattle empires of the West were dying out just as motions pictures were becoming a thing, and many, many cowboys needed work--right as many film directors needed expert horsemen. A witness to the Lincoln assassination appeared on a game show. (Samuel Seymour, who was 5 years old at the time of the assassination,) appeared on I've Got A Secret when he was 96.

[@velazquezarmouries]

Well shortly after the civil war an embassy of the Tokugawa shogunate was sent into america In the early 1600s another embassy of samurai went to Mexico some of them getting baptized and supposedly being the beginning of the Japón family and one of them is known because he stabbed a Maya warrior after coming out drunk from a bar

[@Mirokuofnite]

In the span of time from the Wright Brothers to now. The B52 bomber has been flying more than half the entire history of flight.

[@tristianwilson3497]

The DC3 has been flying for 72% of that time

[@allangibson8494]

And the Piper Cub design dates from 1929... And is still manufactured.

[@ManOnTheRange]

and Blériot XI reg. G-AANG is flying since 1909

[@heyyou5189]

U2 as well

[@montecorbit8280]

@@tristianwilson3497 The B-52 is still serving in the military. The DC-3 might technically be serving in a few militaries, but not front line for anything.

[@not2busy]

So on the moon, it was one small step for man and in Switzerland, one giant leap for womankind.

[@calvinsbeard7423]

My great-great-great grandmother lived from 1808 to 1911. When she was born, Thomas Paine was still alive. When she died, Ronald Reagan was a baby.

[@SuperDmetrius]

8:05 The Penny Fathering bike design is my absolute proof that the 70's of any century is certifiably wack.

[@nickgov66]

Penny Farthing.

[@vectorfox4782]

1776

[@IamSnowbird]

I love this. We learn historical facts in isolation. I am always surprised to learn what was going on in other parts of the world.

[@Terri_MacKay]

I had a history book that had charts showing what was happening at the same time in different parts of the world, and people who were alive at the same time. It was fascinating, as was this video.

[@AnthonySforza]

Kind of like how Alexander III "The Great" was born 84 years after Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (Roman Dictator) had died.

[@retrozetti]

The actual castle then replicated as “Walt Disney World Cinderella’s Castle”... the actual Kassel Neuschwanstein was built far more recent than the Medieval era it’s appearing as. In fact, during original construction, it was wired with electrical wiring for its lights & outlets.

[@aceofspades9503]

I love factoids like these! It really helps put history in context

[@AnthonySforza]

Kind of like one that always trips me out, is that Alexander III "The Great" was born 84 years after Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (Roman Dictator) had died.

[@mattwhorlow9900]

That Mammoth one -> Get out! Here is another one for you. The last person executed for witchcraft in the UK was several years after the invention of the steam engine. Janet Horne (died 1727) ; Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric engine, invented 1712

[@GylmehsWorld1]

Betty White is literally older than sliced bread!

[@johnrotuno1077]

Lolol i saw that on James Cordens show

[@kohakuaiko]

My grandmother is older.

[@diefenbaker7853]

Betty White is so much better than sliced bread also.

[@frankcatlin9311]

So is Kirk Douglas!

[@JCTXFF]

She is still a beautiful woman.

[@gorkskoal9315]

Steve hawking lived through ww2, man going the moon, the rise of the IoT/Cloud, and some of his theories tested, while on aniversary show for star trek, and latter went to guest star in a episode

[@Vladimir-hq1ne]

Well, an idea for the video: inventions that more recent that we all imagine: toilet paper, paper clip, drop keel etc. ? Anyone who'd be interested, please upvote, maybe?

[@LunaBari]

* that are

[@eamonahern7495]

*that are more recent than

[@terrialdrich9477]

How did people not figure out TOILET TISSUE?? YUKO

[@calichef1962]

I know we had foods in tin cans something like 50 years before we had a tool designed for opening cans of food. Before the can opener came to be, most people opened cans with a sort of sharp hook that was jammed into the top of the lid near the lip and then "wrenched" back and forth, tearing the tin lid open leaving dangerous, jagged edges on both the can and the lid! Sometimes the more desperate would just jam a knife into the lid and tear part of the lid away by prying it open. Early canned foods were dangerous, and not just because of the potential for anaerobic bacteria like botulism!

[@1paintergirl]

I'm shocked with how long it took someone to come up adhesive backed maxi-pads. Safety pins were used before that but were invented in 1849. What did women do for a millenia before that!?

[@reachthroughreality]

It's wild to think that in a span of 66 years we went from nearly completely grounded to walking on the moon, and in the next 50 years we accomplished next to nothing in travel innovations.

[@BrunoDeMarques]

“Future Man”, by Bruno De Marques ;-)

[@bunyabunyatv853]

we never went to the moon and have never gone back for fifty years..funny

[@Chris-hx3om]

@@bunyabunyatv853 We went to the moon... Too much proof of that, and not enough to contradict it (in fact, none to contradict it!).

[@keithtestaverde3712]

We created something even better. The internet! Where I can meet face to face with a person on the opposite side of the world without getting off the couch!

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

@@bunyabunyatv853 You don't actually exist, you are merely a figment of *_my_* imagination, a pre-programmed bot to keep me entertained.

[@micahphilson]

This is exactly why I have always wanted to create a comprehensive timeline of every fact I've heard, so you can start to see who was whose contemporary, and what was happening in one area of the world as another invented something we now consider fundamental.

[@rashadpreston7389]

That would be interesting and probably quite useful.

[@kenbrown2808]

there is a card game based on that concept, but unfortunately, I can't remember the name right now. the objective, of course, is to be able to guess where things fll on the timeline.

[@simonholyoak8869]

Something to keep one occupied during lockdown I suppose

[@jmanj3917]

Do it!! That's an Excellent idea...Especially if you can make it immersive, maybe with Enhanced Reality or something like that. When done correctly this could be Huge.

[@sagebiddi]

I smell an interactive map app

[@frankupton5821]

Talking of history, I was, at one time, the youngest person in the world.

[@thefury4424]

For maybe about a second

[@audenabdelkader2236]

Meh we all were

[@IGIVEINPS3]

@@thefury4424lower than that, closer to 0.25 seconds lol. Still Interesting thought.

[@IGIVEINPS3]

@@audenabdelkader2236 we all special! (bit of cheese alway gd lol)

[@heyyou5189]

At one time you were a male inside a females body.

[@katem.3677]

The last execution by guillotine was in 1977, but the last _public_ execution by guillotine was on June 17, 1939, of Eugen Weidmann. It was filmed from an apartment window (you can find the film on KZbin) and was witnessed by a 17-year-old Christopher Lee.

[@Saavik256]

In some cantons of Switzerland, women were only given the right to vote in the 1990s, ftr.

[@slamblamboozled1245]

@Batman The Dark Knight Living there is irrelevant. You don't automatically know everything about a place just because you live there.

[@rollinbodda4405]

That was actually due to some women groups opposing it seeing as they could vote Natonally and had plenty of influence locally otherwise

[@IGIVEINPS3]

just think what stories etc we could be telling our grand kids in 50 years... "back in my day, hover boards had wheels and you had to push it along with your foot!"

[@opalcoastal-ld5kd]

@Marc a Ah man, I see your comment is 2 months old. Wanna know what kind of stories we’ll be telling our grandkids in 50 years? Well, today is March 29, 2020 and the world is drastically different with every new day. The “stay at home order” has been in place due to Coronavirus aka Corvid-19. I haven’t left my house in 17 days. Your comment was from only 2 months ago and it’s so strange to think how much has changed in that time. I can’t even imagine what we might be telling our future generations. Time is a weird thing... I wonder if anyone will see this comment in the near future and think how much the world has changed since now.

[@GathKingLeppbertI]

@@opalcoastal-ld5kd the Wuhan flu lockdown is phasing out, but the cdc and dems are still trying to terrorize people.

[@NerdPulseGaming]

No real hover board will ever require wheels to move.

[@asonounds1862]

@@GathKingLeppbertI well... that aged poorly

[@egyptwns89_26]

I love these videos because you never really realize how the world was actually progressing until you look at other things that were happening in other places at the same time.

[@calichef1962]

I do wish you had talked about aurochs, a gigantic, wild ancestor of modern domesticated cattle. The last auroch didn't die until 1627!

[@Demonetization_Symbol]

Apparently people are trying to revive them.

[@thebrocialist8300]

“Spanish or vanish.” - Hernan Cortes

[@ponchowizard5182]

I just picture a very sassy Cortez saying this.

[@sidgar1]

Sounds like Los Angeles these days as well

[@mahobgood30]

I still think the guillotine is a reasonable method of execution. Rarely if ever fails, quick, cheap, and arguably painless

[@YouTubecanfuckagoat]

Ma Hobgood After you eh.

[@gamesman0118]

And bloody as all hell.

[@letsgotomarsman]

Cruel tho

[@jr2904]

@@letsgotomarsman who cares? Usually you get the death penalty for killing others, and those victims were subject to cruel and unusual treatment. The killer should get the same.

[@Lowmanification]

@@letsgotomarsman It really isn't that much more cruel than fastening a person to a table in order to administer a lethal injection. As far as methods to execute someone, it is actually fairly tame.

[@karentucker2161]

My great uncle Ben Faulkner got his piolets licence signed by one of the wright brothers.

[@MandiWallar]

My elderly neighbors father and eldest brother fought in the civil war. Her stories are other worldly. All the things she’s seen in her lifetime.

[@dr.lyleevans6915]

Doesn’t add up. The Civil War ended in 1865. Even if she’s 100, her brother would have had to been 70 years older than her to have been 15 years old when the war ended

[@drkxsin1258]

@@dr.lyleevans6915 true that's why it doesn't add up unless her father and brother r dead

[@dr.lyleevans6915]

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Unless her dad set a record for oldest man in history as well as oldest man to have children and siblings with the largest age discrepancy ever. Even if her father had her brother when he was 15, he would have been 85 when his daughter was born, and that’s assuming she is currently 100 years old! It’s also assuming her brother fought in the war young enough to have been 15 when it ended. Maybe the OP meant her neighbors father and father’s brother. It would still be a major stretch but not impossible. I suppose if her father was born in 1850, he would have been 15 when the war ended. The brother could have been older. Her father could have had her at age 75 (not unheard of, but very rare), putting her year of birth around 1925. She would be ~95 now.

[@drkxsin1258]

@@dr.lyleevans6915 i mean u could he onto something

[@dariusanderton3760]

however, if the poster is a senior citizen and he meant that when he was young his neighbor's father was in the Civil War, the math works in that case. 2020 - 70 = born 1950 add 10 =1960, minus 80 = 1880 (the year the neighbor was born) , minus 40 = 1840 (the year the neighbor's father was born)

[@GrrMeister]

*My Wife is a daughter of WW1 Veteran who fought on the Somme WW1 (RGA) in the 1916 and when attending The Thiepval Memorial in 100th Anniversary in 2016 was told she probably was one of the few who remained alive - still very much alive and Kicking in 2020 aged 76 and throughout this Convid Lockdown in the UK still takes long walks with out two dogs everyday, except in pouring rain.*

[@TheMixCurator]

You might think the USA is "Young" but its actually technically older than France and Italy. France is on its Fifth Republic, which only came into place in 1962. Italy's Republic was formed in 1946. *the more you know*

[@TimBee100]

Italy became a country in the late 1800s.

[@mcallisterwill]

Italy though hadn't been united since the fall of the Roman Empire and there had never been a nation state for the Italian people. France deciding that it is a brand new country each time it changes its constitution just seems finicky and well... French, in comparison.

[@murkywalters297]

Here's one of my favorites- the fax machine was invented before the chain-driven bicycle.

[@danielkaiselgruber1750]

Technically the fax machine was even invented before the telephone

[@toadjones79]

Little fact I found interesting: The early trains were wooden. The technology developed so fast that wagon makers were the only ones equiped to built everything. Wooden frames and bodies, wooden wheels wrapped in iron. The Venturi system that powered everything was so revolutionary (allowing lower pressure steam to enter a tank with higher pressure) that it was declared "witchcraft" somewhere in France. That designation was never removed from case law, so the steam locomotive is still technically considered witchcraft in France! So France developed bicycles for rich aristocrats to skid around on while deploring locomotives that brought cheap transportation of goods and people to the masses. Also, one of the first passenger trains had all the cars connected by a six foot long chain. Half the passengers ended up with broken bones. The second half...

[@DanGoodShotHD]

I met Chuck Yeager as a kid as well as a few ww1 vets. I was surrounded by ww2 vets. My Grandmother was smuggled out of Germany in late 30s. On the other side of the family my grandfather owned a coffee shop Al Capone used to frequent. I also grew up to stories from my great-grandmother about ww1, the Great Depression, ww2 and a touch of prohibition. I'm only in my 40s.

[@passthebutterrobot2600]

When I found out that Chris Rock is older than Piers Morgan, it seriously messed with my perception of time

[@toughtittypdiddy4634]

Sara Huckabee Sanders is only 37

[@PrincessAshley972]

Pass The Butter Robot to be fair, they were born within a month of each other

[@passthebutterrobot2600]

@@PrincessAshley972 This is true, Chris Rock is older though. He looks about half Piers Morgan's age.

[@eansba88-]

Well, it is scientific fact, "black dont crack". ; )

[@davidm5707]

@@passthebutterrobot2600 And is twice as smart.

[@jeffhoag3956]

Thanks, Simon! I copy and paste the link to some of your videos into the google classroom space for my classes at the Detroit Public Service Academy!

[@ThomasTrue]

Scotland introduced a beheading machine, "The Maiden" in 1564. It can be seen in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. The UK was still running steam locomotives when NASA were launching Saturn V rockets into space, in preparation for the first Moon landing. The last steam locomotives were withdrawn by British Railways in August 1968, less than a year before the Apollo 11 mission.

[@petergray2712]

Germany ran steam locomotives until 1977.

[@charlotte-mg9wj]

Where can I submit suggestions for future videos? there are lots of famous first lists on youtube but this video got me thinking of famous lasts; last civil war veteran, last guillotine execution, last execution for witchcraft, last case of smallpox etc...

[@TolkienOtaku]

You forgot my favorite: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank were both born in 1929 (King on January 15th, Frank on June 12th).

[@karentucker2161]

It's the 19th for MLK Jr.

[@ryansenft3315]

Barbara Walters was born in the same year.

[@75aces97]

How about this then? Noam Chomsky, still alive, is older than Anne Frank or MLK?

[@dariusanderton3760]

@@75aces97 Yikes, Queen Elizabeth (1926) is older than Anne Frank. Guess that makes sense though, they were both teenagers during WW II.

[@ThomasTrue]

Regent Morton introduced "The Maiden", a beheading machine, to Scotland in 1510 (and he was himself later executed on it), and it was based on an earlier English machine. The Maiden can be seen today in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Cornishman Richard Trevithick built the first steam locomotive in 1796.

[@michelleresistance]

The "pretty maids all in a row" in the nusery rhyme 'Mary Mary' refers to this early form of guilloutine.

[@MilsurpMikeChannel]

I try to use this line of thinking when I try to explain how the latter half of the 19th century was the greatest leap of military technology in history. Roughly the same amount of time has passed between a Civil War soldier/military and the end of The Great War, and a Vietnam War soldier/military and now. While today's soldier, air force, navy, and artillery would have a giant advantage over their Vietnam era counterparts, those Vietnam era counterparts still have a fighting chance in a theoretical battle. Now think about a Civil War era Soldier, Navy, artillery, and no air force going against their World War I counterparts... They stand no chance.

[@enweoh]

Another one: Cleopatra lived closer to a Dominos Pizza than to the Pyramides.

[@antoniusbritannia8217]

Little Caesars?

[@jimmoriarty6964]

You mean the "construction of the pyramids?"

[@AgdaFingers]

There is a tree somewhere in California that was around before the pyramids as well - and it is still living today. Appropriately named Methuselah, the tree - a bristlecone pine is estimated to be over 4,850 years old. It is in a protected location. The oldest pyramid by comparison is about 4,600 years old.

[@montecorbit8280]

The bristlecone pine live in Arizona or New Mexico not California. Methuselah was sawed down in the 1970s by mistake, they thought they were cutting down a younger tree nearby.

[@slartybartfast4213]

@@montecorbit8280 Methuselah is still alive and is in Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, in the White Mountains, Inyo County, California you might be thinking of Prometheus, which was more than 4,844 years old when it was cut down in 1964.

[@montecorbit8280]

@@slartybartfast4213 You may be right....I probably got the names mixed up....

[@crpth1]

@@montecorbit8280 - The names might be mixed. But the fact remain that a "slice" of it was in exhibition in a Las Vegas casino!!

[@StageRight123]

@@montecorbit8280 Incorrect. Bristlecone pines are all over the Sierra Nevada mountain range in both California and Nevada.

[@debrawitte8391]

as always ! highly informative and enjoyable. brilliant. much thanks !

[@pills-]

My great-grandmother was born in a covered wagon and lived to see people walk on the moon. Edit: Wow. This thread went off on a completely unrelated topic, lol

[@IGIVEINPS3]

find all these stories really interesting. i like wondering what I'll tell my possible future grand kids, about what I'd seen come and go etc in my life time.

[@alexcwagner]

That's amazing!

[@ReeTVdocs]

Pills _ 😂🤣 you believe that men went to the moon on 1960’s technology??? 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@dan7242]

@@ReeTVdocs you believe that we went to Antartica in Wooden ships. Or that Shackleton sailed from his trapped wooden ship to the Falklands in an open boat that today we can pull on a car trailer. NB: we have more computing power in our hands than was used on the Apollo missions

[@ReeTVdocs]

Dan O'h Eanna who are you to tell someone you’ve never met, what they believe!!!!

[@angelaricks5379]

Actually, Gustave Whitehead was the first person to fly in a plane, but since he only had still pictures and the wright brothers had moving films, history has the wright brothers as the first. Again, rich inventors win over other inventors.

[@williamoldaker5348]

As this is my birthday, thank you. This video was a thing of awe.

[@nataliahill1170]

Happy Birthday October Birthday Buddy!!!! My Birthday Is On The 24th Of October!!!!!

[@gorkskoal9315]

Privateering has been around since the 1600's (where the word Pirate comes from) we also, have no idea what pirates sound like. But we do know, the Spanish and Swedish Pirates created the first form of Technocracy (councel ruling through democracy) That makes Technochratic Democray 390 to 400 years old

[@jedidrummerjake]

Fascinating as always. Thanks, Simon!

[@susanwilliams2392]

USA: We are such a young country. New Zealand: Hold my drink.

[@bruceread2805]

Hold my non-alcoholic beverage

[@dcarbs2979]

Or South Sudan

[@dcarbs2979]

@Richard Hopkins Some change name without borders (e.g. Swaziland to Eswatini), some can change borders without name (almost any country expanding their empire by war), or both simultaneously such as international agreements to create states (Pakistan / Israel), or independent states (Ukraine etc)

[@angel4everable]

Iceland had a functioning parliament five centuries before Columbus arrived in the New World.

[@angel4everable]

@Carlo Cocciolo Yes, but not democratically chosen.

[@angel4everable]

@Carlo Cocciolo Most historians do not consider those small assemblies, limited to the aristocracy, to constitute a parliament.

[@angel4everable]

@Carlo Cocciolo Thanks, pal. The more proper term would be a meritocracy. Still, the census measured landed property, and not just a headcount, for the right to vote and hold elected office. This is quite different from the Norsemen, though with them too military valor earned you a greater share of political privileges.

[@angel4everable]

@Carlo Cocciolo No, they did not. Odd, but some of the more progressive states in the world---Simon mentioned Switzerland---have been among the last to grant female suffrage.

[@er2206]

I love 🇮🇸

[@boomstick4054]

Just the amazing stuff I’ve seen and done in my life, or you in your life. Now multiply that by 3 Billion! (considering that everyone is as awesome as you and I)

[@kevinmccarthy2793]

My grandfather fought in WWII (in the only Japanese invasion of American soil no less) and was downloading music to his computer before he died.

[@nocount7517]

Bonus fact: Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta (aka, Beretta Firearms) was founded in 1526, making it approximately 326 years older than the next-oldest firearms manufacturers Smith & Wesson (1852) and Colt (1855.) This makes it the oldest company still in operation today.

[@kevinlawton9074]

James Purdey and Sons have been making shotguns and rifles in London since 1814, and Remington Arms have been making guns in various locations since 1816, both somewhat longer than either Smith and Wesson or Colt.

[@nocount7517]

@@kevinlawton9074 I'm not English, and have never seen their guns in stores, so... there ya go. And I hadn't thought of Remington when looking up famous firearms manufacturers that are rather old, given their quality has been in the toilet these last few years, at least.

[@kevinlawton9074]

@@nocount7517 Well, fair enough, though I thought that the quality reputation of Purdey was world-wide. I didn't mention Wilkinson, who were making firearms from 1807 as they appear to have ceased production some time in the 1920's. I believe that both Remington and Wilkinson were favoured for the supply of officer's pistols by several allied armies in the first world war.

[@nocount7517]

@@kevinlawton9074 I was also referring to companies currently still in operation. Fiskars, for example, has been in business since 1649, making it the 4th oldest company in the world still in operation today.

[@fredrickburdick5349]

love your videos! this puts a lot of thing in prospective!! love it!

[@davidhay3417]

6:59 the severed head does retain consciousness for 15-30 seconds, I witnessed it myself in a modern recent video of a beheading where the person eyes were moving around looking all over responding to sound also hundreds of years ago, a man was asked, before being beheaded by guilotine to blink his eyes non stop for as long as possible, it lasted 15 -30 seconds

[@memesfromdeepspace1075]

ITS because muscle stop cos no blood pumping .so it cant react anymorec.but conciusnness is still exit about 1 or 2 minute and finally it dead

[@hollyrr]

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[@tabby73]

It makes sense. It must be a similar feeling to suffocation. Terrible to think about it.

[@KentuckyWindage22]

If you've ever killed chickens you know that when you cut their heads off a lot of them keep blinking for a minute or so after. I don't see why a human head would be any different.

[@leswehman11]

Very interesting video! Thanks so much.

[@dogmechanix]

Me a person who read a physics article on "time" once and never did any follow up learning: everything may have happened all at once

[@FloridaManMatty]

St. Augustine, Florida was founded in September of 1565, not 1576. It was founded and named by Pedro Menendez de Avilés. We had our big 450th anniversary in 2015. Another interesting fact: The first ever Thanksgiving Mass was held here in St. Augustine by the Spanish and the local native tribes shortly after they landed and settled in.

[@dafttool]

*Betty White is older than sliced bread*

[@dwc1964]

and better

[@dafttool]

dwc1964 She’s wonderful

[@christelheadington1136]

Pre -sliced.From my birth in !946 to 1955 , we lived above a bakery. When you bought bead they would ask if you wanted it sliced. I imagine it came sliced it a package at some grocery stores at the time, but why would we go get that? My Mom was born in 1923, she told she remembered the iceman, delivering blocks of ice for the ice box.

[@bingola45]

@@christelheadington1136 She REMEMBERED the iceman... You mean you've got rid of the iceman? Or was it just one particular iceman she remembered?

[@christelheadington1136]

@@bingola45 -That at some point in time they got an electric refrigerator, no longer needed the ice.

[@missrhib]

I really like this video! So interesting!!

[@MartialBorschel]

Always weird when you see 1 like, no views, and 5 comments lol.

[@calichef1962]

Yes, the inability of KZbin's various counter widgets can't keep up with the reality of views and likes when a video first goes live. It's well documented on virtually every popular channel on YT.

[@Hybridchld]

On the subject of Chuck Yeager. He was played by Sam Shepard in the 80's movie The Right Stuff portraying Yeager's actions in the 50's and 60's. In 2017 when Shepard died at 73 one of the people Tweeting about his death was the then 95 year old retired Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager. He's still quite active on Twitter at 97!

[@dylanhaugen3739]

By my math say a civil war solider was 18 in 1865 he'd be at least 68 years old when he married a woman who was 15 in 1915 and who lived to be over 100 years old. Just let that thought sink in of a 15 year old marrying someone old enough to collect social security checks today.

[@darrenwade3266]

rapheALtoid so the guy was might have been 65 instead of 68, phew....

[@dariusanderton3760]

creepy, but they did that sometimes. I saw a movie where a young woman in the 1910s married an old man like that, and the deal was that she would be his nurse in old age and then receive his pension for the rest of her life. They had agreed that sharing a bed was not part of the deal.

[@michaellouton3870]

This was a really great video. All awesome info. Thanks Simon.

[@AtheistOrphan]

The clock that sits on my dining room sideboard was made in the same year that Jack the Ripper was active.

[@evilpimp2475]

Did i ask you?

[@boomstick4054]

Gift?

[@VelMa-opinion]

My grandfather was born 10 years before Wright brothers flew their plane, and died 20 years after the first men landed on the moon; he was born before private ownership of automobiles was more than a curiosity, and died at a time when cars had become a nuisance, a blot on the landscape and one of the most common causes of death in cities of even modest size, especially if numerous lung diseases which are exacerbated to the point of death by pollution from urban traffic are counted. My grandfather was born before radio or Television existed, before telephones were a thing in the countryside, and when he died I had a portable phone. I like these juxtapositions, and I've often thought of my grandfather's life in terms of change. I wonder if any generation will ever see as much change in terms of their way of life.

[@dariusanderton3760]

yes, the changes from the 1880s to 1960s is vast but it fits into one lifetime. My great great grandmother was born just before the U.S. Civil War and died in 1959 when Elvis Presley was around.

[@danstiver9135]

How about this one: Brazil did not outlaw slavery until 1888, ten whole years after Thomas Edison founded the Edison Electric Light Company!

[@christelheadington1136]

I believe they also had more slaves than the USA/ Confederacy.

[@toughtittypdiddy4634]

Mississippi didn't officially ratify the 13th amendment until 2013

[@BJGvideos]

And Mauritius, the last country to have legal slavery, only outlawed it within the past few years. It also continues without much legal intervention.

[@danstiver9135]

@@BJGvideos Really? That's insane!

[@MoonFairy929]

🤯 great job as always!! Love these comparisons!!

[@robertstorey7476]

The titanic legend and obsession was alive and well when I was a kid in the 1970s. Ballard's exploits didn't create the obsession in any way..

[@Carewolf]

Proven further by the fact that the first movie after the rediscovery of the Titanic, was a remake of a remake of a remake of a remake.

[@dcarbs2979]

@@Carewolf The Kenneth More film A Night To Remember was a pretty well-known film in the 50s. And far from the first Titanic film.

[@dariusanderton3760]

yes, there was a book and some movies in the 1950s. At that time there were still quite a few survivors alive and they were interviewed by many people.

[@LuinTathren]

Great video! I learned a few shocking things. Thanks!

[@jamesglass4842]

Mammoths existed till around 1200 on an island off the Russian Pacific mainland

[@burialgoods]

Source for that? Want to read more about it

[@n0yn0y]

I think you mean 1200 BCE at the latest

[@shebbs1]

@@n0yn0y or BC!

[@kingfuzzy2]

Little ice age.

[@emmeloudouwesdekker8964]

Though 1200 is a bit too late, it’s true that a colony of mammoths still existed on the russian island Wrangel until roughly 2000-1500 BC, 8000 years after the extinction of mammoths in the rest of the world

[@yaniwet]

Wow great video !!

[@updownstate]

I believe Third Mesa on the Hopi reservation is the oldest continuously occupied site in North America.

[@The_Yosh]

Diane Greene by Europeans

[@FedePixelWizard]

Bullfights still exists, and i go to watch them like 6 times at year because of that same reason, its surreal... time is relative.

[@Lawliet734]

3:14 By that logic, Sears is older than The People's Republic of China (and The Republic of China) and The Republic of Turkey, two of the oldest civilizations.

[@6038am]

It makes sense. Take fx morden Turkey, has only a connection to the ottomands but more as a goverment forming from the asses of its colapse. It has no dirickt connection other the location to any of the previos states of that area.

[@Lawliet734]

@@6038am "Take fx [for example] morden [modern] Turkey...the ottomands [Ottomans]...goverment [government] forming from the asses [ashes] of its colapse [collapse]...no dirickt [direct] connection other [than] the location to any of the previos [previous] states..." You write with one of the highest frequency of spelling mistakes I've ever seen.

[@GCJT1949]

@@Lawliet734 I suspect English is not his/her first language. Geoff Who will pass that.

[@Lawliet734]

@@GCJT1949 Did you know you can get a free magic browser that indicates you've written a spelling error by showing a red line under it?

[@christelheadington1136]

@@Lawliet734 -Here I was going to give x603x an A for originality.

[@HeatherSpoonheim]

I can't believe you didn't mention that cameras existed while human beings were still legally being sold as property. Yes, there are photographs of auction houses that traded in human beings. I still can't wrap my mind around that.

[@M0rtanius]

Humans are still being sold as property in parts of africa and middle east. Wrap your head around that!

[@AtheistOrphan]

Heather Spoonheim - The town I live in (Horsham) held the last public auction of women in the U.K. in 1833. We also had the last execution by pressing to death.

[@Green4321]

There is actually a photo of Mozart's wife.

[@christophermerlot3366]

In the future no one will know that Star Wars came before Space Force.

[@eggsnspam]

Or that Star Trek came before Star Wars.

[@eggsnspam]

or

[@NavyMax]

They will probably think its a recruiting film for the the Space Force. (I do want to be a space shuttle door gunner though. That'd be awesome!)

[@OriginalPiMan]

Assuming the Space Force ever actually exists, or that it isn't subsumed back into the Air Force after Trump leaves office.

[@davidbeppler3032]

Starship Troopers was before Space Force. What is Star Wars? The future will ask as those moves are becoming worse over time.

[@shotgunpete7196]

Lookin’ back at some of your “stuff” I hadn’t seen for a year or more, still extremely interesting 👍🏻

[@Flamsterette]

Thank you for the upload! I'm actually early!

[@Flamsterette]

@Buck Berthod Yo, nobody will care about your comment if you type like that.

[@roxannepearls901]

Jeez Louise, how did I unknowingly click on another Simon site, and how did I not know there was one out there I had not yet subscribed to?!

[@roxannepearls901]

That’s exactly what I said. Twice in 2 days!

[@norabrandt4078]

I just thought of something. Simon's mum is Whistler's Mother! Lol

[@Digitalhunny]

This was freaking wonderful!! Super original, educational & interesting. Keep it up. I sub'd forever ago 🤗🌷

[@maryghek]

University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines is also older than Harvard

[@faithlesshound5621]

Don't forget National Autonomous University of Mexico (1553), Univ. of San Marcos in Lima, Peru (1553) and the Univ. of St Thomas Aquinas, Dominica (1538).

Sorry to interrupt Simon...but the French DID NOT invent the guillotine...it was in use in Halifax Yorkshire long before the frogs got their flippers on in...The French ONLY 'improved' the shape of the blade...hence the long standing expression..."From Hell, Hull and Halifax dear lord preserve us...."

[@AceFuzzLord]

South Sudan is the youngest country in the world, unless another country has taken that in the last couple years It became a country some time in either the 2000s or early 2010s because both halves were fighting in a civil war for many decades over different ideals

[@terrialdrich9477]

Very interesting stuff! ♡

[@DUMBODEATHDEALER]

We need more videos like this and less videos asking questions like " why are stop signs red?". Food for thought.

[@terryjaram8913]

But why are STOP signs red?

[@DUMBODEATHDEALER]

@@terryjaram8913 why is a chair named a chair?

[@moiracoleman5087]

@@terryjaram8913 light in the red spectrum travels furthest through atmosphere and adverse atmospheric conditions such as fog, hence using it as a warning sign.

[@dariusanderton3760]

@@DUMBODEATHDEALER the origins of words are interesting. Chair came from Greek, then Latin, then French, then to English. Apparently its related to the word Cathedral.

[@NickCC23]

John McCain Jr. married someone born in 1912. As of March 2020 she still lives.

[@patmullarkey7659]

Alexander the Great was in Egypt before the Romans.

[@AnthonySforza]

I'm reminded how the lighter came before the match. Or, the one which really trips me out, is that Alexander III "The Great" was born 84 years after Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (Roman Dictator) had died.

[@rotojakku]

Ummm theres way older continuously ihabited cities in México and cuba such as Habana and Veracruz. Both 50 years older than anything in florida, and theyre in north América.

[@robkenner5456]

Loved this video

[@ianpage2509]

At 15:30 "The American Astronauts did a singularly american thing..." I laughed at that only problem is that with no sound is space we can't be loud enough. so before we go back we have to make things bigger.

[@johneyon5257]

Road trip!

[@tomfrazier1103]

Didn't one of them hit a golf ball?

[@eggsnspam]

True... true... that's what I like about Americans. Music, cars, and a technological-playground.

[@NavyMax]

@@tomfrazier1103 Alan Shepard on Apollo 14. Not sure if he made a hole in one.

[@dudepool7530]

Fun fact about the breaking of the Red Sox curse: we did it with help from Jimmy Buffett. Yup, we had to get wasted away again in margaritaville to win lmao.