Historian Reacts - What Are The Worst Unknown Facts Of History? (r/AskReddit)

[@derekfnord]

Chris, you have to know that one huge reason (undoubtedly the biggest reason) for the civility of this community is YOUR civility. You set the tone, and everyone quickly sees that this is not a place for just flinging ad hominem and straw man fallacies around. 🙂

[@weeg17]

Yeah I only just found this channel today but I've been binging videos and I immediately noticed that he's a very calm and mild mannered individual which made me want to keep watching his content. Honestly it's refreshing.

[@johnlewis8934]

@@weeg17 glad you are here

[@BlueSideUp77]

Agreed. You are a great role model.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

As it is oft said "Chat reflects the streamer" In many ways that also applies to the youtube comment section.

[@2112bigd]

Well said!

[@thecynicaloptimist1884]

Fun fact about the Gladiator fact: Ridley Scott's movie _Gladiator_ was supposed to have a scene with a gladiator endorsing a brand of olive oil, but it was cut from the movie, because the producers didn't think the audience would actually accept that things like this took place.

[@emptycradle1304]

I remember hearing something similar with the same reason about the movie Gladiator, I wonder how historically accurate it would have been if they left in everything they took out because they "didn't think we would believe it:

[@coffeetailor]

So you're saying it got Tiffanied.

[@Liam_The_Great]

@@coffeetailor What does that mean

[@121theover]

​@@Liam_The_GreatTiffany actually is a medieval name, but no medieval fiction/fantasy author would use it because no one would believe that name really was from that time.

[@milhousevanhoutan9235]

@@121theover use the name Theophania (of which Tiffany is the Anglican diminutive form) and yes the first known use of the name "Tiffany" in print comes from like the year 1010.

[@Alexs.2599]

We can all agree to disagree on certain topics in a civil manner. No need to be mean spirited about it. We're all here for our love of history. This channel has a very collegial positive vibe to it. Let's keep it that way.

[@jacobnugent8159]

We all want to solve problems we just disagree on the best way to do so

[@Alexs.2599]

@@jacobnugent8159 Exactly, very true.

[@johanrunfeldt7174]

Agree, there's no need to disrespect somebody because you disagree with him/her.

[@Alexs.2599]

@@johanrunfeldt7174 My sentiments exactly.

[@Alexs.2599]

@@syncmonism Hahaha, thanks bro.

[@annayosh]

The reason Tutankhamen's tomb was undisturbed by tomb raiders is that it had not been found by them before Howard Carter found it in 1922. And that in turn came because pharaoh Horemheb worked to remove as much as possible all traces of his three predecessors Akhenaten, Tutankhamon and Ay, and as part of that he destroyed and hid the entrance to Tutankhamen's tomb - apparently doing a very good job of that.

[@Sleepy4213]

I’m pretty sure you are right that Akenaton and his son were scrubbed from history, but it was a massive landslide that hid the entrance to Tuts tomb. Even Egyptians can’t move that much dirt without it looking like it was done by humans.

[@SoupSultan]

This has easily become my favorite history channel because when you react to stuff you let it play and really take it in. At the same time, when you do pause it, its to add meaningful information on. Theres no mindless filler, and thats important because I watch this channel to learn more about these things I'm interested in. It's funny because I watched both this and the gaming channel and didn't realize it was the same person for the longest time haha.

[@Unhinged_Pegasus69]

Here a historic fact for you; during the evacuation of Dunkirk in WWII, a man and his son overloaded their boat with over 120 soldiers, dodged a bomb, sustained no damage, and unloaded everyone off safely without injury. Decades earlier in WWI, the same man was a member of the Royal Navy, and during the war, he warded of a German zeppelin, and after being given command of his own ship, destroyed a German U-Boat. The man’s name; Charles Lightoller. He is most well known, however, for being the Second Officer of the RMS Titanic, he was the most senior-ranking Officer to survive the sinking of the famous ocean liner in 1912. This means that all his superiors died during the disaster, and he outranked the survivors.

[@milovogels]

in the movie Dunkirk they showed a father and son dodging a bomb, I'm assuming that was based off of this

[@richeybaumann1755]

34:20 LBJ also had a convertible which he had adapted to be amphibious. He would drive guests around his Texas ranch without telling them about it, then he would pretend the brakes had failed and drive it into the lake.

[@Zach-mw5so]

Hate LBJ with a passion but this is pretty funny

[@nigeh5326]

The amphibious car featured in one of the LBJ movies that came out 5 or 10 years ago and I think LBJ played the same gag in the film.

[@Gravelgratious]

@@Zach-mw5so Why do you hate him? He literally pushed the Civil Rights act through.

[@omegastar19]

⁠​⁠@@Gravelgratious from what I understand, personality wise he was a rather unpleasant man - this story kinda indicates it. He was an extremely overbearing man, almost a bully, who did whatever he wanted to other people, including exposing himself to others and even getting physical with people (he was a large man and used that to his advantage). Politically, he was a manipulative son of a bitch who was willing to do pretty much anything to get what he wanted. This eventually turned out to be a good thing when he became president, as, like you said, he used every method he knew (including some things that are almost criminal) to push through the Civil Rights act and other important legislation.

[@157RANDOM]

It wasn't converted, it was built as amphibious. It was called the AmphiCar. We had a neighbour at our cottage who had one.

[@HastDuWasSuchen]

14:03 About the Waffen SS: While it is well known that many of the most terrible war crimes committed by the Nazis were done by the Waffen SS, a general statement like "none of the Waffen SS were ethical" doesn't hold up to the individual realities of the people involved. At the beginning, the Waffen SS was made up of volunteers but throughout the war that changed so there were also conscripts transfered to Waffen SS divisions. Just one example, my dad is a doctor and he told me about a former patient of his who was conscripted at the age of 17, right before the end of the war into the Waffen SS. The guy was captured by the Russians and had health problems due to a beating ever since. Just one example to show that not each and single Waffen SS soldier had shown unethical behaviour. Again, obviously many did cruel crimes though, so this is no defense of crimes, simply a correction about statements that are inaccurate. On another note, non-ethnic Germans Waffen SS divisions were drawn up around 1940 already. Basically every occupied country had collaborators and many had special Waffen SS divisions. These were usually then deployed in regions away from their homeland so that they wouldn't sympathise with the local people. These foreign Waffen SS divisions would often rely on Aryan ideology in countries like Norway, Denmark, Netherlands or Belgium but also on anti-Bolshevism and of course antisemitism. Sometimes POWs were forced into these battalions but there were also many volunteers even from countries you wouldn't expect like France, Russia or India. In the Balkans there were Muslim Waffen SS soldiers from Bosnia and also Croat Waffen SS soldiers etc. and especially in the Balkans these Waffen SS soldiers led an endless civil conflict within former Yugoslavia. Overall, there were 910.200 people who served in the Waffen SS. Out of these 310.000 were "Volksdeutsche", so Germans living in other countries of Europe, especially Hungary and Romania, and 200.000 were non-ethnic Germans. Himmler basically wanted to create like a brotherhood of Europe against Bolshevism so yes, there could have been Poles in the Waffen SS, even though unlike other occupied countries, they didn't have a division of their own and served in other units like the SS divisions Nordland and Galicia.

[@kylianvanhoorn2859]

Love your videos, absolutely one of my favorite channels Looking forward to watching this one And I'm also really excited for this weekend since i'm going to see the waterloo reenactment in Belgium on Sunday. Greetings from the Netherlands

[@sonofhawaii4227]

To each, his own is what I say. That’s what I love about this channel and community. I appreciate you being so open about your beliefs as well as your personal struggles. Much respect to you brother! Aloha 🤙🏼

[@AlwaysBolttheBird]

To each his own to a point. “To each his own” when it only affects them but when their “to reach his own” starts impacting others then that’s when it’s a problem

[@riseagainstthemachine6079]

In Germany "to each, his own" is actually hard to say. It was missused by the Nazis, as they literally made it the slogan of one of their concentration camps.

[@OliverRPendle]

As far as I am aware, Poles were the only group actually specifically banned from joining the SS. So I don't think there were any Poles, however, there is every chance that a Polish speaking Galician, Ukrainian, Belarussian formally part of Poland, was in the SS and then switched to Polish when they were captured and suddenly called themselves "Polish" despite probably joining the SS in order to kill Poles they considered to be occupying their home nation. They could also be German minority from Poland at that time, and the idea of what is Polish was a lot more complicated then. There were plenty of Poles who were forced into the Wehrmacht though. Love your stuff!

[@jsupim1]

16:41 Actually, this is an example of being so clever as to be in error. Magellan was an experienced sailor who went to modern day Indonesia and back to Europe before he went on his last journey, this time reaching the Phillippines from the other direction. So he was, in fact, the first person to circumnavigate the globe, just not in one journey.

[@Tomikchomik1]

14:00 Poland is only occupied country who dont create Waffen SS unit. Poles was on Wehrmaht, from Silesian teritory, but they was recruited by force (like my grandfather).

[@Crytica.]

About the comments. Tho it says a lot about us, your viewers, it also says a lot about how you handle these topics. It's not the first time that you dipped your toes into hot water and managed to take them out with actual positive feedback from your community. I think we appreciate someone who is honest and certainly not extreme, and that's also what kind of folk you mostly then attract. So yeah, it does go both ways. We are respectful towards you on these hot topics and you are respectful towards us with your way of describing and explaining things to us.

[@Drogmir]

That was a fun one. There's always so many weird little events that happen in history it's hard to parse out what's an exaggerate myth, real, and completely made up at times. My favorite random weird unknown history facts is that in the 17th century in Siam (modern day Thailand). There was a random Greek merchant named Constantine Phaulkon who managed to ingratiate himself with King Narai and from all account was apparently a very quick study. And he basically became Prime Minister (Officially Prime Counsellor) of Siam and led foreign policy regarding the French and the British East India company. Long story short he basically got caught up in court politics and lost the "game of thrones" sort of speak.

[@corvus1374]

it is forbidden to touch the Thai royal family. When a Thai princess fell into a river, she drowned because all of the people around her were afraid to rescue her.

[@pixelllama8357]

37:38 It was actually just between the Nordic branches of both of the clubs. American bikers really had nothing to do with the hits and they were committed mainly by local members.

[@angusyang5917]

I would also like to add that King Tut's dad Akhenaten suffered a massive damnatio memoriae (long story short, he placed emphasis on what Egyptian god or god's hat, over the others, angering the priesthood), where his successors tried to erase him and his family from Egyptian history, making King Tut even more obscure than he already was.

[@CocoCece08]

That and Akhnaten wanted Egyptians to only serve ONE God (Aten) instead of the traditional they worshiped. And... it did NOT go well.

[@JollyWanker]

So, what you're saying that he was cursed with Hom-Dai for his blasphemy, and we shouldn't read the Book of the Dead

[@angusyang5917]

@@JollyWanker Nah, that was a dynasty later, during the reigns of Seti I and Ramesses II. (The movie gets the date wrong, 1290 BCE was when Seti I succeeded his father Ramesses I, not when he died)

[@ASaaaxxx]

It is not proven that Akhenaten is Tuts father … only that there are 2 mummy’s that have been found and that are his parents and are the children of Akhenaten parents … it is very possible that his younger brother is Tuts father and so he was married to Akhenaten daughter, to ensure succession to the Throne.… if Tut had been his son and heir….he would have been shown in the art work as were his daughters….we will probably never know for certain as so much has been lost….

[@weepingscorpion8739]

Regarding the Waffen SS and non-eth[n]ic German: in the opening scenes of "Saving Private Ryan", there are two guys who are holding up their hands and seem to surrender to the protagonists. However, they are not understood and are shot shortly after. What they are saying is something like "My jsme Češi." which means "we are Czech" in Czech. I know there were also Danes in the Waffen SS and yes, even a few of Faroese.

[@chillpengeru]

SS Charlemagne was a French division that willingly entered Berlin during the final days of the war and was pretty much annihilated.

[@crypt1c_865]

A Montenegrin killed a samurai in the Russo-Japanese war, that war was also forgotten about and the peace treaty between Montenegro and Japan was signed in 2006 upon the independence of Montenegro

[@stephenparker6362]

Hi, Chris, your comments made that absolutely fascinating. I like the way you check things at the time to confirm they are correct. If the Hitler story is completely true imagine how much it changed the world. The quality of your work is always so good.

[@stevenmillsap803]

I've listened to your podcasts... you and Simon whistler are my favorite story tellers

[@charlayned]

Oh honey, I pre-date you by a lot. I remember being in 2nd grade (1964) and CBS was going to run Wizard of Oz. We lived on a farm outside Friona Texas and the nearest neighbors had a color set (new to everyone around) and so they had a huge watch party at their house. I remember watching the movie and when Dorothy lands in Oz, there was a big audible "wow" by not only us kids, but the adults too. I have never forgotten that experience (and I"m 66 this year).

[@PhilosophyAndGaming]

3:42 I have to disagree with this post. I don't think the conclusion that he was unimportant, follows from the fact that tomb robbers couldn't find his tomb, just like you mentioned in your reaction. However, I would say that he was at least somewhat influential in that he restored the polytheism that his father outlawed (even though people still worshipped their gods in private during the reign of Akhenaten) How important Tut was I guess depends on how important the worship of the gods was to the people that lived during that time. His advisor Ay took (usurped?) the throne of the pharaoh shortly after Tut's death and buried Tut in the smaller tomb, which was seemingly intended for Ay himself. Ay took the larger tomb, which had a layout more akin to Akhenaten's tomb(king tut's father) than it was to the typical royal tomb. Horemheb, Tut's general, actually continued Tut's work to restore the old order after he succeeded Ay, but not before he ordered the desecration of Ay's tomb. I don't normally comment on videos, but the post about king tut caught me off guard and I felt I had something to add.

[@NK-hl8nw]

13:29 Not exackly, there were some resonably ethical people in the ss for example the Estonian and Latvian legions, ofcource not the majoritie in the overall organisation

[@frankbolger3969]

One of my favorite weird historical bits -- made "weird" by susequent events -- is that "Lindbergh" was not the aviator's legitimate surname, as detailed in his biographical book "We'" His grandfather adopted it from a prosperous local family before emigrating. His real family name was "Manson." So, his real name was Charles Manson.

[@connyardin3836]

A stretch to say it was his "legitimate" name, and it would have been Carl Månsson not Manson. Its possible they would have anglicized it as Charles Manson but thats an even bigger stretch 😅

[@frankbolger3969]

Disagree, but it is amusing. Besides, your argument is not with me. "Lindbergh" said it.@@connyardin3836

[@iangraham6887]

32:15 - as having researched lobotomy for a medical history class, the technique in fact did not mush the brain and was usually only performed on patients of adult age. the surgeon would insert the pick behind the eye where the bone was thin and hammered at a 45 degree angle up towards the top of the cranium. when the pick had reached far enough in, the surgeon would do a left to right sweeping motion with the pick to cut the connection from the frontal lobe to the rest of the brain. both sides of the brain were done to ensure complete cutting of the tissue and were done as fast as 10 minutes as stated in the video. often times the pick would cut away too much brain tissue around the lobe causing vegetative state, invalidism and/or death. or it would cut away too little of the lobe causing increases in the very things they were trying to stop, such as anger, agression, anti-social personality and seizures. The youngest person in history to receive a lobotomy was an 12 year old boy named howard dully who is in fact still alive today. He has memory problems but still functions as an everyday sort of person and is married with children. they did a scan of his brain not too long ago to see why he is relatively normal compared to most other cases and found that due to his young age, and the fact his brain was still developing. the brain was able to make repairs and somewhat reconnect itself to the frontal lobe which allowed him to recover into a functioning member of society after years of institutionalizing and personal struggles. he has a college degree and was a bus driver i believe or still is if he hasnt retired. quite remarkable considering how inhumane and gruesome the practice was.

[@meloveoasis]

I was happy to see you dive into some more modern stuff. It's typically people who understand history have a more nuanced take compared to those who don't. I would love to see a video on your take on Confederate statues in the modern day for example.

[@TDB2509]

lmao it's so funny seeing radical conservatives do their best to defend the confederacy while displaying a complete lack of understanding for the topic.

[@haxolotl7]

@@TDB2509 "But it was the DEMOCRATS who supported slavery!" "But don't take down the statues! Muh heritage!"

[@TDB2509]

@@haxolotl7 lmfao

[@Daily_Bassist]

@@haxolotl7 sorry, were Grant and Lincoln and Jefferson and Washington all confederates?

[@haxolotl7]

@@Daily_Bassist whats your point here

[@_somerandomguyontheinternet_]

20:49 No, they do not call in the “Scilly War.” They creatively named it the “Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years War.” Personally, since the Dutch actually *forgot* that they were at war, I want it to be called the “Scilly Dutch War.”

[@wiseone1013]

The quality of the comment section is to a large extent due to the tone set by Chris himself. I find his approach to life, politics and those with differing views to be a breath of fresh air in an increasingly polarizing environment where a misguided orthodoxy holds sway. Much respect from far away.

[@WanukeX]

3:00 - Worth noting though that at the Time Victoria was born George III was very ill and there was a regency going on.

[@kylianvanhoorn2859]

I know of another weird but true fact that was not named in this video. Leonid brezhnev was a rather big lover of fine automobiles, he owned over 80 cars, most of which were gifts from foreign leaders. He would often go out in the middle of the night on the deserted Moscow streets and drive insane speeds while a small security detail barely managed to keep up, one night in 1980 he was tearin up the Moscow roads in a rolls royce he had received as a gift by queen elizabeth and then proceeded to hit a truck at very high speed and manage to completely wreck the car, which currently is currently on display in a museum somewhere. He once also almost crashed a Lincoln with him and Richard nixon inside while driving high speed around camp david moments after Nixon presented the car to him

[@GiordanDiodato]

kinda interesting given that Russian drivers literally don't know how to drive.

[@TrashMammal2002]

Damn!

[@bogtrotter17]

To anyone interested the eruption of Krakatoa I recommend "the Day the World Exploded" by Simon Winchester. It is absolutely insane how much it influenced the world, from an entire genre of sunset paintings to the end of Java. It was also the very first natural disaster to be studied with a network of instrumentation and communication. One of my favorite historical tragedies in the sense that it lead to innovation.

[@wxixlxsxoxn7321]

So, I could watch this video without your commentary and be completely amazed, but watching this with you and hearing what you have to say.... adds so much more to it! What's already a great video, becomes a PHENOMENAL video!

[@norej2t]

While I agree that the reaction video is fantastic, I really don’t think Reddit tts videos are great videos lol

[@Out_Beyond_The_Heliopause]

On the topic of King Tut's tomb it was left pretty much untouched because he was essentially stuffed into the tomb originally intended for one of his relatives/advisors. Potential tomb robbers would take one look at the fairly standard entrance and go look for a bigger payday.

[@stevensmith3206]

I’ve heard similar things and to expand on what you’re saying a bit I believe some people think it was originally meant for his regent and after he died he was original buried in a big lavish chamber but the regent wanted that chamber and the prestige associated with it so moved King Tut to his own area and took Tuts’ for himself, which kinda backfired a bit because his own burial chamber was looted quite thoroughly meaning we know little about him now.

[@JessieHTX]

I've spent far too many years of my life studying the CoD. The vote that included Sacajawea and York is one of my favorite aspects of the expedition. It can be difficult studying US history since there is so much misogynism and racism.

[@podemosurss8316]

20:53 Similar things have happened with France and Spanish villages. During the Napoleonic wars, as France invaded Spain in 1808, the Spanish people revolted and several towns and villages declared war on France. Though the official peace between France and Spain was signed in 1813 (basically France withdraws from Spain but doesn't have to pay anything), those villages were still technically at war until a few years ago, and you had newspapers with the signing of a peace treaty between the nation of France and the town of Móstoles (in 1985). A very funny one doesn't come from the Napoleonic wars, but from the fact that in 1883 the king of Spain (Alphonse XII, a very beloved king in Spain) was insulted in Paris, and a small town in Almeria called Lijar declared war on France. They signed peace in 1983, 100 years after the fact.

[@goldentoaster9302]

I really hope this community stays civil, and stays a shining beacon of KZbin.

[@nivyan]

37:50 That story is true. Never heard of the anti-tank rocket launcher, as I wasn't born during that time. Instead, I grew up nearly next to a Hell's Angel clubhouse. I happen to run by often as a kid, and they were very friendly. I've since been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and when I walked by and looked like shit - they stopped me to ask what was wrong. I distinctly remember a time where they refused to let me go until I promised them to tell my parents that I wasn't feeling well. There's a very high chance that those Hell's Angels members saved my life and I'll always be thankful for it. They've since moved, but I've heard *a ton* of stories. They also *never* even implied I should join - not even when I turned 18 and was the perfect candidate. Truly some of the best people I've ever met.

[@BeSkeptical851]

I had my first experience with HD back in 1998. After the cable guy installed it, my friend and I just ended up quietly staring at the TV for at least 30 minutes. It was a video of a field with flowers, bees and butterflies.

[@MrAwesome739]

I remember my grandparents talking about getting their first color TV. There was a real problem, though. Not many people wanted color TVs at the time. They were expensive and nothing was broadcast in color back then. Broadcasters and studios had to buy completely new and expensive equipment and they didn't want to spend the money... because nobody had color TVs!

[@jacobseager4897]

Please do more of these, the wide range of history is really interesting

[@svenrio8521]

Personally I don't enjoy these channels do to the text to speech, but if he decides to browse reddit himself like Drew Durnill I'd watch it.

[@MainesOwn]

22:50 That's exactly true! I vividly remember the first time I looked at one of the new giant UHD flatscreens in a superstore and I recall I thought it looked almost artificially detailed and crisp. Just look at some old 360p TV footage from the past fullscreen on a 1080p computer screen and you get the idea what was a "normal" look on a TV set.

[@linusp9316]

About the SS: much more than 2/3 were German, just not "German" by nationality. There were millions of Germans living in the Balkans, for example, who were conscripted into the SS or volunteered. Those were ethnic Germans, but not "Germans". Example: 7th SS "Prince Eugen" division, which drew from, e.g. the "Donauschwaben" community - "Danube Swabians" from modern-day Hungary, Serbia, Romania

[@Crytica.]

Thomas Jefferson was also very important for science of archaeology in the US. He was one of the first who had some regulations when it comes to working with old objects, besides just treasure hunting. He wrote stuff down where he found it, he tagged stuff and did research on the items with a group of others who worked for him. (Of course a lot of the stuff he gotten from it was for personal use)

[@Madeline_Mahoney_25]

he also told lewis and clark to watch out for mamouths

[@EpicnessYeet]

This is a new style of video and a style of video i will gracefully accept. I love watching people react to Reddit and i love history, by mixing these two together it makes a perfect experience for me.

[@BigZ282]

My understanding of the Tut thing was that his tomb was actually robbed at least twice not long after he was buried. That's not really important but it is worth pointing out. The reason it went undiscovered for so long though and was found as "intact" as it was in was in the perfect location, the stairs were covered by debris from later tomb building in the Valley, and the relatively effective damnatio memoriae passed by Horemheb. It's easy to lose the small tomb of an otherwise insignificant Pharo when he dies as young as he did and most mentions of him, his successor Ay, and his father Akhenaton, were usurped by Horemheb.

[@TheAlexSchmidt]

Also I believe the tomb was very small since he died so young and thus he did not have a custom burial chamber built for him, so grave robbers probably didn't think there would be that much inside.

[@jimmoody8998]

Interesting fact in my family history. My great x9 grandfather Edmund Moody saved Henry the VIII's life. The king fell into water and his head was stuck under. Edmund raced down and pulled his head up out of the water.

[@spacee_girl]

hey that’s really cool😭 medieval era history is my fav and henry’s one of the most fun figures to research. lucky you!!🏰

[@lightwalker222]

Great reaction by VTH. I do like this type of video where there are bits and pieces from a number of different parts of history, so we get to see VTH be excited about each new subject that comes up and shares his own information about it. That said, I really hate these channels that harvest content from Reddit and auto-dictate the responses. It's a money grab that takes like 45 seconds to make. They could at least take the time to read the comments out loud, but they aren't willing to put in any amount of effort whatsoever. I don't think those guys deserve a cent, so I hope VTH is getting the ad revenue from this video. The 39 minutes he spent reacting to it represents significantly more care and effort than the "original creator" ever did.

[@Doomerz666]

Exactly what I was thinking. VTH actually brings value to this copy and paste garbage.

[@rodh1404]

Agree. The robot voice is nearly impossible for me to listen to.

[@hlacoille]

Oh man, the “don’t make me repeat myself” shirts are amazing. Great idea

[@professorwhat2704]

Nice selection. Not the biggest fan of Reddit, but these ask Reddit videos have pleasantly surprised me. No particular request, but I'd like to see more of v these. Great job as always and thanks for all you do!

[@jdice6868]

King Tut is the only Pharoah that has a classic song written about him by Steve Martin.

[@nameless_joker0116]

its so nice seeing you grow!!!! been here since 100k im waiting for 500k‼️

[@nickshaffer9961]

Well this was interesting. Very enjoyable with your commentary as always.

[@Player_Coach]

To your opening point - important we’re all be able to disagree without being disagreeable. Dope channel.

[@Andrew_Thannen]

I could be wrong, because I don't remember where I heard this, but building off of the one about fashion trends starting because of monarchs... the reason salt and pepper are staples of dinner tables is because a French king had a very limited palette and only liked his food "spiced" with salt and pepper. Coincidentally, salt and pepper were (and continue to be) very affordable for people of all classes, and people began having them readily available because it was seen as an opportunity to "eat like the king," so to speak.

[@Joanna-il2ur]

The suit for men was a trend started by King Charles II. The new ambassador from Russia arrived at the Court of St James with matching jacket and trousers. The king was impressed and had his tailor make him one. A few days later he wore it in an official function, and everybody clamoured to have one like the king. The modern suit was born, with trousers instead of knee breeches.

[@ryanprosper88]

Interesting facts about Lord Carnarvon: At the time of his birth, his father, the 4th Earl, was the Colonial Secretary and introduced the British North America Act that created Canada. It was drafted at his house, Highclere Castle, the location of the Downton Abbey show. The 6th Earl was a good friend of Queen Elizabeth 2 and is the "Porchie" referred to in The Crown

[@tomi_9212]

There is documentary serie i think in Netflix called secrets of the British castles, one episode is about Earl carnarvon. Carnarvon's house is also an filming location for Downton abbey.

[@darrellmarcks6304]

Awe FFS Chris! As you were describing the Shatner Gremlin episode I had goosebumps that just swelled all over me. That episode freaked me out, same with the remake of that episode in the Twilight Zone movie!

[@LordFenrir12]

A weird bit of history I know of is the Great Toledo War, where Ohio and the territory of Michigan fought over the Toledo strip. It was a largely bloodless war. In the end, Ohio got the Toledo area, and Michigan was given the Upper Peninsula as a peace offering. Some claim this is the origin of modern-day sports rivalries between the two states.

[@meb212]

It certainly plays some factor!

[@lukaslambs5780]

Unrelated to this video but still history related (and randomly popped in my mind) but I feel like no country has “fallen off” more than Mongolia in world history. Every other former world power/great empire is at least a decently powerful nation today, except for Mongolia. Mongol influence stretched insanely far through Eurasia and now they are essentially gone entirely from the global stage. No offense to any Mongolians, it’s a great and really cool country from what I know but I just mean that compared to its former influence, modern day Mongolia is very low key.

[@DovahFett]

You can look to the Chinese for the reasons behind that. More Mongolians live there than within the Mongolian state, as large parts of what was historically Mongolia are located in China. It's effectively a rump state that just exists to be a buffer between the Chinese and Russians.

[@2hot34]

@@DovahFett that and modern Han Chinese nationalists try to wash the Mongolian history as Han Chinese rather than Mongolian

[@wwpl8371]

You could consider China to be the successor of the Mongolian empire since they very quickly became sinicized.

[@2hot34]

@@wwpl8371 that’d be akin to calling the Ottoman Empire the cultural successor state to the Roman Empire (Byzantine empire). Mongolians are still an ethnic group similarly as Greeks. Despite politically you could say that modern China became a successor state but when speaking historically China or the Han Chinese weren’t/Aren’t Mongolian despite cultural exchanges. It’d be like saying Pocahontas was ethnically white American or saying Constantine the Great was Turkish.

[@Eschrich13]

Best KZbin channel, best community, I love everything about here and I’m so happy I found it!

[@JustAnotherAccount8]

There was an eruption recently that rivaled even Krakatoa. It happened in Tonga at the start of this year (which is north of new zealand and it pretty close to Fiji). It was a very ash poor eruption, but it was just monolithic due to the steam explosion. They even captured the footage on satellite images

[@lapcevichgage]

16:56 “somebody here likes the sound of their own voice” Welcome to Reddit, Chris!

[@florrie2303]

Interesting fact about the Krakatoa eruption...one of the few ships to survive was actually the closest to the volcano when it erupted. Because they were so close the tsunami that was caused by the eruption hadn't formed properly when it hit that ship. Other ships further out where found up to 30 miles inland, thrown there by the tsunami.

[@frostyguy1989]

13:28 My grandfather's brother served in the Waffen SS, though he came to regret that decision because they were insane. Some of their "training exercises" involved shooting live rounds at trainees, mock interrogations at gunpoint, and driving vehicles full speed at you, and you had to dodge. It's easy to condemn him, but he lived in the occupied Netherlands where there was a famine. You either joined up or starved to death.

[@_somerandomguyontheinternet_]

I have an ancestor who hid her Judaism due to the prevalence of antisemitism at the time and raised her son never knowing he had Jewish heritage. That son later became an SS officer.

[@dimatut007]

He came to regret after Germany lost. Bet he had been absolutely ok with SS before. By the way, one had to put a lot of efforts to become the SS member, so the part about famine is just ridiculous...

[@edgynuke5007]

@@dimatut007 That’s what I’m thinking too. You only join the SS when you’re a cold hearted son of a bitch. People who are forced to join usually are auxiliary units not SS. That’s why the USSR performed summary executions on captured SS since they were the Nazi party’s personal military. SS members only regret being in the SS because they lost the war.

[@Michael_De_Santa-Unofficial]

@@dimatut007 This ignorant and laughable comment does not disprove the fact that Grand Theft Auto V is one of the greatest games of all time.

[@Empobaer]

@@dimatut007 it depends on when he joined the SS. In the later stage, they mass recruited and it would make sense if it was during the hongerwinter at the late stage of the war. If it was before that, it is probably a lie because at this point they did not starve the Netherlands as severely and they were more selective

[@annwilliams2075]

Re the point about televisions: I remember when my father brought home our television, we were the only family in the street to have one. This was 1953 and we had it for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The neighbours came in with their own chairs to sit and watch it on our television. The living room was standing room only at one point. 😂😂😂At the time BBC - the only tv channel - shut down between 6pm and 7pm so parents could give the children their evening meal put them to bed! Oh and it was in black and white only. 😱😱😱

[@panajotov]

The story about the Twilight Zone is pretty surprising. The author, Rod Serling, was a WWII veteran. At first, he wanted to do a series about social issues in the US as already established radio and TV producer. In particular, the murder of Emmett Till was mentioned as an inspiration. TV network requested a lot of changes in the script to please the advertisers. You can imagine how controversial the programme about extreme racism and the murder of an innocent black boy would've been at the time. So, he had said to himself: dang it, I'll just make these fantastic, horror series to freely express all the wrongs and injustices in the world we live in. As a big fan of the Twilight Zone and a European, this bit of information was quite motivating to learn more about the history of racial segregation in the USA.

[@declanbrady99]

Been watching your channel for a while on and off, currently doing a catchup, and just saw your podcast available. Taken a look and the first one is about my home town!! Great channel.

[@daniellogan-scott5968]

I think you might be confusing The Twilight Zone episode with William Shatner and the version of the story in Twilight Zone the Movie with John Lithgow. As I recall, the gremlin wags his finger in the movie and not in the TV series.

[@chag1pyk5]

You are absolutely right, sir

[@mylokaf]

The civil comment section is a reflection of you! This community that loves your videos is what I’ve been looking for! I’m tired of the fighting, I wish everyone could take it down a notch. I disagreed with you on some things, but so what! I love this channel!

[@Poked128]

Hey VTH amazing video! I am in PIT international to go to Orlando for the national history bee and you have helped me study so much. Thank you for that.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

That's awesome. good luck!

[@RealCodreX]

The part about Adolf Hitler and the priest is most likely NOT true. It wasn't Max Tremmel who saved Adolf Hitler! It was his predecessor, Johann Nepomuk Kühberger. He was also the one who told Tremmel the story. This story is known as the "Passau Legend". What makes me (a part german) suspicious is that there are quite a bunch of english articles, but almost none in german! Also: Tremmel was born 30.11.1902 Kühberger was born 11.10.1889

[@RealCodreX]

Take the story with a (lot of) grain(s) of salt.

[@shawn.champagne]

Haha just finished the political compass video! Was fantastic and looking forward to this one.

[@onkelkonkel5]

The anti tank weapon used was an AT4. Now, anyone who has used said weapon knows that it’s virtually impossible to fire it in the wrong direction. Bandidos somehow still managed to fire it backwards.

[@vamosorlando]

Thanks for helping me get through my A levels Chris, love the videos

[@lexxisful]

Thank you. Ur wholesomeness is why this channel is nice and calm. Your energy and genuine passion to learn and teach is what keeps everyone coming back and being nice. Keep it up!

[@caleb.marquis]

Love your videos! Im looking to become a history teacher and your videos are helping me understand and learn a lot! Keep up the good work

[@Kriegter]

Benjamin Franklin predicted shitposting centuries before its invention, I gained new respect for the guy

[@magnust5437]

I’d love to watch you react to some Blackadder episodes. The final scene is pretty powerful.

[@shortlivedglory3314]

King Tut's tomb was untouched because it was difficult to detect. His short reign was not an uncommon thing either. Tons of ancient rulers had short reigns. When life expectancy is low and everyone wants your throne, it's easy to die young.

[@jonasgustaf]

I would love to see you talk about your favorite history documentaries. (I've just started watching Ken Burns Civil War series).

[@apm9151]

That point you made about the new TVs is so true! I had a really strange experience, I almost didn’t like it! It was tripping me out 😆

[@shauncorley4305]

Saw this upload, at first I said "meh". Saw it was 40 minutes long and said "I won't watch all of it but I'll pass a little time with it and give it a chance". 40 minutes later it was time well spent. 👍

[@DarnGuy35]

Love the commentary on this one! I personally would love to see you cover some Wendigoon history videos, this is a similar vein of bizarre and interesting history

[@epicurius1]

Regarding Einstein being considered for the Presidency of Israel, it's important to remember that Israel is a parliamentary system, and the president's role is mostly ceremonial. So while it's a great honor, the President doesn't have anywhere near the responsibility that, say, the President of the US does.

[@slymanpoor7913]

The fact that Benjamin Franklin wrote a paper about farts blew my mind.

[@doesnotexist305]

The one about Castro wanting to be friends with America and only turning to Khrushchev and the USSR after he was turned down was a bit misleading. Castro did in fact go to Washington to meet with Eisenhower sometime in 1959-1960 and Eisenhower did refuse to meet him but he sent VP Richard Nixon to meet with Castro instead. The aim of Castro’s visit was to establish friendly relations between his new government and the superpower 90 miles to his north. But make no mistake, he was a Marxist through and through. We know this because of his close friendship with Che Guevara who was an unapologetic Marxist. Even his brother Raul Castro was openly and publicly Marxist. Castro was being secretive about his political views but only as a way to pull all the anti Batista political groups in Cuba closer to him and to not anger America. But Eisenhower refused to meet with him because his affiliations were known. The idea that Castro only turned to communism and the eastern bloc because America refused his friendship is simply untrue. This is used by a lot of people who want to make it seem like Cuba’s communist misery is somehow America’s fault.

[@landsea7332]

Canada's Pierre Trudeau 's obsession with marxist ideology has been well hidden - except for his association with Castro . Trudeau started a thesis at Harvard on communism - marxism and Catholicism . 1952 - accepted an invitation to visit the Soviet Union and in 1960 accepted an invitation to visit the PRC . Co wrote a book called " Two Innocents in Red China " - in other words they knew what was occurring . Circa 1960 Pierre Trudeau and 2 buddy's decided they would try to canoe from Florida to Cuba . .

[@Judokasting]

I quite like these type of videos with a historian so you get actual research and you get a historical perspective on these. It's also kind of fun to realize that you know some of these are actually true.

[@BrianSniatkowski]

I had the Franklin essay in a book called Fart Proudly.

[@Gidi66]

I get what you mean about the TV thing, here in South Africa my family still had our TV from the 90's but it started showing it's age and we got a brand new one from the shop and for about a week my entire family would just stand and watch the TV as if it was some kind of magical device. My dad even stated he can now see the people expressions down to the smallest detail.

[@Malacar99]

First time I saw a show on a 4K TV, it was Game of Thrones and I said 'I really didn't like it because it felt way to much like it was on a 'set' because it was so detailed you could get the feeling that things around the actors were not natural.

[@iammattc1]

Yang Kyoungjong was born in 1920 in what is now North Korea. He was conscripted into the occupying Japanese army, and captured by the Russians at Khalkin Gol. He was held as a prisoner of war until the Germans invaded the USSR. He was conscripted into the Red Army in 1942, and captured by the Germans in Eastern Ukraine in 1943. He was then conscripted into the German Army and sent to Normandy, where he was captured by Lieutenant Robert Brewer of the 101st Airborne Division, Company E. Otherwise known as Easy Company. The Band of Brothers.

[@svenrio8521]

God I really dislike these text to speech channels, they just steal content from social media and don't even have the decent to use their actual voices. That's not a knock at you Chris, rather just a personal feeling on those channels, keep up the great work with your podcast.

[@galesito1733]

Scilly really is pronounced as "silly" so they are the Silly Isles.

[@excexce1472]

i don’t like and comment a lot but this channel and community are amazing. keep it up man!

[@vencent6206]

"If you look at her family tree it was a family pole" made me laugh so much i kid you not I replayed that like 6 times

[@mahnel]

"If you look at their family tree, it's a family ball" that made laugh too much

[@landsea7332]

2:49 - All throughout her life , Queen Victoria was very emotionally needy for a male companion to provide her guidance . First it was PM Lord Melbourne , then Prince Albert , after his death it was PM Disraeli , then John Brown and Abdul Karim. Almost certainly her dependency for a male role model was due to the Kennsington System . Victoria has been criticized as being a terrible mother . But what is not said is that having 9 children in less than 20 years , she almost certainly suffered from postpartum depression for 10 of those 20 years . With Albert's death in 1861 , she had an abnormal grief reaction because her dependency on him . .

[@bertmustin]

Would love to see you cover the Battle of eighteen hundred and twelve. Seriously the War of 1812 doesn't get talked about enough.

[@David-fm6go]

4:36 I recall a theory that their was some kind of mold or bacteria exposure from entering the tomb that may have led to those deaths.

[@jomolhari]

Hey nice channel! Loved the video. Amazing that half of these were unaccurate, that's actually a pretty good score for Reddit.

[@AnnieVanAuken]

I believe this is a computer generated voice. That's why there's odd spaces in narration and mispronunciation of Roman numerals.