50 Greatest Historical Events That Never Happened
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i know what paper is and I can read, but what's "writing"?
You just must attack the Bible. Sadly you will answer for this.
You can't say 50 greatest historical events that never happend, then say May or May not have transpired ..... come on now
Got a big one for ya.... Mohammed of islam is a fictional character..... and there's no historical record for the "great" city of mecca b4 the invent of islam
No maps.. not mentioned by Roman's Syrians... Persians... not a word
I heard that there was once a CZcamsr that had like a hundred different channels and presented on such a wide array of topics that he was practically a genius, a modern day Library of Alexandria. But it's probably just a myth.
he is real but he's demonstrably wrong about 25% of the time.
@@tripsaplenty1227😂😂😂
The problem with this comment is that if you actually watch his channels, it's very apparent that he actually knows nothing about anything he talks about. He just reads scripts. He's done videos on someone on biographics, then he does a casual criminalist on the same person and reads the script and he stops every 5 seconds cause he's shocked by something he just read. I'm not complaining, I love simon, and his side stories are fun, but this is a fact.
I heard he had long flowing hair the likes of which all Vikings envy.
@@that_celtics_fan dude, don't be "that guy"
As a Greek I will say the stories about Ancient Greece are perfect for describing us as shitposters even when the internet wasn't even a concept
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The story about the 300 Spartans fighting alone did not originate in ancient Greece though, did it? Because Herodotus never claimed such a thing.
@@jake_ Personally I view it more as a national folklore and the numbers the Simon described seems more realistic than 300 dudes against a literal army
@legendaryhunter1672 was never JUST 300 dudes. There were other men there as well from other city state while 300 of them were from Sparta. It's just that history remembers (due to pop culture and recent films) that we remember it otherwise.
@@jake, well I mean 300 Spartans plus their squires/helots and 700 thespians are the ones who fought the final battle to the last man. Most of the other Allie’s either fled or were ordered away by king leonidas. Depends on who you believe on the last part. The 300 tend to get the credit because they were the ones in charge and had accepted the duty of being the final rear guard to buy time for Greece at large
The Alice Cooper one always made my friend's mom laugh when people told her this. She was a HUGE Alice Cooper fan and whilst pregnant with my friend she went to one of his concerts, and also had a backstage pass (she had won a radio contest or something). She said when Alice noticed she was pregnant (cause she was barely 3 months along) he went from rock superstar badass character he puts on during shows, to extremely caring mom-friend watching out for her. He demanded the others not smoke in the green room while she was there, made sure she had food and/or something without alcohol to drink, and even gave her his chair so she could sit.
If your mother gave birth to your friend, then that person is your brother/sister,, and not your friend
@@nickychimes4719 Correct but I said "Friend's mom" not "my mom" so this friend, nor her mother (father or brother) are related to me in anyway. Hence they are a friend not a brother or sister ;)
@@CartoonHero1986 learn to write properly
@@nickychimes4719 Other then issues with run on sentences there isn't anything wrong with what I wrote. It clearly denotes "my friend's mom." Are you perhaps confused by the term "mom-friend"? Which is a reference to the kind of person/friend that becomes highly protective and maternal in their behaviour when entertaining. Like those friends that are always asking you if you've had lunch/dinner, or check in on you like someone mom rather than casual friend.
You doing okay there? You kind of randomly went off twice for no reason.
@@nickychimes4719learn to read properly, he’s clearly correct and didn’t edit because there isn’t an edited note
“Medieval hand stuff” GOLD
It was under Mythbusters's test of Archimedes's death ray when Jamie Hyneman said "The death ray isn't working -I'm standing in the middle of it and I'm not dead yet."
People who put stainless steel exteriors on buildings have to monitor the heat generated at reflection points because they’ve started fires on buildings the sun’s rays are reflected on. And the myth busters are a poor source.
Did you hear that since then, Brenden Sener set up a different experiment that shows the Ray might actually have worked?
He's 13 years old!!
It was a project he was working on for a science fair!! 😂
MIT also ran their own experiments and came to the conclusion it could have been a real, working weapon, btw.
There were two big problems with Myth busters. It was a reality TV show, so everything ran on a comparatively tight schedule, and was focused on entertainment with time constraints, which will never be really ideal for science...so when they proved something was possible, that was usually reliable,
but when they failed to prove it possible, that often wasn't really a very airtight negative.
Look at that first season with the "urban legend" about the guy running at a skyscraper window and breaking it to plummet to his death.
They couldn't make it happen. The window set up in their studio was SO strong.
But they tried and tried and TRIED till it did.... because the newspaper article had already been dug up by the research team that showed it DID happen IRL.
Without that article, they'd surely have declared it busted.
The second problem is that our schools dont train the public well in logic or experimental methodology,
so of course, we remember Myth Busters conclusions as the last word on a subject.
But while it's a good show, their negatives are often NOT the last word. The format has big limitations.
Sure some Greek Prof got it to work with individually aimed polished shields decades ago. Also they supposedly changed the system after Einstein's result from 6 being high to 1, and heard Marie Antoinette's quote was her aunt.
I remember watching a history show that was either on BBC or Channel 4, featuring Dan Snow and Adam Hart-Davis. and they did it, they made a wooden frame covered in small mirrors that could be individually adjusted, took it to Crete and tried it on a model boat and it worked. the thing is I suspect it didn't set fire to the boats but the sails which would have been much faster and cause chaos. ADDENDUM I have found the show its "What the Ancients Did for Us" from the BBC in 2005. unfortunately the ancient Greek episode is not on youtube.
@@GreatSageSunWukongyeah they'd have been mad not to target the sails. Much easier target and with that much burning cloth flying around its highly likely many ships caught fire due to the amount of oil and others flammable stuff they'd have had on board. It's why they were so worried about even a contained flame let alone the sails going up on ships full of soldiers who'd panic and get in the way unlike possibly trained, experienced sailors who'd have known how to deal with it.
"George. Did you chopdown my cherry tree?"
"Icannot tell a lie father, Benedict Arnold did it and ran away".
Before continuing to condemn Benedict Arnold as a coward and traitor, maybe you could take a little bit of time and do some factual research on him and afterwards come back and comment on what you found out about him. He is one of the most misrepresented people in American history.
I have this hatchet in my collection. Near mint condition, the head was replaced only once and the handle twice.
@@todddenio3200Ehh, yes and no. Was Arnold disrespected within the US military despite his heroics? Absolutely. But regardless of how you look at it, he is a traitor. He betrayed the army he had sworn his loyalty to in turn for favors given by their opposition.
@@RockBrentwoodThis is great 😂😂
When I was a child, the other kids would say "I cannot tell a lie. Popeye did it."
Simon: "The book of Kings was likely embellished to make Solomon look better than he was."
I & II Kings: A literal laundry list of mistakes and sins made by Kings, FIRST OF WHICH WAS SOLOMON.
Was likely? This is such poor science. You decide "you" dont belive it , so you say it is so. Well done.
What does science have to do with literature or written word???@@AbnerSolano
I had to laugh at the painting of the young-boy version of George Washington holding his hatchet and looking exactly like a miniaturized version of the middle-aged adult George Washington. Lol.
Actually the 4th Doctor was caught by Newton sitting in one of his apple trees, and the Doctor explained all about gravity and the Laws of Motion to Newton during dinner later that day.
It's well documented.
I thought it was the 14th doctor. Also, what is this gravity you speak of? Did you mean mavity?
Actually, it’s gravy tea. A rather odd comestible derived by straining day old gravy through a paper filter in an attempt to render something useful from a nasty leftover.
The laws of motion describe the convulsions that follow the consumption of the gravy tea.
@@Mrgoofyoops 😂
Archimedes actually said: "I'm a streaker!"
No russel t davis you can’t rewrite history the way your rewriting the basis plot of doctor who lemme guess newton overcame gravity by the power of being a woman and despite being a literal genius he didn’t realise he could just let it go
I would imagine Ceasers last words were more along the lines of ‘Ahrgghh, arghhhh, help, murder, arghhh, arghhh, gurgle, gurgle!’, rather than ‘et tu brute’.
I always just imagine him saying ouchimus and falling over...
It just says arrrgh
Shakespeare's version is better, accurate or not.
@thirdcoast2995 That's subjective, a matter of opinion. Most people prefer the truth over lies...
Those are words of a coward not a Caesar
An addendum for the "Let them eat brioche" topic: At the time when the quote was born, there was a law in France which said that if bakers ran out of bread, they had to sell the fancier bakery products cheaper. The reason for introducing the law was that some bakers made less bread so they could cash in on the fancier stuff.
Hmm, the reminds me of “eye for an eye” law. The reason the law was made was so the people wouldn’t go over board with their revenge. So you only killed the man who your father instead of going in to his house killing him, raping his wife and daughters ( or taking the daughters as sex slaves) then killing them with his sons and household and burning and salting the earth so the land is forever cursed/unusable in case a person did some how survive the rampage.
@@MrSophire Rome: "I don't see anything wrong with this."
Caesar’s last words were “Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me!”
Actually, that’s a misconception.
His true last words were:
“Ravioli, ravioli, give me the land reformuoli!”
@@TheDmitriProject Actually, that's a misconception.
His true last words were:
"Galileo, Galileo, Galileo Figaro, Magnifico."
@@kalajelwas he just a poor boy from a poor family?
@@kalajelthese last two comments are epic
@@damianjblackepic 😂😂😂
That time Atlas carried a giant pancake on his shoulders.
Still true for flat earthers.
Hahaha this killed me 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank god….i thought Atlas was an ancient dwarf trying to ten pin bowl!?
Clever!!
When I took English History in high school I was told, flat out, that King John was surrounded by angry barons who forced him to sign the Magna Carta under threat of death. I never heard the apocryphal stories, and didn't know they existed.
Me too.
same
John's reign began in a bad way. The nation was bankrupted by his brother Richard, who was legendary for selling whatever he could to fund his crusade to the holy land. He then shipwrecked on the way back home in Germany and costed a huge ransom. Then Richard died of a siege wound, and John then had to raise taxes on his Baron's which angered them, and caused the whole Magna Carta thing. It's also kind of hard to fund wars to keep your lands in France if you got no money to do it. Maybe he was a bad king too, but he was dealt a bad hand to start with.
@@algini12I have a fondness for John. If he and the Pope had both been a bit less stubborn, things might have worked out better for him.
A "Berliner" is not a jelly donut. It is somewhat similar but not in a donut shape at all, it's like a bread roll. It is said it was invented in Berlin, and it was originally made by placing the round dough in a pan filled with a couple cm of oil and flipped over, giving it its typical three-striped look with darker, fried dough on top and bottom and a brighter stripe of softer dough in between. It's then traditionally filled with jam and covered in powdered sugar, though these days a lot of variations exist. Due to the use of the pan, people in Berlin call it "Pfannkuchen" (pancake), which they're being made fun of by the rest of Germany, who call an actual pancake a pancake (which the people in Berlin call "Eierkuchen", eggcake), but they staunchly defend their name choice. This pastry has a couple different names in Germany, but most agree on "Berliner", esp. in the West, in the south it's more common to call it a "Krapfen" or "Kreppel", but nobody would bat an eye if you called it a "Berliner", just don't call it a "Pfannkuchen" outside of Berlin.
Basically a Berliner Pfannkuchen. Tried to buy some Berliner in Bavaria, which got a shocked response in the bakery, because they had a special kind of bread they called Berliner Landbrot (and they did not have that many loafs of bread left for just one buyer). The sweet stuff I really wanted to buy went as Krapfen there. Today the jam gets injected into the dough and if you start eating the thing with those vampire marks facing away from you, it might end quite messy😋
I read an article by a car dealer who saw a scruffy man walk in and thought, “He looks like Alice Cooper. He’s not buying anything.” So he let his coworker take care of him. Turns out, it was Alice Cooper, and he bought 6 new, high-end cars.
I’ve never heard this story, but Lionel Ritchie has a very similar one.
I have a similar story. An old, strange looking man walked into a "forever 18" store and bought a ton of cheap jewerelly. A friend of mine worked there. Turned out, it was Alice Cooper who bought some "dirty Diamonds" to throw to the audience in his "dirty Diamonds" Tour. I was at the concert, he threw cheap jewellery into the crowd.
@@oldfrittenfett1276 I went to an Alice Cooper/Rob Zombie show. I had guitar picks thrown right on me and I got swamped... Everyone's beers spilled on me... My own beer as well.. I couldn't even get a hold of a pick 😂 A person gave me one though 😅 I didn't see what Alice threw out in our crowd but he threw stuff as well by the handful.
@@rosemadder5547 I got hit with and snatched Korn's drumstick while in the mash pit at an Ozzy concert (and DefTones) when I was 17. I had the drumstick and concert ticket framed and still have it almost 30 years later 😊
🙏🏼 So awesome someone gave you one after being mauled bc of them 😅
Alice Cooper has a syndicated classic rock radio program. Listening to him on the program and how calm and normal he is makes me find him the God father of shock rock pretty funny.
Do an episode about David Mech, the researcher that coined the terms 'alpha', 'beta' and 'gamma' when studying Wolf behavior.
What he didn't realize was that natural wolf-packs are extended families, while his Wolfs were all orphans from un-related packs.
The 'orphans' behaved with aggression and violence, establishing pecking-orders...they were 'strangers' to each other.
He's been trying for decades to get people to stop using the term 'alpha male'; they never existed, it was bad science.
Bah! Next you’ll be saying Sigma male isn’t a thing. If I wasn’t Sigma what I would be doing with all these DMT and raw elk??
Those “alpha males” are like alpha software. Unstable, irrational, and not ready to be released into public.
Yessssss!
@@billyjoemacallister9524 😂 right? And a "sigma wolf" just describes a grown male son who is off trying to find a mate.
I saw the saddest thing one day....questions online where people were trying to find out if Sigma came before Alpha in the Greek alphabet, to I guess confirm that their ideas that they were "Sigma" personalities also meant they were better than an Alpha male.
I wanted to take them by the shoulders and be like "oh honey, no ...please, you can't get your education off of Reddit and TikTok, this is no good"
@billyjoemacallister9524 don't forget the bears.
I can't wait to show how smart I am when people reference these popular anecdotes
The amazing thing about Simon Whistler's enunciation is that he sounds exactly the same at 2X speed.
He sounds like Alfred Hitchcock at 0.5x speed.
😅
Caesars last words were most likely “OWWW! Stop that!”
According to Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster, Caesar's wife lamented after the fact, "I told him. I told Julie, 'Don't go!', but he went..."
Impossible. The English language didn’t exist yet then.
Or ‘for whut! I didn’t do nothing!’
@@j.a.weishaupt1748Much English is derived from Latin. Your move.
You can't beat Carry-on's "Infamy, infamy. They've all got it in for me."
I "learned" about the supposed death of Catherine the Great way back in 1978 in Advanced Placement European History. It felt like AP History had given me special access to hilarious history stories that I could use to make my friends laugh and girlfriends recoil in shock. I credit this with being one of the reasons I love history. I remember being sad when I found out it was all bunk.
Same here. Mine printed off a whole chapter of lurid tales, and gave it to us to take home and read. He gleefully said that he was peddling smut. There was also a story about Rasputin having a massive wart-covered wang and Martin Luther dying on the toilet trying to poop.
When I was younger, there was a DJ on Philadelphia radio that used to say this. If Mama Cass had given that ham sandwich to Karen Carpenter, they’d both be alive today.
Ashamed to admit it, but I laughed
@pabrowncoatbrewer7154 Pretty sure plenty of folks told that joke.
@@utterlyviolet Others very well may have. But not on Philadelphia radio when I was of school age. John Dabella was that DJ.
Legend has it that listening to Simon Whistler's voice while playing Minecraft, a practice that began in the humble days of TopTenz, is the most relaxing activity in modern times. Perhaps it was just a myth invented by one lonely commenter, though...
Chastity belt…..I’m thinking Robinhood Men in Tights lol
Naked Gun 33 1/3, the prison shower scene 😅
That’s going to chafe my willie….
Regarding this segment ... i never thought that i would love to hear Simon imitating "fap" sound.
Fetch the locksmoth
Mel Brooks genius.
Caesar protesting with "but this is violence" is the epitome of irony.
Right? What would Gaul have to say about whether violence is an appropriate political tool, Caesar?
(Side note, my autocorrect kept Cha ging Gaul to Gail, which made me laugh out loud. I'm picturing a lady with a burgundy sweater and a Brooklyn accent, sticking her nose into the room and being like, "See, Caesah?? What did I keep telling you?? Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword!!"
@@melissasaint3283 Not even Gaul itself. Afaik, even the Roman senators protested against his exceptional violence during his campaigns there.
Not really
It's the equivalent to "Dr. Strangelove" 's scene:
Gentlemen! You can not fight here. This is the war room.
Factually, he's correct. I mean, MURDER truly is a violent act. I'm not sure that any human being would be inclined to disagree with that logic.
The majority of people struck by lightning survive. There is no reason Franklin couldn't have as well
I'm beginning to think all these historical figures were replaying these events over and over again in their heads. Then, a few years later, thought, "If I would have said...., it would have been a lot cooler." Then they realized, "I'll just make everyone believe I said...."
Kevin, the one about Ozzy is true. He talked about it on his podcast or reality show, or it may have been an episode of The Osbornes Want to Believe. It was supposed to be a rubber bat but someone replaced it with a real bat. Although, the bat was not alive, it hadn't been dead long which is why all the blood poured out when he bit the head off. He said he was angry when it happened and the guy who did it got fired.
He also said he went to the hospital that night for rabies shots
Yep, I remember that VH1 interview.
Oh, I didn't see the VH1 interview. The one I saw was recent, like last year. He was with his son.
Um... biting off a dead bat's head is _not_ enticing your fans to kill a bushel of live kittens. That can hardly be considered "true." Perhaps it's "the strangest game of telephone ever," but I certainly wouldn't call it "true."
I imagine that was entirely true. That said, I am imagining that which how drug-addled his brain is, he could have just heard the story third-hand and created a memory of it being true.
Simon: We all know the earth is round.
Flat earthers: What WHAT WHAAAAAAT???
im surprised they havent spammed the comment section yet
@@matthewfors114 They have no interest in learning about actual history
Nah, man. It's hollow, not flat. Keep up with the trends.
My theory is that the flat earthers really know better, but like to trigger the pompous. I've thought about claiming it myself.
@@banhammer3904 nah man, its the moon thats hollow. didnt you see that docudrama "moonfalL"?
There’s an episode of Outlander where Claire (who is from the future) is a bit star struck to meet the pre-revolutionary George Washington. He began to talk about his childhood, and she mentions he used to chop down cherry trees. The look on the Washington’s face is well done by the actor because he was so confused why she, a woman he just met, said that. 😂
I have it on pretty good authority that Fred Flintstone wasn't actually locked out of his house by his sabretooth cat: there was no glass in the window so he could have just crawled in anytime he wanted. Also, Dino wasn't his pet dinosaur because there were no dinosaurs in cartoon caveman days.
And every day was leg day for the Flinstones and rubbles 😂😂😂
3:40 -- The silver dollar indeed existed in colonial America. They just weren't minted by any American or English authorities. The "dollar" was in fact a silver Spanish peso coin worth 8 reales; the "piece of 8" of classical pirate lore. It was very commonly circulated in the American colonies where the name of a similar German coin, dollar (originally "thaler") became attached to it.
Hence the slang which persisted into the early 20th century of a quarter dollar being referred to as "two bits". Since the coin was sometimes physically divided into 8 pieces to make small change, the prices on the New York Stock Exchange, founded in 1792 which was before American money was standardized, quoted prices in half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenths of a dollar before switching to decimal in 2001. (Yes, it was that late.)
I so hated the stock market as a kid. (Dad was a broker). Dividing dollars into bizarre decimals made no sense. But they apparently liked it 🤷🏽♂️
And the phrase "two bits" meant 2/8 of a real eventually meaning $0.25.
@williambowling8211 I said that though.
I'm no numismatist, but I'm pretty sure a silver Spanish peso and a silver dollar are not the same coin.
@@ThatWriterKevin The peso (at the time also called a "Spanish dollar") was not exactly the same as the later US silver dollar, but if you said "dollar" to a colonial American, they'd take you to be referring to the peso. See the Wikipedia article "Spanish dollar" for a starting point.
The real reason Columbus had a hard time getting somebody to pay for his voyage was that the ancient Greeks had figured out that the would was round and even had a fairly close idea of its circumference. The people with the money in Columbus' day knew those figures, and they also knew how far it was to Japan going the other direction over land. Columbus got his math wrong and thought he'd be sailing 4400km; the courts of Europe he asked for funding had better mathematicians and knew it was closer to 20000km. They didn't think he'd fall off the edge, they thought he'd starve a quarter of the way into the trip. Luckily (for Columbus and the Spanish Crown, not so much for the people he "discovered"), there were favorable winds and a continent they didn't know about.
Depends if you believe the Knights Templars version or not
@@m.c.martin What the hell are you talking about? The Templars were wiped out almost 200 years before Colombus's voyage and they had nothing to do with Atlantic exploration.
@@samrevlej9331 well they fractured into a bunch of small groups, but they still referred to themselves as that behind closed doors, allegedly
@@samrevlej9331Because Columbus had a Templar-looking cross on his sails and his father-in-law was part of the order that was a sort of successor to the Templars, a lot of conspiracy crackpots have cooked up fanciful theories about links between them, and secret earlier Templar visits to the new world. None of this is taken seriously by real historians.
There have been arguments that European fishermen knew of the Americas but did not reveal the locations of their fishing grounds, it is possible some royal advisors knew about this but recognized that trying to explain to Columbus that his math was wrong would be unnecessary since he was already happy to sail off into almost certain death.
On "et tu brute", I remember how they handled that in the superb HBO/BBC adaptation. The long pregnant pause in dialogue, Caesar trying to speak, with everyone watching and thinking "say it, SAY IT!", before he goes with nothing more than an accusatory glare.
THIRTEEN!!
So, my mother, the most open, honest person i've ever known, lied about burning Her bra? Then got my Uncle and Aunt to corraborate her story? Dang, fooled me. Thanks for the eye opener.
Hey hey hey! Atlantis exists! The ancients just flew it to another galaxy a long time ago!
I like the song that Donovan recorded about Atlantis... 🎶"Waaay down below the ocean..."🎶
He’s gonna feel so dumb when he learns about the Stargate.
Yea but when they got to that far away galaxy the Wraith wound up hunting them into extinction unless they ascended, is the story I heard.
Bend your kozars!
Regarding Einstein. I heard the grading system is the reason for the myth. In German the grades are not A-F, but 1-6 (1 is the best), in Switzerland it is 6-1 (6 is the best). Einstein had 6s in algebra, geometry and physics. This would look very bad, had he graduaded in Germany. But he graduaded in Switzerland.
(Oh, and there was a time, when some germans did like to talk bad about Einstein...)
We (germany) had a child show "Castle Einstein" and the opening song had a line "even Einstein had a D in math and was later a total genius (Selbst Einstein hatte nur ne 4 in Mathe und war später mal total genial.)
@@Lodrik18maybe it was about an unannounced trigonometry test? Anyway D is not bad grade, with A you would become manager in big corporation and would know sun only from CEO's and low level employees stories...
@@Lodrik18so this A/1/6 was normal grade, or extraordinary, so C/3/4 is just "not perfect" while 100% on test means B/2/5?
@@schizoafekt
In Switzerland it is basically like that: 6 perfect, 5 good, 4 just sufficient, and everything less than 4 is not passing a test.
@schizoafekt D (or 4) is mostly considered as a bad grade in germany. But that is not the point Lodrik18 did want to make. 🙂
The song he mentioned (like the show) is well known by the millennials in germany. The 4 there is just an artistic choice (better rhythm than 5 or 6). But it plays into the myth that Einstein allegedly did had bad grades in school.
“It looks like you’re going to have to deal with another night of medieval handstuff….” 🤣😂🤣 - Bravo sir !!! 👏
It is true that the people listening to Kennedy's speech knew what he meant and cheered him but the fact of his misstatement predates the book you mention. My high school German teacher told the story in class in 1978 to emphasize the point of grammar. I distinctly remember asking him why he crowd did not laugh at him for it. The book you mention may have invented the idea that he got laughed at, but the grammatical error is very real and was always known to German speakers.
Yes, I had German class as well and was told many times that no one laughed but that it was deeply meaningful and well recieved.
Vlad, the Vegetarian… That’s good! Has a nice ring to it.
And that's why Count Duckula (A 1980s British TV cartoon character) was portrayed as a vegetarian, I'll bet!
Vlad the Vegan?
Vlad the Putin works for me.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Nero had actually fiddled while Rome burned but I have serious doubts a musical instrument was involved. If you know what I mean 😳
Maybe Nero diddled while Rome burned?
I cant believe he doesn't know that Franklin made his bastard son fly the kite. 😂
The Peshtigo Wisconsin fire happened at the exact same time as the Chicago fire and was worse. Between 1,200-2,500 people died, and to this day is considered the most deadly wildfire in US history.
But nobody talks about it because it was not an urban city.
Alternate video title: 50 Short Recaps of Previous Simon Videos
Regarding "Burning of the Bra".
It most certainly did happen, at least here in Australia it did. There were many, many rallies with Germaine Greer, (a leading Feminist writer at the time), where many of the women in attendance DID take off their bras and burn them. And how do I know? Well I was one of those in attendance at several Melbourne rallies. Some even went completely topless and got arrested for Indecency.
That’s where Newton got his idea about gravity.
Yes,these events did take place,I saw them with my own eyes.😵💫..a beautiful sight to behold.😍 The protests that is. 🤨
These are all perfect examples of the saying 'history is written by the victors'
I believe the Moses parallel that Franklin drew was based on the Pilgrims coming to the US out of England. England being Egypt, the Red Sea being the Atlantic, and the US being the promised land.
"Latin should be compulsory in schools, because history proves people who speak Latin never stab each other".
- Boris Johnson.
Having had to endure years of government under this charlatan and consummate liar, you should trust nothing that comes from him!
As a member on Roman nobility Caesar actually spoke Greek.
Lol.
"All I said was there's a wasp on my toga!" - Caesar
Salt was highly valued at that time, it doesn’t add up when you can just come back every few years and kill everyone.
True. To be 'worth one's salt' is to be worth one's pay. _"Salary:_ from the Latin _salarium._ Sal is the Latin word for salt.
US Navy Vet Here. Bermuda Triangle did affect our navigation equipment . one in particular which only worked when in the triangle en route to Puerto Rico.
And look at the story of the (I think 5 pilots) that flew out to do some training and they all just went off radar and disappeared then 7 higher up in rank officers went out to find them and they all disappeared as well. 12 of them just gone. They left from Fort Lauderdale airport and I live down here in Fort Lauderdale and it’s well known history also on history channel and news
The counter-argument to the Zeno Paradox of never getting to your destination because there are an infinite number of steps to get there is this: "An infinite number of infinitely-small things is finite, thus you arrive at your destination." Isn't this the basis of calculus?
This “paradox” is just a word trick. If you are traveling from point A to point B, yes, you can slice the distance into infinitesimally small slices. But what is left out, is that it also requires an _infinitesimally short_ period of time to cross that distance. If you are traveling at a constant speed, the amount of time required is directly proportional to the distance covered, it doesn’t matter how finely you slice the journey.
In calculus, this would be written as v=dx/dt. V could be a constant (constant speed) or a function of time (acceleration or deceleration).
The problem with your observation is that you would arrive at your destination only after infinite time. You need infinitely fast steps also.
@@chrisf5828 that’s not a problem. However finely you are chopping up the distance, you are chopping up the time needed to cross that distance at exactly the same rate.
This whole video is like: AKKSHUALLLYY 🤓
Awwwww, c'mon, Simon... SURELY you must know that it's "Et tu, BruTAY"! He might have BEEN a brute, but his name wasn't 'Brute'.
I was gonna say this but then I realized it’s Simon, he has been unconscious until these shows started
Come on now, the dude just regurgitates information in an entertaining manner. He isn't some genius.
Brutus was a hero. Sic semper tyrannis! (Motto of Commonwealth of Virginia, not a suggestion)
This comment is better than the video.
He’s taking a page out of HeckleFish’s book of pronunciations!
My all time favorite defense for the earth being round is “If the earth was flat, there would be therapists and liquor store owners at the edge competing for depressed people’s money”
😂😂😂😂😂😂 best comment ever “ lmao
I watch all of his commercials because it's always something i might buy bc its usually something really helpful
My cat liked the sound of the relaxation/sleep app. I think it was the “Calm” app.
Diogenes sounds like an absolute chad and I am certainly going to go watch the Biographics video on him after this.
As I was walking down the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today -
Oh how I wish he'd go away!
Who wrote that? I know it's from at least the 40's 🤓😎✌🏻
@@paulsarnik8506 Me granny said it to me when I was a wee tot. I think it's just one of those nursery rhymes no one knows the origins of. (Hey Simon! Could you do a video on this?) ORRRR, it might be Edward Lear, who wrote a lot of clever poems back in the day. Sample:
Candy is dandy,
But liquor is quicker.
AND:
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
(Or was that Dorothy Parker?)
Its a poem called "Antigonish" by William Hughes Mearns.
MAD Magazine version:
The other day upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I think he's from the C.I.A.
@@petemorris8499 I LOVE IT!!!
About the salting of Carthage, a Roman city was built there just after the fall and the ruins can still be visited in Tunisia. I always wondered why they built a city on top of land they had just ruined.
Because it then became a "Roman City" by default! No matter if the land is usable or not, it no longer belongs to the enemy
But there extensive buildings and streets there, all of which are Roman. All the Punic buildings are in rubble under the Roman buildings.
@Bubbaist that's exactly what I mean.... after the battle, you build your own city on top of the ruins, or you take over that city if it is still standing! The way things worked back then, you now expanded your territory.
Oh, ok. Still, why would they build a large city with only worthless, salted land all around? Of course we now know the answer, it wasn’t salted after all.
Surprising since the province of Africa would be eventually settled by Marius's soldiers making an important granary for the Roman Republic.
I'm here just to say that apocryphal means hidden, not false
“(of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.
"there is an apocryphal story about a disgraced rock star who ended up in bankruptcy court"”
@@Raven.flight I know this is how it's used, I'm talking about what the word means
Both are correct because it has different meanings I saw it in the dictionary saying “a story or statement of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true”. And I also found the definition of it meaning “secret, of doubtful authenticity, uncanonical” as well as “borrowed from Greek apókryphos "hidden, concealed, obscure," verbal adjective of apokrýptein "to hide (from), keep hidden (from)," from apo- apo- +” so it seems it can mean both
Re: Atlantis, what I read, albeit a long time ago, was that Plato got the story from the Egyptians and there was a mistranslation into Greek of the island's size; it was supposed to read 40,000 square miles but Plato saw it as 400,000 square miles and so realizing it could not fit into the Med., he moved it out past the Pillars of Herakles...
The collars depicted are from the 1580’s. That’s 200 years before the story. I would be angry as well if I had been washing a collar for 200 years...
Yeah, that's a bullshit story. Ruffs are nothing like celluloid collars.
47:00 As a German I am completly baffled by this. True, I was born in 1980 so later than this happened, but I have NEVER, not a single time, heard it with a negative touch.
Nobody and nowhere have I EVER heard that anybody attributed "Berliner" to "jelly donut".
Because it just simply makes 0 sense.
"Ich bin ein Berliner" - is a grammatically completly correct sentence in German if you want to state that you are a residendential from the city Berlin.
Yes, you can skip the "ein" and just state: "Ich bin Berliner" - that would be correct too.
But JFK was spot on with "Ich bin ein Berliner" and while in some areas in Germany a "Berliner" is a jelly donut too, that does not make his sentence in any sense incorrect.
We - like most languages probably - have many words that have different meanings. A "Bank" can be an institute where you get money. Or it can be a bench where you sit down. Both is "Bank" and it depends on the circumstances what it refers to.
And "Berliner" is a citizen of Berlin as well (in some parts - not in Berlin itself!) as a jelly donut.
Fascinating to hear that this was supposed to be ridiculed in Germany when it absolutly never was and there would be 0 substance for laughing about it.
Thank you! I was taught that the German people understood what he meant and that it was well thought of and highly recieved.
This video is full of wrong nonsense, worry not.
While the story is complete bullshit, it is still an okay joke. I am a Danish!
37:35 - Simon, you genius, you don't know what the Pillars of Hercules are? They are the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.
Prior to the French revolution, bakers were required to sell fancier bread at normal bread prices if they ran out. That's what let them eat cake implied. It wasn't that the royals were out of touch, it was that their response to lack of bread for peasants was to force the bakers to ensure the peasants still had bread.
I was told that the customer with the french fries turned into potato chips was King George the Second or third. The chef hated King George and after he sent the French fries back the chef thinned-cut the potatoes as revenge and King George ended up loving them.
Was aired on Nick Jr educational shorts back in the 90s. Lol
Many of these were presented to me as fact in primary school in the USA in the 1960s. All the stuff about Columbus, George Washington, the Pilgrims, Ben Franklin. All of those stories were in school textbooks 50 years ago. Hopefully things have changed.
Me too.
I've only been out of school for 20 years, and I was taught the same things.
US primary effusion was never held in high regard. Throughout 20th century there were numerous challenges to teaching theory of evolution in US schools. The most recent was in 2005. Thank God (pun intended) that done judges in higher courts are still sane.
it has now they don’t teach them anything smh
The "Einstein failed maths" one is actually an embellishment. As you say, he was excellent at mathematics. He _did_ however fail the entrance exam to attend a certain school, and had to retake it in order to make the grade.
Yep Einstein did admit to being poor in math however.
@MeMe-fz1ou As with all things Einstein, this is relative. He said he was poor at math _compared to where he wanted to be._ He was doing university level mathematics by age 14...
The "draw on a tablet and it feels like drawing on paper" is definitely the biggest event that never happened. :-D
I graduated in 92. I was taught in school that Catherine The Great died in the most of embarrassing ways.
Under a horse by chance?
Having sex with a toilet plunger on stage?
Weird subject for school.
On a wheel of fire rolled down a hill? Is what I was taught as a kid. Hence the "Catherine wheel" firework... 😅
The horse on the other hand was left feeling a bit unsatisfied.
When legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Simon Whistler becomes Johnathan Farkes for an hour
I must disagree. His chair game is not comparable to Frakes's.
The iconography of Moses parting the Red Sea to escape slavery in Egypt would mean a lot to someone raised around Quakers and other groups that fled to America from Europe for religious freedom.
I hear lots of people came here on ships to escape the slavery of their homeland.
Those silly Americans…
I freaking love Diogenes.
Eureka, Eureka, I'm the world's first streaka !
"It's minimally reflective"
*Blinds me with reflection*
SideProjects in the year 3000: "This story is almost certainly apocryphal, and when the boogeyman goes to bed he does not actually check his closet for Chuck Norris."
Fun fact about Dr. Seuss:
Though when most people who say his name out loud as if it rhymes with Zeus, his last name is pronounced Soyce, meaning it rhymes with voice/choice.
Google Translate (German) pronounces it exactly like Zeus. Considering Geisel is a German name and Suess sounds like the German word for sweet.
It was a pseudonym. Besides, people's names are pronounced like they pronounce them. What is the proper pronunciation of Anna?
@@mlw5665 and he created the name and pronounced it as I stated. Why does that bother you somehow lol? Just thought it was interesting.
@@drdotter that's neat. Seems likely he gave no fucks how people pronounced it, so long as the check cleared haha
Edit: genuinely thought it was neat, can see how that text would look condescending haha
It was his middle name.
I suppose you could also include most things written in religious texts in this list, the resurrection of Jesus, Mohamed splitting the moon, moses parting the red sea, Noah's flood, Adam and Eve etc. etc.
If you can't disprove it, then you can't say it didn't happen. The same for his statement about the Solomons story.
@@jahimdepass5151you can easily disprove the Flood and the Exodus by reference to Egyptian history.
@@damianjblackyour wrong they proved the flood with the water damage to the sphinx in Egypt and a few other spots around the Middle East had water erosion that makes it impossible to say the flood didn’t happen. They have said that it’s possible maybe the flood happened just in that area and they didn’t know about America and other places farther away just yet. Each tribe knew of their own places that they could get too by walking or using a camel or whatever but they only could go so far. Therefore maybe it only happened in a certain area and not all of the earth. It was in history and discovery channels
@MeMe-fz1ou the supposed water damage to the sphinx was debunked years ago, and that was being used to point to some ancient aliens hypothesis in any case because the last time that region was wet was like 12000 years ago.
What they did find evidence of was a major flood along the Euphrates around 2900 BCE which seems to be the basis for the flood myth: it seems to have left Shuruppak weakened and affected Kish less severely: the Sumerian King lists show that Shuruppak was apparently the pre eminent city state before the flood and that afterwards "the kingship was in Kish".
@@damianjblack your right ❤️
The truth of the Einstein math failure was based on how students were graded. In one year the best students were graded with a 5, the next year the best were given a 1.
From what i understand, the Ozzie Osborne story with the bat was actually true. A fan threw the bat on stage and Ozzie did bite off its head, but he wasnt aware that it was a live bat. He said in an interview that he thought it was a rubber bat, so bit the head off, and was surprised when he realized it was alive.
Silver dollars are a lot older than you think. The US silver dollar was an imitation of or replacement for the Spanish silver dollar, which was common in circulation in the Thirteen Colonies and the early years of the United States - they were legal tender in the USA until 1857.
A bag of guineas of a piece of eight...
They use Spanish coins in Moby dick
It is even older - look up Tolar in the english wikipedia or Joachimstaler on the German site - St. Joachimsthal was a place where they minted a lot of silver coins between 1519 and 1528 - later they dropped nearly all the surplus 'h's in the German words* so TAL is basically a valley and the Dollar derived its name from that part of a placename.
* the anectote about the orthographic changes in the German language goes like this: about 1908 the German Kaiser stated, "as long as throne and althar are not threatened, I will not object!" Meaning: do not endanger my position or the power of the church and everything will be fine. But they streamlined the written language leaving those two words (and some others, that get all written with 'th' in English too) in the fancy way of "more letters than necessary"
The Pilars of Hercules has been long established as being the Strait of Gibraltar
From what I was taught in school, this was because some 2000 years ago, there were actually still islands in the strait left over from the collapse of the mountain range there (the collapse itself was a couple million years ago). This also made the passing of the strait a lot more dangerous.
Not sure if it is true btw.
About Kennedy: he spoke absolutely grammatically correct. ‘ Ich bin ein Berliner ‘ is one of the most quoted words of JFK. ‘ Ich bin ein Bürger von Berlin ‘ ‘ Im a Citizen of Berlin’ the alternative would not have made THAT impact.
In the 1980s or maybe 1990s, I don't quite remember, the Chicago Tribune finally put this story to rest. A reporter made up the whole story. Absolutely made it up. For one thing, the man who supposedly saw what happened as he stood at his door couldn't have seen it because there was a building in between his place and Mrs O'Leary's barn. For another thing, you don't milk cows at night. After the story was published or maybe within a few years as I said my memories a bit hazy, the mayor or the governor publicly exonerated her and her cow completely. Would people don't realize about the story is that it almost got O'Leary killed and she was vilified for all of her life. People believe this story and they went against her hard.
One reason the blaze spread so quickly with Chicago was mainly built out of wood. The water tower that survives survived because it was made of stone.
"The pillars oF Hercules whatever that is." Seriously. How does he not know that is the Strait of Gibraltar. I thought everyone knew that. it was a common name for literally thousands of years!
I have read that there were more "Pillars of Hercules" in ancient times, like at Sicily or at the Dardanelles, were Troy was.
The Greek phrase is very old and therefore more likely points to the Dardanelles or the Strait of Messina or more generalized to "beyond the Aegean Sea", which would have been the region Plato's audience was familiar with.
Brilliant, Simon! Thank you for this excellent debunking of historical myths.
Great video. I forgot a lot of these stories over the years, but i assumed most people understood a lot of these were morality tales (Washington and the cherry tree), metaphors (nero fiddling while Rome burned), or sarcastic jokes (franklin and the turkey... and Franklin and almost everything else he ever said...)
At first, it seemed like he said Luther nailed it to the bishop not mailed.😂
What do you mean at first, that is what I heard all the way through.
There was a play back in the 80's about two hippies who dropped a particularly potent acid in 1969 and didn't awaken until 1985. Someone catching them up on the world made the dark joke that if Mama Cass had shared her sandwich with Karen Carpenter, they'd both be alive today.
Xenos paradox demonstrates well the fact that math is not reality, it is more of a man-created method which helps to understand reality.
"Always allow for the inevitable gap between any theory and reality. Without this allowance, even logic fails to hit its mark" - C. Kitz
Xeno’s “Paradox” is just word play, it isn’t math at all.
“To those people still looking for Atlantis, we wish you luck in your Endeavor.”
😂😂😂. I see what you did there.
Luther nailed his 95 theses to the Archbishop???
Ha ha, funny
Few people know this fact - carefull, the Vatican is watching 😅
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Great video! The moment when Simon said 10:20 "It's Albert fucking Einstein!" is the best!
The reason Zeno never figured out the concept of limits is actually very straightforward. The Greeks rejected the concept of a zero. They considered numbers as a religion and zero was the absence of a religion.
The concept of a zero was around by the Babylonian people around 300 B.C., however the Greek people refused to use it and the zero concept was hidden from their society from 300 B.C. until around 1200 A.D.
The usual pronunciation of Latin by English speakers sounds each letter so Brute is pronounced as Brutay.
That’s how I was taught Latin at high school.
Thank you, Coralie. Thank you. It irritated me every time.
But IRL we don't know what it sounded like. We just have convention that we use to pronounce it out loud, though that's how I learned it too. OMG my chorale teacher was a nzi about pronunciation of the Latin in our songs. I get it, because you ALL have to sing it the same way or it sounds awful, but he apparently didn't agree with the going views of Latin pronunciation. Also, apparently about half the world can't sing Jingle Bells without singing 'Bells on bob tails ring' but he was adamant that it be sung 'Bells on bob TAIL ring', and we practiced it thousands of times. On our recordings, you can still hear about half the choir singing it with the S. I always thought it could be either way because there are probably many horses drawing sleds around where they are sleighing. But I desist...
@@garethcooley1318 we can make inferences from poetry and contemporary comments on speech.
@DavidSmith-vr1nb Sure, I don't dispute that we have an idea. I mean it's not like ancient Egyptian, but it spans 600s BCE to 700 CE. There was probably a lot of variation through time and space, and I don't think it is a far stretch to assume that it was similar to any other language. Additionally, everything.
That I can find in scholarly.Articles says we think it may have sounded like or it probably sounded like. Or these verbs may have been conjoined similarly to those verbs.
Even simple words are often pronounced differently from city to city., or group to group. It seems more like it's a convention for modern speakers and users of latin, with some descriptions, some inference, and some educated guessing...
@@garethcooley1318 The most reliable way to figure out pronunciation is with onomatopoetic words. Ancient sheep still said, "Baaaaaaaaaaaa!} no matter how you spell it.
Haha the volume and pace changed when you started in on Vlad the Impaler. Man crush? Me too man, me too...
One theory is that it's a mistranslation: Nero fidgeted while Rome burned. 🙂
The point with Newton's apple was that he saw an apple fall while the moon was overhead and wondered whether the same force that pulled the apple also held the moon. :-)
24:17 imagine some guy jumping out of the bathtub yelling “I found it!!” I doubt he’d ever live that one down. 😂