As a science teacher, the one that drives me nuts is the notion that we only use 10% of our brain. So many friends and relatives with no science background at all have argued with me about this because its been in so many movies, tv shows, and comics.

@AutomaTom1939

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, that one drives me nuts! I can't believe there have been several movies made with that premise and none of the writers bothered to research it. 😅

@jonc03

6 ай бұрын

I would say that is correct. The body is a governor of the soul. The soul is capable of infinite tasks but the body limits it. I hope this helps.

@misterdarwin

6 ай бұрын

@@jonc03 No that's literally not what they're talking about. They're talking about what the brain is capable of, not your soul.

@yauyuso

6 ай бұрын

I agree. Sigh. Especially you see characters or stories play on this and it actually looks dumb than smart writing

As recently as yesterday I had somebody try to convince me Star Wars was adapted from a Marvel comic book. In truth, the first few issues of Marvel's Star Wars comic book adaptation were available on newsstands and in grocery stores before the movie was released in cinemas, but the movie was hardly adapted from the comics sold only months before the movie was shown to the public.

@williamwilkinson6665

6 ай бұрын

@shatteredTrousers....but some of the concepts of SW were ripped off of the French comic book Valeria I think Scott did a video about this before...

@Mercury-Wells

6 ай бұрын

How did you shatter your trousers? Liquid nitrogen?

When you started talking about lemmings, I started thinking, "I thought I saw a documentary about that..." Well, I guess I did!

They should watch your videos as part of their class. I find it very instructive.

I remember hearing somewhere that the hyphen was put in Spider-Man, so it wouldn't be confused with Superman.

Most of those I already knew. But not all of them. Thanks!

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was overthrown in 1917, then he and his family were murdered in 1918, not the 1920s. Thank you for your videos!

@Chris23513

6 ай бұрын

Yup, and Mussolini died by the people's hand after Italy fell to the allies and Hitler died, by most accounts, by his own hand. No doubt, if the war continued in the Pacific, the Emperor was going to be dead too- probably Harry Carry Style. Russia didn't cause Japan to Surrender unconditionally to the US and Brits. The fear of complete destruction of Japan humbled a god-emperor to do the unthinkable and broadcast his voice over the airways and tell his people to drop their weapons and surrender to the Americans and Brits.

I knew about Viking helmets, I did not know about PIrates so that was cool to learn. The first few things were Mandela Effects and the Vader one is odd to me becasue I remember it as "No Luke, I am your father" which is a combination of both the "real" and Mandela versions. As for World War 2, I thought that was what I had heard but was not 100% sure. Lemmings I knew that was just a pop-culture thing and that the little guys just sit around chilling all day. I do like the Quote "Simply beacuse something is factually wrong does not make it untrue". I do think some of the mandela effects are real while some are just the memory acting up. Good Job on the video.

Beam me up Scotty has been a misnomer for years. The only instance close to it I can recall was years later in Star Trek IV The Voyage Home, when Kirk was talking to Gillian and was about to leave to go get the whales and he said, “Scotty, beam me up.” But considering the “Beam me up Scotty” had already been in circulation for years prior, the inclusion of the variation in STIV might’ve been a nod to it having never actually been said.

"Play it again, Sam."

Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Allan Poe contributed very heavily to pirate lore as well.

"I am your father" is quite iconic but adding 'Luke' to the beginning of the phrase strongly associates the quote with its source. It's ironclad. It's factually incorrect but emotionally true. That's why the Simpsons or Tommy Boy or anybody would say it that way.

A lot of people get that No Luke I am your father wrong including me

Wow that Richard Branson quote aged well in the wake of the epstine list 😂

"The average lifespan was only 40 years!" The AVERAGE was only low because of infant and child deaths. If you made it past 10, you'd live to 60-70-ish, just like now.

I keep forgetting that Sherlock never had the hat or pipe in the books.

There are a lot of things that people believe about guns that aren't true. Continuous automatic fire for minutes at a time isn't real. Suppressors don't make guns have a soft ping sound. Also most guns depicted in film and TV jam quite often. Another belief is that it is easy to knock someone unconscious with a single blow and that they just lay there for a long time.

@Chris23513

6 ай бұрын

How about on the gun front: AR-15 stands for "Automatic Rifle"... If I had a dollar every time I had to correct someone and tell them it stands for Armalite Rifle I probably would have enough money to buy a couple of P-Mags for my AR-15 :)

@benfromthebunker9621

6 ай бұрын

Never actually heard that one. Although I have noticed that most TV shows don't now the difference between semi-automatic and automatic@@Chris23513

So what did pirates actually wear?

How about your misconception that White Wilderness was about Antarctica? I replayed that bit, just to make sure that's what you said. AFAIK, there's not much in Antarctica aside from penguins... and the occasional elder thing or shoggoth.

@Mercury-Wells

6 ай бұрын

T'keli li!

cool

9:24 message for you sir!

Horny helmets nor helmets really work. Thats why the minimalist approach with Red Sonja's armor is the mpst practical. Bazinga

First one is a mandela effect

How the Spiderman back logo is supposed to be a spider? Looks to me like a thick. Always has. Anyone else?

@Chris23513

6 ай бұрын

Yup, now that you say it... It looks like a tick 😂

We were supposed to save Poland now how did that worked out?

If you're talking about the superhero, it's Spider-Man. Don't get confused with Dr. Spiderman, DDS.

America got its independence by itself... and a lot of weapons and money from the French monarchy

Just here for the nonexistent Sinbad genie movie comments.

You got pirates but what about ninjas in black pajamas? They idea that assassins would have a dress code is silly. Ninjas dressed up like regular people, or in the uniforms/armor appropriate for the army they were infiltrating.

@machineman6498

6 ай бұрын

Honest question, we’re Ninjas a real thing? A martial arts student said they may have been a 1920 Asian pop culture invention.

@misterdarwin

6 ай бұрын

@@machineman6498 They were real, but popular culture (first in Japan, then through the world) grossly distorted what they were, like if everyone assumed real world assassins were like John Wick. My understanding is the black pajamas were a theatrical invention to allow them to "disappear" on stage, much like the high collar on Dracula's cape.

@Gangstor

6 ай бұрын

Also you might add, there was no such thing as a "ninja" sword. They used the same swords as everyone else. If they're trying to blend in with the populace, why have a special straight blade katana blade that no one else uses??? Makes no damn sense. I heard the "ninja" sword nonsense started with marketing from those black belt magazines where you can buy weapons out of the back pages, and was bunk, no different than ads for X-ray specs in the back of comics.

On the viking thing I always point that Vikings do have horns on the side of their helmets. Watch any NFL game with the Minnesota Vikings and then try to tell me that they don't have horns on their helmets. ;) Another factor for the end of WW2 was the effect that the naval blockage was having on Japan. Since the US entry into the war with Japan they and the UK had been trying to submarines to starve Japan out of the war. By summer 1945 this was finally starting to happen. Poor harvests in 1944 and 1945 combined with an ever increasing inability to import stuff meant civilians were living on 1,600 cal per day average diet. It's estimated that between 7 to 9 million civilians would have died of starvation alone if Japan had continued fighting into 1946. It is speculated that Japan would have surrendered due to food shortages alone by autumn 1945 before Operation Downfall would started and without the need for the atomic bombings or the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.

@mrheroprimes

6 ай бұрын

But there was another issue apparently on the Japanese side the even the civilians were basically pressed into combat that they were going to basically fight to the last man it would have been a bloody campaign to take Japan which is why the decision was made to use the atomic bomb

Not as sad as the lemming one, but I do find it slightly sad that dodos have become a symbol associated with stupidity because they went extinct, but it was actually because they had no natural predators, so they didnt fear traveling colonists who promptly ate them all.

@tomkerruish2982

6 ай бұрын

I think it was the colonists' dogs, in actuality, but yeah.

@misterdarwin

6 ай бұрын

@@tomkerruish2982 Or rats eating their eggs.

Castle Grayskull was named after Donald Glut's girlfriend, Shelly Skeletor.

Russia’s casualty count was pretty shocking too. Missed that one in US schools.

@misterdarwin

6 ай бұрын

I definitely got that lesson almost 40 years ago. No idea if that is typical. I think the truth is that neither Russia nor America could have ended the war on their own.

That picture at 10:15 isn't 'true' either. It's a posed piece.

We all know that Vader isn't Luke's father. That's not true. That's impossible.

@PedroLopez-cy1kl

6 ай бұрын

Search your feelings

@misterdarwin

6 ай бұрын

@@PedroLopez-cy1kl NO! Nooooo!

Canada also helped in WW2 😂

I don't think you are right about the Japanese surrender of WWII. It is true the USA firebombed the hell out of most of Japan before the two Atom Bombs fell and it is true that the Russians broke their treaties with the Japanese on the same day the US dropped the 2nd Atomic bomb (Aug. 9) and I am sure it maybe true that Emperor Hirohito was scared the Russians may kill him but I am pretty sure he was scared and knew he would die either way because he knew Japan was going to fight to the last man- he was a dead man either by his own hand, the people's hand or another county's hand because there was no way Japan was winning after Aug. 9. He knew the US invasion of the shores of Japan and the use of another "super-weapons" was imminent. Whether or not the Russians invaded is not as important- we know Harry Truman did not want Russia involved and we (meaning MacArthur) would not let the Russians get involved. The Emperor intervened a week after the 2nd bomb and the Russians invasion of Manchuria (spelling corrected) which broke the treaty with Japan. The military council (they had some sort of name I don't remember) refused to surrender after the 1st A-bomb and where like tied 3-3 or 5-5 after the second and still refused surrender after the 2nd A-Bomb. Hirohito surrended because he had the American invasion on his door steps and feared another bomb dropping- sure he may of feared Russia too but the US where in a way better position to invade the homeland then the Russkies where in. To Believe that Japan could take more A-Bombs falling on cities or to believe the firebomb campaigns where no different then an A-bomb is to not understand the devastation it brought to the people and the land. Japan was fully aware of the difference between firebombing and an A-Bomb. If you want to say it wasn't 100% because the US dropped 2 atomic bombs and where preparing to invade Japan that made Hirohito do the unthinkable and speak over the radio and surrended- that is fine, however if the US did not drop the bombs and decided not to invade and pack up their toys and go home- do you really believe Japan would have still surrender to the Russians? Russia may have played a part but Japan was not going to survive a US invasion and another A-Bomb (which probably would have been ready and dropped before the end of 1945). The devastation brought to Japan was enough for Hirohito. Japan on the morning of Aug. 10 was in no condition to keep fighting. Their Navy was lost and their army was all but defeated. They could not fight a 2 front war and they could not take another nuclear blast. Their military council was too proud to surrender and the emperor realized the only way to save Japan was unconditional surrender to the USA- mind you not Russia and remember the USA (and the Brits) where having no part of those pesky Russkies in Japan like they had in Germany. You can if you want believe the Russians caused the Japanese to surrender 6 days after they entered the war- or you can believe how most do 5 years of brutal combat, the loss of their Navy, the destruction of their homeland, death of millions and the wiping out of two cities off the face of the earth was just enough to humble a god-emperor.

@Mercury-Wells

6 ай бұрын

*were

@Chris23513

6 ай бұрын

@@Mercury-Wells Thanks for the correction. :)

@Mercury-Wells

6 ай бұрын

@@Chris23513 no problem. You were making some strong points so it seemed a shame to have a spelling error mar your performance.

Good morning

Weirdly, while Disney is one of the worst offenders with regards to the Pirate Myth. They have one movie that is actually much much more accurate. But its one most have likely never seen unless ghey grew up watching the Wonderful World of Disney in the 70's. Its "The Moonchasers" from 1962. A mystery involving a band of shore pirates on Long Island in the early 19th century. It's bog standard Disney Live action fare from the time. If you've seen Davey Crockett you know what you're getting. But it's the only movie to actually depict pirates as they mostly were. Working members of the community who looked like everybody else.

Most say that Avatar the Last Airbender was the first US-animated Japanese anime-inspired cartoon as well as others say it was the original Teen Titans but in fact, it was 1993 Exosquad. And not forgetting in the 80s most US like Tranformers was just where to save money they hired Japanese animators to well, animate their shows.

Gray = American Grey = English Think about it. :)

Ninjas vs Samurai ... Not true. Modern Historical research has shown that the shinobi were actually apart of Samurai ranks.

@silverbullet1620

6 ай бұрын

Have you watched the Extra History series on the Sengoku Jedai?

@spector creative ! I like your videos but I have to pull you up on the Second World War that it wasn’t ENGLAND ! It was Britain

@squizzo5809

6 ай бұрын

Britain isn't a country. That's like saying Scandinavia or the Caribbean were allies. What you mean is the UK was an ally.

@jamezyboy1974

6 ай бұрын

@@squizzo5809did I say Britain was a country ? Uk is short for United Kingdom . So why am I wrong ?

@squizzo5809

6 ай бұрын

@@jamezyboy1974 Because It was the UK that went to war not Britain. Britain is a land mass, land masses don't go to war, countries do.

@jamezyboy1974

6 ай бұрын

@@squizzo5809aye ok but was I wrong that it wasn’t England ? Which was my point !

@squizzo5809

6 ай бұрын

@@jamezyboy1974 Yes you were wrong. You said that "it wasn't England it was Britain" when what you should have said was "it wasn't England it was the UK".

The "i am your father' is from Chris Farley talking in a fan. He doesn't quote Vader correctly. That's how the incorrect version got started. The movie may be Tommy Boy.

Almost all of these are 100% true. However, the World War II information is much more detailed and nuanced than that. The two bombs together were absolutely the catalyst the end of the war.

How about editing this to remove the ethnic slurs, Scott?

@machineman6498

6 ай бұрын

No offense, what part was a slur? The Russian thing?

@JosephGualtieri

6 ай бұрын

@@machineman6498 Scott repeatedly uses a slur to refer to the Romani.

@squizzo5809

6 ай бұрын

Gypsy isn't a slur.

@JosephGualtieri

6 ай бұрын

@@squizzo5809 It absolutely is.

@misterdarwin

6 ай бұрын

@@JosephGualtieri The term refers to people beyond the Romani.

Americans are so poorly educated about ww2, they seem to think it revolved around them when they actually turned up several years into the war and did very little. America had very little interest in joining a European conflict and the Japanese American conflict had nothing to do with ww2, it simply happened at the same time.

@Chris23513

6 ай бұрын

Lol @squizzo5809, I assume you are speaking about yourself (if you are an American) when you are talking about the Americans that are poorly educated about WWII. FDR was chomping at the bit to get into the European theater (hence why we went full in in Europe before we went after Japan. if you really believe Japan had nothing to do with the 2nd World War you probably don't understand what world war means. No offense here but you do know the Germans and the Japanese were allies- Axis powers... Right?