A couple notes on this video: 1) Michael Jordan was not cut completely from his HS team but rather failed to make the varsity team and instead played JV his sophomore year and 2) Yes, it's Llamas with Hats I was trying to remember.

@nimpsonkinkson1924

2 жыл бұрын

CAAAAARL

@wariotnd1941

2 жыл бұрын

Lamas in hats

@ztrees4024

2 жыл бұрын

Rather surprised you made a video reacting to historical events, mentioned burning at the stake at salem being false, but never mention europeans DID burn many as witches. It just didnt happen in the US with fire.

@touchanddie

2 жыл бұрын

on the topic of ashes of the someone who made an impact, I think you might be interested in this. I found it really touching story - the guy who discovered Pluto in 1930s, even after it was downgraded to dwarf planets, was able to meet the thing he discovered. Even though he already passed away, his ashes, with permission of his wife, were sent there by NASA on board of New Horizons.

@Taylors_Tunes

2 жыл бұрын

I immediately came to the comments to correct you on Jordan but alas...

Rosa Parks was "a little old lady" when she refused to give up her seat is something that I have heard many times. She was 32.

@kaylastarr7863

2 жыл бұрын

yikes i literally just learned that was wrong! wow

@aomais_

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah they purposely dressed her up and put makeup on to make her look a lot older to draw more sympathy when the news broke

@GrandTheftChris

2 жыл бұрын

Blows my mind. I always thought she was 42.

@janehrahan5116

2 жыл бұрын

You got it backwards. It was a staged protest. The narrative was that the law was so cruel it forced a little old lady out of her seat. When In actuality it was a 32 year old activist intentionally causing a scene. It's one of the few instances of a lie actually speaking truth though because were Rosa parks an old lady just tired she would have still been forced to move.

@tektrades7539

2 жыл бұрын

@@janehrahan5116 "It was a staged protest" is not totally correct. It was a planned protest... They were waiting for an opportunity. Rosa herself wasn't in the planning- she happened to be the 'example' they chose. She was actually the 3rd choice too- the first two choices had things that might have looked bad in the eyes of the public ('questionable' lifestyles), so they would not look like a 'victim' to some people. Cheers

"Llamas with Hats" "Carl, why did you kill this person?" "I do not kill people, that... that is my least favorite thing to do."

@issaicx

2 жыл бұрын

Carrrrlllll!

@MarkLinJA

2 жыл бұрын

Caaaaaarl that kills people!

@mathias3721

2 жыл бұрын

"Did you finish your meat dragon?" "Maybe" "It's horrifying, Carl"

@firesb7791

2 жыл бұрын

@@mathias3721 thank you

@StrickerRei-Chn

2 жыл бұрын

Carlllllll ! whyyyyyy!

The whole cleopatra time difference thing is always great no matter how many times I hear it. Same with the fact that T-rexes are closer in time to the computer than they are to stegosaurs

@coreytaylorsneck7931

2 жыл бұрын

This guy knows Gods real name

@racoonwithrabies

2 жыл бұрын

Whats a beast to a dinosaur (_____)

@edwardd11

2 жыл бұрын

​@@racoonwithrabies pterodactyl mixed with a trex

@snugglecity3500

2 жыл бұрын

Thats wildin'

@racoonwithrabies

2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardd11 terctodactyl

When I found out that Roman legions weren't all red, and likely wore Legion-specific color schemes, it blew my mind. :P

@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051

2 жыл бұрын

@@philmccracken7520 total war Rome is totally accurate i mean Don't you remember the 3 families of the Julii Scipio and Brutei families in the bright colors of Red Green and Blue fighting against the Unified Celt's , Germans and Greek's while taking mission from Rome .

@firingallcylinders2949

2 жыл бұрын

That made them even cooler tbh. I imagine they eventually got renowned. Can you imagine being in Gaul and being like Oh crap it's the XIII!

@Oliver_McCombie

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly that's not really true. There is nearly no evidence of what colour tunics they wore, but it's more than likely it was a dull creamy colour/the natural colour of their tunic. There is a bit of evidence that higher ranking officers wore coloured uniforms (especially red which is where the myth probably came from) The thing is coloured outfits cost more and we're harder to maintain so for the rank and file troops it made pretty much no sense.

@yj9032

2 жыл бұрын

@@philmccracken7520 The Persian empire that was created by Cyrus the great was the first model empire. The bureaucratic systems and the military organisational methods were pioneered by these Persians and that were copied by everyone else except probably the Chinese.

@Oliver_McCombie

2 жыл бұрын

@@philmccracken7520 yeah. Officers sometimes would've wore different colours, dark reds blues and greens most likely.

12:54 Ah yes, "Llamas with Hats." Adorable llamas with the added comfort of hats.

@TheLibermania

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't that from 2004 or so?

@doomyboi

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheLibermania 2009 but it's ancient history at this point either way

@TheLibermania

2 жыл бұрын

@@doomyboi 2009? I just realized that i mixed it up with Charlie the unicorn. Sorry, My bad.

@edwardblair4096

2 жыл бұрын

"Caaaarrrllll, that kills people!"

@sacrifice7653

2 жыл бұрын

that remidns me.. been waay too long since I watched that, brb

Thanks for keeping Sam O'Nella Acadamy's spirit alive while he is on hiatus.

@ryan19754

2 жыл бұрын

Just 2 years now

@austinplais3392

2 жыл бұрын

You never know what you have until it’s gone smh

@rafaelfigfigueiredo2988

Жыл бұрын

Ayyy

@hotlinesanzensekai7084

Жыл бұрын

Not anymore.

@johnnyrottenpiss

Жыл бұрын

@@hotlinesanzensekai7084 I watched the latest just a few days ago!

This dude knows a lot. I wouldn't be surprised if he knew my ip address, he knows my name already

@Potato-km4zg

2 жыл бұрын

Your name is Gustavo P.

@prs_81

2 жыл бұрын

@@Potato-km4zg you're a food.

@viclorenzo5016

2 жыл бұрын

@@Potato-km4zg You're delicious looking pie.

@starman6468

2 жыл бұрын

@@Potato-km4zg I ate one of your relatives in Thanksgiving

@zyansheep

2 жыл бұрын

@@starman6468 yum

As an Italian I always feel compelled to point out the following: the whole Mussolini and timely trains thing is a metaphor about things going on just the same as always, not something to take literally

@SieMiezekatze

2 жыл бұрын

Like things going on time????

@jackhearts7957

2 жыл бұрын

@@SieMiezekatze nooo not in that sense...how do I explain it. People still had to go to work, pay rent, go to school, still could go to the bar with their friends...nothing really changed up untill the war

@Annie_Annie__

2 жыл бұрын

It would be somewhat similar to hearing “other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?” and taking it literally thinking people actually said that to Abraham Lincoln’s wife.

@MusikTeleVision5

2 жыл бұрын

Same with Hitler and the Autobahn: the economy was terrible when he came to power and many people were unemployed. His government invested heavily into infrastructure and (military) industry and got many people jobs, helping the economy. That's what that refers to.

@pioletjethorse9134

Жыл бұрын

what about pronouncing spaghetti as pasghetti

"Chinese food" as we know it was invented in the U.S. by Chinese immigrants that came to work on the railroad system, so while American Chinese food isn't traditional cuisine that you would find in China itself, it's no less "Chinese" than anything you can buy in Beijing. It's simply a product of what Chinese people had available to them after coming to the United States.

@benhaney9629

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm, kind of. A lot of it was invented by a Jewish guy in San Francisco. “Egg Foo Yung?” For example. Egg is not a Chinese word...

@theman4884

2 жыл бұрын

There is an Indian comic who says what Americans know as Indian food is not Indian food, it is Indian Cuisine. Most meals in India are not much more than rice.

@AJSSPACEPLACE

2 жыл бұрын

Actually you can find Americanized Chinese food in China. I don’t know how popular it is there, but it does exit, and is seen as a separate kind of food

@iksskan9147

2 жыл бұрын

@@theman4884 believe me no, Indian food isn't just rice, India is a massive country with regional cuisines, some states have extremely different cuisines, hell rice isn't even the primary staple in all the parts of the nation.

@theman4884

2 жыл бұрын

@@iksskan9147 The point was that what American get as "Indian food" is the best that would be found in India. It is as if you went to an "American" restaurant in another country and they only served fillet magnon, shrimp cocktail and lobster.

The most efficient building team would get to sleep in a facility closest to the pyramid. And every week it would be determined who got that title. It's the earliest recorded example of a team sport competition.

@carterwheaton3761

2 жыл бұрын

knowlege

@SieMiezekatze

2 жыл бұрын

That is brilliant

@boffutt87

2 жыл бұрын

Well thats how you keep slaves from rebelling....keep them occupied with infighting and competition.

13:10 Lamas with Hats! Truly a culturally relevant historian

@bobkorn5475

2 жыл бұрын

I was about to comment that

@bobkorn5475

2 жыл бұрын

I love that series

@_jimjam_4283

2 жыл бұрын

Right, hiatus ... I'm sure he'll be back Right? Right?!

@am-bushgaming4811

2 жыл бұрын

@@_jimjam_4283 he just recently put out new things for the next saga thing (part of the charlie the unicorn EU)

@SieMiezekatze

2 жыл бұрын

*llamas pretty sure you meant that

A big misconception I know of off the top of my head is that Japan's Imperial atrocities aren't on the level of Germany's, when in reality they were worse at times, having killed just as many people and leaving scars on Chinese culture that are still felt to this day

@SadBirbHours

2 жыл бұрын

Germany missed a trick by not creating anime and forming an international cult of personality who jump to their deference. Not only were the atrocities equal to or even worse than germanys, they also refuse to apologise for a lot of it and teach alternate history.

@kemalrizaldy8307

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, even in indonesia here, there is sayings that went like: the japanese occupation of 3,5 years were equal to dutch colonization of 350 years...

@cobaltprime9467

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of groups were worse than the Germans. Soviet Union, Maoist China until today, and you can make the argument North Korea may be worse because it’s so oppressive, the people starve and don’t even know how advanced even their southern enemies are. Nazi Germany is still evil don’t get me wrong, but we only study or reference them and not nearly the others that were just as evil or worse.

@kaijicabrera7609

2 жыл бұрын

I think there’s a few reason why the holocaust is so horrifying to us in the west. the two best explanations i’ve heard is that our soldiers saw it first hand and it was pretty traumatic and shocking. another reason i’ve heard is that it took western civilizations proudest inventions such as industrialization and task keeping to kill people like factories of death

@christiancinnabars1402

2 жыл бұрын

Christopher Kendall "A Western nation's atrocities against primarily other Western nations has more bias put against it in the West than an Eastern nation's atrocities against primarily other Eastern nations? Must be the animes."

My favorite historical misconception: Jesus’ name wasn’t even Jesus. When translated from Hebrew, his name is Joshua. The thing is, “Yeshua” got translated into Greek, and then into Latin, and then finally into English.

@aredjayc2858

2 жыл бұрын

Yup

@leehollings79

2 жыл бұрын

In full it would be "Joshua, son of Joseph"...wait a second. JOshua, son of JOseph...is that a JoJo Reference?!

@Eto-Ezio

2 жыл бұрын

@@leehollings79 OOOOHH MY GAWD

@mori7644

2 жыл бұрын

@@leehollings79 I mean Jesus is canonically a stand user.

@SRosenberg203

2 жыл бұрын

@@leehollings79 Come on, is this really the time for a JoJo's reference?

6:15 Well, as Tolkien put it: "History became legend, legend became myth"

@zerotohero8993

2 жыл бұрын

And all good stories deserve embellishment.

@lordofdarkness4204

2 жыл бұрын

@Aduiavas Man if that's true the irony is hilarious, although it makes sense if it is because one of Jordan's major themes is the nature of time and how people become history and then myths and legends as time goes on. One of the major themes of his stories, even more so then Tolkien's although he had them as well.

@Ryroe

2 жыл бұрын

This quote doesn't appear in the books, only in the movie. In the behind-the-scenes material, you can see the writer, whose name I can't recall, be very proud of including this quote in the intro scene of the movie.

@Letmegetthatforyou

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ryroe Fran Walsh? The woman that ruined Faramir.

One misconception I find annoying is that knights were slow chunky tanks that couldn’t even get up if they fell ( I have heard it taken that far) Knights were more agile then the modern soldier

@howareyoumoreofaclownthanme

2 жыл бұрын

Of course knights could run! How else would they storm castles to kill the guests of a wedding, then get killed by a rabbit or a magical flinging bridge!

@javimiami92

2 жыл бұрын

@@howareyoumoreofaclownthanme that's a misconception as well, it only happens if your favorite color is blue.

@marz96

2 жыл бұрын

@@javimiami92 can you please tell me what this is referencing

@javimiami92

2 жыл бұрын

@@marz96 yeah, it’s Monty Python and The Holy Grail, a British comedy film from the 1970’s.

@marz96

2 жыл бұрын

@@javimiami92 lol I thought it was a chivalry 2 reference

There are tons of misconceptions about humans during the pre-historical era (AKA cavemen), which I have studied in anthropology. One of my faves is: "their nomadic nature meant they migrated". False. Humans have migrated many times in history but never because of their nomadic nature, rather because of climate and pressure from other human species or tribes. Nomadic people "rotated" between the same areas in a consistent manner, consuming resources somewhere, moving on, then moving on from there and from that region back to the starting point. They usually moved from a cave they had chosen once it was full of garbage and didn't wait for resources to exhaust before packing up.

Imagine living to the incredibly old age of 81 in those olden times and THATS how your community treats you at the end of all of it…. Dude was a certified G tho, what a badass.

It’s not a myth but I really love how some legends and “miracles” can be explained by modern science and medicine For example, Rasputin was thought to be a kind of mystical figure, and many pointed to him curing the son of the Tzar. The story goes that the child had hemophilia, a disorder of the coagulation cascade that hinder the body’s ability to clot. During a bleeding episode, the boy seemed to have no signs of stopping despite the best available medical personnel. Rasputin came in and kicked all of the medical staff out, sat with the boy, and prayed. Soon, the boy regained color in his face and his episode ended. He was revered as some kind of shaman after that. The true reason what he did worked is because at the time, medical knowledge recommended treatment with aspirin. Which we now know today *prevents* clotting, and would exacerbate the bleeding. Kicking out the doctors was actually the correct thing to do to help the boy, and praying with him likely calmed him down and slowed his heart rate, preventing him from bleeding out.

@Annie_Annie__

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. Even when Rasputin was banished back to his hometown in Siberia, Alexei was bleeding and his mother desperately telegraphed Rasputin for help. He told her to calm down but above all, not to let the doctors touch the boy. She kicked the doctors out of the room and fiercely protected Alexei from them, and he recovered.

@INeedHerPomPomJuice

2 жыл бұрын

Congrats, all you did was copy and paste exactly what Oversimplified said. Word for word.

@Dr_OneWing

2 жыл бұрын

@@INeedHerPomPomJuice who the fuck is oversimplified? You act as if people knowing something that someone else knows means they must have stolen it

@MrTeddy12397

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dr_OneWing mald

@ackity

2 жыл бұрын

@@INeedHerPomPomJuice as someone who knows what you're referring to, he only briefly mentioned the aspirin part, saying "potentially by taking him off his doctor-prescribed aspirin", or something along the lines of that. so no, that's not "copying what oversimplified said, word for word"

I think the series with the llamas you thought about is llamas with hats.

@nicksquatch7212

2 жыл бұрын

CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRREELLLLLLL!!!!!!!

@blauwbeer556

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicksquatch7212 ¨that kills people, carrel¨

I think I heard somewhere that the Einstein myth was born out of misunderstanding on how grading scales work. Einstein was a German but he went to school, I believe, in Switzerland. Now both Germany and Switzerland use the 1-6 grading scale, the difference being that in Switzerland a 6 is a perfect score and a 1 is a failing grade, wall in Germany it's the opposite 1 being a perfect score while 6 is failing. So what I think is when the Germans heard that Einstein was getting 5 and 6, they must have thought he was failing in his grades.

@tarnvedra9952

Жыл бұрын

Also he did fail the non-mathematic part of enterence exam to the Zurich Polytechnic first time he tried, supposedly because it was in French which he didnt understood well.

The myths about George Washington and the cherry tree and silver dollar are believed to be the invention of Parson Mason Locke Weems who wrote one of the first biographies, if not the first biography of Washington. If you're interested more stuff like this that deals with the intersection of history and culture, you might like the series Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl.

@JustinWebbMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Long live Israel Bissel

@theman4884

2 жыл бұрын

If I recall, Weems wrote that about Washington, because Weems' son once chopped down a tree but Weems was not as accepting of his son's apology. But years later Weems wished he had been more sympathetic to his son and fabricated the Washington story as a type of apology of his own.

@JoshSweetvale

2 жыл бұрын

I like the caricature of Washington the mythological figure in Fairly Odd Parents of all places - too obsessed with cutting wood that he has to resist the urge to take an axe to his _own teeth._

@bobburris4445

2 жыл бұрын

Ya know, I almost can believe the whole throwing the silver dollar across the river. I mean, a dollar went a LOT further way back then. . . 🤷

@GiordanDiodato

Жыл бұрын

We have these "tall tales" figures in American history, but believe or not a lot of those "tall tale" characters were actual people just with embellished accounts of their lives.

The biggest misconception I’ve heard was about the Spanish Inquisition. History portrays it as one of the worst acts of humanity when in reality only 3,000 people were sentenced to death during a period of 300 years (average of 10 per year). It was actually a court system and the grand majority of the accused were either innocent or not guilty. It was also used as the first system of political intelligence (information) of its time. While in other European countries that were doing the exact same thing had way more people put to death for the same supposed “crimes”. My mentor did his masters degree in that subject and I learned so much

@rafaelfigfigueiredo2988

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to dig up this but why is that misinformation still widely spread on high schools' booka

@spaghetti-zc5on

2 жыл бұрын

wow, I didn’t expect the Spainish Inquisition!

@KelpyJee

2 жыл бұрын

@@rafaelfigfigueiredo2988 it’s not, I was taught that it’s a myth of how many people died too. Poor education system in your state I suppose.

@zsammon06

2 жыл бұрын

@@KelpyJee you couldn’t be more wrong

@KelpyJee

2 жыл бұрын

@@zsammon06 according to you?

This is the best historian reaction to Sam O'Nella, giving enough information and pausin at the right times, great!

14:34 Jordan was never "cut" from his high school basketball team. He tried out for the Varsity team as a Sophomore and was placed on the Junior Varsity team with the rest of Freshmen and Sophomores where he belonged so he could continue to develop.

@benhaney9629

2 жыл бұрын

True. But considering that he went on to become the greatest of all time... Lebron and Kobe both started as freshman... For example. LaMelo Ball started as an 8th grader and was one of the best players in the country by 9th grade. So the story still holds merit. But yeah. It’s been exaggerated.

@zsammon06

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Hurts his credibility to be so confidentiality wrong as a historian ):

@thestealth2448

2 жыл бұрын

@@zsammon06 ah yes because historians are infallible

@zsammon06

2 жыл бұрын

@@thestealth2448 when they say things in super confidence they should be lmao

@KelpyJee

2 жыл бұрын

@@zsammon06 not true at all

7:30 Pyramid building was a giant public works project. They were farmers during most of the year, but during the off-season they did construction work. Presumably the people who wanted to be buried back home were shipped back home.

Yes, the Egyptian workers were buried near the pyramids. Many of them have been dug up and fascinating insights were gained into the lives of ordinary workers.

I never thought that VTH would be making a llamas with hats reference

I remember hearing that George Washington actually had ivory teeth and the reason his speeches weren’t as long as they were before he got ivory teeth was because he has some spring mechanism that made it painful to talk and is why he has a stiff looking jaw in paintings of him as an older man

@nashvontookus7451

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, some were made with hippo teeth and had crude spring mechanisms that were really too big for his mouth, so his jaws hurt all the time.

@GiordanDiodato

Жыл бұрын

well they were partially right. he did have false teeth, but he was embarrassed by them so he almost never smiled.

Speaking of famous myths, Jordan wasn’t cut from his basketball team. As a freshman he got to try out for varsity and was sent back down as most at the time were. He still played for the school just not varsity his first year

Awesome vid as always! Tiny bit of semantics on the Michael Jordan being cut from his HS basketball team fact, he was cut from the varsity team as a Sophomore, but still played junior varsity that year

@joshestes6427

2 жыл бұрын

Slight note the coach didn't believe in having underclassmen play varsity, so it wasn't a huge surprise either.

@joshestes6427

2 жыл бұрын

@@blowc1612 Yeah, that friend was the only sophomore on the team and he was I believe 6'7" my understanding is the coach wanted Jordan to have more time on the floor to play, and was opening the gym up for Jordan so he could get more time in too. Not exactly the rejection it sounds like.

"More weight." Is on the same level of bad ass as the Spartan's response to Phillip threat "if"

10:30 I use "Hitler extended the Autobahn" in arguments occasionally, often because someone is ignoring a fault in favor of a less important merit. You're absolutely right, it doesn't excuse him, and if you thought it was supposed to, your moral outrage is justified. But it's not supposed to. It demonstrates that the worst humanity has to offer can have good results, but of course we can't excuse them for that, we condemn them in spite of it. It's just as important to humanize Hitler as it is Washington, if not more, because true villains don't think they are villains. Sometimes, they think they are saving Germany.

@metroplexprime9901

2 жыл бұрын

It's also sobering to remember that these apparent monsters were people, just like us. They weren't just snapped into existence as tyrants and murderers, their experiences and changing ideas led them down that terrible path. We must consider if our actions, our changing ideas would lead us down a similar path. It is how we progress and prevent atrocities in the future.

@lunarluxe9832

2 жыл бұрын

@@metroplexprime9901 their memes make them who they are

@manuelmoralez2257

2 жыл бұрын

@@metroplexprime9901 exactly we can all fail to make into art school one day

@dondajulah4168

2 жыл бұрын

The autobahn was extended by Hitler specifically to increase the mobility of motorized units which would need to be rapidly re-deployed from the Eastern front with Poland to the Western Front facing France. So yeah, Hitler did a good job in preparing his country to fight a war of an aggression more effectively than otherwise would be the case.

great stuff, been watching you for a while now. respect for putting links and letting the sponsor play through

The tombs next to the pyramids were more for those who died during the construction of the pyramids, they were given the honorable burials.

@Pigeon249

2 жыл бұрын

@@blowc1612 how so?

13:00 Llamas with hats

It really depends on who’s Pyramid it was on the burial thing. Most evidence and historians say the Pyramids were built by workers during their off season. Basically a way for civilians to stay busy and not starve when they had no work.

That saying was supposed to go like "The pyramids were as old to Cleopatra as Cleopatra is to us." Because the great pyramid of Giza actually was built 2,500 years before she was born. She actually lived closer to the computer age than she did to the construction of the pyramids. Also the truth about George Washington is that while he was a slave owner with flaws, he was one of the only people ever to give up truly great power for the good of his people.

Hell yeah VTH and Sam. This is the best combo.

It’s really nice that you left the ad in at the end and encouraged it

I am an egyptian, but I am not familiar with egyptian history, but they have great record keeping. I found out about this channel, and I can't stop watching the videos, thank you!

I think the biggest misconception I was told (and still hear jokes today) is how bad France is at fighting wars, due to being overrun in WW2. Or that the Maginot Line was a waste, when it was successful in forcing the Germans around. The problem was the second half of the line was in Belgium, and France didn't work with Belgium like they planned. And of course, the idea that either Napoleon or Hitler invaded Russia during winter, when both invaded in the summer (June I think?) but that Russia is just so *big* the invasion lasted until winter.

@Zentoven99

2 жыл бұрын

France was a powerhouse. The napoleon wars proved that France was no joke. They only failed ww2 due to overconfidence from winning ww1 and not keeping up with technology of that time. (Could be wrong but feel free to add on or correct me).

@kuhluhOG

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zentoven99 not technology but doctrine a lot of their tech was actually better than the german counterparts but then again, they though that tanks should communicate via flags with each other (no, they didn't have radio)

@nigeh5326

Жыл бұрын

France was Britain’s biggest rival for centuries. Brits talk of Crecy and Agincourt 2 British victories but forget France won the Hundred Years War pushing England out of France, apart from Calais. France like Britain had a huge empire and for a long time it was the greatest land power in Europe. The idea that Frenchmen were never any good at fighting and gave up in WW2 came from the English speaking world. It forgets French bravery and determination in WW1 eg Verdun and the Somme where French troops did better than the British on the first day. It also forgets Napoleon almost conquered Europe and did take Moscow, something the Germans couldn’t do.

I just wanted to point out that the whole Michael Jordan being cut from his high school basketball team story is a big misconception too. He didn't make the varsity team because he was a short sophomore (It's still rare for sophomore to play varsity today and was even more rare back then) but he went on to dominate on his schools JV team that same year.

@dondajulah4168

2 жыл бұрын

It would be the equivalent of saying a college football player in the 80's or 90's that was redshirted as a freshman "didnt make the team". Pretty much the standard practice, especially for teams loaded with talent and the high school player was somewhat physically unready for bigtime Div 1 football. Of course, it wasnt even until sometime in the 70's when freshman could play varsity college basketball so you could say that Bill Walton and Lew Alcindor didnt make the varsity team as college freshmen.

Huge respect for not skipping the sponsor AND adding new content, this is how all reactions should be!

A classic Missconseption is that Viking helmets had Horns. That is a thing that Richard Wagner made up when he wrote is oprea about the Nibelungen saga.

Speaking of the Salem Witch Trials, you should react to Sam O'Nella's other video about mass hysteria.

I love that you let his ad play. That was super good of you

This is my favorite KZread channel ever!

I remember reading somewhere that Albert Einstein was an absolutely amazing mathematician but that that misconception comes from the math behind the theoretical physics he did being so advanced and abstract that he consulted maths professors for help on the actual calculations behind what he was doing. Probably just asking them to check his work or something. I don’t know if that’s also fake but I believe it’s what I read

I love you and Sam O nella

This is my favorite channel on KZread now I can't stop watching😭😭😭

@Robert-ir4fs

2 жыл бұрын

thats what I call an addiction and I have fallen down the same rabbit hole

I really appreciate that you show the content creators' sponsored content. I've never seen reaction content that does that. Most reactors are more concerned with stealing the content of others in every way they can.

There's a ton I know but the one that always gets me and really shows the power of cultural myth over historical fact is: *George Washington never lost his temper and was supremely calm at all times.* He on several occasions beat people on the battlefield for trying to run away, he once had such an explosively tirade that he became so drained that he had to be led away by his aides or else he'd have been captured. He is known to have two supremely great tirades, such as the tirade against General St. Clair when he learned about his disaster on the Wabasch River. His temper was even called "volcanic". However, the idea of the gentle giant who almost never got angry has such a pervasive power that it refuses to be broken or challenged. Example: when they showed Washington physically assaulting his valet Billy in _Turn_ nobody believed it and everyone who said "Washington would never do that" got upvotes into the hundreds, while those, like myself, who showed that indeed he could be physical, got no love from upvotes.

@wastelanddan7388

2 жыл бұрын

Washington would never do that.

@jamieholtsclaw2305

2 жыл бұрын

Beating fleeing soldiers was not done out of anger. It was toughlove.

@cursedcancersurvivor

2 жыл бұрын

One two Georgies coming for you...

@MySerpentine

Жыл бұрын

@@jamieholtsclaw2305 Tough love is just a nice way of saying abuse.

13:20 they’re called Llamas with hats

@slayden2737

2 жыл бұрын

what is your profile

@duolingoowl8207

2 жыл бұрын

@@slayden2737 yknow duolingo

@slayden2737

2 жыл бұрын

@@duolingoowl8207 that is cursed duolingo

I heard the Einstein misconseption is because the school he was in changed the grading system 1 year after he left first it was 1 - best grade, 6 - worst grade, then it changed to 6 - best grade, 1 - worst grade (or something like that)

9:03. I know something! It comes from why we fight #6. The battle of china. "some scientists speculate the great wall is the only man made object that could be seen from the moon". By the way if you ever want to do a longer reaction, all 7 why we fight films are public domain and are amazing to watch (or just watch them on your own if you don't wanna do a reaction. 10:19 from why we fight as well. #2 this time, "They towed guns from the french border to warsaw, using the autobahn highways h-tler had built for such purposes" In why we fight though the "efficiency" of the states was compared to the bank robber Dillinger, it was not a compliment.

@warringtonfaust1088

2 жыл бұрын

Our own interstate highway system was founded by the "National Defense Highway Act of 1956". Requiring that bridges have a height sufficient to clear a missile on a truck, and well spaced mile long straight stretches for emergency aircraft landings.

Ah yes, "Llamas in hats". I watched it when I was 8 or 9. And even though it terrified me, I was so interested I watched the whole thing.

Ah yes the 8th wonder of the world, the Home Depot parking lot

12:54 it's called Llamas with hats, loved that series lol

Thanks for showing his ad too.

Not really related but I think you should check out Historia Civilis’ Julius Caesar series- it’s really well done.

@priyan605

2 жыл бұрын

I second this

@issaicx

2 жыл бұрын

I third this

@archibaldhernandez5553

2 жыл бұрын

I fourth this

@Res-5000

2 жыл бұрын

I fifth this

@dorkle9085

2 жыл бұрын

I sixth this

13:45 Fortune cookies have a complicated and unclear history. The general idea is that they were based on a Japanese cookie brought over to California by immigrants. An idea was to copy "Omikuji" (fortune slips) which are sold at temples and shrines in Japan. A man named Seiichi Kito, who claims to have "invented" the fortune cookies, also claimed that he was the one who sold his "fortune tea cakes" to be served with tea after a meal - which is quite a common practice at Chinese restaurants, so they made perfect sense. Various superstitions of lucky numbers and Chinese proverbs were quickly adapted as what would be found as your "fortune". So, they are from California and Japan and began their life at Chinese restaurants and from almost the start, they used Chinese cultural appropriation of proverbs and lucky numbers to match the setting of where they were found to be most popular. ...and that is the simplified version.

Can’t wait for second Reconstruction video first one was well done and extremely informative.

My daily dose of vth has been fulfilled

Just a slight correction here, Jordan was actually cut from his Varsity High School team. He was able to play on the JV. And this is usual for younger players, especially since he was around 5’10. He scored 40 points on numerous occasions during his season on JV. Just a little fun fact about MJ. The story gets a little muddled.

Oooo you really need to react to the Banana Republics and Tarrare from Sam O’Nella

@VloggingThroughHistory

2 жыл бұрын

I did Tarrare. Link in description.

@wearethefallenmusic

2 жыл бұрын

You are my favorite historical reaction channel on Yourube because you not only react but as give knowledge when historical stories are shortened

I was not expecting Llamas with hats nostalgia from this lol

I was not prepared for that Llamas with Hats reference

Ooh this sounds interesting!

@slayden2737

2 жыл бұрын

I think your first

@kokocrazy2590

2 жыл бұрын

@@slayden2737 I believe so

A big one that keeps popping up: George Washington didn't actually warn us about Political Parties. In his farewell address, he talked about talk about political factions. His speech was in large part written by Hamilton (who was in a political party), who also helped write the federalist papers. Federalist number 10 talks of a political faction as small groups with single issues, these are not what our political parties are. The only practical way to solve factions taking over with their single issues was to combine them into bigger groups so that no single issue takes over the country. Parties emerged as a way of managing factions but also keeping small groups from taking over. Why would Hamilton write the farewell address warning us about parties if he was literally a party leader who later died for its honor?

no worry VTH everyone is subbed because your that pog ;)

You’re my favourite history reaction youtuber

I went to grade school in the ‘70s. Really a lot of these debunked history items in this and other videos are things I actually learned in school. Another one is that I was literally taught in Jr High by my English teacher that a couple of hundred years ago most people only lived until their 40’s.

@starman6468

2 жыл бұрын

Well that one kinda makes sense but not how he said it. Yes the life expectancy was on the floor, I think it usually was around 30yrs, but because of the stupidly high newborn mortality rate. If you got past your first year then probably you'd lived until your 70s or even further in some cases

@SRosenberg203

2 жыл бұрын

@@starman6468 Exactly. The *average* lifespan was around 35-40, because between a third and half of all people died before they were age 10. But a person who actually survived to adulthood had a good chance of living to their 70s, unless they died by violence. For men, at least. The number of women dying in childbirth in their teens and twenties and thirties probably brought the overall average down a lot also.

@DisankaROB

2 жыл бұрын

I learned that 65 as the age at which we retire stems from the Prussian emperor Wilhelm. At that time the average lifespan was 65. He decreed that people who lived past that age could stop working and retire. We've left that average life span far behind us, but retirement still sits at 65.

@GiordanDiodato

Жыл бұрын

the reason why the life expectancy was low was due to A. low surviving birth rates and B. disease.

Michael Jordan “being cut” was just him having to play on the JV team as a freshman, which is totally normal. He was still an animal in HS.

@theman9048

2 жыл бұрын

He was still cut

@Iam74YL0R

2 жыл бұрын

@@theman9048 No he wasn't. He was a 5 foot 10 sophomore trying out for his HS basketball team. During the tryout non-freshman players would have 3 results, varsity, JV or not one a team. 50 players tried out for the 15 spot varsity squad and 15 spot JV squad. The varsity team didn't have a single player over 6-foot-3 so Michael's 6-foot-7 sophomore friend made the varsity squad. Michael on the other hand was given a spot on the JV squad. 20 other players that tried out did not receive a roster spot. Again he was a 15 year old sophomore. Sophomore rarely play on varsity in most HS programs because there is usually a significant physical difference between a 15-16 year old and 18-19 year Seniors. The only reason his friend made the varsity team was because the team needed height. Jordan went on to start for that JV team, scoring 40+ points multiple times in the season. He used the fact his friend made varsity and he didn't as motivation. He grew 4 inches to 6-foot-2 between his sophomore and junior years and made varsity as a junior.

@theman9048

2 жыл бұрын

@@Iam74YL0R so he was cut from his high school basketball team.

13:00 "Carl! You don't eat people!" "I had a rumbly in my tummy only hands can satisfy!"

Bro, I had completely forgotten about llamas with hats until you brought it up. I think I had watched that sometime in the second grade.

One that I know is that Marie Antoinette never said "let them eat cake" as in literal cake, but probably said "let them eat brioche" which is a kind of fancy bread that some people consider to be cake-like to people back then =)

@VloggingThroughHistory

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve also read that there’s a story with that quote that was published before she was even queen and attributed to someone else.

@warringtonfaust1088

2 жыл бұрын

My history teacher suggested that she said "manche merde"

@VloggingThroughHistory

2 жыл бұрын

@@warringtonfaust1088 Well, I can see why that one didn't catch on...probably a bit too vulgar for the history books.

@warringtonfaust1088

2 жыл бұрын

@@VloggingThroughHistory I went to private schools. In the 9th grade the English Master entered and said "Hooray, Hooray, it's the first of may". Then asked if anyone could complete the couplet. No response, so he continued "hooray, hooray, it's the first of May; outside screwing begins today".

Granted I could be wrong here, but one factoid that I've heard is that the Angel of the Lord that Jacob wrestled with was not the usual representative of God, but rather God himself. That and the "thigh" injury he sustained can be interpreted as him getting a groin injury, as it was common at the time to refer to such injuries as a thigh injury given their close proximity, and to be polite. So in other words; God punched Jacob in the nuts!

never clicked a video so fast! great reaction video as always :D

12:55 Llamas with hats is what it is called. An absolute internet classic

I had never heard the myth of Einstein failing math, the one I heard was Einstein being a high school dropout which he was, he quit school at the age of 15 and moved out of Germany to avoid military service.

@blauwbeer556

2 жыл бұрын

i have heard that he failed french and history

@4AlokR

2 жыл бұрын

short answer is that people were confused about the difference in grading systems between Swiss and German schools. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZK6rvNWjnK2Td5eU.html has a more in depth look

llamas with hats lmao

Love going to the Columbus Crew games, Mapfre will always hold a special place in my heart! 🖤💛

I love Sam o Nellas videos pls keep making g more videos on him. I also hope one day he comes back and starts making videos again

Ah yes, "Llamas with Hats", an important part of my teenage years, everybody knew those videos 😂 And about the "Chinese food": I recently started talking to more people from across Southeast asia, like Indonesia for example, and found out thst my favorite menu item at the local Chinese Restaurant, Babi Pangang, was actually Indo and not Chinese 🤦🏻‍♂️

You should really do a reaction to the extra history series on the Inca Empire

Great video! I recommend the "The Tale of Michael Malloy " video as the next Sam O'Nella reaction

CARRRRRRRRLLLLLLL! Llamas with Hats FTW, what a shout out! lol

so nobody gonna talk bout how great this guy is he literally sat through the ad at the end of the video when he didn’t have to but he did and that makes him a king

Around the beginning to the middle of the 1800s, some of the most popular books in the US were these exaggerated biographies of American great men. Washington Irving wrote a very popular George Washington biography and he more or less invented the cherry tree episode wholesale for the book. These books were filled of these tall tales. There was another author, I’m drawing a blank, he’s the prisoner that helps Connor escape from jail in Assassins Creed 3? Anyway, he wrote a bunch of these biographies as well and is credited with creating a whole bunch of myths. Basically these guys would just make shit up to add spice and then the biography would get popular and believed...

@GiordanDiodato

Жыл бұрын

and I'm sure these same books were used in the 1920s and 30s

13:04 "But KAAAARL..."😂 I did not expect to hear that referenced here

Llamas with hats . Love that series

Hey you probably won't ever see that but wanted to let you know that as a french teenager you helped me a lot improving my english and my History. Anyway love your vids ♥️

More on that misconception of Washington having wooden teeth, he actually bought dentures made of slaves’ teeth, ivory, gold, and brass. The accepted explanation on why people thought it was wood was because ivory stained quickly and (let’s be honest here) to help his overall image. What’s scary is that the misconception is being presented as a fact in schools’ history textbooks…

Remember Salad Fingers? “Llamas with Hats” made me think of that too.

13:00 The Llamas with Hats reference was an unexpected surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.

Great videos! I recommend an amazing series by Kings & Generals about the Early Islamic Conquests. I know this area of history is a black hole to you but I think it'd be a great opportunity to learn about an amazing period of history.

Hope you have fun at Vicksburg. Keep up the good work 💪

Carl: ssshhhhhhh…. Hear that? That’s the sound of forgiveness… Paul: that’s the sound of people drowning Carl Carl: exactly… lot of shouting and then silence

I though the same thing when I saw Turn: Washington's Spies. Seeing that portrayal felt more honest than a lot of the stuff they mythologies him as.