10 Amusing Quickfire History Facts
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
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i was watching a video on the fizhy channel and as soon as I heard he runs a history channel I instantly came over to this account as I love his narration on his RDR and GTA videos history is one of my passions.
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Santa Ana lost his prosthetic leg at the battle of San Jacinta when an Illinois unit caught him napping. It can be viewed at the Springfield Military Museum when it is not in storage or being preserved.
The spaghetti harvest was not just introduced by a commentator but by Richard Dimbleby himself, the most revered broadcaster for serious news, whose broadcast from Belsen is unmatched in its field of war reporting. The harvest was shown on Panorama, a serious news programme. I was away at school at the time and heard about it when I came home.
The cola wars could have taken a serious turn
Nuka-cola
You can make nunchucks with socks, cans of pop and a bungeecord
In Russia, Pepsi you drink!
Nah they would have fizzed out
Pepsi traded sodas for ships
Definitely going to keep an eye out for further clips!! This was excellent!! Narration, music, topic ... excellent!!
So, instead of a Harrier jet, Pepsi could have offered a Soviet ship for 7 million points, and made good on it.
Would certainly have been a more interesting Netflix series!
A power station's ties to Doctor Who
In Pontypridd Wales was the Upper Boat Power Station which operated 1902-1974 and demolished 1976.
Upper Boat was redeveloped as an industrial estate, only the water pumping station on River Taff and nearby electrical substation remaining. An automotive seatbelt manufacturer occupied the site to the early 2000's.
BBC Wales repurposed two warehouses in 2006 as tv production studios with six sound stages known as Upper Boat Studios.
BBC Wales produced recent regenerations of Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Adventures and other BBC sci-fi series at Upper Boat Studios from 2006-2012.
After BBC Wales moved to Roath Lock Studios, one warehouse was occupied by a plastics injection moulding company.
To date no sightings reported of The Doctor's recurring nemesis the Autons being created by a plastics manufacturer on the site of a former power plant.
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Welcome aboard sir
Thank you for another excellent video. I hope Pepsi don’t have any secret plans to invade Norway 😱
I have a fine spaghetti tree in my yard, myself.
Im pretty sure that tortoise was also owned by Steve Irwin
I bet "spaghetti trees" would be available if the Internet was what it is today
I was home alone when I saw the documentary oh spaghetti harvest. When my parents got home, they thought I had been running a high fever!!! No one we knew ever saw it. Over the tears it’s been my secret joys to see reports that confirm I didn’t imagine it all those years ago!!!!!
Santa Anna lost the war with Texas at San Jacinto while allegedly ''occupied'' with a young girl, hence the song, "The Yellow Rose of Texas." (One rumor is that she also had Yellow Fever, leading to her skin color being noticable. Santa Anna, an enterprising and charismatic personality, likely seized upon the opportunity to have a little fun while celbrating the victory at Goliad, even though the girl was perhaps very sick. But Santa Anna also had a role in the creation of chewing gum, bringing a spruce tree-based product known as chicle from Mexico. If you go to Mexico, "Chiclets" are a popular item. By the way, despite once being a terribly loathsome individual, he grew popular and likable. This is WHY his leg is in Illinois and not Mexico City.
6. The ‘weird’ turn of events in Sarajevo was, after the first bomb was thrown at the Archduke, the car he was in was working but damaged. The Mayor asked the ArchDuke to transfer to the back up vehicle for the return journey via the hospital where victims of the bomb had been taken. After the assassination the car was moved to a warehouse and, because of everything that was happening (the War) was forgotten about. After WW2 a museum about Serbian History was established and one of the exhibits was the vehicle. A few years later, a school student asked a tour guide when had they changed the number plate on the vehicle. They produced photos of the vehicle and the ArchDuke showing the number plate as displayed. Austria had surrendered on 6 November 1918. Germany surrendered on 11 November 1918. The number plate on the vehicle was AIII-118. True story.
Mark, I am reasonably sure the story of Princeps and the unlikely events are as described. I even researched the archives in Austria before writing a piece called "Six-Shots and A World War". But some of the facts that I wrote of, many of which here are unverifiable. (Particularly the fact Princeps was casually munching on a sandwich.).
On the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the driver actually made a wrong turn, because he hadn't been informed of a change in destination, and when he tried to back up the car stalled. This gave Princip, who was not eating a sandwich but simply standing outside the shop, the perfect shot at a stationary target. BTW, I don't see anything amusing about an assassination that led to the deaths of an estimated 20 million people even though the war probably would have happened eventually anyway.
Excellent
The giant tortoise owned by Charles Darwin lived well over 120 years and was last owned by the late great crocodile hunter and TV host Steve Irwin.
Saw the spaghetti thing years ago on a rerun on tv and the submarine on a TopTenz video .
A similar thing happened to Dolly Parton, who finished 3rd place in a look alike contest.
Instead of the dubious story about sinking the submarine, the story of the HMT Olympic (Titanic older sister) is true. Crew noticed a surfaced submarine preparing to open fire on the troopship and recommended trying to put some distance between them. The Captain disagreed and ordered ramming speed and headed towards the submarine. The submarine captain ordered an immediate dive but the crew weren’t quick enough to avoid collision. Olympics paravane skeg hit the conning tower and holed it, The submarine was evacuated and subsequently sunk. When questioned, the submarine Captain insisted his crew had scuttled the submarine to avoid capture by the RN. When Olympic was placed in dry dock for inspection and repair the skeg was damaged beyond repair. Olympic became the only passenger ship to sink a submarine. (Shout out too to the HMS Warspite, a Royal Navy Queen Elizabeth class battleship of WW1 vintage although with major upgrades, in a gun battle with an enemy ship loosed it’s torpedos and sunk the enemy vessel. The only battleship to sink an enemy vessel with torpedoes in WW2
HMS Warspite had her torpedo tubes removed during refits in 1924 and 1934, as fixed underwater torp tubes were considered almost impossible to aim.
HMS Rodney is believed to be the only battleship to have hit another battleship(Bismarck) with a torpedo although this is still subject to debate. Bismarck was already burning, dead in the water due to shell fire and would have sank anyway. The Germans claimed to have actually scuttled her themselves.
Welcome to the future. Nothing sounds crazier anymore.
Hold my sandwich would be the whole movie😂
That music in the outro gave me flashbacks of playing toontown.
Humans really do be engaging in mild tomfoolery
In 1644, English statesman Oliver Cromwell banned the eating of pie. He declared it a pagan form of pleasure. For 16 years, pie eating and making went underground until the Restoration leaders lifted the ban on pie in 1660.
Totally untrue but a great story. Mince pies were banned
I remember the spegetti tree show. That was shown in the USA on Jack Parr's old Friday night show. He got letters back too, asking what the joke was. Ah, but the BBC was right. After a hard day in the fields, there's nothing alike a plate of home grown spegetti.
Love the Pepsi fact! Sorry that sacrificing a goat did not appease the algorithm gods. Better luck next time! ❤️🇨🇦
The video is up for the forseeable future so I'd imagine it still has a chance
Ahoy
I need a spaghetti tree
Pepsi had a Navy!!! that's funny 🤣🤣🤣
#9 - You're flushing it wrong.
I was taught never to 'grab' anything as it is bad manners to grab.
The biggest joke is life itself.
When I was in kindergarten, I saw that pepperoni had seeds and was sliced, so, I thought it grew.
In my bottle collection (over 300) I have a Russian Pepsi bottle,wierd! Enjoyed the fact about Russia and Pepsi
St Anna's prostectic leg was captured at the Battle of San Jacinto
St Anna's leg that was amputated got a better funeral than the rest of him did...
Carmania was a converted ocean liner, not a war ship per se.
this sims music haha
You think Pepsi isn't pursuing world domination?
At one time in the eighties the code for us nuclear weapons was 7777777
Saw a video with a spaghetti tree
The way I heard it was Chaplin got 3rd in that contest. So different reportings might just be a case for it didn't happen at all. Hmm. Funny nonetheless
Earnest Hemmingway also entered a look-alike contest and also lost.......
Yeah, bigfoot, ha ha ha ,i love a good joke
If Pepsi took possession of the ships they could have won the cola wars..
Al Gore is proud of you.
That story about the submarine being torpedoed after surfacing full of shit
Cape Trafalger, not cap!
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Why does UA-cam feel the need to post a context article with this video?
11. There is a decomposing corpse in my basement
the story I heard about charlie chaplin was he entered a look a like and came 2nd
Is your Globe in the beginning of this Video supposed to be going in the wrong direction . Do I win a prize for this?
Interesting.... But proper use of capital letters and punctuation would make it easier to read. I don't use audio because so many are artificial - both pronunciation and phrasing are incorrect.
Is the Earth spinning the wrong way at the beginning of the video intentional? 😉
Just how the stock footage was, decided to go with it.
Your #8 forgot the best part of the Fun Fact: it was the fastest approved pharma in history by an older male Congress
Why would Congress have any say in it? The FDAv approves new drugs, not Congress. Viagra took two years. Fast, but the COVID vaccines were faster, for example.
hilarious....eyes roll....zzzz
Two things- first I have seen the spaghetti video, why didn’t you show it? Second- I’m pretty sure that’s not how you pronounce silfenadil (wrong spelling, I know).
Pepsi having their own navy could have really changed the tide in the Cola Wars.
So you think someone being shot in the throat and killed is hysterical?
No, however the assassination attempt initially failing and Gavrillo Princip going to a sandwich shop and buying a sandwich, only for the Archduke's car to pass the shop resulting in Princip opening fire with a mouthful of cheese sandwich... that is.
@@DecadesVideos Ironic maybe, but not what I'd call hysterical.
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The death itself is wryly amusing as an unlikely scenario entirely though the incompetence of his assassins is hilarious.
@@DecadesVideos Oh well. I concede. It was kinda funny. How many assassins are eating cheese sandwiches while they do their thing?
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@@cindydott452 man like Gavrilo Princip
Hilarious ?
Pardon me, but when you say "Hilarious" facts, do you mean funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? Of course, we all know that it's "different jokes for different folks;" wait, or is it "strokes? "
Peculiar was perhaps the better word.
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What a strange idea of hilarious. I’m not sure the people who died on the two ships found the situation funny
Your idea of hilarious and mine are vastly different.
The one about Archduke Ferdinand was not funny because - apart from him (and his wife amongst others who never rate a mention) dying that day…millions then went on to die as a result of WW1 which his death brought about. I can see the first attack failure and the other things that happened to that man as humorous though.
As for the flushing of the bog on a sub causing a messy situation, I can see the funny side of that, but not the fact it surfaced and was sunk, presumably with loss of life. …not funny.
The ship disguised etc…yes a farce in some ways but again a loss of many lives occurred. I could go on…Darwin on a tortoise…not funny to ride any animal.
The Chaplin, Pepsi, and Viagra facts yes amusing…hilarious no.
Here is a fact for you…did you know that the over use of a word, especially if used in an incorrect context, lessens its impact, and often its meaning.
One day, if we keep saying something is *hilarious or shocking* etc. when it clearly is not, we will have to invent new words to convey those meanings.
Words are powerful weapons…for example I could say this channel is total *“bullsh*t”* and that might _cut_ you to the core. I can only hope.
I bet you're real fun to have at a party.
@@deadon4847 I was just going to ask if they ever get party invites lol.
Ever heard of Dark Humor? No? Give it a looksy sometime.
You miserable *#@!!
I don’t think you have a firm grasp of the definition of the word ‘hilarious’.
😊ok, this may be popular with many people but it’s too boring and dull narration to keep watching.. I will come back to see if it’s gets better. Great potential.
That was a nice waste of time, no thanks, I will not be subscibing.
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#4: people still think pasta grows on plants. when i worked at a home improvement and garden store, we in gardening, would get asked about 3 times a year where macaroni seeds were so they could grow it. I was warned, and i thought it was a joke, until a 50-55 ish year old woman asked me dead serious one day. I tried to gently explain to her how pasta was made, but she said i was wrong and didnt know what i was talking about and left a complaint about me. She was extreme. most people just looked at me confused and unconvinced and walked away.
File this under WHO CARES
why does anyone post useless crap
I believe you might be in the perfect position to enlighten the rest of us?
I bet you smell of urine!
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