What Historical Fact Blows Your Mind? (r/AskReddit)

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  • @ladonamariposavigilis6447
    @ladonamariposavigilis6447 4 роки тому +80

    I'm an Apache. My great-grandmother remembered being told she was now "American" by son white man on a horse, while she ground corn one day. She said nothing and everything changed that day, but really thought ice cream was the pinnacle of human accomplishment she'd seen in her lifetime......

    • @ninjaxsam
      @ninjaxsam 4 роки тому +9

      I am sorry, but this reminds me of the stand up routine where Trevor Noah is talking about how wierd it must have been for people in India to be told during colonization that "you're British now"

    • @Restilia_ch
      @Restilia_ch 4 роки тому +3

      "Congratulations, you are being rescued." -K2SO

    • @stephaniehowe0973
      @stephaniehowe0973 4 роки тому +6

      Well I agree w the ice cream part

    • @pocketinfinity6733
      @pocketinfinity6733 2 роки тому +5

      it is, ice cream slaps

    • @Daniel_Huffman
      @Daniel_Huffman Рік тому +3

      @@Restilia_ch "Please do not resist."

  • @Nolo-ge4sd
    @Nolo-ge4sd 4 роки тому +43

    The Chinese Dynasties ended not by war, or a person dying but by a little kid having to stop ruling the empire. It lasted over 2,000 years and ended with a little boy in 1912.

    • @AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult
      @AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult 4 роки тому +4

      so for 2000 years they were never stuck with an infant emperor? that's so weird because it happened a lot in Europe

    • @danielred5470
      @danielred5470 4 роки тому +4

      Mamãe, sou cult Nope they did have a lot of child Emperors. It just ended in 1912 due to other many complicated problems.

  • @MadameTamma
    @MadameTamma 4 роки тому +20

    In WWII. in the USSR, women were originally barred from combat until the development of The 588th Night Bomber Regiment, an all women Aviators, unit. Unfortunately they were given old crop duster planes to fly. Now if you've ever been near a crop duster plane, you know that they're EXTREMELY loud and terrible for combat because the enemy can hear you coming with enough time to prepare. So what did these ladies do? SHUT OFF the engines MID FLIGHT so as to not make any noise. They'd cruise their way down, drop the bombs, turn their engines back on just in time to get out of dodge. Oh and did I mention they didn't have parachutes for the first three years.
    The germans called them "die Nachthexen", or in English, "The night witches"
    Now how metal is that?

    • @CannonRaw
      @CannonRaw 4 роки тому +4

      Sabaton did a song on them, so pretty metal.

  • @k.chriscaldwell4141
    @k.chriscaldwell4141 Рік тому +18

    EVERY American and European, and many in the rest of the world, watching this video has seen a photo of my grandfather coming ashore on Omaha beach on D-Day. He’s in a series of photos by Herman Wall. All of which are commonly displayed when D-Day is written about or shown. The one of my grandfather looking right at the photographer, Wall, is the most reproduced of the series.
    You’ve all seen my grandfather.

  • @arthurblackburn5851
    @arthurblackburn5851 4 роки тому +41

    The last battleship ever HMS Vanguard used 15 inch guns that were already 30 years old when they were mounted...

    • @Killzoneguy117
      @Killzoneguy117 4 роки тому +2

      Battleships only dominated one war. It was the 1905 Russo-Japaness War which was the first war that saw the widespread deployment of battleships and the last war where battleships were the deciding factor of the war.
      By World War I, submarines and air power rendered battleships obsolete.

    • @buttahXD
      @buttahXD 4 роки тому +2

      @@Killzoneguy117 we were still figuring out seaplanes during WW1 and as such didn't have too much of an impact, but submarines definitely made their mark on history.

    • @danielred5470
      @danielred5470 4 роки тому

      al Mamlūk Nope, by WW1 battleships were still very viable as aircraft were still in its primitive stages and submarines were in no way important as in WW2.

    • @hawawah8671
      @hawawah8671 Рік тому +4

      The Abrams main battle tank is older today than the Sherman was when the Abrams was first introduced.

  • @UncleMikeDrop
    @UncleMikeDrop 4 роки тому +8

    To be fair, killing a young Hitler likely would not have changed much as Hitler was HARDLY the only charismatic psychopath in the Nazi party. It's the head of the serpent fallacy.

  • @rochellethundercloud346
    @rochellethundercloud346 4 роки тому +25

    President trump and former president clinton are the same age.
    Lincoln was absurdly tall,6'4". Keep in mind this was in the 1800's.such a thing is common now,back then,not so much.

    • @LolzerXD2014
      @LolzerXD2014 4 роки тому +1

      rochelle thundercloud Yeah being 6 ft 4 at those time would have been like being 7 ft today

    • @ninjaxsam
      @ninjaxsam 4 роки тому +3

      And Confusius possible 6' 9 in like 500 b.c, And that Napoleon was actually slightly taller than the average for a Frenchmen at the time.

    • @aesthetic_yatsura
      @aesthetic_yatsura 4 роки тому

      Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and Donald Trump were all born just months apart

  • @michelletuband
    @michelletuband 11 місяців тому +11

    Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the Pyramids of Giza.

  • @me1234229
    @me1234229 4 роки тому +16

    Still imagining how the Egyptian, came up with so much futuristic way of building a lot of things.. .

    • @AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult
      @AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult 4 роки тому +6

      I think "ancient people" were a lot smarter than we petceive, and their knowledge probably got lost due to wars/domination/ignorance somehow.

    • @me1234229
      @me1234229 4 роки тому

      @@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult thank fucking you! I know technologies helps but damn we have lost so much knowledge.

  • @RegularInvader
    @RegularInvader 4 роки тому +19

    A Buzzfeed video about condom facts revealed that WWII soldiers who traveled overseas protected thier guns with condoms. It prevented sea water from damaging the guns.

    • @red-vg2ds
      @red-vg2ds 4 роки тому +3

      During World War 1, invisible ink was used and was later revealed to be cum
      You can't imagine how smelly they are now

    • @stephaniehowe0973
      @stephaniehowe0973 4 роки тому +1

      They still use condoms

    • @aesthetic_yatsura
      @aesthetic_yatsura 4 роки тому +1

      During the Vietnam War, American soldiers used to intentionally leave wrappers for XL condoms around to intimidate the Vietcong

  • @MadameTamma
    @MadameTamma 4 роки тому +30

    Ancient Alexandria developed steam powered technology. Can you imagine what civilization would look like if Alexandria never fell? If all of their discoveries survived and we never went into a dark age where that knowledge was lost and we had to figure it out all over again?

    • @snatchadams69
      @snatchadams69 4 роки тому +3

      We would've been on the moon in the 1500s

    • @calebfielding6352
      @calebfielding6352 2 роки тому +7

      No, no it didnt. Look up the steam "engine" they made.

    • @noahmueller1468
      @noahmueller1468 Рік тому +2

      To my knowledge the steam “engine” that was made at Alexandria was little more than a novelty and the technology to actually make a steam engine like what would be needed for industrialization wouldn’t exist for centuries
      The burning of Alexandria was tragic but it wasn’t some great focal point of history that had it not happened would’ve sprung technology forward centuries

    • @dsxa918
      @dsxa918 Рік тому

      As far as I know, most if not the majority of information was available in other places but the specifications of 'exhibits' or significan of some material may not have been recognised.

    • @chezburger1781
      @chezburger1781 9 місяців тому +1

      a steam powered spinning ball is far from steam engines and heavy industry

  • @calebfielding6352
    @calebfielding6352 2 роки тому +4

    Hitler had breeding camps for aryan's where girls as young as 12 were impregnated, and 2 weeks after the child was born it was sent away to be adopted by a proper aryan family.

    • @rosemarielee7775
      @rosemarielee7775 4 місяці тому +1

      I worked with a Norwegian girl whose mother narrowly escaped being taken to one of those camps.

  • @kathrynhoward4196
    @kathrynhoward4196 2 роки тому +3

    4:00 I actually looked that up, and it's a crock.

  • @sageumbra
    @sageumbra 4 роки тому +5

    A historical fact that blows my mind Roy benavidez went up against around a thousand Vietnamese soldiers with fully automatic weapons and they only managed to shoot him six times and he survived

  • @JayneTenn
    @JayneTenn 4 роки тому +11

    10:40 Imagine 230 years after your birth (or 158 yrs after your death) you still have living grandchildren! In that time span shouldn't that be 6th great-grandchildren? smh

  • @Anakin_Skywalker01
    @Anakin_Skywalker01 9 місяців тому +2

    There was a very old woman that I went to church with many years ago that told me and my dad a story. She told us how her grandfather used to sit her and her siblings and cousins around the campfire and on the porch and tell them stories of his time fighting in the Civil War. My father did research and it turns out her grandfather did fight in the civil war. He’s really skeptical about stuff like that; Especially when something happened so long ago. It’s crazy to think that I knew someone who knew someone who fought in a war that happened nearly 200 years ago.

    • @emilybarclay8831
      @emilybarclay8831 11 днів тому +1

      John Tyler, the 10th president of the US who was born in 1790, has a living grandson. Human lifespans can cover a lot more time than people think, especially two generations of long lived people. A 99 year old today who’s father was 80 when they were born and who’s father was 80 when he was born could realistically have a grandparent who remembered the start of the American war of independence

  • @mlgsnip3rv291
    @mlgsnip3rv291 2 роки тому +3

    6:54 OOF

  • @dangeiger9796
    @dangeiger9796 4 роки тому +9

    As a Cubs fan, it’s amazing how many things happened between Cubs World Series wins in 1908 and 2016

  • @slyninja4444
    @slyninja4444 4 роки тому +6

    There was a Chinese emperor in the same year the Titanic sank.

  • @harrisjordan7492
    @harrisjordan7492 Рік тому +2

    As an American. The amount of inhumane, immoral, or just plain wrong things our nation did. The treaties we broke, the cultures we backstabbed, and the countless crimes. The things that should be remembered and learned from that are all just glazed over by history teachers for either the sake of time or some kind of coverup, scares me sometimes. I believe that modern America is a force for good, but earlier in our history we did some shady shit for the sake of money or land. I am not going to go around saying that America is the best nor am I saying that America is the worst, but I am proud to be an American.

  • @gffhvfhjvf4959
    @gffhvfhjvf4959 8 місяців тому +2

    Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city, having been so for 5000 years.

  • @cookie_jarz
    @cookie_jarz 4 роки тому +4

    The person born in the 1800s who was the last to die was Italian and probably didn’t know about or cared about half the things that person classified as major world events

  • @aesthetic_yatsura
    @aesthetic_yatsura 4 роки тому +5

    Love is magic
    And to add to the mention of the last time a guillotine being used in the same year Star Wars hit theaters, the last execution by guillotine was also done on the 5th day of Voyager I's mission.

  • @JodyBruchon
    @JodyBruchon 4 роки тому +5

    Listening to 13:00, I found a new religion.

  • @dangeiger9796
    @dangeiger9796 4 роки тому +3

    John Tyler was President from 1841-45, and he has two grandsons living now

  • @benjamindanielsen5204
    @benjamindanielsen5204 4 роки тому +3

    The Soviet AK-47 rifle was in military service before the Korean War began in 1950.

    • @capncake8837
      @capncake8837 4 роки тому

      Benjamin Danielsen Frick, I didn’t know that.

  • @admiralinvertebrate5649
    @admiralinvertebrate5649 6 місяців тому +1

    To me, it’s the fact that there was an isolated population of Woolly Mammoths on Wrangel Island as recently as 2,000 BC.

  • @petrmaly9087
    @petrmaly9087 4 роки тому +2

    3:50 - as guns were used in wars for cca 700 years in Europe alone, I start to understand why the US education system is considered terrible. Also the guy below him is wrong as well, by that time siege canons were used for many generations.

  • @stzawadzki
    @stzawadzki 4 роки тому +1

    City I grew in is more than thousand years old. My BIL from Greece just smiles when we mention it :P

  • @Dragonmaster0118
    @Dragonmaster0118 4 роки тому +4

    I still say confederate solders should not have been counted as United states veterans.

    • @librathebeautifulwarmonk1283
      @librathebeautifulwarmonk1283 4 роки тому +2

      Makes sense. They weren't part of the US at the time

    • @Dragonmaster0118
      @Dragonmaster0118 4 роки тому +1

      @John Barber Thank you fixed it, I've always sucked at spelling.

    • @Dragonmaster0118
      @Dragonmaster0118 4 роки тому +2

      @@librathebeautifulwarmonk1283 Not only that they were our enemies.

    • @thesherlockhound
      @thesherlockhound 4 роки тому +3

      It's weird, because they were born on technically American soil, and the Confederacy was never officially recognized by the US. Yet they were fighting against the US directly, and we're allied with other countries (though no other country gave direct support). Technically making them anti-Americans and they would be viewed as anti American terrorists today, especially considering the number of Americans they killed. Yet their flag and generals are still honored at godlike symbols.

  • @PartyDude_19
    @PartyDude_19 8 місяців тому

    The same decade in which the last American civil war veteran died was the same decade in which the first public demonstration of video games occurred.
    Even stranger, the first public demonstration of a video game occurred 6 years before the last American civil war died.
    Bertie The Brain was a program designed to play tic tac toe that was demonstrated in 1950 and the last American civil war veteran, Albert Henry Woolson died in 1956.

  • @clxwncrxwn
    @clxwncrxwn 4 роки тому +3

    Olga of Kiev, Sam o nella can tell you more

  • @torimill-wilson3299
    @torimill-wilson3299 4 роки тому +1

    The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes

  • @fortifyjoy
    @fortifyjoy 4 роки тому +1

    thinking about the large % of my family members who have lived to 98, 101, etc. and thinking about how the avg life expectancy is going up and how many health resources are available and realizing I might one day be 100+ and realizing that's... just so much time... that's so many years... how much more I am yet to witness...

  • @user-ly3pj1yz4l
    @user-ly3pj1yz4l 4 роки тому +10

    150 gay couples defeated the spartan armies and they were undefeated in battle for 30 years

    • @AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult
      @AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult 4 роки тому +1

      are you talking about the 300 of Thermopylae ? because they were not alone. There were hundreds of Thebans behind them, to mention a few. The reason why they got famous is because they were the ones protecting the rest of the Greek army that was retreating, so they had to be the implacable badasses on the front lines

    • @captainweekend5276
      @captainweekend5276 2 роки тому +1

      @@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult Obviously not since he said they defeated the Spartan armies. He's talking about the sacred band of Thebes.

  • @importednascar
    @importednascar 4 роки тому +2

    What does Romantic doggo's have to do with history?

  • @UncleMikeDrop
    @UncleMikeDrop 4 роки тому +1

    Over regulation is what hampers modern construction efforts.

  • @rebeccamount50
    @rebeccamount50 2 місяці тому

    And.....the last guillotine execution was witnessed by Sir Christopher Lee.

  • @Optillistic
    @Optillistic 4 роки тому +4

    LOVE IS MAGIC

  • @equarg
    @equarg 7 місяців тому

    Oh Yes. Olga of Kiev.
    Officially the Patron Saint of Widows and Orphans. But I call her the Patron Saint of REVENGE.

  • @edschell9411
    @edschell9411 2 місяці тому

    civil war grandma is four people. the old lady the grandma his mom and her

  • @dreamingxnorris7772
    @dreamingxnorris7772 4 роки тому +2

    Early! I have notifications on ❤️

  • @kaiserwilhelmii5109
    @kaiserwilhelmii5109 4 роки тому +2

    love is magic

  • @codyterteling1583
    @codyterteling1583 Рік тому +1

    Fuck I'm late and didn't comment love is magic in comments. No wonder I got cheated on and my kid lost

  • @ladonamariposavigilis6447
    @ladonamariposavigilis6447 4 роки тому

    Love is magic.

  • @poisedstool5136
    @poisedstool5136 4 роки тому

    Love is magic

  • @MCC22
    @MCC22 4 роки тому +1

    16:41
    It is a possibility that humans had many forms of writing and created the internet maybe even twenty thousand years ago and all of this incredible technology and interplanetary travel was greatly set back seven thousand years ago. Perhaps some stuff is left to find.

  • @Sujo89
    @Sujo89 4 роки тому +1

    Why does the automatic voice reader pronounce "properly" as "proh-purly" instead of "prawpurly"

  • @colton7373
    @colton7373 Рік тому +1

    God sent His own son, Jesus into the world to be the place of us guilty sinners. Jesus never sinned. He felt no guilt. His conscience was clear before God. Since Adam, there has never been another man like Jesus who did all things pleasing to God. In every way, at all times, without exception, He pleased His Father, whereas we have displeased Him.
    Yet Jesus did not come just to give us an example. He came to be our substitute-to take the place of us sinners-and bear the punishment for all sin. At the end of His righteous life, He voluntarily died, as if He were the sinner. He took your sin upon himself and died in your place-in the place of all sinners. Forgiveness does not come through the church or through its leaders. Only God can forgive, and he is ready to forgive all who will believe and receive his forgiveness.
    “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” 1 John 1:9

  • @mustardman7042
    @mustardman7042 4 роки тому +1

    cigam si evol

  • @richardmeyer1837
    @richardmeyer1837 3 місяці тому

    1:18 I'm Related To Him

  • @capncake8837
    @capncake8837 4 роки тому

    Love is magic.

  • @mattkennedy5175
    @mattkennedy5175 4 роки тому +1

    Love is magic

  • @nickmon1112
    @nickmon1112 4 роки тому

    love is magic

  • @bangablesnowbeast
    @bangablesnowbeast 2 роки тому +1

    Love is magic.

  • @maverikfulfer2601
    @maverikfulfer2601 4 роки тому

    love is magic

  • @whatthefish2082
    @whatthefish2082 4 роки тому

    Love is magic

  • @thecingcali8796
    @thecingcali8796 4 роки тому +1

    love is magic

  • @Tarasevich_00
    @Tarasevich_00 4 роки тому

    Love is magic