As a child in America I was taught that Columbus was the first to know the earth was round and the reason no one wanted to fund his journey was because they thought he'd sail off the edge of the earth. This was literally in my text books
It's not that people thought he'd sail off the edge of the earth. It's that people knew he miscalculated the distance and would run out of supplies. The whole "Columbus was scoffed at for saying the earth is round" story was invented by Washington Irving.
@@ajc94 yes. They even knew how big it is. Well, they were 2° off. Columbus thought he could get to the Indies, by going west. He didn't think the world was as big as everyone said. So he didn't bring enough food with him. Fortunately for him the Americas were in his way, or they all would have starved to death. So Columbus wasn't some kind of genius, he was an idiot.
The black outfit for ninja comes from kabuki stage hands. Franklin's kite was a thought experiment. He even wrote in his description that if someone were foolish enough to try it, it would probably kill them. The extent of Keller's disability gets overstated to try to discredit her. She was completely blind and deaf, but she didn't have any cognitive disabilities, and was very aware of the world, through touch (and reading, thanks to Braille)
@kirawr8064 She couldn't hear, but she could feel vibrations, and understand feedback conveyed to her through sign language or braille. Also she was difficult enough to understand that she needed an interpreter, and her interpreter after Anne Sullivan misrepresented some of the things she said to downplay her leftist politics. I'd recommend SoupEmporium's video about her.
I was never under the impression that Keller had mental disabilities. I have heard that as a child she had behavioral challenges mostly due to the fact that her disabilities limited her ability to socialize or empathize- not in a sociopathic way, just if you can’t see or hear people and your communication is limited, how do you understand the impact of your actions on another’s emotions- and that her relationships were pretty much limited to her parents. It’s understandable that it would limit the social skills of anyone. I do find it incredibly interesting that the Alabama born daughter of a Confederate captain became a communist advocating for the rights of workers.
Cornflakes were actually invented specifically because of abstinence. Kellog wantes to make a breakfast so bland it could only make you not want to have sex. His brother then said: „yay cereal“ or something and made it a whole bunch more tasty. This resulted in a huge feud between the two and the kellogs brand we have today came from J.h Kellogs brother and not himself.
@@themusicbook8679You mean the guy who was one of the main reasons that circumcision is normal in the US because he thought that circumcised boys were less likely to play with themselves?
A whole lot better than a coin flip (the worst number I've seen seriously cited for a non-oppressed demographic is one in twenty), but it was still a roll of the dice, so to speak, and was the second leading cause of death in human history- behind malaria.
And men could die young in a fight. It is good to look at lifespans of medieval clergymen, those are important enough to note their life data when they died, not like with ordinary people. They easily lived until their 80, besides epidemics. There is almost no better way besides archeology to find out how long could medieval adults live.
The Hellen Keller misconception is so funny. Being remembered for being a great speaker and not at all what was in the speeches. Great vid again Mr. Bro
Similarly Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle was a criticism of the natural corruption of capitalism yet everybody only ever focuses on the few pages talking about meat packing.
I LIVE A HOUR FROM HER HOUSE. THERE'S A HELLEN KELLER FEST EVERY YEAR. And they still didn't teach us. We know all about Ann Sullivan and her as a child, bit as a adult? Nothing. I blame the red scare in the 50s
Many great people fell to communism. Oppenheimer or Albert Camus for example. It's because it basically sounds great. Everyone is equal and we can learn to cooperate together as a lovely community. Charles Fourier even tried Le Phalanstère, an experimental town, where they put 1620 people, assigned each of them a role in a society and told to live together. The children all were taken care of by a certain group of people, some prepared food and so on. It sounds like a freakin' disney fairytale, an ideology romantists like George Byron could write about, hoping it would save the world. Only ww2 USSR and post-war middle Europe have shown how uneffective and destructive it truly was. I don't think we can blame them for having hope, when they didn't know the future. The reality of russian camps has been released to the public in the 50s and it's important to point out many haven't believed in it for a long time. Herling-Grudziński wrote a book covering his experiences that were so terrific people assumed it's fiction made out of hatred towards USSR as he was polish
i heard somewhere that the concept of 'ninjas' came from people dressed in all black and working bts on a theatre set. the black helped them blend with the backdrop better and they werent seen by the audience. over time, people thought it would be a good idea to incorporate the stage crew into the play and have one of these ninjas kill a main character, essentially having a shock value (NO ONE saw it coming). thats how they became so popular. i might be wrong but its just what i have heard
To be more clear: there was a trend of random characters in the plays to reveal themselves as Ninjas, which was very exciting, and the various different characters would turn out to be Ninjas until eventually one decided to break the fourth wall and have the set crew turn out to be a ninja, which the audiences really liked, so that became the main trope and I guess that was the point where westerners got the idea of ninjas from since they weren't going to ever meet a real one
All of these explanations for how the look became associated with Ninjas is wrong. Yes, it was because the stage hands wore all black, and I'm sure there was some play that did it for shock value. That being said, the real misconception is that they used a crewman, dressed in black, to represent to the audience that this character was not seen by the characters on stage, but still visible to the audience, that's how you can show an unseen assassin. It can only exist if one understands the meta of the Kabuki format and understood that a guy in all black is supposed to be invisible. Kabuki audiences were keen on this, but it was when westerners were exposed to the format that the misconception began.
Look at knowing better nee video he talks about him and how john kellogg is the reason that you are uncrimsized if you are an american he talks about how john rlly infunced american society that can be felt even in this day
I think it’s also worth mentioning that John wasn’t the even the one who came up with the serendipitous cereal, that honor goes to his brother, W.K. Kellogg. John Harvey just stole the rights to its manufacture and claimed it was his idea.
@@tilenHDI never get this anticercumcision thing. No one ever explains or questions it. Just some guy yelling on a hill. What are you on about? I’ve always been told foreskin can become a breeding ground for harmful bacteria in most babies that can cause reproductive harm.
Fun fact: Albert Einstein was actually really good in school. The guy who wrote his biographies was German. In Germany, you have a grade system from 1-6. One is the best and six the worst. Einstein went to school in Switzerland where the grades were the opposite.
My tiny little infant brain still wants to think ninjas were running and jumping on rooftops, throwing kunais and shurikens on anybody that dared to cross them
The word electricity comes from the Greek elektron, meaning amber. The Greeks found out that rubbing amber rods on fur is a relatively reliable way to produce static electricity. When (and if) Benjamin Franklin did his kite and lightning experiment he wanted to prove that lightning contains electricity. Since static electricity can produce small lightning bolts there was the theory that the big lightning in the skies are also the result of electricity, which he aimed to prove. This knowledge also helped us to protect ourselves from lightning, for example with lighting rods. Whilst people have been using trees as lightning protection long before, we haven't really understood why this works
I got one misconception that really grind my gears... The invention of printing block. Guttenberg may mass produce this technique in Europe. But the Korean and Chinese are the first to invent it, centuries before Guttenberg. Also the Knight's code... It doesn't exist. Glory for both the Knights of Europe and Samurai for Japan is to bring honor to their lords and religion, even if they need to kill, and plunder the poor and innocent.
@@kennethfisher7013he meant what he meant, printing block was done first by asians, gutenberg only invented the moveable fonts, which makes sense considering how easier it is to print latin script
Most people have a weird conception about how Vikings look, they didn’t have helmets with horns and most not some perfect looking guy like in the movies
Calories in nutrition are from an analogy on car motors from the 1800s that has never been fixed Spinach doesn’t have a mess of iron in it that’s from an error from the 30s I think where they missed the decimal
I went to check out your channel as you were saying this is your fourth video. Sad to see there aren’t more but I’m stoked for your come up! Great video I’m definitely hitting the bell for the next one
Absinthe was often attributed to cause halkucinogic inspiration for artists like Vincent van Gogh, when really he had epilepsy. So did Lewis Carroll,and many other famous people.
I do think it’s weird how all these channels cover the same topic at the same time lmao I’m not complaining, content is great and differs greatly each time ❤
That last one, about masturbation, I knew of. And I found a book about it. A friend of mine and I visited an old farmhouse his family owned. It was a big house, lots of rooms and antique furniture In one bookcase there was a series of home health books for boys, girls, teens, and adults. One book was "What Every Young Man Should Know" The author claimed he was a doctor, and knew several young men who had gone insane from too much "self abuse"
In 1760 a Swiss physician named Tissot wrote a treatise on the dangers of masturbation. It was hugely influential and led to people inventing devices to put on young boys to stop it.
I think the American education system has actually gotten better in the last few years, because I’ve heard many of these misconceptions, but in the context about how they’re misconceptions
In Japanese theatre, stagehands wore "ninja outfits," and there arose a cultural norm of regarding anyone wearing such outfits as invisible. This is where the idea of invisible assassins wearing that outfit came from.
You might include "going the whole 9 yards" in one of your videos, I always thought it was interesting that it was based on old fighter planes string of bullets. Just an origin of terms of phrase video in general might be fun.
Since you asked for it: I'd say another notable area where there are misconceptions galore is the topic of the supposed tyranny of the medieval church and specifically witch burnings. The church never had *the* absolute power over Europe, it's an extremely complex body with millions of mrmbers that doesn't follow one uniform policy and changes constantly, with philosophical discourse and changes of policy being historically frequent, like the spread of monasticism, the reforms of the 12th century and much more. Not all contradicting opinions were seen as 'evil' or 'heretical', and even if they were, 'the church' or more specifically the local clerical authority did not always have the leverage to enact punishments and often didn't want to. Many people treated before clerical courts were just there for minor issues easily resolved with small acts of repentance like saying a certain amount of prayers. Mostly, heretics who genuinely upset social order were the ones who got harsher sentences, and these were enacted by temporal authority, not by the church. Witches specifically were said to be a thing of folk myth by the medieval papacy, and the belief in witches and their magic was framed as a denial of God's supreme authority from which all 'true' magic was said to derive. This notably changed during the protestant reformation as people doubted church authority and the fear of the devil spread widely due to this insecurity, which made the folk belief in witches become more accepted even among clergy. War, worsening climate and many more factors contributed to witch hunts becoming common in the Early Modern period. It was not only women who were killed in Witch trials, but in some areas 50% or more men (often for being 'werewolves' specifically, a uniquely male crime), and the victims were not usually burned, but hanged or drowned. The enacting of these trials by authorities was not official church policy, but often an attempt to quell the social unrest by giving in to the demands of the mob to keep the peace. The inquisition notably had nothing to do with this, because Witch trials happened largely in those areas heavily affected by the reformation and the following religious division, like the Netherlands, Britain etc, where the inquisition wasn't active. Where it was active, it sometimes directly prevented persecution of 'magic users'; they persecuted jews, corrupt clergy, and heretics, not witches.
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg only aided in the creation cornflakes, his brother was the one who actually created them and the one who founded the company. (I think. I saw this in a documentary 🧐)
As far as I understand the most accepted version is that John Harvey and his wife created them. His brother Will was the one who commercialized them, including refining the recipe to make them something people would willingly buy (such as adding sugar which John Harvey strongly opposed) and started the Kellogg's company. Will always claimed to be directly involved in the initial development but it seems more likely his role was a minor one at most and he asserted the claim for other reasons.
Instant like for #2. This is a misconception that even many modern historians have. I think it stems from a serious lack of education in basic statistics. If you have even an elementary understanding of statistics, you can easily figure out how the infant mortality rate would skew the life expectancies of those times.
Eleanor of Aquitane, the mother of King John of England (the worst king), lived past 80 and actively took part in court intrigue and even wars until her death, and she lived in the 1200s
Imo, yea, the personalities are like reality tv, over the top. But, thats obvious to anyone with a brain, and like, yea, they fight. John Cena isn't added in post. Its just as real of a sport, only difference is allowing personality to shine.
The Norse knew there was land between Asia and Europe before Columbus was born. They had small settlements that were eventually abandoned, but they were in Greenland and Newfoundland and it was called Vineland, or some variation of that.
Trust me Bro is the the type of guy you can watch while eating (which is a massive compliment from me because I’m picky with what I watch while eating)
My personal favorite is that old houses did not have closets because if you had a closet it would be taxed as an additional room. In reality it was just hard to build closets back then, and people generally used trunks to store clothes. The misconception comes for the fact that storage rooms which did not have windows or fireplaces were sometimes referred to as closets.
Yo did anyone else get the google android ad where there are two people take various photo versions of the American gothic painting?? Cause I got that ad right after the video ended…
Helicopter isnt made up of the words "heli" and "copter". It's made up of "helico" (as in helix), and "pter" which means flight, like you might see at the start of pterodactyl :)
Just something you overlooked, no big deal, dr Kellogg didn't invent Kelloggs, that was his brother, their feud was famous during the time his brother was a cook for him an invented corn flakes by accident, they went back an forth with lawsuits but ultimately it wasn't the doctor who invented the cereal
I think it’s funny people think Helen Keller was a fake lol because I met a deaf blind lady who spoke perfectly clearly, lived independently, and ran a whole school for deaf and blind children to teach them to live independently
Iirc he didn't say they were they same thing. He said Hellen Keller supported both, which is plausible *because* they they are two different and non mutually exclusive ideas.
I mean, the Ben Franklin one is very odd because I know for sure that my mom had an Encicopledia with that info in it, so I understand people's confusion
In friends there’s this episode the character phoebe gives the definition of discover it means “to find (something or someone) unexpectedly or in the course of research. With this definition Benjamin Franklin did discover electricity although it wasn’t the first
I remember learning all of these "facts" in grade school and no, communism wasn't brought up a single time when talking about Helen Keller, even in high school. I'm 32 and if you're in high school right now, just understand that most of what you learn will show up in future youtube videos like this.
They look better in white anyway. Painting marble is like putting barbecue sauce on filet mignon. Though it is hilarious to think of the ancient Greeks and their gaudy painted statues!
Cool video! If anyone cares: not only greek sculptures were painted, they painted their buildings too. The parthenon was never intended to be all white not from the inside and not from the outside. But the paint wasn't for all parts of the buildings.
Fun fact: it is believed that the ninja’s attire misconception came from the suits the people would wear in shows in China to not be seen while they move things on set, which, you guessed it, was all black.
I had always heard that Benjamin Franklin tied that kite with the key on it to his fireplace or attached it to his workstation from the outside. Similar to how we install wires from outside a house to inside a house. He did this as an experiment. I’s what I was always taught. :) great video by the way!
As a child in America I was taught that Columbus was the first to know the earth was round and the reason no one wanted to fund his journey was because they thought he'd sail off the edge of the earth. This was literally in my text books
SAME! American history classes can be so misleading
I was taught the same thing.
It's not that people thought he'd sail off the edge of the earth. It's that people knew he miscalculated the distance and would run out of supplies. The whole "Columbus was scoffed at for saying the earth is round" story was invented by Washington Irving.
Didn't they know in ancient Greece that the earth was round?
@@ajc94 yes. They even knew how big it is. Well, they were 2° off.
Columbus thought he could get to the Indies, by going west. He didn't think the world was as big as everyone said. So he didn't bring enough food with him. Fortunately for him the Americas were in his way, or they all would have starved to death.
So Columbus wasn't some kind of genius, he was an idiot.
The black outfit for ninja comes from kabuki stage hands.
Franklin's kite was a thought experiment. He even wrote in his description that if someone were foolish enough to try it, it would probably kill them.
The extent of Keller's disability gets overstated to try to discredit her. She was completely blind and deaf, but she didn't have any cognitive disabilities, and was very aware of the world, through touch (and reading, thanks to Braille)
How the f was she a public speaker if she could hear?
@kirawr8064 She couldn't hear, but she could feel vibrations, and understand feedback conveyed to her through sign language or braille. Also she was difficult enough to understand that she needed an interpreter, and her interpreter after Anne Sullivan misrepresented some of the things she said to downplay her leftist politics. I'd recommend SoupEmporium's video about her.
I was never under the impression that Keller had mental disabilities. I have heard that as a child she had behavioral challenges mostly due to the fact that her disabilities limited her ability to socialize or empathize- not in a sociopathic way, just if you can’t see or hear people and your communication is limited, how do you understand the impact of your actions on another’s emotions- and that her relationships were pretty much limited to her parents. It’s understandable that it would limit the social skills of anyone. I do find it incredibly interesting that the Alabama born daughter of a Confederate captain became a communist advocating for the rights of workers.
@@Ashni1I have to wonder why she even cared or especially what in the world makes her qualified to push out political ideologies, lol
Cornflakes were actually invented specifically because of abstinence. Kellog wantes to make a breakfast so bland it could only make you not want to have sex. His brother then said: „yay cereal“ or something and made it a whole bunch more tasty. This resulted in a huge feud between the two and the kellogs brand we have today came from J.h Kellogs brother and not himself.
So wild 😂
Honestly Kelly ain’t that bad, y’all just dident grow up broke
@@themusicbook8679 oh, you wouldn't believe what they did with oatmeal at JH Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium
Repeat after me: corn flakes are not birth control. Corn flakes are not birth control.
@@themusicbook8679You mean the guy who was one of the main reasons that circumcision is normal in the US because he thought that circumcised boys were less likely to play with themselves?
Life expectancy was also shorter for the population as a whole since 50% are female, and dying during birth was pretty much a coin flip
Very good point!
A whole lot better than a coin flip (the worst number I've seen seriously cited for a non-oppressed demographic is one in twenty), but it was still a roll of the dice, so to speak, and was the second leading cause of death in human history- behind malaria.
@@matthewbruns8613 and for all of that risk still being treated as second class 😭
And men could die young in a fight. It is good to look at lifespans of medieval clergymen, those are important enough to note their life data when they died, not like with ordinary people. They easily lived until their 80, besides epidemics. There is almost no better way besides archeology to find out how long could medieval adults live.
War also probably lowered the life expectancy
The Hellen Keller misconception is so funny. Being remembered for being a great speaker and not at all what was in the speeches.
Great vid again Mr. Bro
Thank you!
Ok but if she was deaf and blind before the age of two, how would she even know what communism is?
Similarly Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle was a criticism of the natural corruption of capitalism yet everybody only ever focuses on the few pages talking about meat packing.
I LIVE A HOUR FROM HER HOUSE. THERE'S A HELLEN KELLER FEST EVERY YEAR.
And they still didn't teach us. We know all about Ann Sullivan and her as a child, bit as a adult? Nothing.
I blame the red scare in the 50s
Many great people fell to communism. Oppenheimer or Albert Camus for example. It's because it basically sounds great. Everyone is equal and we can learn to cooperate together as a lovely community. Charles Fourier even tried Le Phalanstère, an experimental town, where they put 1620 people, assigned each of them a role in a society and told to live together. The children all were taken care of by a certain group of people, some prepared food and so on. It sounds like a freakin' disney fairytale, an ideology romantists like George Byron could write about, hoping it would save the world. Only ww2 USSR and post-war middle Europe have shown how uneffective and destructive it truly was. I don't think we can blame them for having hope, when they didn't know the future. The reality of russian camps has been released to the public in the 50s and it's important to point out many haven't believed in it for a long time. Herling-Grudziński wrote a book covering his experiences that were so terrific people assumed it's fiction made out of hatred towards USSR as he was polish
i heard somewhere that the concept of 'ninjas' came from people dressed in all black and working bts on a theatre set. the black helped them blend with the backdrop better and they werent seen by the audience. over time, people thought it would be a good idea to incorporate the stage crew into the play and have one of these ninjas kill a main character, essentially having a shock value (NO ONE saw it coming). thats how they became so popular. i might be wrong but its just what i have heard
To be more clear: there was a trend of random characters in the plays to reveal themselves as Ninjas, which was very exciting, and the various different characters would turn out to be Ninjas until eventually one decided to break the fourth wall and have the set crew turn out to be a ninja, which the audiences really liked, so that became the main trope and I guess that was the point where westerners got the idea of ninjas from since they weren't going to ever meet a real one
Yeah I heard the same thing
Cool story! Very funny. 😂
All of these explanations for how the look became associated with Ninjas is wrong. Yes, it was because the stage hands wore all black, and I'm sure there was some play that did it for shock value. That being said, the real misconception is that they used a crewman, dressed in black, to represent to the audience that this character was not seen by the characters on stage, but still visible to the audience, that's how you can show an unseen assassin. It can only exist if one understands the meta of the Kabuki format and understood that a guy in all black is supposed to be invisible. Kabuki audiences were keen on this, but it was when westerners were exposed to the format that the misconception began.
@@abattlescar this makes so much more sense
It's worth mentioning that John Kellogg designed his original cereal to be as bland as possible to suppress certain "passions"
Look at knowing better nee video he talks about him and how john kellogg is the reason that you are uncrimsized if you are an american he talks about how john rlly infunced american society that can be felt even in this day
I think it’s also worth mentioning that John wasn’t the even the one who came up with the serendipitous cereal, that honor goes to his brother, W.K. Kellogg. John Harvey just stole the rights to its manufacture and claimed it was his idea.
How does that work?
"this cereal tastes like cardboard, I can't masturbate anymore 👎👎👎👎"??
No way 😭
@@tilenHDI never get this anticercumcision thing. No one ever explains or questions it. Just some guy yelling on a hill. What are you on about? I’ve always been told foreskin can become a breeding ground for harmful bacteria in most babies that can cause reproductive harm.
Fun fact: Albert Einstein was actually really good in school. The guy who wrote his biographies was German. In Germany, you have a grade system from 1-6. One is the best and six the worst. Einstein went to school in Switzerland where the grades were the opposite.
Wait people think Benjamin franklin invented electricity? Wtf are they teaching in american schools
Trust Me Bro For President Of The American Education System
I can confirm this, never questioned this till I was 22. America lies about everything
They really do teach us that in US schools.
They teaching its OK to be gay 😂😂😂 that's there main focuse right now they don't care about anything
They didn’t teach us he invented it. But they did say he discovered it.
Hellen Keller is hilarious. I have heard so much about her... but didn't know anything she wrote. Awesome video!
Thank you! And yeah it was an interesting bit of lore!
She's a lying communist shill. Used by her caregivers to promote their ideas in order to get rich 💀💀
@@TrustMeBroOfficiali remever watching an whole as movie abt her in elementary and dam they left out the communist part. (American propaganda is tuff)
"She" by which you mean her carer...
My tiny little infant brain still wants to think ninjas were running and jumping on rooftops, throwing kunais and shurikens on anybody that dared to cross them
Bro your art and way you explain is just so entertaining
Keep this up, you deserve so much more
Thank you!
Did you know that Hellen Keller owned a piano? Neither did she. 😂
Jail, behind the bars, JAIL
The word electricity comes from the Greek elektron, meaning amber. The Greeks found out that rubbing amber rods on fur is a relatively reliable way to produce static electricity. When (and if) Benjamin Franklin did his kite and lightning experiment he wanted to prove that lightning contains electricity. Since static electricity can produce small lightning bolts there was the theory that the big lightning in the skies are also the result of electricity, which he aimed to prove. This knowledge also helped us to protect ourselves from lightning, for example with lighting rods. Whilst people have been using trees as lightning protection long before, we haven't really understood why this works
What a hidden gem on UA-cam, great content bro.
Thank you bro!
I got one misconception that really grind my gears... The invention of printing block. Guttenberg may mass produce this technique in Europe. But the Korean and Chinese are the first to invent it, centuries before Guttenberg.
Also the Knight's code... It doesn't exist. Glory for both the Knights of Europe and Samurai for Japan is to bring honor to their lords and religion, even if they need to kill, and plunder the poor and innocent.
I think you must mean moveable type, not printing block.
@@kennethfisher7013he meant what he meant, printing block was done first by asians, gutenberg only invented the moveable fonts, which makes sense considering how easier it is to print latin script
@@arekkrol9758 I believe that we are in agreement.
Most people have a weird conception about how Vikings look, they didn’t have helmets with horns and most not some perfect looking guy like in the movies
And the biggest misconception of them all is that capitalism benefits mankind as a whole, rather than a privileged few.
not gonna lie, this ones my favorite so far. silly little history facts are my favorite. and i gotta say. i love your ben franklin drawing.
Thank you! ❤️
Calories in nutrition are from an analogy on car motors from the 1800s that has never been fixed
Spinach doesn’t have a mess of iron in it that’s from an error from the 30s I think where they missed the decimal
i watched you since you had 1 k subscribers and now you are growing and your animations are improving.
Thank you!
I've heard Dante's time had life expectancy of 70yrs, and Dante's "In the middle of the walk of our life" (Inferno 1 l. 1) was 35yo.
I went to check out your channel as you were saying this is your fourth video. Sad to see there aren’t more but I’m stoked for your come up! Great video I’m definitely hitting the bell for the next one
Thank you!
These videos are so fun to watch, thank you for making these amazing videos
Thank YOU for watching!
this video is actually interesting and informative! keep it up man ^^
Thank you so much!
A 100mph penny hitting edge first is still going to sting like hell and likely draw blood.😬
But you will live!
Absinthe was often attributed to cause halkucinogic inspiration for artists like Vincent van Gogh, when really he had epilepsy. So did Lewis Carroll,and many other famous people.
I do think it’s weird how all these channels cover the same topic at the same time lmao I’m not complaining, content is great and differs greatly each time ❤
Thank you!
I mean, life expectancy couldn't be THAT low in ancient times if fricking Diogenes lived until he was like 80
Exactly!
im so glad you mentioned life expectancy. it makes me so mad when ppl use the midevil life span as a point in an argument
what kinda arguments do you even get into to get onto that topic
That last one, about masturbation, I knew of. And I found a book about it. A friend of mine and I visited an old farmhouse his family owned. It was a big house, lots of rooms and antique furniture In one bookcase there was a series of home health books for boys, girls, teens, and adults. One book was "What Every Young Man Should Know" The author claimed he was a doctor, and knew several young men who had gone insane from too much "self abuse"
In 1760 a Swiss physician named Tissot wrote a treatise on the dangers of masturbation. It was hugely influential and led to people inventing devices to put on young boys to stop it.
5am in germany rn , ain't gonna stop me from watching ur damn good vids brother . Keep it going I love em'
Thank you legend! 🇩🇪
I think the American education system has actually gotten better in the last few years, because I’ve heard many of these misconceptions, but in the context about how they’re misconceptions
On Paul Revere’s famous Midnight Ride, he never shouted “the British are coming!” He was a spy so he had to be completely silent 😮
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Suddenly Naruto's uniform made lot of sense
In Japanese theatre, stagehands wore "ninja outfits," and there arose a cultural norm of regarding anyone wearing such outfits as invisible. This is where the idea of invisible assassins wearing that outfit came from.
That Dr. Kellogg also ran a sanitarium whereupon he invented his eponymous cereal.
You might include "going the whole 9 yards" in one of your videos, I always thought it was interesting that it was based on old fighter planes string of bullets. Just an origin of terms of phrase video in general might be fun.
Since you asked for it:
I'd say another notable area where there are misconceptions galore is the topic of the supposed tyranny of the medieval church and specifically witch burnings.
The church never had *the* absolute power over Europe, it's an extremely complex body with millions of mrmbers that doesn't follow one uniform policy and changes constantly, with philosophical discourse and changes of policy being historically frequent, like the spread of monasticism, the reforms of the 12th century and much more.
Not all contradicting opinions were seen as 'evil' or 'heretical', and even if they were, 'the church' or more specifically the local clerical authority did not always have the leverage to enact punishments and often didn't want to.
Many people treated before clerical courts were just there for minor issues easily resolved with small acts of repentance like saying a certain amount of prayers. Mostly, heretics who genuinely upset social order were the ones who got harsher sentences, and these were enacted by temporal authority, not by the church.
Witches specifically were said to be a thing of folk myth by the medieval papacy, and the belief in witches and their magic was framed as a denial of God's supreme authority from which all 'true' magic was said to derive. This notably changed during the protestant reformation as people doubted church authority and the fear of the devil spread widely due to this insecurity, which made the folk belief in witches become more accepted even among clergy. War, worsening climate and many more factors contributed to witch hunts becoming common in the Early Modern period.
It was not only women who were killed in Witch trials, but in some areas 50% or more men (often for being 'werewolves' specifically, a uniquely male crime), and the victims were not usually burned, but hanged or drowned.
The enacting of these trials by authorities was not official church policy, but often an attempt to quell the social unrest by giving in to the demands of the mob to keep the peace.
The inquisition notably had nothing to do with this, because Witch trials happened largely in those areas heavily affected by the reformation and the following religious division, like the Netherlands, Britain etc, where the inquisition wasn't active. Where it was active, it sometimes directly prevented persecution of 'magic users'; they persecuted jews, corrupt clergy, and heretics, not witches.
Man you are extremely underrated. I really hope you get a UA-cam plaque soon.
Thank you!! Me too, always been a dream!
@@TrustMeBroOfficialIf all else fails you can always get a YT plaque off of Temu lol
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg only aided in the creation cornflakes, his brother was the one who actually created them and the one who founded the company. (I think. I saw this in a documentary 🧐)
He also popularized secular circumcision, but not for health reasons or anything… just to stop boys from masturbating.
As far as I understand the most accepted version is that John Harvey and his wife created them.
His brother Will was the one who commercialized them, including refining the recipe to make them something people would willingly buy (such as adding sugar which John Harvey strongly opposed) and started the Kellogg's company.
Will always claimed to be directly involved in the initial development but it seems more likely his role was a minor one at most and he asserted the claim for other reasons.
Can't believe people think WWE is fake. Youre telling me someone just takes a top-rope elbow drop to the face....for fun?!
So ridiculous!
@TrustMeBroOfficial you're doing great work! Keep it up man. Definitely got your own unique spin on this for sure.
Thank you legend! @@ChatHistory
Instant like for #2. This is a misconception that even many modern historians have. I think it stems from a serious lack of education in basic statistics. If you have even an elementary understanding of statistics, you can easily figure out how the infant mortality rate would skew the life expectancies of those times.
Eleanor of Aquitane, the mother of King John of England (the worst king), lived past 80 and actively took part in court intrigue and even wars until her death, and she lived in the 1200s
Galileo was allergic to apples
TMB. is the best avbrivated name ever
It is hilariously stupid that people think WWE is fake
where the fuck is this john cena dude? that guy is NOT real you got played buddy.
EXACTLY
Imo, yea, the personalities are like reality tv, over the top. But, thats obvious to anyone with a brain, and like, yea, they fight. John Cena isn't added in post. Its just as real of a sport, only difference is allowing personality to shine.
@@wavejumper3and they don't really hit themselfs obviously but those mf's have incredible physic with all the stunts they do
@@alexandre007opayeah they’re “stunts”, not “fights”. It’s a show, a performance, not a brawl. It’s fake fights.
The Norse knew there was land between Asia and Europe before Columbus was born. They had small settlements that were eventually abandoned, but they were in Greenland and Newfoundland and it was called Vineland, or some variation of that.
Trust me Bro is the the type of guy you can watch while eating (which is a massive compliment from me because I’m picky with what I watch while eating)
I feel honoured 🙏
Another thing about ninjas: they weren't called ninjas. The word didn't emerge until the mid 20th century. They were actually called Shinobi.
My personal favorite is that old houses did not have closets because if you had a closet it would be taxed as an additional room. In reality it was just hard to build closets back then, and people generally used trunks to store clothes. The misconception comes for the fact that storage rooms which did not have windows or fireplaces were sometimes referred to as closets.
Interesting!
In countries, like Germany and the UK they have wardrobes because they do get taxed for closets.
I think when people say "invented electricity", they mean "invented a method for harnessing and using electricity".
Yo did anyone else get the google android ad where there are two people take various photo versions of the American gothic painting??
Cause I got that ad right after the video ended…
THE KID JUST WANTED CANDY 😭
( 1:10 )
Thank you bro now i feel 2 braincells smarter
Helicopter isnt made up of the words "heli" and "copter". It's made up of "helico" (as in helix), and "pter" which means flight, like you might see at the start of pterodactyl :)
I remember reading about infrared light as a kid and I wondered what the process of infraring the light was like!
ITs a FrEe CoUnTrY😂
Why are these videos so good to see! Great work 👏
Thank you!
Just something you overlooked, no big deal, dr Kellogg didn't invent Kelloggs, that was his brother, their feud was famous during the time his brother was a cook for him an invented corn flakes by accident, they went back an forth with lawsuits but ultimately it wasn't the doctor who invented the cereal
this guy is the epitome of ACKSHUALLYYYY and I love it
I think it’s funny people think Helen Keller was a fake lol because I met a deaf blind lady who spoke perfectly clearly, lived independently, and ran a whole school for deaf and blind children to teach them to live independently
I’m assuming she was not that young when she lost her hearing and sight.
@@austinarnold1652 she was born that way
@@IzzyMoonbow648 then I don’t believe you either. Lol
@@austinarnold1652 your loss
@@IzzyMoonbow648Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing to disease. She was born with both. It is believed it was Bacterial Meningitis that stole both
Communism and Socialism are 2 different things.
And they're both a disgrace
"Tucker Carlson gave me my entire world view."
-@@ndcensurado6298
Iirc he didn't say they were they same thing. He said Hellen Keller supported both, which is plausible *because* they they are two different and non mutually exclusive ideas.
I mean, the Ben Franklin one is very odd because I know for sure that my mom had an Encicopledia with that info in it, so I understand people's confusion
7:57 he's totally right, and you just showed me a genius that i never knew about, thank you for your efforts btw
Welcome to my algorithm homie, excellent content B)
Thank you legend!
How is the penny one "historical"? That's more like a physics misconception
His cereal products are nutritional disasters.
Agreed
In friends there’s this episode the character phoebe gives the definition of discover it means “to find (something or someone) unexpectedly or in the course of research. With this definition Benjamin Franklin did discover electricity although it wasn’t the first
Your style is solid, you're definitely gonna pop big. Trust me bro.
Thank you legend!
"If WWE was fake, then why WWE fighter often got on the hospital after fight?"
Best one to explain to those nonbelievers
I can now say “my source… trust me bro”
Sal!
I appreciated the "worth mentioning" moment so much I paused the video to like, subscribe, and comment. 'Cause I'm a dork.
make more scary mythical creatures around the world videos, the way you explain the myths is very entertaining
Will do!
Honestly you deserve far more fame than you get. I hope you get to a million subs.
Thank you!!
The life expectancy was also so low because there were so many wars, lots of young men died around their mid twenties
I never ever imagined helen Keller to be a communist
Nicely presented. Good luck with the channel.
Thank you!
Incredibly well done!
Thank you!
Thats absurd i was insane before even know what mssturbation is
Only one I didn't know was concerning American Gothic.
I remember learning all of these "facts" in grade school and no, communism wasn't brought up a single time when talking about Helen Keller, even in high school. I'm 32 and if you're in high school right now, just understand that most of what you learn will show up in future youtube videos like this.
Even the last one?🤨
the pigments from greek and roman statue’s actually were very commonly still there. but they were scrubbed off to give the statues that white look.
They look better in white anyway. Painting marble is like putting barbecue sauce on filet mignon. Though it is hilarious to think of the ancient Greeks and their gaudy painted statues!
i thought benjamin franklin invented light bulbs 😢
I love your channel, keep up the good work
Thank you!
Cool video! If anyone cares: not only greek sculptures were painted, they painted their buildings too. The parthenon was never intended to be all white not from the inside and not from the outside. But the paint wasn't for all parts of the buildings.
Fun fact: FR stands for France, so everytime we say "fr?" Or something like that, we are like saying "france?"
Interesting
@@TrustMeBroOfficial yessir
FR = France
fr = for real
also context is important considering most people dont care about the country of France much less talk about it daily
@@foxbuns ye
How do you have such a low view count your videos are so good
Last time I checked ninjas wore bright orange jackets, headbands and screamed about becoming Hokage
Also the 3rd reason that ninjas wore navy blue instead of black was because Black was in antiquity really expensive to make as a color.
3:30 this kid that bullied me in middle school wouldnt stop yelling free speech when i told him off
no way you have less than 100k subs, keep these vids up you’ll reach it soon
Thank you!
zame with the rapa bui sculptures being painted
My cousin told me that if a fly fell from the eifel tower and then hit someone in the head then that person would die…
bro ninjas are yellow and they spin around really fast
They're actually Red, White, Black, White, Grey, Green, Blue, Brown, Yellow, Orange, Purple, Maroon and Cyan
Fun fact: it is believed that the ninja’s attire misconception came from the suits the people would wear in shows in China to not be seen while they move things on set, which, you guessed it, was all black.
That “right off the bat” edit 😂
Glad I found you now so when you get big I can say I was one of your first subscribers
Yess!
The biggest misconception is for sure that Columbus found out the world was round like we knew it was 1000s of years before.
Need a part 2 I learned hella things I wonder what else have misconceptions about
I had always heard that Benjamin Franklin tied that kite with the key on it to his fireplace or attached it to his workstation from the outside. Similar to how we install wires from outside a house to inside a house. He did this as an experiment. I’s what I was always taught. :) great video by the way!