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history teachers always teach in 2 ways. 1: "This is how world war 1 happened" 2: "AND THAT'S HOW I THINK THE MOAIS WERE CONSTRUCTED AND MOVED. ALL OTHER IDEAS OTHER THAN MINE ARE FALSE."

Ok, but he’s starting to actually have a personality in these videos, I’m here for it.

On the topic of forgetting about a war: In WW2, Poland declared war on Japan so that allies could use a Polish destroyer in the Pacific, but Japanese refused to acknowledge that declaration and everybody forgot they were at war when it came time for Japanese capitulation. Documents proving it were found and war officialy ended in 1956

19:10 the first photo explains that the ruby is for protection against illness and evil and in the next photo they show the queen wearing 3 of them when being close to Donald trump, the meme uses the popular theory that Queen Elizabeth uses her outfits to secretly or indirectly express her opinions on subjects because she is more or less force to stay neutral when it come to politics, and the joke is that it’s usually one ruby that is weared(judging by what the first image shows) but for Donald trump the queen decided to wear 3 of them.

That mammoth impression was actually unexpectedly good😂

Re: black plague 8:50 Poland's secret was hygiene. They washed often. It has been credited to Hebrew customs assimilated from all the Jews migrating there (Poland was one of few places that allowed migrating Jews to stay on good terms). Milan's secret was strict quarantine, enforced by brute force.

You know why America and Europe can’t play chess together? They are missing a Queen and Two Towers

9:04 I cannot look at that spiky bug without remembering a fun fact about it. The animal called "Hallucigenia" was not able to move backwards or to the sides. It could only move forwards... ...until all it's enemies were destroyed.

Everyone was gay in the roman times and were shocked that one guy was straight

I cannot find it on my shelf right now and my google-fu is weak tonight, but there is an account of a Japanese delegation in the 1800s written as a report to the government of Japan, where they toured across Asia, then Europe, then a boat to the US, across the US then back to Japan. Along the way they were tasked with evaluating everything about western culture, industry, etc. They looked at railroads, hospitals, prisons, they noted the manner of the people, the layout of the cities, everything. And since this was meant to be a government report, the author gives his very frank opinion of everything he encounters. Edit: found it; "Japan Rises, The Iwakura Embassy"

9:22 THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED

16:00 How different our world would be, had two men chosen paint over politics.

11:45 That map is a trainwreck. Strangers missing an r and somehow the author thinks a seax was a stone sword when it was an iron age/early medieval type of large knife/machete/small sword.

Me, a historian: You know what women should be doing? My gf: Cooking dinner? Me: No. They should be doing the family's finances. Math hurts my brain.

1:04 that voice crack was evil

I just download Twitter Me and Oreo are having a feud

0:31 that mammoth sound is gold

0:52 - Fun fact: the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic, was used as a troop ship in WWI. It currently stands as the only passenger liner of any kind to have sunk an enemy submarine. Anyway, the Olympic-class Ocean Liner was actually a theoretically unsinkable ship, with a highly compartmentalized hull structure, watertight bulkheads and double-layered (originally intended to be triple-layered) hull. The Titanic disaster was a mix of multiple factors, including build quality issues and multiple hull breaches caused by the ship scraping the side of the iceberg. After the incident, the Olympic was retrofitted to address these issues, and the Britanic was built with design updates specifically in mind. The Britanic, unfortunately, hit a sea mine and sank while acting as a hospital ship. The Olympic, on the other hand, hit a German U-Boat and sank the U-Boat. The Olympic went on to have a full, if somewhat short, career doing transatlantic runs until 1935, when it was decommissioned and scrapped due to operational losses caused by the Great Depression and the ship's incredibly high maintenance costs. If "My Heart Will Go On" is the theme song of Titanic, the Dragonforce Cover of "My Heart Will Go On" is the theme song of the Olympic.

Steve, Not Steve, Definitely Not Steve, Why Would You Think This Is Steve, The Opposite Of Steve and Julie. Such brilliance.