Hilarious Overlooked Moments In History (r/AskReddit)
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My favorite history story ever is in ancient China, some guy wrote this egotistical poem about how the eight winds of the world couldn’t move him or some shit. Anyways, he was so proud of it, he sent it to his friend who lived across the lake so he could read it. The friend read it and just wrote “Fart”, or the ancient Chinese equivalent of that, on it and sent it back. This pissed the guy off so much that he traveled across the lake just so he could chew his friend out in person, but when he got there his friend was like “Wow, so the eight winds of the world can’t move you, but a fart sends you across the lake?”
I need a source on that. But laughed hard. :D
I Am Pixel I need this to be fucking true. It’s probably just a rhetorical meant to teach against arrogance but it’s still ducking funny
I Am Pixel , as a Chinese myself nobody ever told me this. Thank you so much for spreading this valuable information
@@iampixel4086 supposedly, the poem was written by a man named Su Dongpo, a Chinese calligrapher of the Song dynasty. If you poke around on the internet, you can actually find the original poem, or at least a rough translation of it. I just search the eight winds of the world poem.
I've always said if you study the history of China you have no need to study the rest of the world. There is so much history in that country. Its been "China" forever. Separated or together the idea of China has always existed. So many wars, so many amazing strategies, philosophies, ideas, arts, technologies just everything. The entirety of Europe, the America and Africa have around the same amount of history as China because its been a more or less continuous country for multiple millennia and Europes history was lost in the Library of Alexandria.
Also like Mao and modern China lol. Its no wonder they break up every few centuries.
Australia declared official war on their own national bird and lost
In our defence, Fuckers are basically bullet proof and it took several seconds to reload.
(Old guns were pretty crap lol)
Also, this is not overlooked. It's a fucking history MEME.
Me Cooper it’s like America declaring war on bald eagles and loosing the war
The reason this failed mostly is because they would try to machine gun a large flock of them but they would all take off running in different directions. It was much more effective when they just asked farmers to hunt them instead
why did they declare war on a bird i need answers
When you're such a successful Double agent that both sides gave you medals.
*STONKS*
I think that was the guy who got payed from the Nazi’s for a “real” agent who “died” in the line of duty.
@@nodrugshere300 Yeah, not only got paid, funded the funerary service, AND got a pension for the grieving widow! ...same guy. ;o)
Garbo i not overlooked
remember when andrew jackson’s bird got kicked out of his funeral bc he kept on cursing... good times
Know what I'm doing when I turn 40 now xD
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The one about Lichtenstein and friendship really gets me
There's also the time the Swiss Army got lost on a basic training exercise, accidentally infringed of Lichtenstein's sovereign territory. So Switzerland sent an apology note and Lichtenstein's response was basically to say "No worries, Buddy ... stop by any time you
want, we'll have a beer or 10 and a good old chat!"
"Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way."
I loved this one!
Everybody gangsta until you hear a Canadian say “Get the hockey sticks”
Lolz
Word, 'eh?
my uncle lives in bowmanville
i watched and listened as it was onscreen and was like holy crap ive been there
The Finnish WW2 soldier who took thirty amphetamines, and skied 250 miles to escape the Russians. He stepped on a land mine, and subsisted on pine buds and a siberian jay he ate raw.
He died in 1989.
That sounded like Florida man type Shit
Thats some crackhead level survival ability.
The speedster equivalent of the finnish sniper dude.
Unsurprisingly, the Finns lost
Vittu...
Yankee Doodle almost became the American national anthem
Its probably just a little less racist and definitely a lot easier to sing than our current anthem so I’m all for it
Dat 1 Boi the original national anthem is racist
@@caroline-hm8jk you're racist. See i can make shit up too
Yankee doodle was started as an insult by the british. No way it would have been out national anthem.
@SoccoI'm aware of that. It's still never came close to being a national anthem.
Something my world history teacher told the class in 10th grade: The Mayans had a sewage system but people in 1800s London just tossed their shit out in the streets
Not true. London had a sewer system in the 1800s they just flushed it all into the Thames instead of moving it away from the city.
Did the Romans have sewage? I know they had functioning toilets, so they must've had sewers too no?
@@plazasta they did... I know it's not politically correct to say any civilization is inferior so people try to bring up great or advanced things these civilizations did. The truth is every civilization in the Americas were technologically and societally inferior
@@Callsign_Prophet When you don't have as many domestic animals available you do what you can.
Sorry she was wrong on both counts! London had sewage treatment tunnels since the 1700's but London grew so quickly that they had to build a new, larger tunnel to expell the waste into the ocean. This was in the 1870's. The Mayans and others did not build sewage tunnels. Believe me, this would have been noticed by archaeologists. Likely what happened is that the lower castes were paid in some form of currency to carry "nightsoil baskets" on their backs to dump it into the fields outside of the city.
When that one American General’s response to a request to surrender was “Nuts!”
I think Pattons reaction to that was equally hilarious. "Anyone that eloquent needs to be saved." One of the fun quotes from the historical figure that made it into the movie of the same title.
101st Airborne; Bastogne WW2
Steamloco Not understanding terms of surrender
Almost as funny is that nobody now knows exactly what the Germans thought of that one-word rejection, or whether they ever understood anything more than it being a rejection of their terms of surrender.
That nordic guy that killed a whole army by himself with a battle axe
He was standing on a bridge, wacking Saxons left and right. Died at the end though.
@@teddyfresh9605 Sure, but it takes some serious balls to be remembered for a 1000 years. Not for writing something fancy, but just smashing head together.
If only Nordic men had those balls nowadays.
@@765respect I bet you lack a proper set yourself.
@@tyskbulle Nordic men literally have gay sex. They're soy boys. The gays of Denmark attacked some Catholic boys for peacefully protesting same sex marriage
the Earl of Sandwich actually is credited w/ having invented the sandwich. he was a habitual gambler who would often spend 12+hrs. at the table, & apparently was quite good at winning. nobles would go over to eachothers' estates to gamble, & it was considered socially impolite to ask someone to leave when they're cleaning out the others. they would however, do passive things to get them to leave (like stop serving them food/ drink), hoping they'd take the hint to leave. the Earl was deliberately obtuse to this, & would be like, "oh no, it's cool, we can keep gambling all night. I've brought a coupla sandwiches in my pocket, so I'm good."
It was not the count of sandwich?
I would have laughed and brought drinks to serve with the sandwiches.
The story is only that he made the invention famous and in so doing gave his name to it. It's practically certain that putting meat (and other stuff) between two slices of bread was already used before the Earl made it famous.
@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez He was definitely an earl, lol.
And one of his descendants is the current Earl of Sandwich and the founder of the Earl of Sandwich sandwich shop chain.
Castro's favorite cow...
Alright Castro was huge on dairy, so much so that he had a cow specially bred to be able to produce huge amounts of milk, then when it died he had a statue built in her honor.
Rest in peace ubre blanca. You will be missed.
Sam O'Nella sends his regards.
@@JarthenGreenmeadow *yes*
it's not breeded, it's bred^^
@@tommerker8063 thanks.
@@avery9689 no problem, irregular verbs are hard
Any Scottish king named James tended to either die young or die messily. Not a good name to be given if you were a Scottish prince
Cyberra 01 Hence why the one james to survive did so by becoming king of England too
All those times I've chased people out of my forest are obviously overlooked since people just keep on coming back in
I keep seeing your comments on all these videos and no one believes me!!!
@@icefisher9072 Same, it's so frustrating being surrounded by non-believers
YOUR forest!? You don't own the place any more than we do, we all just live here.
Howdy neighbor. Hope you don't mind the artillery
thanos I got beat by a brat with a magic flute. How do you think I feel?
BEHOLD A MAN *yeets chicken*
Fucking Diogenes, man. His entire life is a hilarious cynical comedy.
*screaming*
@@jimpickens4 " COMEDY IS SUBJECTIVE, *MURRAY!*
Ah, Diogenes was aman ahead oh his time, and we're talking about classical athenian greeks here!
Back in Ancient Greece the great philosopher Plato defined a man as a "featherless biped". A critic of Plato who would often interrupt his lectures by the name of Diogenes disputed this claim. How? He plucked a chicken of all of its feathers, went to one of Plato's lectures with the chicken and said, "Behold! I've brought you a man." Plato then amended his definition to say, "with broad flat nails". Another tidbit is in 336BCE Diogenes visited Corinth and mocked Alexander the Great face to face, he died 13 years later.
Diogenes was wise & crazy.
"What would you have from me, Diogenes?"
"Eh, move a bit, I need my sunning."
THAT GUY, we all know THAT GUY!!!
Ahhh Yes....
The Chad, Diogenes
Diogenes is the epitome of chaotic neutral. He's absolutely incredible to be honest.
Alexander the great was having a fling with his general's son(about his age) and it was recorded by Aristotle. His father didnt want people to think his son was flamboyant or gay so he made him pose with almost naked beautiful women and had him painted in portraits like that.
hm considering gay activity was an accepted part of the culture then, that sounds off
also, I am having difficulty finding any info on said "general's son", but there was a friend of his who was also a general named Hephaestion that he possibly had a romantic relationship with..
@@missylou725 Yeah it was pretty acceptable doing it with dudes at that time but it wasnt acceptable to be flamboyant or submissive
@@missylou725 th-cam.com/video/HaOi_ryfX4Y/w-d-xo.html
Chili Astronaut yeah since he was in a position of royalty he was supposed to be very dominant
Interestingly mad jacks bagpipe player wasn’t shot at by Germans because they thought he was mad
He also cried from sadness at a bar after war ended saying: "If it wasn't for those damned yankees war could have lasted another ten years!". I absolutely adore this character
I thought Mad Jack WAS the bagpipe player
Sarah P that would make Sense ,but no he was just some rich bugger
They also left out the fact that he stormed a German observation post with 2 other guys and took 42 German soldiers as prisoners of War. This man was the godamn Chuck Norris of WWII.
Prior to World War 1, Kaiser Wilhelm, wanted a grand naval parade in Germany like England did (out of childhood nostalgia more than anything else, as he grew up there), so he commissioned the building up of the German fleet for this purpose. England heard about it and naturally thought it was Germany intending to threaten their naval superiority for future conflicts. In response, Parliament wanted to build large warships to maintain the power disparity, but the members were divided over how many of the ships they would build (between 2 or 4 warships).
They couldn't come to an agreement. So instead, one member had an idea. They would send spies to Germany to assess how dangerous the Navy would be, and then once they came back, Parliament could decide whether to build 2 or 4 warships. The spies were sent, they got intel, and they came back. And eventually Parliament made up its mind.
They built 8 warships.
We Germans are just misunderstood all the time.
lmao
Also Czar Nicholas I and Kaiser Wilhelm were cousins and after the war one of them commented that their Grandma, Queen Victoria, were she still alive, would have never allowed the war lol. Also they dressed as each other and pretended to be each other in formal gatherings just to fuck with people because the look so much alike.
@@carlosandleon nick also did that with king George
@@carlosandleon **"Also Czar Nicholas I and Kaiser Wilhelm were cousins and after the war one of them commented that their Grandma, Queen Victoria, were she still alive, would have never allowed the war lol."**
Ok, so Kaiser Wilhem was either a Medium and got to have nice talks with ghosts, or that conversation happened on St Peter's and I'd really REALLY REALLY want to know who overheard it and still was able to report it back here in the mortal world.
Because Nicholas II was executed by the bolsheviks in 1918, while Wilhem II died only in 1941. and they had held no contact between them since when the war began in 1914 until the Tzar's execution.
Don't let facts get in the way of a "funny" story, though.
Olive oil was very popular in ancient Greece for many reasons. There were also many gay couples... I think you know where I'm going.
The Spartans sure did 🤣
_Sodom and Gamora scream for them to stop_
Gays know good cooking? Jk
So extra virgin is extra ironic, huh? ;-)
@Alejandro Tellez Part true about women's status, but my professor told me that it wasn't homosexuality, but pederasty (older man and young boy), and that relationships between older men were looked down upon. He also explained that this was only widespread among the upper class (aristoi), and it was their way of showing they are above the ordinary people, and not subject to their views on morality.
"... accidentally farted in his face"
so, how did that happen
Can I also comment that the greatest ruler of the Byzantines was a woman who marched back in during an attempt at rebellion and retook the capital as her husband was fleeing the capital. this made Theadora the unofficial ruler when her husband came back and she held strong until dying of a disease.
bless you for bringing up theodora she was great and also she was a champion of women’s rights and when she died justinian never remarried because he loved her so much. she was also sold as a child by her father and from that she eventually became the empress of the byzantine empire which is dope.
@@kayy9266 That might be the biggest come up in history lmao. Retaking the capital during a rebellion as the King fled is hardcore Queen shit.
While I disagree that she was the greatest ruler of Byzantium she is certainly on the top 3
A reporter once told Maryln Monroe, she's only beautiful due to her clothing, so Maryln Monroe did a photo shoot in a burlap potato sack.
We need to teach the Emu War in class!!!
Not much of a lesson tbh. Emus were destroying farmland. Army got involved and sent in 2 guys with (I think lewis) machine guns. Army guys killed heaps of emus but not nearly enough to make a dent. Army gave up and said "you guys deal with it then".
There you go that was the emu war
Thong Slapper what about the second one
It's more of a footnote in class
3:10 another interesting fact about Garbo, he made up several different personas, one of them being a drunken RAF pilot. Garbo then decided to kill that character off, to which Hitler responded by sending his "wife" a large pension as a thank you for his service. So on top of everything else, the dude literally scammed Hitler out of money too
He catfished Hitler xD
OH MY GOD 😂😂😂
One day, Diogenes of Sinop was chilling in his barrel when Alexader, the Great, approached to ask him what did he wanted. Diogenes demanded that he standed out of the Sun. Alexander was struck by the statement, and said that if he wasn't Alexander, he would like to be Diogenes, to which Diogenes replied: "If i wasn't Diogenes, i would like to be Diogenes too!".
14:04, The Canadians during war time are basically exceptionally polite orcs, is what you're saying
Sounds about right for us Canadians.
Julius Caesar's famous last words "Et tu, Brute?" known as "You too, Brutus?" embracing the shock of a father as his son kills him are actually a romanticised translation from Greek to Latin and then to English by William Shakespeare to accomodate it to his play.
Sources indicate that Caesar actually spoke in Greek: "Kaì sú, Téknon" (with no punctuation, as usual).
Now, that can be literally translated to the popular quote, but many sources indicate that Romans used Greek words as swears, and that particular phrase has appeared in many manuscripts depicting a phrase more like "you too! Bastard!", referring to a literal bastard son.
So, nowadays Caesar's last words could be more accurately translated to: "I'll see you in hell, you son of a bitch!".
The fact that Loki (the norse god of mischief) Is the mother of an 8-legged horse sleipnir.
And a giant wolf Fenrir AND a snake big enough to encircle the earth Jormungandr (I really like saying Jormungandr)
@@JaelinBezel AND also Hela (Marvel said it was their sister) when un reality its lokis daughter. But well, sleipnir Is funnier because Loki Is the one who gave birth to him. Thats fucking hilarious to me. Anddd same i love pronouncing their mames tbh.
Not really history but still amusing
@@HartyBiker Actually, it can be considered history, as Loki is part of the Norse mythology and has other similarities with godesses of the Greek(Atë) and Roman(Laverna) mythology. (Mythology is considered to be part of an empires'/nations' history) But yes, still amusing
It might have been a spider, the words tended to change meaning over time.
2 wars were started 'cause czechs threw someone out a window (same window)!
The Defenestration of Prague.
My favorite story about the second defenestration of Prague is how they threw this one guy out the window with all the rest but he survived. So they went down to the street drug the servely injured man back up the stairs and threw him out the window again.
@@johnhunter4854 "and stay dead!"
5:47 Listerine was actually named after Joseph Lister who popularized the idea of using antiseptics in surgery.
It was also advertised as a floor cleaner before it was advertised as mouth wash if I remember correctly
15:30 Dear God this is such a Canadian thing to do! Lol
Aztects and Ancient Egyptian culture is so freaking intriguing!!! It makes me so mad that we didn't learn about them in school.
Red over at Overly Sarcastic Productions has great video on both of their mythologies if anyone's interested in learning more.
'Diddled the lass' is my favorite phrase of the day. XD
7:51 Oh yeah, Romans were very non-discriminatory when it came to gods/goddesses and religion. Most of the time they would just take over the new beliefs and incorporate them, often fusing a new deity with the most similar one they had. And for the Greeks the "default" sexuality was Pan. They just assumed you were into people, no specifics
except for catholics
@@marcroelse9517 Not most of the time actually. But when they decided they didn't like Catholics all of a sudden, they were RUTHLESS
@@marcroelse9517 catholics werent a thing back then this was before the east and west split of the church or even the council of nicea. aside from that they didnt like religions allowing only one god. allowing only one god disrespects the other gods. the fate of the empire rested on the favour of the gods in roman eyes so thats a big no no. guess why the jews revolted 24/7 and were cast out of their homeland.
but aside from that a lot of the christian persecution started under nero who was a piece of shit anyway needing a scapegoat for burning rome down.
Mad Jack is one of my favorite WWII stories.
The guy was a genuine badass.
Dude sounds like Demoman from TF2 but in real life.
Literally anything from Sam O'Nella's channel
Yea but he uploads like once a month
Hey kids.
*intro plays*
T a r r a r e
Or Count Dankulas Madlads.
5:22
"Anyway, that's how I lost my medical license"
-Medic, from tf2
13:55 that's indeed kinda sweet.
"You were a good enough general to keep me from becoming the best of all time. You won't take away my incredible victories before you entered the fray, but you're incredible enough to have stopped me."
The one about Lichtenstein making a friend is so cute
Just look up Tarrare. The guy ate so much crazy shit, and at such large quantities, he was accused of eating a human baby whole.
I read the Wikipedia article on him. Amazing and horrifying
6:29 ,
Mark to his buddies( in a frat boy voice) : let’s “join” the army . And by join I mean go into the woods and drink
Buddy 1: totally dude
Buddy 2: hellz yeah
It's not 'MoNtezuma"
It's MoCtezuma... and that story is complete bs. He was tortured and his feet burned while the spaniards tried to get him to tell them if he was hiding any more gold. He then was humilliated in front of his people and stoned to death.
So....the guard didn't fart in his face? I googled it but found nothing, really disappointed because I laughed so much about it 😔
Just another sacrifice for the Aztecs.
We came, we conquered, we civilized the warring savages and those that resisted were sacrificed to the flying snake god.
Let's also mention that "exterminating their culture" is also false. They called themselves the *_Mexica._* They built Mexico City *ON TOP OF* Tenochtitlan. Modern Mexicans ARE the Aztecs, they just speak Spanish now.
@@bookieone9277 sacrificed to the flying snake god sounds like a great album
If the Canadians just left the Germans alone, they would’ve been fine. Germans in commonwealth were known to be extremely trustworthy and some in Australia and New Zealand actually worked around the town they were in. German and Italian prisoners hated the war so much, and were treated so well in allied countries, they just decided to wait around and enjoy it.
What happened was the Nazis ordered all Canadians to be shackled in response to the disastrous 1942 Dieppe Raid which was a large raid (thousands of Canadian soldiers with almost a thousand killed in battle and almost two thousand captured) to test German defenses in the north of France. Hitler felt insulted that one of the smaller Allied powers could be so arrogant as to attack so blatantly, he ordered all Canadian soldiers to be shackled and watched constantly.
So the Canadian response was to shackle German prisoners in response until the Germans agreed to better treatment of Canadian prisoners.
It wasn't just done to fuck with the Germans.
Most Germans hated the war not only because many hated Hitler but also most people on the front lines were people who either spoke openly about their distaste for the nazis or they were Jewish, Asian ect.
I think it is sad that most people don't know how hard those times were for the Germans as well. Hitler was after all a dictator.
Ah yes, the defenestration*s* of Prague...
3:13 somehow everyone I know knows this bit (I'm from South-Tyrol, Italy).
Oh, and during Military drills in the Alps accidental invasions happen all the time. There are no clearly recognizable landmarks for the borders, it's foggy almost all the time and cell reception isn't exactly the best. So yeah, platoons will get slightly astray and end up in the wrong country. Happens so often it doesn't even get covered in the news
7:55 This is a really weird modern misinterpretation... They very much had a concept of sexuality which is frequently mentioned in their history and mythology.
"He began to have auditory hallucinations. He once wrapped himself in a carpet, saying that he was following the instructions of John the Apostle."
"None of the jurors doubted the Fish was insane, but ultimately, as one later explained, they felt that he should be executed anyway."
Benjamin Franklin, while visiting England as an American ambassador, got bored and wrote an anonymous letter to the British government complaining about how England was being forced to accept deported French prisoners. This led to the British calling out France for something they weren't doing, which got France upset because, not only was England falsely accusing them, but they thought it implied that England was too good for English prisoners.They practically went to war before it was revealed that the letter was false. Needless to say, Benny was entertained.
Tallulah lah lah, tallulah role call.
Tallulah lah lah, tallulah role call.
Ancient Greeks absolutely had a concept of straight and gay but they also had a concept of dominant and submissive, entirely rooted in sexism mind you.
I like that one dude's grandpa hahaha
For those of you who didn’t know, the sub comment at 4:54 was a reference to CK2. And a pretty damn funny one I have to add.
Andres Evan Zavaleta Explaining a comment with an acronym really explains nothing at all...
@@dandavidson4717 The game Crusader Kings 2, it have a pretty big community, but stills a niche game.
I love that canadian POW story that's hilarious. They shook hands after congratulating them on a good fight XD
i read the title as overcooked and I got so confused
RenShedd_
You must be hungry. I keep seeing Lachlan everywhere I look.
"The most Canadian battle of the war" who gods that's hilarious
0:54
NO SLEEP TIL HIPPO!
The Netherlands might have her liberal constitution because our king Willem 2 was gay and was blackmailed for it.
Interesting......very interesting.
That Canadian grandpa story had me in tears lol
When Napoleon returned to France and an army came to capture him, pushed out his chest and yelled, "if anyone dares shoot your emperor do so"
And everyone in the army lowered their weapons and joined him
Mad Jack Churchill was also known for:-
1. Asking to be deployed to the Asian front when released from hospital and Finding out that the Reich had fallen, on the way he found out that the Americans had nuked Japan into surrender. Jack exclaimed that "if it wasn't for those damned yanks, we could have kept the war going for at least another 10 years".
2. He was the 1st person to surf the Severn Bore.
3. In his civilian life, he used to shock other passengers on his daily commute home by throwing his briefcase out the window aiming for his back garden which the train passed.
4. He played a bagpiper in The Thief of Baghdad and an archer in Ivanhoe.
6:47 - knowing Hemingway, I'm guessing that was after about 20 minutes!
Gunpowder was ironically invented as an accident.
they call kings "the fat" or "the bold" later after they die to differenciate them. William the conqueror was never called "the bastard" while he lived for instance
I wrote a whole paper about that greek gay dominate submissive thing, its really neat.
I read the last word as "meat" and it still makes perfect sense. 👌🏼
Childeric reminds me a lot of Alcibiades. From now on I will call him ‘Alci reincarnated’ or
‘Alcibiades 2’
Garbo!!! I love hearing about Garbo, completely amazing guy.
"It'S A ShaME ThE AztEcs DiEd OUt."
Mmmmm...
Montazuma ate children, their priests wore robes of human skin, and they once sacrificed
80,000 people in a three day period following the construction of a new temple...
What a shame...
@Selim Sultan Akbar Is ours a culture of bombing? I would certainly think not. The Aztec empire had a cannibalistic culture.
@Selim Sultan Akbar I don't think that counts as an argument.
The Byzantine Empire was so poor that they couldn't hire an engineer to help fortify the walls of Constantinople. That same engineer went over to Osman and his Turks and was hired to build the massive cannons they used to knock down those very same walls.
Hannibal & Scipio drinking beers:
Hannibal: "I'm 3rd best, but still better than you."
Scipio: "I beat you, though."
Hannibal: "That's why I'm not #1."
Scipio: ".... Gotcha." *sips beer*
*100 Germans barricade themselves in mess hall*
*100 Canadians enter with bats and sticks*
*Canadians retreat out of mess hall*
Germans: “Hans it’s over they’re gone now”
Canadian CO: “I THINK IT IS A BIT DRY IN THERE”
9:45 I presume this is where we got the maxim 'wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.'
While the Napoleonic French Army approched Lisbon in 1807, the portuguese court was putting a plan to escape to Rio de Janeiro at work. The streets were a maddening chaos with nobles, officers and bureaucrats loading everything that they had together with state documents, furniture, the royal treasure and entire libraries into the ships at the port. In the middle of that mess, Queen Maria, aptly nicknamed "the Mad", said to her attendants "Slowly, slowly! Otherwise they will think that we are trying to run away!".
Spartans are so cool.
Philip sent a message to the Spartans saying “If I invade Lakonia you will be destroyed, never to rise again.” The Spartans replied with one word, “If.” Philip eventually decided to bypass Sparta as it was a poor region and not worth the fight. Neither Philip nor Alexander attacked the Spartans while they ruled.
that's not all!
The spartan's were trained to give short, curt responses, or else their thumbs would be bitten.
When Philip sent them a letter stating (along the lines of:) "Would you like me to enter your country as a friend, or foe?", the spartan's replied "neither"
This made philip pissed, so he told them that if he invaded, they would be destroyed, which they replied "if"
Literally, putting their head in a lion, but that worked out for them.
I mean, really, would you fight a group, knowing you'd lose, over 2 words?
10:30 Guess that art degree was useful for something after all.
3:08 Fun Fact: One of the people Garbo worked with in England was Ian Fleming, and legend has it that it was Garbo's CRAAAAZY espionage antics (like how he revealed the date and location of D-Day to the Nazis in a letter but sent it in a way that it would arrive AFTER the attack... for which Hitler gave him the Iron Cross.... yes, really) that inspired Fleming to write James Bond... which is kinda weird, considering that Garbo was an old, balding, bespectacled family man with a wife and children and not some Tux-clad, Martini-loving ladykiller....
Because Garbo was just half the inspiration for James Bond, the other half was his step cousin: Christopher Lee.
A Viking army and a Saxon army were fighting across Blackwater River, and the Vikings were on an island while the Saxons were on the riverbank. The Vikings were attacking, but their soldiers would get cut to pieces trying to cross the river. The Saxons were having it easy. The Viking commander called a retreat and yelled across the river, "Byrhtnoth (Saxon commander), this is not fair! Let us come across the river so we can give you a real fight!" A sane person would say no, and win the battle. Byrhtnoth said "Yes". The Saxons got clobbered. This story is recorded in the poem 'The Battle of Maldon'. Or you can find it in Horrible Histories: Smashing Saxons.
Sigurd Eysteinsson, killed Mael Bright and attached his severed head to his saddle. As he road along a tooth came loose and grazed Sigurd's leg. The would later went septic and he died.
TL:DR man killed by severed head
Another Viking story: You are a Jarl in Scandinavia and you learn that your dad went to England with only a few men and was thrown into a pit. Now you must raise an army, because your dad decided to do something stupid. You, also, have to take your brothers with you. All that leads to the creation of a kingdom in England.
So here's one I learned from the TH-cam channel Extra Credits. Right before the Great War (WW1) started, a German ambassador (maybe Austrian, don't remember 100%) and a Russian ambassador were talking over a treaty that if it had been signed would've kept the conflict to just Austria and Serbia. As they were finishing their talks in the German ambassador's home, the Russian ambassador had a heart attack and died on the spot. Not only did the treaty go unsigned, but foul play was also suspected by the Russians. Another one shortly after was with a different German ambassador and another Russian ambassador (they were really trying to prevent a full blown war). So this was right before the war started. They were talking, but nothing was coming of it. The Russian ambassador said that Russia could not pull out if Austria intended to annex Serbia. Now, for context, Austria had made a compromise with its Hungarian half to NOT annex any land, but still invade. Now our German ambassador knew nothing of this so he just broke down and pleaded with the Russian. They both had an idea, unlike so many others, of the destruction to come. The Russian would not break as Serbia had to be protected from the annexation that wasn't really going to happen. The German gave up with his pleas. While still in his emotional state he handed the Russian a paper and said "Then I am afraid we are at war." Now you would expect it to end there, but I want to include the act of kindness the Russian showed the German. He walked the German to his (the German's) apartment and helped him pack. I think I heard elsewhere the Rusdian also saw him off, but I do not remember.
During WWII Americas most hated enemy was the Japanese. Yet the most decorated American unit during WWII and the most decorated in US history was a Japnese unit.
This isn't exactly of historical significance, but in 1983 an overzealous reporter accosted David Lee Roth of Van Halen as to why he "only writes songs about women, partying, and fast cars." It then occurred to him that he never actually wrote a song about fast cars, so in response to that reporter, he wrote the hit song "Panama" about a race car named Panama Express. In the words of DJ Khalid, "congratulations, you played yourself."
I think the bit about Andrew Jackson having to be pulled off of his assassin because he beat him with a Cane was an embellishment. I think the gun jammed and the assassin was wrestled with.
On Hannibal's war with Rome. After Cannae, where he killed 70,000 Romans, one of his generals urged him to march on Rome immediately and he said no. The army was exhausted and needed to rest. That general told him, that is the difference between you and Alexander. You both know how to win great victories but Alexander knew what to do with them. I have to agree, I truly believe had he marched on Rome they would have surrendered. There was a city-panic when word got back to Rome, only when they realized he wasn't coming did they calm down.
Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier deployed to the Philippines in 1944 and survived in the jungle for 30 years, never surrendering. People would come to tell him the war was over and Japan lost, but he thought it was a trick. He was finally convinced to go home by a fellow Japanese who heard about him, and talked him out of the jungle in 1974.
The first one is slightly true. Most of the amphibious assaults on the island hopping campaign was carried out by the United States Marine Corps, and when a marine cries out for a medic he calls “Corpsman”
12:10 fun fact: Divine Wind is a literal translation for 神風 (kamikaze), where Kami means deity and Kaze is wind. The pilots were named that way because, during Japans history, multiple invasions were prevented by sudden Typhoons, whose strong winds didn't allow the invading ships to land. The Japanese people interpreted this as their Gods saving them, therefore Kamikaze. The suicide pilots were supposed to take the same role as these Divine Winds, saving Japan from loosing the war
Well I interpret it as successful. The divine winds didn't prevent Japan from losing wars, it prevented a ground invasion of the main islands. The projected costs of Operation Olympic were so terrible they lead to the nuclear weapons being used, ending the war without an invasion of the mainland. So it worked, just not in a way anyone is happy about.
Omg the Canadian grandpa story is my favorite it along side with the drink donkey one 😂😂😂
King Mithridates IV of Pontus was very paranoic about being poisoned by his enemies, so he made up a diet in which he would ingest small quantities of poison to gain immunity. When Jullius Caesar's army was knocking at the door of his city, he decided it would be best to kill himself instead of facing the cold wrath of Caesar, so he ingested all the poison he could but, unsurprisingly, did not die. He ended up getting killed by Caesar.
The pompous luxury of the Palace of Versailles was well spoken throughout Europe. Considered my many the most luxurious feature of all was that any official visitor and inhabitant of the Palace could take a dump anytime on the corridors and there would be specific servants ready to clean everything up.
"...a guy named Chill Derek."
The Aztecs would lose either way. Even when it was a handful of Europeans they lost battles and disease was destroying them. Still a fascinating culture and people.
Admiral Lord Nelson, 1700s-early 1800s British Navy. Had "wounds more characteristic of a common sailor than an officer". These included the loss of an arm, and the loss of an eye. While second in command at the Battle of the Nile, a part of the French squadron were escaping. The British Admiral issued a command that would have enabled that part to get away. The battle would have been a good win for the British, but this wasnt enough for Nelson. He ordered his squadron to break from the rest of the British fleet, and cut off the French escape. When an aide pointed out that the British Admirals flags (by which the Admiral communicated orders) were telling the fleet to, as noted above, essentially let the French go, Admiral Nelson places his telescope up to his BLIND EYE, and says, "Where? I dont see that order." And commences to defeat the escaping French squadron and tirm a "good" win into a fame-making win. Earning Nelson a Lordship (and earning his less-impulsive boss an Earldom).
Its a shame no Waterloo-style movie has been made of Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar.
I could listen to this all day. Thank you to everyone that contribute to this
Socrates was well known for getting absolutely plastered at parties and was actually a total party animal.
The fact that Robert of Normandy (King William the I’s oldest son) wanted land so much in Normandy whilst his dad was ruling England. His two younger brothers, William Rufus (King Willliam II) and Henry got so annoyed with him so they just peed on his head from above.
I'm learning more from this than my history classes
An other one. The vibrator was originally a female massage aid, used in case of "Woman hysteria" to calm them down, or cure many illnesses. Before that it was the doctor's role to "massage" her "down there" to relieve the stress. Tool got invented to basically relieve doctors Carpal Tunnel from fingerblasting so many woman....
Overlooked fact: The reason why Colonialism started because Byzantine Empire was conquered by Ottomans. Europe was so dependent on spice trade from India (Byzantines were the only ones, with the access to India)
During Atlantic slave trade, West African warlords sold the prisoners from other tribes as a slaves. When Brazil (Last country during AST that abolished slavery) abolished slavery, West African warlords lost their profit
The greatest ancient burn in history: When King Phillip the second of macedon invaded the greek city states. He sent a letter to Sparta. Saying «If i invade you, i will destroy you never to rise again». The spartans replied with only one word. «If»