Historical Misconceptions For You to Bring Up during Family Dinner

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[SamONellaAcademy]

Can y'all calm down now please

[fenrirunshackled]

He left out part of the witch trials story, he resigned to being crushed like a badass because if he made a guilty, or not guilty, plea his daughter wouldn't be allowed to inherit his property. By not giving a plea at all, and dying horribly for it, he ensured his daughter would not be homeless when he was executed.

[artembentsionov]

The reason that guy was okay with being crushed to death was because being convicted of witchcraft would have meant that all his property would be seized by the town, so his family would have been left with nothing. He sacrificed himself to provide for his wife and kids

[zoyadulzura]

Giles Corey didn't want to "confess" to witchcraft to alleviate his suffering, as tempting as that must've been, because the moment he did, his property would've been seized. Corey wanted his property to stay in the hands of his family, so he died for it.

[mr.e.k.]

I once did a project at school and we made a Salem Witch Trial journal, we can name the press that published it whatever we wanted, so I called mine "Giles Press".

[grqfes]

i like how proud he was after saying "pasghetti"

[Destroyer]

Mussolini: PASGEHTI
Crowd: *CHEERING*

[bennu]

I read about Giles Corey in a book called The Big Book of Pain. I agree. He is a total badass. He also goes to show that no matter how ridiculous and cruel society is, there’s always gonna be someone that goes “that’s bs.” Torture is just a way to control a group of people who are a potential threat or an imaginary one like witches. From what I read in this book, you don’t need to do anything fancy to inflict a hell of a lot of pain on someone. An 81 year old man who’s fed up with the witch trails refusing to fold for 3 days while he was being crushed to death? Total badass

[AmazingFalcon]

Wishing I could tag my fiancé in #5 because I asked him to trim the low hanging branches from our tree in the front yard. I got back from town less than an hour later and the whole tree was gone. It's been 7 years. I still don't have an explanation other than maybe he didn't like where it sat in the yard.

[simontheewok]

If he got that applause just from "spaghetti, " imagine the applause he'd have gotten had he said "pizza"

[theannouncer]

Hitler’s voice: that guy in the group that’s always way too angry

Mussolini’s voice: that guy that says something stupid with so much confidence that you kinda believe him

[ossa.mortua]

I’ve watched this video at least 70 times and only just noticed that Sam didn’t finish coloring Einstein’s hair

[Rios-ovxi]

My guess for the Einstein myth is that it come from his quote along the lines “No matter your struggles in mathematics, I assure you mine are greater”. Of course it’s meant to joke about how incredibly complicated much of his work was, but I can definitely see someone reading that as “wow, yeah! Einstein struggled in math even more than I am, and did fine!”

[vosluc]

About Einstein's grades:
Einstein himself was German, he went to school in Aarau, Switzerland however. Einstein aced maths, obviously. Due to the fact that Switzerland and Germany have basically the opposite grading system (6 is the best, 1 the worst grad in Switzerland whereas 1 is the best, 6 the worst grade in Germany), some Germans failed to take this into account and proclaimed he failed maths. There you have it, that's where this silly myth comes from.

[jordieformicola]

“Bring Up during Family Dinner” is what got me here

[simonef.]

3:14
FINALLY
im italian and im sick to hear people saying that "at least trains were punctual"

[troublemaker]

Fun fact: The first Autobahn was in fact build under Konrad Adenauer, the German chancellor after WWII, who at the time was mayor of cologne. It’s located between Cologne and Bonn. Adenauer was kind of a badass anyway. During the Nazi Regime he did on one memorable occasion refuse to greet Hitler, when he came to visit Cologne and even forbade to put up the swastika on public bridges, unrelated to this incident he lost his position, hid for a while in a monastery and was questioned by the NS multiple times, one leading to his incarceration. He went on to become chancellor of Germany from 1949 till 1963, in a major time of economic growth and political change (the first predecessor of the European Union was founded back then).

[newsomberman]

First word I ever heard Mussolini say:
*PASGETI*

[budhvinisreal]

Teacher : why did Washington's father not punish him after cutting the tree...
Student : because he was still holding the axe

[AtomicFlounder]

Since I watched this video 2 years ago, I STILL haven't forgotten that Iron Maiden is as real as it gets. Thank you Sam