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Written and presented by
JAY FOREMAN @jayforeman
MARK COOPER-JONES @markcooperjones

Edited by
JAY FOREMAN @jayforeman

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INDIA RAKUSEN @indiarakusen

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[lindybeige]

I didn't understand about the movement of the tectonic plates until you showed the image of the pasta and the fiddle, and now it all makes sense. Thank you.

[theultimatebro]

I like to think Russia was in a constant state of panic until Berwick upon tweed declared peace between them

[spenceratkins]

Mark used to be my geography teacher about 8 or so years ago. So cool seeing him here

[ParadoxNerdHLM]

My favourite Hadrian's Wall fact is that all the forts are in really dumb places, because the Roman's wanted them to be at identical intervals, so there's a bunch of forts that are placed at the bottom of hills

[ronaldderooij]

Forgotten wars happen to the best of us. The Netherlands was at war with Jersey from the 17th century to the 21st century, until somebody noticed we had declared war four hundred years ago, but nobody could find the peace treaty. So, we signed an official peace declaration with Jersey a few years ago, and now all is well again.

[krakendwaggin]

Great episode, hopefully we won't have to wait another three years for the next one!

[orange]

The inconsistant number of “men” in the intro always gets me

[remielpollard]

So... I get the joke, but Hadrian's wall was much more effective than just requiring people to just hop over. First of all, it was made mostly of wood, because building stuff out of stone and brick in those days, especially without logistics support, was less feasible. But it was built very strong with similar methods to ship building, and it was manned and guarded, complete with gates and ballista emplacements, as well as proper corbels, parapets, and machicolations. Just all made out of wood, not stone. It was a proper wall, not just a fence. The remains today are indeed stone, but that was used for the foundations, which is of course why they remain today, because that part of the wall was built to really last. You can see along the wall protruding sections where there would have been rooms and areas for sleeping, war rooms, break rooms, all kinds of rooms, built into the wall itself, on the English side of course because you don't want to be caught unawares by barbarians just trying to have your morning scones and tea. But there are some remains of full-scale barracks and everything scattered about along the length of it. This is part of how we know it was a really effective wall.

[Liletter]

2:23, as a violinist, this brought me physical pain.

[SgtByrd]

"Mr Bean was an alien"
"The production company was English"

*"Well saved"*

[defaultmesh]

*Top 10 Most Anticipated Anime Comebacks*

[Kovukingsrod]

The violin part hurt my heart, please never do that again 😂

[oisin_smith]

I love how they pretend to go to Berwick upon Tweed but it's clearly just somewhere in london

[DynestiGTI]

4:40 To all the people who got mad when they said "men" 3 times instead of 2 for the intro in that other video.

[BayAreaTransitNews]

Last time I was this early, Scotland almost left the UK.

[gramsci]

Fun fact! The part of Laurentia which Scotland split off from is now the Canadian province of Nova Scotia (or New Scotland for non Latin speakers) which was founded by Scottish immigrants… perhaps obviously. Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island bears an uncanny resemblance to the Scottish highlands and many of the road signs are in Gaelic as well as English. Now you know

[jakeallinson]

Bonus points for including the Art Attack theme tune 👍

[jack]

Finally another one see you boys in 20 years

[bhaskarbharali]

Moral of the story : ALWAYS WATCH A JAY FOREMAN VIDEO TILL THE END.


Edit: It seems the speed at which likes were coming is decreasing,
but together we can stop that. Please hit more likes.

[elliot]

2:52 the tap water joke is so true tho