Historical Facts that Mess With Your Sense of Time - Classical Lectures Reaction

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[ItsAVolcano]

The fact Harriet made it back and forth from Europe in Darwin's time was a small miracle. Naturalists back then had a notoriously hard time transporting a live tortoise simply due to how much the shipcrew wanted to eat them.😅

[lolwuttup]

Something that always trips people up when I tell them: we are roughly as far removed from WWII as people in WWII were from the US Civil War.

[BHuang]

I can't believe he missed this interesting fact!

The last American Civil War veterans saw the first atomic bombs!

[XXXTENTAClON]

I’ve got two but idk if they count, they are more just interesting:

- Queen Victoria has a voice recording which you can hear online. It is almost certain to be her. It’s not the clearest, but consider the fact she was born in 1819!

- A photoshoot exists online of veteran soldiers who fought at Waterloo in 1815 online in their uniforms. The photographer is unknown, but someone out there was genius enough to capture the only surviving images of actual veterans in the Grand Armée and the Guard in their original uniforms and insignia

[lukaslambs]

Some of my favorite fun facts:

Harriet Tubman was alive at the same time as both John Adams and Ronald Reagan, the 2nd and 40th US President! This really puts into perspective how young The USA is as a country!

Anyone 80 years old or older was born closer to the American Civil War than to the present day!

It took roughly 2, 000 years for humanity to go from bronze to iron tools but it only took 66 years to go from the first airplane to the first man to travel to the moon! Technology is advancing faster now than ever before!

The first Comic book published by DC Comics was before the start of World War 2!

[GroinStrain_]

Bohemian Rhapsody was released in 1975 so Picasso wasn’t alive by then. But, dying in 1973 means he enjoyed Stairway to Heaven, all Led Zeppelin first 4 albums and obviously all the Beatles. But he never heard Bohemian Rhapsody

[brucenorman]

President Tyler born in 1790. As of May 2023, Tyler has one living grandson through his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler, making him the earliest former president with a living grandchild. Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 and maintains the family home, Sherwood Forest Plantation, in Charles City County, Virginia.

[KingEdward]

The pyramid referenced in the video is the Pyramid of Djoser, constructed by the recognizable figure Imhotep. Not only was it the first Pyramid but it was also the first monumental structure made of stone. Located about 12 miles south of the Giza Pyramid Complex

[scopeless]

I think the reason Woolly Mammoths confuse people is that we tend to learn about them the same time we learn about dinosaurs, and so group them together despite them being separated by millions years. Cavemen suffer from the same thing as classic movies tended to show cavemen, mammoths and dinosaurs interacting.

[jonathancampbell]

The Oxford-Aztec thing is considered weird because of Whig History (in its various forms), the concept that history moves through certain "stages" with each being more advanced than the last, and in such cases civilisations such as the Aztecs "should be" older than a Medieval institute like Oxford.

Many (maybe even most) people have been raised with this as a basic assumption, so it doesn't automatically "click" for them that the Aztecs (who "should be" from an earlier / more primitive stage) actually postdates something like Oxford, in the same way that people "know" that tribal societies still exist but don't really think about it in their day to day lives.

That being said, Oxford University- like all Medieval universities- originally didn't have its own buildings, and for a long time was just students and teachers having classes in whatever public location would let them.

[rustyknott-W.D]

About time: My grandmother, the first child of her family born in America, born in 1896 and who died in 1992, saw some great things in her lifetime. When she was 10, she saw her first automobile on the farm in Minnesota. She saw the start of electrification of America, air travel, radio, television, men on the moon and the maturation of the beginning of the computer age! Amazing.

[AnnieVanAuken]

Pablo Picasso died a month after DARK SIDE OF THE MOON was released. Paul McCartney wrote a song for his BAND ON THE RUN album called "Picasso's Last Words". The chorus goes, "Drink to me, drink to my health; You know I can't drink any more". This is very close to the final thing "The Grand Old Painter" said to friends before he retired for the night and forever. The related McCartney-Wings LP debuted 8 months after his passing.

[shortlivedglory]

I remember the first iPhone announcement. It was mocked by more than a few as a boondoggle that would bankrupt Apple. It really wasn't obvious at the time that smart phones were going to be the direction of things for the future. Needless to say, their mockery hasn't aged well.

[robdixon]

Hey Chris! Funny story. I just got off a flight to Phoenix, and noticed the guy next to me had you downloaded on his phone. Told him I was also a subscriber and he said "Oh yeah! He's great!"

[jameswoodard]

Thank you for mentioning the Aztec thing. The surprise comes from the fact that many people have the Aztecs in their minds as an ancient civilization. I have many times heard people mention the "Ancient Aztecs." It's actually quite annoying.

[thyuing]

As I'm sure you all know, the iPhone wasn't the first smart phone with apps and such; primarily there were Blackberrys and Nokias. Due to the popularity of the iPod though, the iPhone was the first major smartphones success and still is today. This goes back to one of the themes of this video, new things and ideas are built on previous ones.

[galesito]

I'm 53 and the other day someone told me they were born in 2002. My first thought was "that's impossible, you're an adult".

[rasmusn.e.m]

I believe the oldest animals still alive might be some mussels in the Atlantic. Those suckers have been estimated at half a millennium.

[charlayned]

My 67 year old husband's home in a small Oklahoma town still had a party-line telephone system when he was in jr. high (1968-1971). They had the operator and you had to talk to her and see if the person you were calling was off the line so you could talk. I'm 66 and remember the one in our town of 145, 000 had one library in 1968. I remember they bought a delivery truck, modified it, and would drive to the parking lot of the local grocers with it filled with books you could check out for two weeks and return them when they came back. The Bookmobile was a thing for us, I loved it.

[MrAlsachti]

@9:19 I always thought that Christian Ranucci was the last person executed in France. But, as indicated in Wikipedia: "Ranucci was the third-to-last person executed in France, and frequently cited as the last due to the notoriety and media frenzy over the case."