Awesome. Glad you did a part 3!

The Great Molasses flood is known here both locally and colloquially as "The Boston Molassacre".

Great video! as a history fan I feel like history KZfaqrs are making history interesting in ways that many boring history teachers in high school failed to do.

To quote the classic sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

Addition to fact #23: Roman General Publius Claudius Pulcher consulted the sacred chickens before an intended surprise attack on the Carthaginian fleet at Drepanum (modern Trapani in Sicily). The chickens refused to eat and Pulcher became so furious he committed sacrilege by throwing the chickens overbaord to drown saying “Let them drink then.”. He then proceeded to lose the naval battle and when he returned to Rome he was prosecuted and forced to pay a fine for killing the sacred chickens.

My grandmother always took pencils/crayons, etc. out of my left hand and into my right. I’d always switch back as soon as she turned away. I was maybe 6 or 7 she finally gave up.

This is a great video! You did a wonderful job!! Thank you for making this 🖤

Love it, it's refreshing to see the funny and weird side of history, I just found your channel and I'm glad I did!

Left Handedness. I was 7 and 8 years old in first grade in 1963-64. My teacher was one of those that thought left handed people were evil and made me sit on my left hand for the entire year. Writing, eating, drawing, anything we did I had to do it right handed. This succeeded in changing my dominant handedness for writing and such, but I do a lot with my left as well. Changing the handedness results in rewiring the brain to the left side (opposite brain to the side of the body). This also caused me to studder, threw my balance off, and generally cause a lot of problems with reading ability for a year or so. I have a left handed son (the eldest) and his little brother's daughter (my oldest granddaughter) is also left handed. We threated death to anyone who tried to mess with their handedness because the way it messed me up. So, of 4 kids, I have one lefty and out of 9 grandkids, I have one lefty.

As a Medieval Historian I wrote a piece called "The Unthinkable Burial of William the Conqueror" = He loved to eat Lampreys, which would give off gas while digesting in his belly. causing one to pass gas. William was known for this rather unaromatic trait.

I have never heard of defenestrating but am now delighted beyond my wildest imagination that it exists and I thank you for that sir. Huzzah! 😂

I didn’t know the oldest film footage was filmed up here in Leeds! Thanks for the interesting vid 👍

I remember Ethan saying in a vid defenestration was his favorite word.

Fun fact: The word “parmentier” refers to a dish prepared with potatoes. One such dish is “hashis Parmenier” (Beef and Potato Casserole or Shepherd’s Pie).

Just found your channel love it I am going to watch all your videos and can't wait for more

Brilliant again, thank you.

Addition to #22: the secretary was later ennobled by the emperor as Baron von Hohenfall, which literally translates to Baron of the high fall.

The bear, Wojtek, along with his humans were captured by the british. There is a statue of him in the park just off Prince's st in Edinbough.

Wonderful video! Always love learning a bit more about history though I did know some of these 😅 that said looking forward to the next video you always do great work!

Love these!

Yessss love these

Me and my girlfriend watched, we learned lots! She's a big fan, thank you!

Well done, part 2 please .

I enjoyed this very much.

Fun fact: The Potato is also called "Apple of the Earth" in Farsi "Sib Zamini" Sib = Apple Zamin = Ground

My husband and I enjoy your videos! We recently watched the 25 absurd random history facts created a year ago featuring Napoleon on the title page. It was interesting! Your history videos are great. As I said, we enjoy your channel but wanted to make a friendly suggestion. We noticed that when you have media that isn't full screen, you've added animated borders. Like I said, just a friendly suggestion, it just is a little busy. I know plain black borders aren't attractive but perhaps use something a little less busy? Also the clip of the countryside at the end of your video is just beautiful!

I fucking love potatoes

These are always interesting.

Found you through Vlogging through History great work on the videos

Great made for tv narration!

Thank you for this video I really needed something to take my mind off of my life right now

I’m left handed. When I learned how to write the nuns forced me to sit on my left hand. I write with my right to this day; I do everything else with my left.

Great, thanks! 🇬🇧👍

Molasses is not a sugar substitute. It's what you get when you refine sugar. It doesn't come out as little white crystals. 😂

"The Greeks competed naked; and well oiled. But, THAT'S another Story." Despite the hilarity of the inference, the oil was used to make it more difficult to hold a grip............

I’m a complete idiot because when you said William Henry Harrison was the shortest sitting president and then failed to mention his height I was thinking “How the hell do you not mention how tall the shortest president was?!” I think I’m going to quit internetting.

When I lived in China, I had the Grand Union Flag of the United States. I was going to hang it in one of the Universities I worked at . . . my wife convinced me not to do it. What an amazing controversy that could have been. I regret not doing that. I know, someone would have caught some kind of problem, but what an amazing story that would have been.

Fun fact: WH Harrison for said cold that developed into pneumonia by giving a three hour inaugural speech in the rain in winter.

Left in Italian is sinistra, from whence comes sinister.

I saw on your channel info 3 mates that love history….(finger guns) you betcha I’m in

How about that Robert Hansen! He is the first person to go about that fashionable endeavor of "finding myself" by joining the FBI.

I knew I had heard that guy before, that's Fizhy, I know him from his Red Dead Redemption videos

Oh my God the condom plot is hilarious they should've done that

The simple fact that Ben Franklin was one of the leaders of the American revolution against Britain yet he continued to travel back and forth between America and England during the war and never once did England arrest or detain him despite him being one of the biggest targets just goes to prove there was a lot of shady stuff going on behind the scenes , even back than.

7:10 That's just F'ing hilarious.

Fun!

Using chickens to make decisions? What bird brains!

Vojtek the bear was also partial to guzzling bottles of beer. There is a beer brewed and named after him in Poland.

Man I would love you to be my history teacher ❤

molasses also gets called treacle, it's from sugar and is strong in taste to make parkin or ginger cake lovely....

My Dad was left handed but forced to write right handed in school

10:23 BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

My mum used to be belted with a ruler if she used her left hand. This was in the 60's, hardly ancient Rome...

If I'm not mistaken, molasses is called treacle in the UK.

10:35 same time as one of world wars pretty sure 2

Hachis Parmentier is the French name for shepherd's pie. Named after Antoine Parmentier.

I was told the condom story happened in WW2. Any large use of rubber needed Churchill's approval. The Russian allies put a request for many condoms. Churchill approved, with the order that packets were clearly labelled, " Made in Britain. Small size".

Never knew that potatoes were vegetables… 😂

Ben Franklin: Eccentric before Eccentricity was cool...

!. Molasses is not a sugar substitute, it is what is left after the sugar sap from sugar cane is crystalized, and made into sugar. 2. The word Defenestration comes from the German word fenster, window.

Left-handed European here. The superstition against left-handedness as something related to the devil died off some generations ago, but Christianity has much less to do with it than I thought. I was working at a refugee shelter in the 2010s, I would regularly eat together with Pakistani (thus mostly Muslim) asylum seekers and the custom is to eat without cutlery, using a sort of large, flat, unraisened bread as a vessel for collecting (spicylicious) food from the plate with your hands. I noticed that they were grossed out by the way I ate, and there was an Asian colleague of mine who explained me that to them it looked as if I was using my foot to eat, and to them, that being left-handed is considered completely ok and not anymore corrected by binding children's left arm in Europe. Still, after some practice I easily started eating with my right hand when I was with them. Doing simple tasks with your non-fav side of your body is a great exercise for synapses and brain agility, I read long ago.

You would know molasses as trichole or trickle, something like that.

Molasses is called black treacle in the UK,at least according to Google 😊

Here's a video suggestion: The Assassination Of William McKinley and James Garfield, the 2 Presidental assassinations not a lot of people remember.

@decades Yes you know what Molasses is, just under the name it goes by in the UK.. Treacle.

Thanks

The word sinister, suggestive of darkness or evil, comes from a Latin word meaning “on the left side.” The association of “left” with “evil” is likely because of the dominance of right-handed people within a population.

It’s just like red dead lore but it’s real life

The Sun never sets on the British empire

Imma assume Tolkien got Palantir from Pullarius

I’m left handed…. I was forced to use my right hand as a child…. Now I’m decently ambidextrous….

Of course, you KNOW you must make it an even 100. Very soon, please...........

Defenestration - that's what Putin is doing.

Molasses is unrefined sugar syrup; the first stage product made by boiling the cane juice pressed at the mills which would be further refined into sugarloafs of varying degrees of whiteness.........

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#14 I heard as a joke in the 80's that went like this: President Reagan was contacted by Soviet leader Gorbachev when the AIDS scare was at its peak. An outbreak in the USSR prompted Gorbachev to plead Reagan for an emergency supply of condoms from American manufacturers and the size to be 12 inches long and 3 inches in diameter. Reagan agreed and contacted manufacturers with the measurements specified but with the addition of words printed at the base of the condoms to say on one side "Made in the USA" and the other side to say "Small".

Molasses is like maple syrup on steroids. Made from boiling sugar.

The channel Necessary Information has a series of videos on CIA shenanigans. Some are funnier than others

Are we any smarter than those who lived before us?😮🙈🙉🙊😮

All I know is if I was living around violet Jessup…can you warn me before I board a ship with her?? 😂😂

My father could write with both hands because he had been born left handed. Of course his hand writing wasn't very good with either hand.

Molasses = treacle.

😢just think, that Amerikan president would be claimed to have died of Covid, now

The Latin word for "left", or left handed, is "sinister". That probably had a part to do with the bias against lefties.

I don't watch vids with fake film scratches.

I do stress, I think this story is disgraceful and it’s almost poetic justice. In WW2, a Russian tank regiment hatched a plan to use dogs to destroy tanks. They made a bomb vest with a stick at the top which, when flattened, would detonate. They would starve the dogs for a few days and then hid food under tanks, put unarmed vests on the dogs and released them . The dogs immediately ran under the tanks to retrieve the food. After a few weeks of this, the dogs got the idea they would find food under the tanks. During an impending attack by a panzer division the Russians put the plan to work, strapped on the explosive vests and released the dogs……..who promptly ran under the Russian tanks looking for food. The plan was abandoned. Poor dogs, but what a revenge.

The distortion overlay effect is overkill. Couldn't watch.

K, so everything’s false.

Left-handedness "was stigmatized up until the late-20th Century." I'm left-handed, and no, not even remotely.

Christianity has nothing to say about left handedness. At all