10 Historical Facts That Will Seriously Mess With Your Perception of Time
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10. Oxford University in England was created before the emergence of the Aztec Empire in modern Mexico
9. Tiffany & Company is older than the nation of Italy
8. The Titanic sank the same month that Boston’s Fenway Park opened for business
7. The guillotine was still in use when Jimmy Carter was President of the United States
6. The bicycle evolved years after the steam engine revolutionized locomotion
5. The first man to achieve powered flight lived to see it accomplished at speeds faster than sound
4. The last American pensioner from the Civil War died in the 21st century
3. The Indianapolis 500 is older than the 50 star American flag (and the 48 star flag, too)
2. Woolly mammoths were still roaming the earth when the pyramids were built at Giza
1. Americans were on the moon before women in Switzerland were allowed to vote
Source/Further reading:
www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/history?wssl=1
www.thejewelleryeditor.com/jewellery/article/the-history-of-tiffany-tiffanys/
www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/kennedys-bio-john-francis/
www.thesun.co.uk/news/6044102/beheading-experiments-guillotine-severed-heads-remain-alive/
www.americanheritage.com/great-bicycle-craze
www.npca.org/articles/1028-the-wright-stuff
www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/24/one-n-c-woman-still-receiving-civil-war-pension/594982001/
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/one-hundred-years-of-the-indy-500-158836397/
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1XkbKQwt49MpxWpsJ2zpfQk/13-mammoth-facts-about-mammoths
news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/country-that-didnt-let-women-vote-till-1971/
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:History_of_the_late_war_between_the_United_States_and_Great_Britain-_(1836)_(14764673135).jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Alcazar,_St._Augustine,_Florida,_1898.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Conrad_Gesner_by_J.J._Boissard._Wellcome_L0017768.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nintendo_1889.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NintendoCards.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Wall_Street_Journal_first_issue.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1704_Gemelli_Map_of_the_Aztec_Migration_from_Aztlan_to_Chapultapec_-_Geographicus_-_AztecMigration-gemelli-1704.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SSA41434.JPG
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Senyeres-Invencible-Plymouth.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:University_College,_Oxford;_aerial_view_with_key_and_scale._Wellcome_V0014175.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myles_Birket_Foster_The_High_Oxford.jpg
ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:HarvardCollegeCharter.jpeg
www.pexels.com/photo/europe-history-italy-monument-23806/
www.maxpixel.net/static/photo/1x/Nation-Flag-Italy-State-2356384.jpg
arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%81:Tiffany_blue_box_1.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Lewis_Tiffany_2.png
uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Italy_1799.jpg
ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Royal_standard_of_Italy_(1861_-_1880).svg
www.flickr.com/photos/southbeachcars/46451097512
www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2387164463 
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It seems like a lot of stuff was invented in a short amount of time, but seems like it has slowed down a lot in the last 50 years or so.
China ,Russia ,Germany (the current states not the historic geographic locations ) are all younger than the USA.
Catholicism *
We need more videos like this and less videos asking questions like " why are stop signs red?". Food for thought.
Kim Il-Sung was born the same day Titanic sank
Nintendo and Hitler were born in the same year lmao
I love ya Simon!
#5 ... That is pretty awesome.
Bicycles did *_NOT_* start, or become common among the genteel, with the invention of the safety bicycle! The *_earlier_* bicycles, without chains (the Penny-Farthing, especially), were *_all the rage,_* and even had a major impact on Women's Rights and the feminist movement!
0:25 lead stick? Lead has *_NEVER_* been used to write with. Papyrus was written on, using reed pens and ink! (quills came in, after people started using parchment)
Also, pencils being as old as American settlements by Europeans (not counting the Vikings), is hardly notable, given how late that happened.
Didnt realize HRC was Swiss.... 🙄
Facts I've learned:
1. That photo of the Wright brothers plane was the ONLY photo taken by that person. They set up the camera and told him to squeeze the bulb when the plane lifted off. Its a perfect picture. A second earlier and the plane would still be on the ramp and would not look like it was flying. A second later and it would have been further away.
2. The time interval between the building of the pyramids and Cleopatra is LONGER than from Cleopatra to the moon landing.
My father was born several days after the Titanic sank.
10:41
Spacex, blue origin, NASA: am I a joke to you?
Last one isn't entirely true, 1971 was the year the LAST canton of Switzerland gave women the vote, which iirc was Appenzell.
Bullfights still exists, and i go to watch them like 6 times at year because of that same reason, its surreal... time is relative.
Sorry but Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico is the oldest continually inhabit community in North America. It's been continually inhabit for over 2000 years, before Spain was Spain. Several other Pueblos throughout New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, have been continually inhabit for 1000+ years. Make them the oldest communities in North America. You seem to forget the native Americans we're here first.
Take a guess when the paint roller was invented. Surprised? So was I.
Sadly women can't drive in some countries circa 2019. Time is relative.
love your videos! this puts a lot of thing in prospective!! love it!
Some of this is false, because of the fake history narrative pushed today.
He glosses over and over simplifies things .
Depending on what you consider functional, the first steam engine was made in ancient Greece. The aeolipile.
Why are you making these videoes so very USA oriented?
I get that the producers probably are american, but the videoes would be a lot more interesting if they would not consider facts based on how american-friendly or not they are.
Pyramids, as well as most ancient structures, are a lot older than they are willing to admit. Geologists have proven that the sphinx is 30,000+ Think about _that_ while you sip your Starbux Latte...
No it really isn't.
toptenz has turned into an american view point channel, what a shame...
You might think the USA is "Young" but its actually technically older than France and Italy. France is on its Fifth Republic, which only came into place in 1962. Italy's Republic was formed in 1946.
*the more you know*
My great-grandmother was born in a covered wagon and lived to see people walk on the moon.
none of these are surprising, still interesting though.
Here’s another: I am around before the 51 star flag.
Incorrect. Vietnam is the 51st state.
Samsung was founded in 1938
The invention of the bicycle is a very interesting topic to think about because if you consider the technology that is required to produce the simplest bicycle, that tech has been around since the Roman era (minus the rubber for tires, however they could have just used solid wood wheels). So there is really no reason why humans couldn't have been pedaling themselves around 2000 years ago. It's incredible that nobody thought of that until the mid 19th century!
The invention of the battery is older then the Bible.
14:44 Woolly mammoths would be "ancestors" not "descendants" of elephants.
@Helios Sky Nice! My vast knowledge is improved. Thank you!
Also they aren't ancestors, they are separate lineages.
lol they only count settlements of whites on american soil
My oldest brother is two years younger than me.
I can't believe we landed on the moon before someone invented compound bows. Don't get me started on pockets and hallways neither.
Train needed rails though, not hard to understand why iron wheel cycles wouldn't catch on... Pneumatic tires where made for bikes.
Harvard was founded in 1636
Longest in northamerican continent? Mexico have some older... And still north america
Here is another one: in the span of time since I was born - 51 years ago - the world population has more than doubled. Human population that is, as the population of most other living forms decreased, in some cases to the brink of exintion.
Bugs are thriving too
It will double again in 25 years. Unless something catastrophic happens.
Try this one..
How long ago did they quit making pencils with lead, and start making them with graphite? 100 years ago? 200 years ago??
The answer is... Pencils were NEVER made with lead to write with. They have been made with graphite since they were first invented.
Orville Wright was NOT the first he was the second. Richard William Pearse beat the Wright brothers by 6 months.
I think the world thinks the US is dumb
Those wholly mammoth you showed, wasn't the species that lived when the pyramids were build, instead it was a much smaller, dwarf like species that lived secluded on an isle north of Siberia.
He butchers some random word in almost every video- this time it's guillotine. It drives me crazy and takes me out of the narrative.
That's the typical British hyper-anglicized pronunciation. Americans tend to use more French-based pronunciations of French words, where the British are more likely to read them as though they were English words.
What world do the they actually pronounce the "LL's" in guillotine? PMSL.
Yep, some people pronounce it how it would be if it were an English word
A world that doesn't speak French
...you just say Jewbox?
... sounds like it...
You mean "ascendant"? A descendant is a grandchild, great grandchild, etc.
You forgot my favorite: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank were both born in 1929 (King on January 15th, Frank on June 12th).
The last execution by guillotine was in 1977, but the last _public_ execution by guillotine was on June 17, 1939, of Eugen Weidmann. It was filmed from an apartment window (you can find the film on USclip) and was witnessed by a 17-year-old Christopher Lee.
St. Augustine was 1565, not 1576.
All manned space travel is fake.
Ciabatta was only invented in 1982
My brother in law's uncle got shot by baby-face Nelson.
There is a tree somewhere in California that was around before the pyramids as well - and it is still living today. Appropriately named Methuselah, the tree - a bristlecone pine is estimated to be over 4,850 years old. It is in a protected location. The oldest pyramid by comparison is about 4,600 years old.
Another company that's older than you'd think: Husqvarna. You've seen their mowers and weed-eaters, but they made motorcycles before Harley-Davidson did. But they're even older than that. Husqvarna originally started out making muskets in 1689. The logo for Husqvarna is supposed to to be the end of a gun barrel.
Ann Englishman invented the pilotless, automatic airplane 80yrs before The Wright Brothers flew.
How can something be founded that was already there (occupied by people)
This is exactly why I have always wanted to create a comprehensive timeline of every fact I've heard, so you can start to see who was whose contemporary, and what was happening in one area of the world as another invented something we now consider fundamental.