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A Collection Of Strange History Stories

Joe Scott | July 24, 2026



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Weโ€™ve covered a lot of history topics on the channel over the years. So today letโ€™s look back through the channel history to videos on the Victorian Era, the Spice Trade, Kaspar Hauser, royal inbreeding, Americaโ€™s first serial killers, and more.

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Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:10 – The Deadliest Company In History
20:50 – Sponsor read
22:41 – The Most Inbred People In History
35:56 – That Time When Cocaine Was In EVERYTHING
47:55 – Laugh Smarter Promo
49:29 – The Victorian Era Was Insane
1:14:40 – Health And Beauty Fads From The Victorian Era
1:36:54 – Victorian Treatment For Female Hysteria
1:42:46 – Kaspar Hauser
1:53:56 – The Harpe Brothers – America’s First Serial Killers
2:11:21 – 5 Worst Plagues In Human History
2:27:42 – Why Trains Changed After 1948

Written by Joe Scott

Comments

This post currently has 23 comments.

  1. @ComeOutYeIDF

    July 24, 2026 at 11:56 am

    Ughhh no, medieval Europeans did not go around eating rotten meat.
    The Victorian capitalists REALLY made sure everyone felt like they were doing better under capitalism.

  2. @BolinFoto

    July 24, 2026 at 11:56 am

    I hated history when I was in school, but now when I'm old I love history.
    I have realised that it's not History that is boring, it was my teacher that was boring.
    Being a good teacher isn't all about blurting facts, you need to connect with your students, remember this if any of you wants to be a teacher.

  3. @dustinsdistractions4237

    July 24, 2026 at 11:56 am

    Yea well look at the state of Africa now. Not that hard of a stretch since 90% of Africa is still hunter gathers and not developed. Sooo yea they have the oldest civilization in the world so what held them up? Yea we can all say we are equal but history states otherwhise

  4. @benstock1146

    July 24, 2026 at 11:56 am

    50:49 ive heard this saying so many times, im 30 years old, but I NEVER thought about it til i saw the empire on a map like that, i always just thought the sun not setting meant it would never end or whatever, nah they literally meant there was always sun somewhere all day in the british empire, one of those eureka moments damn

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