Historical Misconceptions You Probably Still Believe

What are historical misconceptions? Simply put, a “fact” about history that is believed by many but not actually true. In this video, I’ll discuss and expose some rather obscure and unique historical misconceptions that I thought were interesting enough to share with you amazing people! Join me for a fun and misinformed “bro history lesson” have fun, take notes, and fact-check everything I say!
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Bookmarks:
0:00 | Intro
0:24 | Ninja “uniform”
1:18 | Midevil life expectancy
2:05 | Death from a dropped penny
3:34 | Benjamin Franklin didn’t discover electricity
4:52 | WWE IS REAL
5:14 | “American Gothic” Origin Story
5:59 | Ancient Greek & Roman statue color
4:52 | WWE IS REAL
6:22 | Hellen Keller was a communist
7:10 | Chastity belts in medieval times
8:02 | Outro
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Video inspired by & other sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VIb9eGkE-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zMSMJZc9EA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYzfKiIWN4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjkJ6YuEoE4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrd796w6FEs
Trust Me Bro – Historical Misconceptions You Probably Still Believe
@TheReaverOfDarkness
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
One misconception I hear a lot is that Thomas Crapper perfected the Crapper flushing toilet and that its popularity with royalty helped spread the idea of distributing flushing toilets to the masses. That's just absurd. Next you'll tell me that John Hancock was the first man to sign his John Hancock on a document.
@TheReaverOfDarkness
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
I'm pretty sure that WWE is fake. I mean, how do you explain them not being penalized for continuing the fight after they fall out of the ring and the referee is blowing the whistle? They never get charged with safety violations when they beat each other with fold up chairs. It just doesn't seem anything at all like wrestling in High School.
@ciciciciciclala
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Yeah so that cereal guy is also the reasonwhy you Americans don't have foresk.n.
@Minarchist_91
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Communism is an evil ideology and all who support it are the enemy.
@Thesaurcery4U2C
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
So, Helen Keller spoke positive about communism because she hasn't been able to see™ how it seems to squash ingenuity or hasn't heard™ about the countless millions of people who seem to always die when such authority is trusted to government.
Did she not have the time to think about it.
Makes one wonder what she might have sounded like if she had.
@aapadre
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Yea the penny is a misconception but if u replace it with a bolt, nut, or screw and it’s a whole different story. We wear hard hats in the oilfield and it only takes a 100 ft fall for a bolt to fall and turn u into a vegetable.
@hiddentruth1982
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Do not throw money off a high rise. You could very well get arrested for assault since you know there are people below.
@JonahTheBitter55
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
I don’t believe this man this was not made eight months ago
@passing.by.the.river.
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Well to me if you're a low class citizen or poverty strcicken peasant I'm pretty sure the life expectancy during earlier times until the 20th century that age is until late 20s.
@cruzanassassin
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
This guy is hilarious 🤣😂 "it's a free country" 😂😂
@mothman1307
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
WWE isn't faked, but it's loosely scripted.
@zema9401
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
No one thought Ninjas would walk the streets in full uniforms during the day and saying "Nah, they didnt wear black, they wore a very dark blue" is just nitpicking.
@Tumi_2000
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
I believed WWE was fake, not because I saw it as that originally, but because other people have been saying so and calling people who believe it's real, dumb.
@kevincleveland763
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
I do not trust you, Bro, and WWE is so fake it is megafake
@StrawhatRye
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
It's kinda insane just how much straight misinformation we were (and most likely still is) taught in school. My childhood was just filled with so many different white lies or complete fabrications of truth and it honestly makes me feel so uncomfortable. History is a very precious subject because how much of it is a mystery, yet for the morsels of truth we do have it is deeply unsettling to see them completely avoided by the people who should be upholding them the most. I was in school from 2005 – 2018, this wasn't even that long ago. All this information has been around, there internet existed for my entire education, yet even then a lot of it was pure misdirection. It's rough cause I was a kid obsessed with all things social studies, it was the only part of school I enjoyed, so knowing the misconceptions now make things even sadder. I wanted to be a teacher for a very long time, but I gave up on that cause I've heard it's completely futile and discouraged in this education system to teach anything other than what you've been given.
@DaSecurityGuard
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
2:40 We need to do something about these jews of power before they explode all our brains
@rachelwilliams-y9c
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Of course Helen Keller was a communist ; she was blind and deaf just like all communist. Also blind and deaf……Any one who has these misconceptions. Are you still in grade school or did you graduate from public high school ??……….Titties!
@LandonVR
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
I don’t think anybody thinks Benjamin Franklin invented electricity
@justsomedudeyouknow8372
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
wwe is choreographed, so fake
@Chicken_Sithlord
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Fun fact: it is believed that the ninja’s attire misconception came from the suits the people would wear in shows in China to not be seen while they move things on set, which, you guessed it, was all black.
@TheKAYLEN101
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Nah I think they were on to something with that masturbation take
@bridgetdavis9752
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Ok, hear me out – what if someone came along later and painted those Greek statues? Just saying, it's all theory.
@matthewmonteagudo679
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
In Volkswagen's first few years they directly killed hundreds of babies……..
@ironiccookies2320
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Nitpick for ninja: it's shinobi. Ninja is another way to say it but majority of Japanese say shinobi. It was the West that began using ninja
@samk8005
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
I would be pretty shocked if anyone saying "WWE isn't real" meant "John Cena doesn't exist."
@ButBigger42
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
The animation suggests that the maker of this video supporta communism….
@Weirdoeevee
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Wasnt just infant mortality rates that dropped the average, but child mortality rates in general. To make it to puberty was hard. Then, if you were female, you lived to the ripe old age of "died in childbirth", as maternal death rates were also very high.
@Savage-ic2kb
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Ninja uniform:
3. the color black was too expressive at that time
@treaisland
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Wrestling is fake af lol choreographed 'fights'
@johnjr578
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
1:16 Boom roasted
@DivergentDroid
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
Wrestling is Fake dude. I don't know how you got 467k subs unless you bought them or all your subscribers are total idiots but you just made Claims that you Fail to provide any real evidence for. Those people are Actors. Yes, the job requires some rough physicality but it's got sensationalism and the drama created by stomping on the mat which is designed to make a lot of noise compared to a Real wrestling mat you find at a university. They put on a show that's all they do.
@lebogangchimhavi4217
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
bro, wwe is fake.
@thedangmullet
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
4:36 there is a dude at my school named William Gilbert wtf
@AndrewJohnson-oy8oj
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 am
In Japanese theatre, stagehands wore "ninja outfits," and there arose a cultural norm of regarding anyone wearing such outfits as invisible. This is where the idea of invisible assassins wearing that outfit came from.