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Surprising Facts About Ancient Landmarks

Weird History | October 2, 2025



Historic landmarks have been attracting tourists for hundreds – in some cases, thousands – of years. Monuments like the Roman Colosseum, the Great Wall of China, and the Eiffel Tower are so distinct that you can probably identify them just by their silhouettes – but what do you really know about them?

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  1. @rgerber

    October 2, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    when the Romans had their exotic animals fight in the Collosseum- i wonder if they spared those who won or if they simply mercilessly killed them all.
    I mean the Gladiator games were rarely just simple slaughtering but Gladiators were something like their ages rockstars

  2. @tommyfarhad-un1qo

    October 2, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    Even though you refer to BC (BEFORE CHRIST)as CE YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO HIDE JESUS CHRIST, WHY BECAUSE YOU CAN NEVER CHANGE THE YEARS, WE ARE IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD OF 2023!!!

  3. @JessiOz2k07

    October 2, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    An iron pillar that has not rusted in 1600 years? My god! And these are the civilisations we claim didnt have tech and we are much advanced than them?

    Bullshit.

  4. @tommywolfe2706

    October 2, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    For the destruction that movie sets bring to an area, I would consider $10k a day very cheap for a Hollywood studio. Very Cheap. They probably paid multiple times more just for the accommodations for all of the actors/staff making the movie. Something tells me that they probably spent that much on just mundane expenses every day alone. Of course it sounds like a lot, but that would only amount to $300k a month. Movies can cost more than a couple hundred million. That is chump change.

    Sources? Angelina Jolie made $7 million from the film and filming took took place from July 30 to November 30, 2000. That is 4 full months. She made 6x more in that amount of time than they would have had to pay even if every single stinking day was filmed at Angkor Wat.

    I just dont think that locations price is high at all, except for maybe its CHEAP price to film there.

  5. @samhemming2951

    October 2, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    Hello!!!!!! I love your videos so much!!! I would recommend writing out numbers in the videos on screen to help views get a better grasp! And adding the m/km units for foreign viewers. Xoxoxo love weird history

  6. @leepfrog7405

    October 2, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    Lifting a brick of the great wall is like lifting someones tombstone. Pretty sure the view and wonder of the wall are what visitors focus on, not the bodies of those who constructed it, that lay beneith their feet.

  7. @marinagadaborshev7427

    October 2, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    WTF BCE??? Stick this liberal oppression……

    It's bad enough that we have to learn BC. In the old country, it was before our Era and after our Era.

    I am dome! Bc is it. Ur feelings do not change gregorian calender.

  8. @jimmyjohnjuan

    October 2, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    The first temple isn't a serpent's chirp. It's a sound that sound Similar to a bird that's native, they believed it to be a incarnation/messenger(?)when its seen or heard, there god was watching.

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