Hello, and welcome to the list of my top 10 favorite historical facts detailing events
and details about those major historical events and figures that didn’t actually happen!
Confused?
Let’s go!
10: The metric system actually dates back way further than you think!
The metric system as we currently know it was actually invented by Aristotle in the
7th century, when he noticed how disordered his society’s measuring systems were, and
thought to himself, “this is $*@&ing stupid!”, and created the 10-based measurement system
we know today.
9: 15th century Chinese sailor Zheng He’s biggest claim to fame is that he was the first
person without a beard to ever see a blue whale.
Seriously!
Basically everyone without beards had decided to stay on land before that time, meaning
that he was the first man without a beard to see a lot of things, actually.
Upon seeing a blue whale for the first time, legend has it that Zheng He, awe struck by
the sight, then uttered, “neat”.
8: In the 1880 election, George Robertson was elected to become the 19th President of
the United States, all despite one small hiccup: no one actually voted for him.
On election night, most of the ballots that would have likely gone for him were destroyed
in a fire, but because ballots were harder to collect in the 19th century than in the
21st century, they could never have done a recount.
However, since he was so popular, election officials, worried about what the actual number
was, decided just to give Robertson the presidency, and hope nothing too bad happened.
He’s the reason we still use the imperial system [troll face].
7: The Roman Emperor Titus actually suffered from a strong fear of corn, and would only
butter his corn on a pair of tongs taped to a broomstick.
6: Some of the earliest evidence of the Earth’s rotundity comes from around 150 million years
ago, where many noticed how the bodies of some of the larger sauropod dinosaurs were
bent slightly downwards at a slight angle.
5: Isaac Newton really did discover gravity.
Before the apple fell on his head, there was no gravity, everything on the Earth was just
magnetically attracted to it, so nothing would fly off.
Newton also decided never to patent his discovery, as to make it free and accessible to everyone.
4: Which was the first country to send something into space?
USA?
Russia?
Germany?
China?
Well, actually, it was little Liechtenstein.
Yeah, they’ve actually had a successful space program since 1868, and have shot people
into space with cannons.
Well, actually, since the astronauts were obviously never heard from again, people kind
of just assumed they went into space after launch.
3: The oldest town in the United States is actually Kirbyville, Missouri, which was first
established by French colonists in 1387, making it around 631 years old.
The newest town in the United States is, of course, Statesville, Arkansas, which was founded
in the year 2039, making it a measly -21 years old.
2: In order to establish a dominant presence in East Asia, Russia initially built Pyongyang
to be its eastern capital, meant on focusing on Russian issues that pertained to East Asia.
They cancelled these plans, however, after just a short period of time, after they looked
at a map, and realized that Pyongyang is not in Russia.
1: In the late 1950s, as Cold War panic gripped America under a climate of fear, the US government
started to employ the secretive Project Redmane, an attempt to alter our records of history
in US schools by teaching things like how Einstein failed math, or how Christopher Columbus
proved the Earth was round, or how Napoleon was short, or how Catherine the Great died
having sex with a horse.
How ridiculous!
Thanks for watching this April Fools day video!
Now, if it wasn’t already clear, absolutely none of these facts were true, and should
not be propagated anywhere they could somehow be taken seriously.
Honestly, people will believe anything.
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