50 Greatest Historical Events That Never Happened

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I heard that there was once a YouTuber that had like a hundred different channels and presented on such a wide array of topics that he was practically a genius, a modern day Library of Alexandria. But it's probably just a myth.

As a Greek I will say the stories about Ancient Greece are perfect for describing us as shitposters even when the internet wasn't even a concept

The Alice Cooper one always made my friend's mom laugh when people told her this. She was a HUGE Alice Cooper fan and whilst pregnant with my friend she went to one of his concerts, and also had a backstage pass (she had won a radio contest or something). She said when Alice noticed she was pregnant (cause she was barely 3 months along) he went from rock superstar badass character he puts on during shows, to extremely caring mom-friend watching out for her. He demanded the others not smoke in the green room while she was there, made sure she had food and/or something without alcohol to drink, and even gave her his chair so she could sit.

I'm beginning to think all these historical figures were replaying these events over and over again in their heads. Then, a few years later, thought, "If I would have said...., it would have been a lot cooler." Then they realized, "I'll just make everyone believe I said...."

It was under Mythbusters's test of Archimedes's death ray when Jamie Hyneman said "The death ray isn't working -I'm standing in the middle of it and I'm not dead yet."

Actually the 4th Doctor was caught by Newton sitting in one of his apple trees, and the Doctor explained all about gravity and the Laws of Motion to Newton during dinner later that day. It's well documented.

Simon: "The book of Kings was likely embellished to make Solomon look better than he was." I & II Kings: A literal laundry list of mistakes and sins made by Kings, FIRST OF WHICH WAS SOLOMON.

I learned most of these in school and now you tell me they weren't true?! I'm an old woman..I can't start over, for fucks sake

I would imagine Ceasers last words were more along the lines of ‘Ahrgghh, arghhhh, help, murder, arghhh, arghhh, gurgle, gurgle!’, rather than ‘et tu brute’.

"George. Did you chopdown my cherry tree?" "Icannot tell a lie father, Benedict Arnold did it and ran away".

Case Eliot’s daughter had said in an interview, “Mom was Jewish and would have not been eating a ham sandwich.”

When I was younger, there was a DJ on Philadelphia radio that used to say this. If Mama Cass had given that ham sandwich to Karen Carpenter, they’d both be alive today.

An addendum for the "Let them eat brioche" topic: At the time when the quote was born, there was a law in France which said that if bakers ran out of bread, they had to sell the fancier bakery products cheaper. The reason for introducing the law was that some bakers made less bread so they could cash in on the fancier stuff.

That time Atlas carried a giant pancake on his shoulders. Still true for flat earthers.

In the 1980s or maybe 1990s, I don't quite remember, the Chicago Tribune finally put this story to rest. A reporter made up the whole story. Absolutely made it up. For one thing, the man who supposedly saw what happened as he stood at his door couldn't have seen it because there was a building in between his place and Mrs O'Leary's barn. For another thing, you don't milk cows at night. After the story was published or maybe within a few years as I said my memories a bit hazy, the mayor or the governor publicly exonerated her and her cow completely. Would people don't realize about the story is that it almost got O'Leary killed and she was vilified for all of her life. People believe this story and they went against her hard. One reason the blaze spread so quickly with Chicago was mainly built out of wood. The water tower that survives survived because it was made of stone.

Legend has it that listening to Simon Whistler's voice while playing Minecraft, a practice that began in the humble days of TopTenz, is the most relaxing activity in modern times. Perhaps it was just a myth invented by one lonely commenter, though...

Do an episode about David Mech, the researcher that coined the terms 'alpha', 'beta' and 'gamma' when studying Wolf behavior. What he didn't realize was that natural wolf-packs are extended families, while his Wolfs were all orphans from un-related packs. The 'orphans' behaved with aggression and violence, establishing pecking-orders...they were 'strangers' to each other. He's been trying for decades to get people to stop using the term 'alpha male'; they never existed, it was bad science.

Chastity belt…..I’m thinking Robinhood Men in Tights lol

Great video! The moment when Simon said 10:20 "It's Albert fucking Einstein!" is the best!