Every Common Misconception Debunked in 9 Minutes
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The irony about the "Lightning cant strike the same place twice" is that in reality, lighting strikes the same places fairly often, because if it struck there in the first place is often because of favorable conditions in the spot for it to happen.
"Lightning can't strike the same place twice" My logic was that eventually the Lightning strike would run out of places on Earth to strike so under that event then it would start re-striking places Who have already been striked before in the past
@@alface935 Lightning, after it has finally struck every place on Earth: "Well, damn... Now what?"
@@Novenae_CCG "My time has come" *No More Lightnings on Earth*
I am not a physican, but isnt also that if a high current like a lightning strike hits something, that this thing gets some current and therefore the next lightning strike favors this said current ? A bit like magnetism plus and minus?
@@Mansory811 Maybe...? idk I am dumb
"The Coliseum wasn't primarily a site for gladiator battles..." Ah! "...it hosted a variety of events including animal hunts, executions..." Ah...
*Your still gonna get your comeuppance MILTANK*
Yeah I mean violent events in general sums it up
They would also fill it with tons of water for ships to battle
That is still the most insane to me. Ship battles in the same space where gladiators fight.
Whitney's miltank was a pain@@dragonslayeralex3316
'She didn't die from radiation exposure...just something caused by radiation exposure'
Its a bit like saying she died from being shot rather than sepsis
It's kinda like saying president Garfield died from unsanitary medical equipment or McKinley died from sepsis/gangrene (I dont remember which one) instead of just saying they were shot
I've never heard anyone think Marie Curie died on-the-spot from radiation... that would be ridiculous. I think you would have to do something as mental as hug a recently active nuclear power fuel rod to die so quickly
@anonymousperson3023 Not really. The point is that today Garfield would have lived.
half are these are like that lol
For those confused about 61, Mt. Everest is the HIGHEST, relative to sea level, not tallest, from base to summit.
There are at least 3 mountains you could qualify for highest/tallest mountain. Everything of course depends on the definition we use. The 3rd one, which I know is also a contestant is a "mountain" next to the mariana trench. I think it counts as the highest mountain if you start counting from valleys and consider the Mariana trench the valley of this mountain. This is not a question of misconception, but of interpretation. From where do you start counting a mountain is basiy the question.
@@gergelyritter4412 It's Mt. Lam Lam, in the south of Guam.
What's stopping us from calling an entire continent a single mountain? Or the entire Earth? If being under water is not a problem. I really hate the 'this mountain that's half way under water is actually the tallest' "correction".
the word 'base' is kind of meaningless/vague so that's that
@@momentary_ i think the definition of mountain might have something to do with the tectonics, i dont know
2:18 slight correction- the Spanish flu was during ww1, not ww2
Oops, my bad, thanks for the correction!
@@ThePaintExplainer np!
@@ThePaintExplainerslacking
@@oldgold8247the paint explainer is but a man, and men make mistakes. if anything this proves that he, unlike those who copy his style of content, doesn't use ai generated scripts
@@prodjakera (Video errata aside) *Everyone ever* are humans, and human makes mistakes. There's no other option. Redundancy is what it is.
Another thing about the Salem Witch Trials: Only 19 people were convicted and hanged. One man refused to plead guilty or not guilty, so he was slowly crushed until he ended up dying
Immediately thought of the game, Little Hope
@@theghosttm8245what a good game
Giles coreys (the man crushed to death) last words were “more weight”
@@dampking Yup, what a guy
@@dampking bloody and gory, we will redress your wrongs...
a lot of these seem less like misconceptions and more like slight generalizations Ex: "the titanic is unsinkable" vs "the titanic is practically unsinkable", or "the coliseum hosted gladiator events" vs "the coliseum hosted other combat-related events as well as gladiator events" , or "Marie Curie died from radiation poisoning" vs "Marie Curie eventually died from an illness caused by radiation poisoning".
yea honestly i hate videos like this or people who do things like this, literally the embodiment of 🤓
Yeah, some of the facts are just clarifications rather than complete debunks, but the video is still spreading knowledge and encouraging discussion
And a few of these are so misrepresented that they should count as misconceptions themselves.
very true
Did you really just say “Ex.” instead of “E.g.,”?
Seeing the mere IDEA that Coca-Cola *invented* Santa Claus hit me harder than I thought it could. That's beyond depressing that people think he's owned by Coca-Cola.
If I remember it right, Coca Cola didn’t invent the myth of Santa, but they popularized his look. the red and white suit are coke colors after all.
@@alexgomez4883 this is what I have heard as well, some places dressed santa in colors like green or purple
The myth comes from old marketing campaigns that Coca Cola use to run. IIRC they briefly used Santa as a mascot for the soda during the holiday season. They also invented a new Christmas themed character "Sprite", who was an elf, to help market their new lemon lime soda. The soda was so popular that it became a permanent product. The character was retired, but the name was so recognizable at that point that they kept it.
the idea of santa claus is dutch. from sinterklaas.
Not owned, just it's hoe hoe hoe
When you said “Cinco de Mayo” I fell to my knees and yelled, grasping the air with my hands, tears pouring out of my eyes
FRRRRR😂😂😂
The pronunciation of letters in english is different from spanish and since most English natives never learn that part or even learn another language at all, they don't know about that
Might be an ai voice, sounds kinda flawed in some words
don’t all non-latin language speakers sound like this?
So, is a Mariachi band like a musical tazer?
5:57 Slight addition: the inventors of the fortune cookie were most likely Japanese immigrants to California.
Yep! During the gold rush, most Chinese/Japanese immigrants weren’t actually miners, but those who weren’t railroad workers actually created and sold goods TO the miners. This is where the fortune cookie was invented, and this is why there are so many Chinese stores and restaurants today in SF. Pretty cool!
3:35 Einstein moved to Switzerland where the grading system is reversed. Some Germans think he was really bad in Mathematics although he was really good.
This makes so much sense! It's nice finding out a lot of these misconceptions didn't come from absolutely nothing.
@@wackywoowar9249(also likely comes from teachers wanting kids to think failing at math is normal and that even geniuses have failed)
2:04 Giles Corey, who was pressed to death, was not convicted. He refused to submit a plea and was undergoing torture to force him to plead one way or the other. Instead, his only response was what became his last words, "More weight."
based
I salute that man. A Chad ahead of his time.
The biggest stones weren't the ones killing Giles, but the ones between his legs.
IIRC he refused to admit guilt so that his property will not be seized by the greedy people using the witch hunt's to claim someone else's land.
There is even more to that stroy. When he was tried, he refused to plead in regard to his guilt. If he'd confessed, his life would've been spared, but he would've forfeited his property as he would no longer be considered a Christian. Denying the charges would have resulted in his conviction and execution because the system was a Kangaroo Court, but his property would still be confiscated. Dying under interrogation, on the other hand, meant he was still considered a Christian and his sons could inherit his property. So by refusing to enter any plea at all, he saved his family from poverty at the cost of his own life.
"Hey! I'm average height for the time, ya jerk"
Hey! I got that reference!
Oversimplified reference less go
@@jeremynigen7259whoa look, it’s a stumpy little manlet
oversimplifiedddddd
@TheReaICowfish sooo, undercomplicated is "justsimplified"
Another misconception: There isn’t a goose watching you. There very much is one. And they are approaching you and know wherever you go.
Gonna roast that big boy, roast goose is supreme poultry.
Yes,he’s my bodyguard.
Another common misconception, on-theme: The goose is a wild goose. It's not. It's part of a goose army. *And I am the commander.*
@@ScareSans Must be the new KFC
Ok, I`ll totally trust not-a-goose on the internet. Surely it`s not a way to convince us to lower our guard
The fact that Rosa Parks wasn't even breaking rules in the first place makes it even worse, it really does
Not really she didn't just decide not to give up her seat she wanted that to happen so she could challenge the law
@@thearbiterofnoodles 😑 bro she was asked to give up the seat she had the right to how is that breaking the law
@@theshadowking3198 because it was the law at the time that black people had to Give up their seats the white people
@@theshadowking3198 U seem twelve so let me go ahead and explain ✧✧𝓇𝒶𝒸𝒾𝓈𝓂✧✧
@@ShadyzReal that has nothing to do with the law so I suggest you shut your gob
The difference between the vertical and horizontal diameter of the Earth is 42 miles. So, while it is technically an oblate spheroid if you're far enough away to see the whole Earth it would appear a perfect sphere to your eyes.You wouldn't be able to tell by looking.
Yeah, that "correction" is always annoying to hear. It's technically right, but practically irrelevant and leads to even worse misconceptions about the Earth's overall shape.
@@momentary_that correction seems annoying as it is irrelevant as you say as long as youre just learning a fun fact it becomes very important when doing any scientific work on planets, why our world is the way it is etc. it also shows (along with the tilt) that something unusual happened in the past like a giant mass hit the earth that caused a mess which is now the moon (absolute legends might get this reference)
@@panz.564The people who benefit, in their work or studies, from knowing the Earth is not a perfect sphere, do, arguably, already know that.
Yeah, it's like saying nearly everything isn't a sphere because of the small imperfections on the surface of the objects. It's just bs technicality.
"It's a [x], just not a perfect [x]," can be applied to pretty much everything (unless you wanna get philosophical about our universe's inherent design).
3:35 2 fun facts about this: 1: the fruit is actually implied to be a fig 2: the false belief came from the mistranslation of the latin word malum (it came from malus, -i which means evil since it was the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but was mistook with malum, -i which means apple)
Are you a biblical Hebrew scholar? I thought this misconception arose because the apple is most well-known fruit in America.
Are you drawing your inference from the fact that they made their first clothes from fig leaves?
There is another reason - the word "apple" just meant a generic fruit back in the day. Any fruit could be an apple. Hence "pineapple" - fruit (apple) that looks like a pinecone
The forbidden fig
@@Jhud69came to say this. Pomme in french is apple but comes from the Latin word _pomum_ for fruit
so you're telling me that Coca Cola's best ever advertising campaign wasn't creating Santa Claus, but rather saying that they did?
I think this is a misconception on its own. Santa Claus, the mythological figure, has been around for centuries. While the modern depiction of him, as a fat guy with a jolly attitude, _was_ made popular by Coca Cola, but they did not _invent_ it. The image most likely dates back to the 1870s, when a cartoonist came up with his current design, based on ancient folklore.
I think the best they did was popularized the red color and overall appearance of Santa, which was either green or red depending on culture. But that might be a misconception as well so...
Santa Claus is a derivate of St Nicolas from Myra. In the Netherlands known as Sinterklaas.
They never said they did. That is people thinking they did out of ignorance.
@@AO968 Santa Claus evolved out of a Norse myth about Odin flying through the sky during Juul bringing gifts while riding a chariot pulled by goats. Children would leave feed for the goats (how we got the milk and cookies ordeal)
3:30 it was believed he failed in math due to the country where he studied having the exact opposite grading system as where he moved to
yea i remeber 0 was full marks or smt
Correct me if i'm wrong but didn't he fail history?
Still Wrong, no-one believed he failed math, even though Germany aswell as Switzerland where he studied indeed have a diffrent grading system. (6 being the best grade instead of 1). People just confuse it because he stated multiple times that he hated his school time. But eventhough he hated it, he still aced everything in regards to Math and physics.
To elaborate: 3- the 'fat' character depicted is _Budai,_ a folklore character from China, meant to represent a future incarnation of Buddha. 7- the Bible states magi bringing three gifts, gold, incense and myrrh; many seem to have reasoned there was one magus per gift, thus "three magi". The depiction as "three kings" is probably linked to an error in translation from Hebrew or Greek into other languages. 16- _vomitorium_ comes from Latin _vomitare,_ meaning _to expel_ or _to pour out_ [of]. In this sense, _vomiting_ meant _exiting_ [a building]. 23- Different brain regions are active for different tasks, so over the course, 100% of the brain is used. Everything else would be a waste as the brain alone makes up 1/5th of our daily energy requirements. Therefore 'unnecessary' brain mass would be eliminated very quickly as not having stuff that wastes energy is a large evolutionary advantage. 25- This misconception comes from Germany, where grading ranged from 1 to 5, with 1 equivalent to an A and 5 equivalent to F. Einstein went to school in neighboring Switzerland which used the grades in reverse order: 5 was A, 1 was F. Einstein had grades of 4 and 5 in math. 27- This one has two etymological causes: first, many Indo-European languages refered to _all fruits_ or produce as _apples_ in the past. Some languages retained this in words for potato, such as _pomme de terre_ in French or _aardappel_ in Dutch, both meaning _earth apple._ Second, the Latin word for _apple_ is _malum,_ which is also the neuter form of the adjective for _evil, malus._ The Bible originally mentioned _the Evil_ causing the corruption of Adam and Eve. Them eating a fruit comes from this homophone/homograph, and them eating an _apple_ in turn from the narrowing of what the word _apple_ means in modern English. 42- The saying stands in metaphorically for something to be unlikely to happen (again). On a flat or shrouded surface, repeating lightning strikes are extremely unlikely, while at exposed surfaces such as spires or radio towers, lightning strikes very often in the same place. 51- Alcohol drank when suffering from hypothermia causes a _flush_ because it widens blood vessels, which at first causes a warming sensation, but also makes you lose your body heat much quicker. Drinking booze when freezing will make you freeze to death even faster. 55- It only may increase the chances of being infected by viruses, as prolonged exposure to coldness weakens the immune system a bit. 56- Falling objects in air eventually reach a _terminal velocity,_ where the acceleration from gravity is counter balanced by friction from air resistance. At terminal velocity, the kinetic energy of the coin is proportional to its mass and thus stays constant, and, as it's.. well, a coin, its kinetic energy is not sufficient to cause lethal injuries by impact alone. 70- Diamond is an allotrope of carbon, just like coal/graphite is. Carbon ends up as diamond if sufficient pressure is applied at sufficient temperature.
the "vomitting" that we all know does mean exitting waste out of our mouth
I recommand you add a space between each point, just to make your comment a little easier to read anc clearer
better than the video, thanks. And ya paragraphs/spacing would help
Maria Skłodowska-Curie didn't die from exposure to radiation, she died from effects of long exposure to radiation. I don't know why i find that so funny
It's like saying "They didn't die by getting run over, they died from blood loss after getting ran over"
@@blockoboi5941 True!
I remember there being a news article that quite literally said, "he didn't die of epilepsy, he died of an epilepsy-related condition." The condition turned out to be epilepsy.
Snakes do not dance to music as they can't hear. These snakes are "disoriented" from the light after coming from a jar (a little bit like when you leave a cinema) and try to defend themselves from the object by moving it's head to be able to bite it if it comes in range.
Buddy no , that's not true whatever idiot told you that needs help, snakes can't hear but they respond to the vibrations , snakes do not dance because their eyes are adjusting to sunlight , how do you explain the snakes that dance and don't come out of jars ?
While it's true that snakes don't have eardrums, they aren't actually deaf.
My god that's crazy thank you for your good knowledge
Snakes can definitely hear, they no eardrums but do have functional ears. They just struggle with higher frequencies.
"the Titanic wasn't advertised as unsinkable, it was advertised as unsinkable"
The titanic was advertised as PRACTICALLY unsinkable, as in "unless exposed to extreme conditions, the chance of it sinking is extremely low"
@@kzkaa.I suppose scraping an iceberg is a pretty extreme condition
@@bedrockpanda That’s actually tragic that by trying be safe and avoid the iceberg, they sealed their own fates.
@@seanhoey5939 It comes to show that the captain was uninformed about the ships strengths and weaknesses.
@@Isma3el Captain Smith was actually the one who said the statement, and had evidence to believe it. He wasn't just referring to the Titanic, but modern (at the time) oceanliners as a whole. There were already a few ships that had hobbled away from devastating collisions that would have sank older ships, and their survival was ensured thanks to their compartmentalized watertight bulkheads, so that's why he was compelled to believe the Titanic could survive a significant iceberg collision. Thing is that if Murdoch had said "screw it, ram the iceberg", the ship *might* have survived, but crunching the front end of the ship would have killed dozens if not hundreds of crew members who were sleeping in the front compartment, and we'd be sitting here talking about how Murdoch was a psychotic mass murderer who could have just swerved out of the way of a stationary hunk of ice and let the first couple of compartments do the work of keeping the ship afloat if it got grazed. Funnily enough, it was the Titanic's designer who realized the ship was doomed after he went down and saw water in the mailroom, while the rest of the crew thought the ship would handle the flooding.
“The earth is not a sphere” had me shakin in my boots
i love that about half of these is just you saying "this isnt true. yes it is"
Then he tries to debunk a misconception with "This has been debunked" oh wow! Source: Wikipedia. CTRL+F 0 results on several of these. Thanks. Egypt: Forced labor is totally consented if you pay and feed them I guess. Frontier West: Homicides were low, it was still violent. If they valued "order" it implies they either didn't have it, or it was at risk. Titanic: Advertising with "should be safe during normal circumstances*" is very silly to defend. Marie Curie: Lmao Sugar High: Giving children energy makes them use it. Children with energy don't do late-night paperwork or competitive exercise, they play. Debunked because it just is, bro. The "Blood and Water" one is the worst imo. He just disagrees with it. "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the waters of the womb" implies the associations you CHOOSE to keep matters more than your inherent associations. Why would anyone disagree with that in 2024? You can choose to be with your family too, they aren't mutually exclusive.
it makes me a little bit worried about humanity's sense of truth that many people keep saying that in comments, when these facts definitely correct some incorrect facts about reality.
@@goldeer7129well its not like ppl are saying he is 1000% wrong the whole video. jus saying hes kinda jus clearing up general statements
Some of these arguments sound like word play.
Yeah this video lacks compared to his others
@@diogoferreira7427yeah, others were much better.
Agreed, and I've noticed one that might just be false. #30 says it phrase is not true when blood is thicker than water at the same temperature
@@Konprisethat's because the phrase is incomplete. The full phrase goes "blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" which means that you have more affinity with the people you share a connection that go beyond mere filial relationships
@@Karanthaneos I know the full phrase. It is still true so it's weird why the video says it's not
For #44, I'm pretty sure race is determined by genes, at least skin color definitely is. It's the melanin production, which is determined by (if I remember correctly) 6 different genes in different chromosomes.
this is coming out of a 10th grade biology class btw im probably wrong
@@thespyfromteamfortress2656You are not. There's probably more genes but it is 100% genetic
I seem to recall a study that tried to organize the modern human species into races by grouping similar enough genetics. The end result was something like 3 or 4 races among people with black skin, one or two among yellow, but only one race for the whites. I didn't bother looking to see if the study was peer reviewed, though.
@@noahfriedrich4686Yeah I was confused on that as well
To say we're 99.9% similar therefore race doesn't exist could be used to say we're 60% banana because we have 60% common DNA with bananas. I mean if race isn't determined by genetics then what? It's random?
6:30 Also, jumping from a 15 story building do not kill you, only the ground does. Exposing your body to coldness makes it more vulnérable to diseases
The throwing the coin off the empire state building only refers to pennies. "I did a thing" (a fellow Aussie) proved that our quite large and heavy 50c pieces would likely injur and could potentially kill someone if they were thrown of the empire state building, especially if done with a spinning motion.
Yeah, I also saw someone het almost killed when somebody threw a €2 piece off of the Eiffel Tower, which is less high than the Empire State Building. So a bigger coin could definetly get the job done.
Also for 4 - Marie Skłodowska Curie was Polish, not French, and including her maiden surname is important, she left it intact for the purpose so people remember where she was from. As for Einstein, the misconception comes from the fact that in Germany grades are the other way around than most of Europe (though apparently they're this way In Spain too) - they go from 6 (worst) to 1 (best) and Einstein had a lot of 5s and 6s. However, the school he attended used a different than normal grading system.
1:37 this is very pedantic. So it wasn’t described as unsinkable but “practically unsinkable” splitting hairs here. So it’s not a myth 😂
It is advertised as "practically" unsinkable, as in "it will not sink under most conditions". It DOES NOT mean it is unsinkable.
and was in these "most conditions" include hitting an iceberg? Since hitting something is one of the most likely things to cause a ship to sink lol@@kzkaa.
🤓🤓🤓 perfectly describes this entire video and its idiotic comment section
Can you literally name any other iceberg related ship sinking other than titanic?@@tomcoburn5258
@@tomcoburn5258 Your half right, however you are missing something. It's being ADVERTISED, so what probably happened is that they just said "practically unsinkable" to sound good, despite the actuality. However, its not pedantic, there is still very much a significant difference between a company saying something is "unsinkable, period", rather than "its practically unsinkable" - that is unsinkable in most cases.
6:44 only Megabats have good vision, like the one shown on screen. Microbats are thought to have poor vision
Makes sense, their eyes must be quite small
Being a slave doesn't rule out the options of getting paid or fed. Most monarchies held absolute control over their subject, literal slavery. (haven't changed much)
Yeah that's a good point. Slavery isn't just about not getting compensated. Of course slave owners would feed their slaves. The point is the lack of choice. In the reverse, a voluntary worker isn't a slave because they actively chose to do the work for no compensation.
Yes, they were still forced to construct the pyramids which make them a slave
Those societies tended to have a slave class, and they definitely knew the difference.
slaves in Rome could easily become high-class citizens if they found a good job opportunity or exploited a resource. Slavery was more of like a social class that made up brute force labor. Even taxes in the ancient world would often times be paid VIA slave labor. Someone has to build the roads afterall...
Actually, the pyramids were built by workers recruited from Egyptian peasants, who didn't had anything to do during Nile inundation. The peasants were the lowest class in Egyptian society, but they weren't slaves. They weren't someone's property, and in later periods they could even own land themselves. Besides them in building the pyramids involved were skilled artisans: stone cutters, carpenters to build ramps and scaffoldings, sculptors and painters. And of course there was administration, overseers, architects and scribes.
This gives “well actually” for everything. Time to change the world
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Except race is determined by genes and blood is thicker than water... So maybe don't try to use those ones, you'll get counter-actually'd
@@ScareSans Source: just trust me bro
@@v0lny886 Source: It came to me in a dream.
@@ScareSansof course it does. It is information thst has to somewhere. But it does not implies that it is related to other infomation in the genes. Or do I confuse genes with DNA?
4:22 My family owned the bar next to where the fire is said to have started. The most likely cause were some Czech boys who were out back, smoking, and only blamed Mrs. O’Leary and her cow due to the stigma against Irish people at the time and the fact that they didn’t want ire to be thrown at Czech people.
I know you pulled this out of your a hole until you come with proof I won’t believe you
@@bubblytea6820 The bar and the likely cause of the fire are mentioned in a book about early Czechs living in Chicago, which I forget the name of. I remember it saying the bar was called the “Krenek Tavern” or something along those lines. We know for a fact my family lived in that area at the time and owned a bar, and Krenek is my grandmother’s maiden name, so putting two and two together… I’m at college currently, but the next time I go home, I can look for the book.
@@savagepanda8458 Actually, what really caused the fire was- WHO F_ING CARES! You're like that annoying loser at the class reunion who only talks about high-school because he's done nothing new or worthwhile since.
@@savagepanda8458look for book
It does kinda track though since a well known tale about a cow knocking over a lantern, well never know though so I don’t care
Actually youre kind of wrong on 56. Mythbusters calculated the terminal velocity of a penny dropped from that height and found out it could fracture someones skull. Obviously its not a guaranteed kill but its still a BIT more than "just a sting".
iirc, it would need to fall with its edge aligned the entire way. It tumbling creates a HUGE amount of drag for its cross section and weight, which significantly reduces the velocity it has by the time it reaches the ground.
@@tonberryking42 If youre including stuff like tumbling, then the coin would NEVER hit the ground because all the winds hitting the Empire State Building would force the coin onto one of the various roofs/balconies.
If you see this, can you cover "every difference nobody knows explained in X minutes" please! e.g. affect vs effect, meiosis vs mitosis, weight vs mass, etc
This is actually a great idea. I’d love to see this video
sounds like a cool idea
or maybe 3 things that people confuse sympathy vs empathy vs apathy Sea lions vs seals vs sea otters dolphins vs orcas vs whales stuff like that
@@Icy-Freezer160nobody confuses apathy with the others, nobody confuses sea otters with the others, and nobody confuses dolphins with the others. These are all very commonly known differences.
I need this video. I still don’t know the difference between affect and effect. Though I do know the other two
There is no way he pronounced Cinco de Mayo like the condiment 🤣
doesn't surprise me too much, considering he shouldn't be expected to pronounce foreign words correctly.
@@zachnado69I mean, if he didn’t specifically research for this video, I’d agree with you, but he did
@@Someoneonceagain that makes sense. but he researched the history behind the holiday, which doesn't entail learning how to pronounce it at all.
I'm pretty sure this is a text to speech voice, you can tell from the consistency and the unnaturally longer pause when reading heights such as 5'7.
2:00 Correcting your correction. None of the witches were pressed to death. Giles Corey, husband of convicted witch Martha Corey, was pressed to death after refusing to give up names that would lead to people being accused. He famously told the interrogators “More weight”. Another aspect, while dramatized in the Crucible, but did still happen, is that Giles hated the greedy land owner Thomas Putnam who tried to steal people’s land. If Giles was charged with a crime, even if not found guilty, Putnam could’ve gotten Giles’ land, but by dying during the interrogation, his family remained one of the few to keep their land.
Literally the only reason we can report a missing person at any time now is because we used to have to wait 24 hours and he was later found dead, when he would have been found alive if police started looking for him when he was first reported. I believe this was a change implemented in the 80s. It's a misconception very much grounded in reality and you overlooked that
Was going to say the same. Being the dumb kid that I was back in 1982, I rode off on my bike to stay at a friend's house overnight without telling my mom. When she went to the police for help, they told her 24 hours had to pass. As parent now, I can't image what she was going through until the next morning when I showed back up.
Nah, I'd misconcept.
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I got nervous from the thumbnail, I thought we were about to get some flat-earth proofs
Well, flat earth is a rather uncommon misconception.
@@gergelyritter4412not in America brother 😂
5:25 - 44 Genes do determine race. Genetic diversity within a race is irrelevant to the statement. You could say that race does not determine all your genes, which is true.
0:59 you struck a nerve there buddy- Edit: Why the fuck are you guys fighting?👁👄👁
How did i not notice he say mayo like mayonnaise i speak spanish
If he really struck a nerve with an accidental mispronunciation, I sure hope nobody mispronounces Whosteshire sauce around you.
@@bucketbuoyancy235 There is no pronouncing Whosteshire sauce correctly, as that is not a word. Unless you meant Worcestershire sauce, in which case... Same conclusion, nobody knows the correct pronunciation and anybody who tells you they do is lying to you.
@@ScareSans I misspelled it on purpose as part of the joke, but I do agree, "Worcestershire" is about as non-pronounceable as the true name of Cthulhu.
@@bucketbuoyancy235 funny that you mention that, because there is a game where "worcestershire" sauce is an eldritch word.
Definitely do more of these, this video was incredibly enlightening. My favorites to learn were that bats aren't blind and that dropping things from a certain height don't make them deadly since I'd believed those for quite a long time.
I can't believe the ripoff channels have gotten to the point that I actually had to check that I was watching the real Paint Explainer at first.
Your content is truly fantastic! I thoroughly enjoyed it and eagerly anticipate more. Please keep creating and sharing your insightful videos.
Your videos are absolutely amazing, thank you for creating them and entertaining so many people
5:46 dont care, i'm not abondoning my food beacause of some bacteria
"the 5-day-rule"
@@Necrobin🔥✍️🗿
‘The 5-year rule’ -my grandfather
@@Necrobinthe 5 year rule
5:27 What? That's like saying "Genes do not determine whether you are a human or a cat. People share 70% of genes with cats, and genetic diversity is vast within both these groups.".
Yeah, I don't really understand what he was trying to say there haha.
Not to be that guy but the separation between cat status and human status is made from induction and arbitrary classifications. But yeah, what he said is completely dumb, I guess sneaking in some personal ideology was too tempting.
Yeah idk what he means by that. Race is determined mostly by pigmentations, which are genetic. Sure, they're small genes and vary wildly but race is still a genetic thing, just not on the scale some people assume.
doesn't help that the definition of genes vs DNA, race vs ethnicity, etc. vary a lot from source to source. biologically speaking, your DNA does determine your race (physical appearance), but if you consider race as a social phenomenon, then sure, you could argue it goes beyond just genetics.
I think what he meant was that genetic diversity between races does not exceed diversity within a given race. Meaning that, for instance, one Asian can have fewer genes in common with another Asian than with a Hispanic. In that sense, the amount of genetic diversity is not a suitable measure to distinguish between ethnic groups.
The Titanic one is basically what every fact-checking site has turned into. Claim: “People said the Titanic was unsinkable.” FALSE: “People said the Titanic was PRACTICALLY unsinkable. Obviously that’s completely different.”
Like what do people expect, right? Why does "practically" even need to be specified? It's not like White Star or Captain Smith claimed the Titanic was magical; anyone smarter than a toddler can be reasonably expected to understand this. It drives me insane that people think the unsinkable statement requires a "well ackshually" in the first place. When they called the Titanic unsinkable it should go without saying they weren't being literal. By this point we need to fact check that fact check: It's a common misconception that people think it was a common misconception that people believed that Smith and White Star were being literal when they called the Titanic unsinkable; people knew that the Titanic could indeed sink because they were human beings and not Drax the Destroyer from Marvel Studio's _Guardians of the Galaxy_ series.
@@mitchellsidebottom9271 You sound like if chat gpt got high
@@samuelking4723chat gpt basically is high all the time
@@samuelking4723 As an AI Language Model, I am not capable of getting high or undergoing an equivalent alteration of mental states brought on by the use of controlled substances. It's important to consider the risks of substance abuse and other such nonsense when getting high.
@@mitchellsidebottom9271 Hahaha this is hilarious
your growing quickly and i'm glad for that since you deserve it.
The reason why people thought that Napoleon was short was because Britain's inches were shorter so they thought 5'7 was very short I dont think people believe that earth is the only planet with water haha In the middle ages MOST people actually knew the earth was round, which is exactly what led to the discovery of the Americas. The europeans thought that going around the planet could be a faster route to India (also, the vikings discovered the americas before the europeans. They called it Vinland) The largest desert in the world is indeed Antarctica. The word desert just means a place that goes a very long time without precipitation. The spanish flu happened during WWI, not WWII Diamonds are formed from carbon where the atoms are squeezed so tight together due to the pressure and temperature Hope this helps!
Yeah the diamond this is just a misconception between "carbon" the atom and "coal" the fairly non especific vegetal/mineral resource, which isnt just carbon
The Napoleon myth comes Not From the brits thinking 5,7 was short but rather because Napoleon was 5,2 - in french feet.
Wasn't the Napoleon height also used as a sort of propaganda tactic? To say that he was short and less manly, as a way to rile up the British troops
actually coal can be made of pure carbon, but what differentiates coal and diamond is that they have different chemical structures and diamonds are formed in much higher temperatures and pressures.
Earth isn't the only planet with water?!
5:27 wdym, race is determined by genes.
I think he's talking about how race doesn't technically exist anyways, it's some baloney humans made up. So he's correct
@@sandeegrey5977 just like species technically dont exist since we all evolved from a single organism, this is the dumbest take ever
@@grandmanitou6563 The difference between species of animals and species is that animal species collaborate when they know it's for their benefit while humans don't😉
@@sandeegrey5977 yes but no. The traits we recognize that "makes" you one race or another are genetic.
@@bedrockpanda dude did you seriously miss the point i clearly said *when* it's for their benefit and this comment is mostly for philosophical not literal
In the first Civilization game, Gandhi does not nuke people because of an underflow error. His aggression rating remains 1 throughout the entire game.
Genetic variation within "race" being vast does not mean there is no such thing as "race". There are genetic differences between the "races" that account for things like brain chemistry, muscle development, bone structure, and many other things.
The genetic differences within a race are often as great or greater than those between races. So there is something arbitrary about which differences are considered by us to constitute a different race and which aren't.
@@rebeccahicks2392 People just can't let go of the concept of race lol. It's a modern pseudo-scientific social invention. Particular races don't have common brain chemistry, muscle development, bone structure, or anything like that. That's just people wanting to reinforce the concept because it's weird to them to think that that are more closely related to people who have a different skin tone to them than others.
@@saturnhex9855 indeed. Racism grounded in religion, justified by pseudoscience and reinforced by the alienation of capitalism.
2:21 you mean WW1. 1:24 surely you ment homicide x)
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Hahaha you had to debunk the 5 second rule? I always thought of this as a meme, didn't think there was somebody out there actually believing in it😅😂
Glad to see the 7th misconception included! My grandma actually told me about how there were more than 3 magi, and I’ve read through the books of the Bible that talk about the magi and they never mention specifically three magi, just the three gifts of frankincense, gold, and myrrh (and even that doesn’t specify the amount of these three gifts)
This video is a mix of fun facts and “Erm, actually”
"Genes do not determine race." Oh, that explains how my wife's baby was black. Here I was thinking she cheated on me.
What is being said is that how similar your genes are with another person do not determine that you are the same race, genetic diversity is greater in race groups than with race with other race. Race is determined by religion, ethnicity, culture, etc.
@@bedrockpanda You didn't understand me. In the first place, race is a social construct (don't misunderstand this, race is based on inheritance but is not "natural". Race has no basis in biology. Race is not real but the problems that the belief in race cause, race inequality and racism, are real.) because of this, religion and culture plays huge part to define race, for example, today, in the USA, a Latin person is not considered white (even if they skin color are "white"). In other words, what I am saying is NOT that culture and religion is inherent, What I said is that religion and culture define your race along with skin color because all of this is bullshit.
@@Kesarte what? Race is bunch a phenotype. Religion,ethnicity isn't race.
@@testacalsThey aren't, but as a whole they are, what race people see you as is based on religion, culture and ethnicity, etc.
@@Kesarte Yeah race is a social construct, but it's built off of grouping ethnicities by their regional/genetic closeness. For example, Germans and Franks are different ethnicities, but they share a more common ancestry than with say Han Chinese. This shows that despite the cultural relativistic definitions of races, race itself as a concept is built on a biologically real foundation. Not to mention that the common conception of race is far more closely tied to ethnicities than the overly broad categories that government and academics like to shoehorn in. Latinos aren't white, Egyptians aren't black, and Indians aren't asian in common understanding.
Humans having 5 senses was something we were forced to learn in primary school.
You know it’s a good day when the paint explainer uploads
Happy to say that I already knew almost all of these. Thank you family for giving me a love for history
I love these makes it very simple
You've missed a HUGE misconception most people still have: dinosaurs never went extinct. All of the non-avian lineages and most of the avian lineages *did* go extinct following the K-Pg event about 66mya, but a few of the avian ones survived and diversified again in the millions of years after that. The result is the huge variety of birds we have today, including every single bird you've seen in your life.
I'd consider turning into a different type of animal to count as going extinct.
Thank you! These knowledge is very useful to me.
The "fat buddha" come from confusing the 10th century Chinese monk Budai with the buddah due to their similar names and cultural roles.
Misconception: being first and liking your own comment does NOT give you anything
Check a again
@@Darkknight12256not you ig
@@DooDooFard2 I finished watching a little bit ago, sorry I didn’t contribute to your overall watching experience 😞
Ur not the first bro
@@TelaWasTakenyeah sure man common misconception your a smart person
6:20 in Mexico that is a bit different and when you try to report a missing person, sadly you have to wait :(
Unless it is related to a crime
My country as well, 😢, and because the police is too lazy doing work unless we give the money
I like how after I found your videos, I see a bunch more of the same format lol. But I like it.
This is amazing 👏🏼 thank you
0:37 while he was in popular culture prior to the Coca Cola ad campaign, the ads are where his trademark red and white clothing come from
Also incorrect
Came from Nicolau
The Spanish flu was in WW1 not WW2.
He just said blood isn't actually thicker than water. Why is no one talking about this?? It absolutely IS thicker than water right?? Hello??
Love your channel❤
May I add to 55: when the body’s temperature drops, its immune system becomes less efficient. Hence, viruses thrive leading to cold or flu
6:38 THANK YOU for this one
6:10 About the alcohol thing: You feel warmer because the alcohol makes the body's inner heat rise to the surface of your skin, which is where you feel heat. However, because the heat is coming from inside the body and goes to the skin, it can leave the body more easily.
Literally the best KZhead channel on here
3:55 "Blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb" is the full quote The full quote is literally the exact opposite of what people think the quote means Edit: Look in replies
Damn
That's also a misconception, the "covenant" and "womb" part were most likely added later. The people who claim that's the original quote never gave any sources to prove it.
This was actually proven false. People are adding onto the original quote.
It is true unlike the video says. Blood is more viscous and "thicker" than water
False
The 44th is nonsensical. A-🚫>B Like what!?
for the record, gladiatorial battles ALMOST never ended with the death of one of the fighters, gladiators were highly trained both in the art of fight and in the art of entertain the people, and were extremely expensive to maintain, any damage or death was reimbursed to the lanista (the owner of the gladiatorial school) by the client who asked for his gladiators, there are findings that speaks of engagement contracts for shows in which compensation clauses are specified in the event of accidents or death, comparable to modern life insurance policies. You could consider them ECW Wrestlers from the Roman era, they were prepared to draw blood but barring accidents, which could always happen given that they fought with real weapons, they never got seriously injured, because in this way they could be called back to entertain the crowd.
I love this channel. I cannot believe how many myths there are.
Here's another one: you are not capable of biting off your fingers. Your jaw lacks the strength to bite through bone like that.
Bro you killed me with your pronouciation of Cinco de Mayo
Xd
5:26 people seem to be confused about this, but what he means is that you can't tell someones race just by looking at their genes. There are many different genes that code for skin color, hair, and eyes, but these are all independent of each other and do not solely determine your race.
3:15 Didn't edison actually have a team of inventors working on improving the light bulb and he just took credit for doing it himself?
1:22 reminds me of kinos journey the land without laws is actually the safest
great anime/manga
7:01 the pronunciation of mauna kea is getting me, it always does (kay-uh, as opposed to key)
fr man i saw this, i live in kona and got mad
bro I have learned so much from the paint explainer
Basically: Ignore most of what popular media/hollywood tells you
4:46 Yeah but you gotta watch out for the mudrapters and husks
Baotrauma moment
do you ever wonder what happened to whoever built the ruins?
Common misconception is that The Paint Explainer started this style of video. It originated from Redeemed Zoomer. Also, I am not saying I do not like these vids, I love 'em.
Anothe misconception: there is no slow snail coming towards you that will kill you if it touches you. Oh yeah, there is. He's on his way.
Bro how do you get so many views?! (i love ur videos btw)
Mistakes/ambiguities in the video: -nobody was sentenced to be pressed to death. Pressing was a form to extract a confession, sometimes mistakenly causing death, but never as a death sentence -the Spanish flu happened during WWI, not WW2 -the Bible actually uses (some versions at least) the word "apple", but "apple" used to just mean "fruit" -all deserts are brutally cold, as sand doesn't hold heat. Hot deserts are hot during the day, but almost all deserts are unsafely cold at night -wet air in the cold can lower your immunity, so it's not the cause of the cold but can be the reason you have a mild virosis the next day -Mount Everest might not be the tallest mountain from base to tip, but nobody measures height like that. The tip of mount everest is the highest point in relation to sea level in the world, so it is considered the tallest mountain
"almost all deserts are unsafely cold at night" not true at all
The mountain one is simply a question of definition. Besides the mentioned contender, there exists an interpretation for "tallest mountain" whoch puts a tiny ~1k tall mountain in 1st place, because its right next to the mariana trench and it gets counted from its bottom. So the mount everest one isnt a misconception, but a definition problem.
@@wolfywolves While there's some ambiguity there to nitpick at, I'm curious what exactly your counterpoint is.
@@fluffyfang4213 most deserts in subtropical or tropical regions stay warm at night. Case in point, Arizona/Nevada/Inner California in Summer, most of the Sahara year round, and the South American desert.
@@wolfywolves Ah. Neat! Thank you very much for the clarification!
0:43 While it is true that the Bible doesn't say that are 3 Magi, it is Church Tradition that there were 3 Magi present. Church Tradition is equally as important as the Bible.
But where do they get these informations?
@@Random_username_1234 From the Apostles. How do we know we got it from the Apostles? 2 Thessalonians 2:15
And this is why the holiday is called Epiphany, and not “Three Kings Day”.
Tradition is of equal importance as the Bible in the sense that both are stories that have been passed down from generation to generation until most people believe them without challenge.
Another misconception: You though you were winning, but you just lost The Game.
Another one to add about Rosa Parks-Claudette Colvin did the same thing earlier, but she didn’t become a public figure because her skin wasn’t deemed fair enough.