6 Historic Events That Were Nothing Like You Picture Them - The Spit Take
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Published 2015-12-28
We know squat about actual human history. Lord of the Rings could've happened twice by now for all we know.
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All Comments (21)
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Now I have the uncomfortable feeling that none of our founding fathers was actually named John Hancock.
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Grandparents: “In my time, movies were more dignified and everyone spoke properly” Movies in their time: “And go swimming in little pools and... Holy Christ where am I
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The actual reason writing was invented, judging from the earliest human scrawlings archaeologists have ever gotten their hands on: To keep track of who owed who how much money. The more you know ...
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In the Puritans defense, even children drank weak beer back in the early 1600's, because water often was contaminated with parasites, bacteria and virus and the brewing process used to make beer usually killed off most of these contaminates. The Puritans didn't know why beer was safer to drink than water, but just that it was safer and that's all that they cared about.
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You think they had good cocaine in the '80s? Try the 1780s. When was the last time you did a line and invaded an entire continent?
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is there a link to that video of actors fucking up and speaking normally because Id like to see more of that please
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You missed the snippet that Poccahantas was 12 when she had her famous "love story." NOT a teenager or young woman. 12!
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I was recently reading an article about the "50's Movie Voice" thing - it really was a deliberate inflection that started in the early days of sound movies, and didn't start fading out until the mid-60's. Acting and voice coaches specifically taught it to actors. It was supposed to make dialog clear to all English-speaking inflections, and is the basis of today's "mid-American accent" common to most news anchors.
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As a history major, I approve of this video so f'ing hard.
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This show is awesome, I was actively listening the whole time, did not broke my concentration once. Well writen humour as well!
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My understanding is that they drank so much because water could kill you back then. No municipal water districts to make sure the water was potable. Alcohol was safer.
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what's even better is that the Star Spangled Banner is put to the tune of an old british drinking song. God Bless America
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The old blooper reel was interesting, I think the way they talked then was purely taught as a way of speaking so anyone in America could understand it (because America has a very diverse range of accents and dialects). Also for the event involving the collision of two trains, I'm pretty sure an episode of Top Gear had that once.
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They talked like that because their microphones were garbage. It's kind of like performing for a live audience without speakers.
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I'm pretty sure the whole "Cleopatra is ugly" rumor is Roman propaganda.
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We can all take a moment now to appreciate how much crap most civilizations were built on
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Those guys from Smith Island sound like people from Newfoundland.
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A time period we don't deal with enough (in movies) is right after the fall of Rome. The entire civilized world was plunged into chaos and darkness, and we have very few records of exactly what went on. We could have a movie about anything during that time and no one could say it didn't happen.
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Evolution has not stopped changing humans. Plutarch is a terrible source for information on Cleopatra, because he was Roman and Roman's were generally hostile to Cleopatra. In fact many Romans had nothing good to say about her at all yet still referred to her a beautiful, which raised the question of why they were happy to hurl any number of insults but not say she was ugly. Hence there is still debate over how attractive she was.
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Just to clarify while Europe was in the dark ages the rest of the world was advancing. algebra is something that was invented in that time period
