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

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

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."

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

As someone who has a very large tapestry of Lady Godiva's ride hanging in her home, I'm ok with it not being historically accurate. Its a beautiful piece of artwork.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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’.

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.

“Medieval hand stuff” GOLD

There’s an episode of Outlander where Claire (who is from the future) is a bit star struck to meet the pre-revolutionary George Washington. He began to talk about his childhood, and she mentions he used to chop down cherry trees. The look on the Washington’s face is well done by the actor because he was so confused why she, a woman he just met, said that. 😂

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

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

I believe the Moses parallel that Franklin drew was based on the Pilgrims coming to the US out of England. England being Egypt, the Red Sea being the Atlantic, and the US being the promised land.