Comments by "king james488" (@kingjames4886) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. "Good news everyone! I've invented the electronic television!" - farnsworth
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  2. "the aircraft isn't damaged... but lets charge him with it anyways."
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  3. "jiggling the pin with a hammer" so he bashed it in...
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  4. "it didn't cause the war, it just destroyed the lies that prevented it" tomato tomato I guess.
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  5. maybe in the russian hallmark isle...
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  6. seems like it would have been easier to just ship the cars empty and fill them upon arrival...
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  7. they don't build skyscrapers like they used to I guess...
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  8. I'd rather remember the people who actually escaped on a raft made of rain coats... without killing anyone.
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  9. this thing meant to keep trains from crashing into each other sure took off...
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  10. the war of 1812 isn't little remembered up here in canada...
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  11. idk where dandelions have 15' roots... I'm feeling like that's a typo. they're like 6-10" long here, I could see 15" maybe. I've seen dandelion stems about 2' long though.
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  12. "someone almost hit me with their truck, then I thought hey let's put a line down the center to people know not to drive at me." it's amazing people got along before this...
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  13. "if we pay for roads the public won't pay for them..." heh.
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  14. meanwhile canada's just sittin up here like "what's goin on, eh?"
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  15. how do you not see the utility of a mobile bunker? in who's mind is the ability to just roll a pillbox up to the front line not useful?
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  16. at least back then the dentists didn't do un-needed work to milk your insurance company...
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  17. what sort of person instinctively knows the sound of a giant tank of molasses exploding?
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  18. why am I watching a video about rome's sack?
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  19. my dad always blamed the italians for dandelions... lol
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  20. I've never heard it...
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  21. shall we play a game? :p
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  22. ya... a bunch of old newsreel is totally comparable to the collective knowledge of humanity...
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  23. haha, smart move not actually asking for change.
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  24. $1200 for living expenses in the 1850s?? that's gotta be like a few hundred grand today...
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  25. ya... I'm going to willingly do something that was deemed too cruel for a prison sentence >.>
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  26. "it was the slaves! I totally didn't make them do it!"
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  27. someone simply put a feather in their hat and called it macaroni...
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  28. did no one stop to think "hey, what if someone drops something on the missile?"
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  29. and people wonder why there are higher rates of degenerative/genetic disorders in the US in the last half century...
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  30. oh, is that why some of those ships had fake smoke stacks? it looked faster?
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  31. "or found to cause cancer in animals... with the exception of rats."
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  32. seems like a petti issue...
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  33. but... apple pie is european?
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  34. they still planted their flag and it was saluted by US servicemen... so they kinda did take the island... they just got drunk on the beach instead of exploring it.
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  35. interesting, never considered the effect nunavuts formation had on the postal system.
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  36. there's been like a century prohibition of marijuana across the world... canada just said fuck it and no one is making a day of it any more than when it was prohibited. 13 years pff. maybe if people remembered history they wouldn't have wasted a century.
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  37. I did no such thing.
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  38. amazing... you just covered pretty much everything I learned about canada in school in about 11 minutes.
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  39. just build a wall around new york...
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  40.  @DowntownDeuce22  yup, old buildings had more mass and redundant structure. there are reasons there are still roman buildings standing but I bet nothing we build today will last more than about a century. it's the same reason russian things like the AK47 and MIG are so durrable, they were designed on a peice of paper as opposed to a computer that can calculate the exact structual integerty required to build a structure that can stand on it's own while using the least materials possible so cut costs.
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  41. oh good, I've been interested in those hats but I'm not about to pay to hear about it.
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  42. wouldn't a pocket watch keep going for a bit even if it was buried? the earthquake probably happened hours before it stopped.
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  43. I hope they had some sort of mechanism to let the pigeons they dropped in cages out if no one found them...
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  44. AMBURGER!!
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  45. I'm not taking a big brown pill on a boat with an abundance of horse crap on board...
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  46. well, a bushel is a measure of volume not weight so idk the point of pointing out that oats don't weigh the same as corn. kinda like a pint, I bet a pint of beer doesn't weigh the same as a pint of berries.
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  47. the bananas remember.
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  48. beanie babies were the stupidest thing ever, I only ever had one and I don't even remember how I got it... then I found out it happened to be one of the earlier more collectable ones. oh well.
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  49. maybe the fact that they don't sell rare varieties of wine in other countries at a reasonable price has something to do with the demand....
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  50. wait... you mena jagermeister isn't supposed to taste like crayons? anis maybe...
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  51. the national dairy shrine? O.o
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  52. yes, it should have... but for the thousands of years people have lived in groups people have been compassionate for others and took care of them allowing disabling conditions to thrive...
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  53. wait, are you telling me there was a U.S. carrier named "kitty hawk"? the russians probably wanted to rid the world of just a silly ship name...
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  54. and every year now there are a dozen articles in tech magazines questioning if it'll be the last year for moore's law.
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  55. so wrestling and stealing each others belts is how you "turn young boys into soldiers" I guess?
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  56. this video made my lips sore... never could hit those high notes.
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  57. sigh... I don't want to remember this... oh canada. do a thing on the canada arm. is that history yet? it was like 2 decades ago...
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  58. heh, using a glass of water to determine flight angle is pretty clever.
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  59. lol frosted grapes...
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  60. what about aunt jamima? Mr cristie?
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  61. I remember only getting 3 channels from the ol' antenna... it's history I don't care to remember. pretty sure they actually shut down the free broadcasts here a couple years ago IIRC.
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  62. everyone thinks it's a condom tho...
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  63. but no one cares about franks.... they sound hilarious.
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  64. it's amazing how they took something designed to last for prolonged periods of time without refrigeration and gave it a shelf life of about 3 days in the fridge...
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  65. that's a crazy story about dick.
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  66. so they had 525 lines in the 40s then went back down to 480 lines for like 60 years? also lol, radio repair stores.
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  67. wait... so the US passed a law themselves that allowed them, themselves, to recruit foreign nationals to fight for them... well isn't that white of them...
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  68. so a horsepower is like a horse lazily walking in a circle for a minute...
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  69. do they not harvest that fancy glacial ice anymore?
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  70. so he quit shining shoes to "be somebody"... and went to shovel horse crap? good plan.
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  71. so do many professions... pilots for example.
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  72. pretty sure boys actually went to fight younger than 16? wasn't that unusual at the time...
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  73. "puck id, jus toos idn da lak an lats go pley som hokey eh?"
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  74. incase anyone didn't know, adam savage started his TV career in those charmin ads.
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  75. god made man jesus got pissed off colt shot em all and sold guns that's the saying isn't it?
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  76. it's not tomawto tho.
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  77. noble subject.
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  78. so one of the worlds busiest shipping lanes is full of mines and various other bombs? that doesn't sound like a very good idea... aren't they worried about these stray mines hitting other ships?
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  79. well... the sub didn't exactly sink a train... the crew of a sub blew up a train and it happened to end up in the water...
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  80.  @johncollins7062  the explosive charge in the torpedos technically...
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  81. it wasn't "hidden away"... the rumor is they dumped it in the lake. which is historically a not uncommon way for things to be "disposed of" so it's not impossible IMO.
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  82. believe me, if I could grow a historic grape... or any grape here... I'd be all over that.
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  83. the sony mania of the 1990s... the iphone mania of the 2000s... the throwing money at stupid fruitless things mania of the 2010s...
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  84. I'd known about the great famine in china, but not this part of it. interesting.
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  85. americans forgot about the war of 1812 cuz you lost... we learn about it in like grade 7 in canada.
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  86.  @anathema2325  imagine imagining.
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  87. good ol doggos.
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  88. typical feminist... "equal rights! (but women are better)!"
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  89. quality control is always the first to go....
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  90. dogs do have human-like emotions... you must either not have a dog or not pay attention. there's no reason for a dog to pull someone across a warzone while being shot at other than a pure emotional sense of kinship. no living thing just does that for food or some arbitrary reward. idc if "the dog doesn't know what a gun is"... by that logic it's all scary and unnatural and the natural response would be to run.
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  91. whenever someone farted during the cold war people thought the bombs were dropping >.>
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  92. newsflash: most websites encrypt your data already. that's what the little lock up next to the URL means. I swear no one knows what a VPN actually does...
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  93.  @MrCellophane60613  ya, pretty much every site runs google analytics... just get noscript. a VPN isn't going to do anything about that, you're not being tracked or data mined or w.e by your IP or physical location but by your own computer though something called cookies...
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  94. admiral berg... and the icebreaker glacier... that's great.
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  95. bowlers are so plain... it's like being bald in hat form. get a fedora or a fez or a gator skin or a 10 gallon... those are sharp. even one of those military hats is nifty, though not exactly an every day sort of hat.
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  96. canadian named "everything"... heh. i like this guy. also that prescription of beer... so canada XD
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  97. I can't even recall the last time I saw a grapefruit spoon...
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  98. so... when was america great? sounds like mexicans have been laborers there for over a century now... lol
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  99. you'd think people would take a hint from edsel and stop naming cars after themselves.
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  100. lol the 32nd of march wasn't a typo, it was a joke. historians have no sense of humor.
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  101.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  was it common practice at some point to express dates as a number of days after the end of a month? it doesn't make much sense to me.
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  102. I blame captain Wi Tu Lo...
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  103. should do a video about the history of americans complaining about their president and then electing someone worse...
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  104. canadian history is weird...
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  105. there were several similar incidents in the US too due to glitches in their warning system... many sources talk about how close the world came to nuclear war during the cold war and how ready the US and soviets were to blow each other up, but if you look into these times when they "almost launched" it becomes obvious that no one wanted to launch these missiles on either side and were willing to wait basically until they saw a storm of nukes on the horizon to launch theirs.
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  106. a boat doesn't seem like a great place to have surgery...
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  107. interesting video about an interesting hat. thanks.
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  108. is pearl harbor classified as a disaster? more of a deliberate attack...
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  109.  @GottaWannaDance  near madagascar.
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  110.  @ApartmentKing66  someone ran into me with their cart.
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  111. is this because I informed you canadians remember the war of 1812? we're one of the only countries to beat you 'mericans in a war, you think we're gonna forget it? lol. you guys were so scart you fought your own civil war instead of trying again, and forced the rebels down to the south... you should have come back to the colony while you had the chance northern states.
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  112. passenger oxygen manifold? but aren't the oxygen masks on commercial planes each self-contained systems?
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  113. who would want to watch startrek discovery though?
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  114. seriously? whole aisles of ketchup? we only have like half a dozen kinds... and we have ketchup chips. actually it's usually just heinz or store brand, maybe no name.
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  115. lets send the canadians to the hottest country on earth for their first battle! I'm sure they'll do great. well... I guess we did anyways. good job canada.
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  116. good thing they still had extradominos.
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  117. ya, it would have historically been pretty hard to have much global politics without ships what with the world having continents and all... also who's air force 2? 3? 78?
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  118. something tells me the history guy had a mullet...
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  119. why do you have so many officers hats? are they historic in some way?
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  120. oh no! not the wine blight! we might get sober to death!! that actually sounds shitty... but nothing on the potato blight that still plagues our crops.
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  121. maybe if no one invented the elevator we'd have pneumatic travel tubes tho.
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  122. the history guy looks a little different today... can't quite put my finger on it...
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  123. seems like it is being remembered, it gets a parade lol.
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  124. maybe if someone had stood on the beach longer they could have saved that guy who froze to death...
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  125. heh, sure showed those gangsters... pro weed band... bunch of seized weed... ahahha... oh wait... that's canada now... well don't you all look foolish? oh and then they threw a party with proceeds of crime! guess we really should remember these cooked bastards.
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  126. oh, it's about black licorice babies... GET ON WITH IT!
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  127. looking at the title just thinking "what the fork?" it's kinda weird if you think about it though, not only are we the only creature that creates a structure to set our food on but tools to move the food from said structure to our food holes...
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  128. james slime? is that a real name?
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  129. I knew wine and honey essentially can't go bad... wine will only turn to vinegar.
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  130. lmao... that intro.
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  131. "what's on sand island?" "sand."
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  132. incident? it's at least a situation... idk about crisis though.
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  133. rocket trucks are just so awesome.
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  134. stories about people fighting over little islands are great :P
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  135. this was so ridiculous it should have happened in canada... cept we don't half-ass things at the risk of others.
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  136. they died with american land yachts :P
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  137. need to do a video to remind people how the nazis slowly convinced people they were acting for the greater good while violating peoples freedoms.... it seems like people have forgotten that history.
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  138. isn't that your wife?
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  139. that intro is just too much for this channel... you would need like... a lot more muscle shirts and such...
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  140. ur tellin me more people have asked about that random can than your hats? cmon man... people have youtube channels devoted to eating that crap.
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  141. https://www.youtube.com/c/ForgottenWeapons you're welcome.
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  142. I saw this title and just imagined frenchmen jumping out of a plane...
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  143. I'm kinda surprised tossing barrels of gunpowder at it did anything at all...
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  144. I mean, there wasn't really a need to report to the public that? it didn't effect the public at all.
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  145. do you think all history deserves to be remembered? O.o
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  146. from what I heard gremlins also explode when rear-ended... so saying the pinto is just as safe as those isn't saying much :P
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  147. sounding penis is also a thing... google it if you don'y believe me.
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  148. and in between the last decade or so of instagram and such nonsense and this person several generations of famous people have lived and died... lets just forget about them.
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  149. "they called in a doctor who almost immediately diagnosed it as botulism based on an article he read." so doctors back then were about as skilled as literally anyone with a computer now?
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  150. please explain the historical significance of the feline.
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  151. how can you have a record for a guess? I guess one more. I now hold the record.
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  152. better hope none of that small arms fire damages a bazooka tube... and how the heck do you sneak up on someone in a plane?
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  153. "lets build a wall... of cheap ships!"
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  154. the other, other, other, other white meat war.
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  155. so why was the blimp sagging? were there bullet holes in it or something? that doesn't seem like normal operation to me. seems like the most obvious thing to investigate and at least find an explanation to... but it doesn't seem to be mentioned.
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  156. "I've got a great idea for a new treatment that could revolutionize medicine! now to test it..." "come here son."
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  157. it might be a nitpicky detail, but it seems worth mentioning that red and black currents are different species. red and white currents are the same species however.
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  158.  @DowntownDeuce22  yup, I don't think anyone believes a tower is just going to implode because something ran into it, the only way that makes sense is if it was built within stingently strict tolerances allowing that to happen... which older structures weren't.
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  159.  @DowntownDeuce22  well seeing as you mentioned a pyramid I guess you are aware of a building that can withstand that... not to mention most military installations are built to withstand that sort of stress... it's more about building things exactly as strong as they need to be really, it's always a good idea to over-engineer things within reason.
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  160.  @DowntownDeuce22  pretty sure they withstood the impact but lacked the structural redundancy to remain standing...
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  161. oo, fancy new intro. not bad.
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  162. really... you're hopping on the toilet paper bandwagon too? well at least this should be more interesting than a vlog of someone not finding toilet paper...
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  163. ya, this is definitely patreon content... idc what terminal you arrived at.
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  164. I'd be suspicious of anyone who said they can't read or write on the census...
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  165. doesn't sound like anyone cared to begin with or they'd have transfered it to a safer format sooner... no one even watched a bunch of it, if they're just going to lock it away and not watch it how important is it?
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  166. funny, cuz when you talked about the cuban missile crisis you specifically made a point of mentioning how one commanders decision was the closest we've come to nuclear war... now here you are contradicting yourself. there's little I hate more than someone who sensationalizes my history lessons. these are facts, don't skew them.
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  167. the fajita scale? what lol?
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  168. robinson head screws really are the best... they don't strip like phillips. probably the only downside is when the bits get old or if they were crap to begin with the corners start to flatten over and it doesn't engage properly. idk about "prefect safety" though, they can still slip out.
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  169. sounds a lot like pemmican...
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  170.  @lshurr  hehe, sounds like the sort of jargon... "minimizing language". I like that :P
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  171. meh, the mall where I am always kinda sucked... at the best of times it was essentially a hallway between the zellars and the grocery store... now it's just a hallway.
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  172. when the queen died they told her bees... so ya that's a thing still.
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  173. wasn't there another marine disaster in which they didn't have enough lifeboats for everybody on board? what was that ship called... hmmm.... also people don't get sucked down with ships.
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  174. 1:09 wow, did they ever get hit by the ugly truck...
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  175. how does one "manage to re-rail" a train? did someone have a crane in their back pocket?
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  176. lol... nord VPN making the internet great again. love these videos about little forgotten wars though.
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  177. so were 2 meter long lobster actually a thing? did people eat em all?
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  178. lets just go settle it over a pint at ye old pube.
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  179. I imagine he's dead... but I'm just imagining a couple old british museum guys mugging this guy with umbrellas and taking his watch yelling "this belongs in a museum!" as they run off holding their bowler hats.
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  180. spotted dick... it's the english food you never hear about.
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  181. seems like they should have had time to close the valve before it flooded the whole boat... unless the batteries are right under the toilet or something.
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  182. but it's like 3 months after thanks giving... where's the history on that little detail?
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  183. is this the history of the histroy guy?!?! oh wait no... it's just a shill ad....
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  184. I just hear "in 1995 canada"... and am already laughing and loving it wondering what crazy thing we did this time... I don't think I've heard this one... unlike most other things like the avro arrow for example that any tech savvy canadian knows about... it was on a coin ffs man. how bout you do a video on the canada arm? that's history now right? it was like 20 years ago.
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  185. what kinda dandelion gets a 15' long root? are you sure you don't mean 15"? I get enormous dandelions where I am and I've never seen a root over about a foot long.
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  186. what? so you just just hang something on a rope in the middle ages and people thought it was flying?
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  187. all great stories include pirates... no other history deserves to be remembered. rename channel "the pirate guy", do stories about pirates, replace hat collection with pirate hats.
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  188. educational childrens shows weren't all bad... even gilbert gottfried got in on that... how can you not like any show where gilbert gottfried is a cartoon bird?!
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  189.  ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪsᴛᴏʀʏ ɢᴜʏ: ʜɪsᴛᴏʀʏ ᴅᴇsᴇʀᴠᴇs ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀᴇᴅ  not me, CCP!
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  190. it might say 750ml on the bottle, but everyone still calls it a 26er...
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