Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ America. Bro literally got lost looking for India and stumbled into a continent with millions of people already living there.
George Washington’s dentures were not made of wood, but rather a combination of teeth from slaves, ivory (hippopotamus, walrus and/or elephant), animal teeth and metals.
The pyramids weren’t built by “slaves”. The working conditions were tough but graffiti and records show that they were usually farmers who were paid and had access to medical stands as well as food shops around. My favorite finding was the notes about rivalries and “teams” they were sorted into, they set goals and had team meetings and teased each other while working by writing dirty jokes and pictures. Pyramid builders were also buried with nicer things than everyday people or slaves so that shows their profession was respected.
People used to believe the world was flat. In elementary school I was taught that no one wanted to fund Columbus’ voyage because they thought he’d just sail off the end of the world. Utter nonsense.
Since at least Ancient Greece, it was believed the world was a sphere. I mean you look up at the sky at night, see nothing but other round bodies, it makes sense you’d assume that you’re on a round body as well.
That the battle of Thermopylae was fought by just 300 Spartans against the Persian army. Those Spartans were joined a few thousand other assorted Greek forces
That Napoleon was this abnormally short man. He was 5’6 which was pretty average back then. I’m pretty sure it was this smear campaign of sorts that painted him as this weirdly short, unpowerful guy.
People lie about the holocaust all the time and it’s just as disgusting as what Alex Jones did by telling his listeners that a school shooting was fake.
That my Native American ancestors weren’t fierce warriors fighting their neighbors over land and food way before the Europeans showed up with firearms and disease
Not “the biggest”, but Ferdinand Magellan did not circumnavigate the globe.
He planned the journey and set sail with the team of ships and 200-some crew members, but he was killed when they got to the Philippines. I think it was only 18 crew members that made it back to Spain.
That women stayed home and only men worked. For the poor, which was the vast majority of people throughout history everybody worked that could work, even the kids. If you didn’t the whole family would starve and die. You were working your own land, working your lords land, working as itinerant laborers. If you weren’t doing physical work you were cooking and you were spinning constantly spinning and weaving and sewing. Constant work. Women worked down mines, worked as servants, they were working in factories as soon as there were even proto factories. Wealthy women also worked. They ran the households, for a wealthy family this could be 100 people she was in charge of. Of organizing supplies, that food was cooked, that they had accommodations, food stores, she made the medicines and tended the ill. He had men to run the estates and the harvested were gathered by the poor men and women mentioned earlier as part of their rent. And those harvests went to her and her staff to store, use, distribute. Women have always worked. How the hell do they think the Lords could confidently ride off to war and know that everything was being looked after while they were away fighting for years on end.
I’m always surprised how many people believe the moon landing was faked.
Maybe that’s not a historical lie, more of a dumb conspiracy theory around a historical event. But it’s way way way too common.
There’s literally amateur radio operators who were listening to the signals as they were transmitted from the Moon, you would have needed every major world government and every ham radio nerd on earth in on the fake….
That Ancient Rome was a gleaming white marble city. For one, the marble was mostly painted with all sorts of bright colors, including the statues. Secondly, most people didn’t live in marble buildings but instead in a mixture of brick/wooden structures. There’s a reason Rome burnt down.
While Paul Revere is often credited with being the sole rider to warn the colonies of the British, he was actually one of five riders who alerted colonists on the night of April 18th. Revere’s mission relied on secrecy, and he didn’t shout “The British are coming!” as the phrase would have been confusing to locals who still considered themselves British. Instead, Revere’s network of riders, signal guns, and church bells effectively spread the alarm.
That the Nazis were hated and opposed for their treatment of Jews from the beginning. There has been plenty of narrative building through the years around the idea that the Allies were seeking justice for the Jewish peoples from the start. It was only when we witnessed the extent of the Holocaust that the villainy of the Nazis became more of a widely recognized, acknowledged trope.
Anti-Semitism was very common in the West prior to WW2 and the Holocaust got that far, in part because nobody wanted to house Jewish refugees.
Men and Women both hunted, the idea that women stayed back isn’t true. It also doesn’t make sense, in hindsight, to think that if hunting was your primary means of sustenance, then half the able bodied population wouldn’t do it? Wouldn’t civilization had started earlier if women didn’t hunt and stayed back?
In reality. The old and the young took care of the children. There’s overwhelming fossil evidence of the average man and woman built like athletes using muscles that only would have developed the way they did if they hunted. Often women even had their spears and weapons buried with them.
The myth that Titanic was in any way badly designed, badly built, or badly operated – by the standards of the time. In fact there are so many crazy inaccuracies surrounding Titanic that it’s hard to list them all here… But I’ll give it a go!
She was an incredibly seaworthy ship – probably moreso than any passenger ship around today. The iceberg damage stretched almost a third of the way down her side, and she still stayed afloat for more than two hours!
In that time, all but two of her lifeboats were launched – there wasn’t time to launch any more. She could have had a hundred more lifeboats on board, but that wouldn’t have helped without vastly more crew to operate them.
Titanic’s passengers genuinely did believe that she was practically unsinkable. When the time came to begin loading the lifeboats, many thought they would be safer staying on Titanic. There wasn’t time for the crew to wait around convincing more people to get in, so when a lifeboat was ready, if there was no-one else waiting to get in, it had to go. This is why so many of Titanic’s lifeboats left only half-full – it’s not just because the crew were worried about over-filling them.
Titanic wasn’t travelling too fast for the conditions – by the standards of practice around at the time. Further precautions were put into practice after the incident, but no-one on board can be blamed for doing what anyone on any ship would have done the same.
Titanic was by no means a fast ship, nor was she ever intended to be. The White Star Line (Titanic’s owners) were in competition with one other big shipping line, Cunard. Cunard’s liners (Mauretania, Lusitania and later Aquatania) were the fastest in the business. To combat this, instead of fighting for speed, White Star decided to try to make their liners the most luxurious in the world. Olympic and Titanic were famed for their splendour and comfort – passengers said that it was easy to forget that you were at sea, as there were very few vibrations from the engines, and the ships remained stable even in fairly rough seas. By comparison, Cunard’s liners were very fast, but their quadruple-screw configuration made vibration more apparent. It’s a myth that Titanic was ever trying to make record-breaking speed across the Atlantic.
She wasn’t built using sub-standard materials. This rumour goes around a lot these days because of an article that was written some time ago; what the article is supposed to mean is that there is much better quality steel available today. This was not the case in 1909. Additionally, Titanic’s builders were paid on a fee plus materials basis – they were given a set fee to construct the ship, plus the cost of all materials used. There was no incentive to use anything but the best steel they could get their hands on. The shipyard had an excellent reputation and would not risk tainting it by using bad steel, which could easily be noticed on inspection anyway.
Titanic and her two sister ships Olympic and Britannic were also surprisingly manoeuvrable for their size – much moreso than was expected. Some will tell you that Titanic’s rudder was too small, but this simply isn’t true. In fact, Olympic’s wartime captain marvelled at her manoeuvrability, and was even able to throw her into a sudden turn, ramming (and sinking) a German U-boat. Olympic was the first of only two merchant vessels throughout the First World War recorded to have sunk an enemy vessel.
While it’s true that the lookouts’ binoculars were misplaced (or rather, locked away in a cabinet that no-one on board had the key to open), this made no difference to Titanic’s fate. The images of sea captains and pirates scanning the horizon through telescopes, while common in films, has virtually no stead in reality. Binoculars and telescopes narrow your field of vision down to a fine point, making it harder to spot anything. Lookouts on real ships will use their eyes alone to search for objects of interest, and once they’ve been spotted, will use a set of binoculars to further inspect it. Titanic’s lookouts would not have been using their binoculars to search for iceberg even if they’d had them.
Third class passengers were never trapped below decks. The big metal gates you might remember from the film never even existed. The only time passengers were kept below decks was near the beginning of the disaster, when the officers needed time to prepare the lifeboats. First and second class passengers were allowed on deck, but as there were so many more third-class passengers the crowd was asked to stay below for a short while, until the officers were ready to start loading lifeboats. No-one was ever locked up. In fact a higher percentage of third-class males survived the sinking than second-class males.
Titanic was the largest ship in the world, but not by much. Her older sister Olympic was identical in almost every way. A few changes to Titanic’s layout (including the covering up of some promenade decks, making them count as interior space) made her technically larger, but both ships were almost exactly the same length, breadth and height. Olympic had a GRT (gross registered tonnage) of 45,324 gross register tons. Titanic’s GRT was some 1,000 tons greater. After the disaster, Olympic received a refit, after which her GRT was up to about 30 more than Titanic’s had been. But Titanic’s younger sister, Britannic, which was launched after the disaster and had been modified during construction as a result of it, was about 2 feet wider than her sisters and had a GRT more than 2,000 tons greater than Titanic’s.
White Star Line’s owner, Bruce Ismay, likely had nothing to do with the incident. Another myth popularised by the film is that Ismay had convinced Captain Smith to sail faster and try to get to New York in record time. He’s also portrayed as a bumbling idiot, and sneaks onto a lifeboat when the officers aren’t looking. While we’ll never know whether or not Ismay really did discuss Titanic’s schedule with Smith, it’s incredibly unlikely – Smith was looking to retire after commanding Titanic, had an extremely good reputation, and was a much-loved public figure. Passengers scrambled to sail on a ship under his command. He is unlikely to have been swayed to make rash decisions based on Ismay’s need for Titanic to make headlines. Ismay himself played an active role during the sinking, helping passengers into lifeboats and doing what he could where possible (one officer recalled telling him to get out of the way as he was making a nuisance of himself by getting involved, but testified that he was trying to help). Ismay stepped into an empty spot on one of the last boats to leave the ship, just as it was preparing to lower. He didn’t take anyone else’s space. Unfortunately the media needed a scapegoat, and he was the highest-ranking official to survive the disaster. He adopted a secluded lifestyle after the disaster, funding several naval charities but otherwise staying out of the public eye.
Higher watertight compartments or compartments sealed at the top would not have saved the ship. Most people could tell you that Titanic sunk because the weight of the water in the foremost watertight compartments pulled the bow down, allowing the water to spill over the top into more compartments, and so-on throughout the ship. But had Titanic’s watertight bulkhead walls run all the way to the top deck, she might actually have sunk faster – with so much water contained in the front third of the vessel, she would have begun to tilt forwards much earlier, and possibly have broken in two sooner than she did. Sealing the tops of the bulkheads to prevent water from spilling over was actually illegal, and still is today. The International SOLAS (Safety Of Life At Sea) Regulations state that no civil (non-military) vessel can have any obstruction above watertight compartments that could impede a passenger’s escape. The bottom line is that Titanic was damaged beyond her specifications, and was doomed from the moment she hit the iceberg.
“Full Astern” – There’s a belief (popularised again by the film) that Titanic’s engines were thrown full astern on sighting the iceberg, and that this may have hindered her ability to turn away from it. This rumour started because of evidence given by the fourth officer, who who wasn’t even on the bridge at the time of the collision. The only survivor who was present was the quartermaster, but from his position in the wheelhouse he couldn’t see the commands sent to the engine room on the bridge telegraphs. Survivors from the engine room and the boiler rooms attested that the command was “stop” rather than “astern”. Whoever you choose to believe, when you think about the timescale it really makes very little difference. There was less than 40 seconds between the iceberg sighting and the collision – and in that time, the lookouts had to ring the bell, pick up the phone, wait for 6th officer Moody to enter the wheelhouse and answer it, and alert him to the iceberg; then, Moody relayed that order to the most senior officer on the bridge (1st Officer Murdoch); Murdoch ordered the turn to port, then crossed to the telegraph to send the order to stop. Try acting that out in real time, and work out how long the engineers had to act on the “stop” order – not long enough. There’s a really good article explaining exactly what went on in the engine rooms here; this goes into a lot more detail than I can, and comes to the same conclusions. Long story short – there wasn’t even enough time to stop the engines, let alone put them in reverse. Slowing down or keeping full-ahead would have had no difference, as the turning circle stays the same. Leaving the starboard engine running may have turned Titanic’s bow away from the iceberg, but it would have made it more difficult to keep the stern away.
And please, please don’t mention the Olympic switch conspiracy …
That MLK was socially acceptable to white people during the 1960s, and not in favor of radically changing the socio economic order of the USA. He was a socialist who was widely reviled by the white culture of the time. He’s been re-imagined by white people as someone willing to accept slow electoral solutions to racial problems.
That the woman who scalded herself with McDonald’s coffee was an idiot and is the reason frivolous lawsuits now exist.
In reality, it was a massive pr spin by McDonalds. Originally all she wanted was cover for her medical bills, as her burns were so extensive and included her labia fusing to her thigh, the judge decided to award her more monetary compensation as McDonalds had a habit of serving their coffee at ridiculous temperatures that had lead to numerous injuries prior to hers.
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Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ America. Bro literally got lost looking for India and stumbled into a continent with millions of people already living there.
General Pershing never said “Lafayette, here we come!” – but it made good copy.
George Washington’s dentures were not made of wood, but rather a combination of teeth from slaves, ivory (hippopotamus, walrus and/or elephant), animal teeth and metals.
The US Civil War was over states’ rights.
The pyramids weren’t built by “slaves”. The working conditions were tough but graffiti and records show that they were usually farmers who were paid and had access to medical stands as well as food shops around. My favorite finding was the notes about rivalries and “teams” they were sorted into, they set goals and had team meetings and teased each other while working by writing dirty jokes and pictures. Pyramid builders were also buried with nicer things than everyday people or slaves so that shows their profession was respected.
“Violence never solved anything”
Violence actually solves tons of things, and the underlying threat of violence even moreso.
That most women didn’t work outside the home. It was only the wealthy women
People used to believe the world was flat. In elementary school I was taught that no one wanted to fund Columbus’ voyage because they thought he’d just sail off the end of the world. Utter nonsense.
Since at least Ancient Greece, it was believed the world was a sphere. I mean you look up at the sky at night, see nothing but other round bodies, it makes sense you’d assume that you’re on a round body as well.
That the good guys always win in the end.
We are the product of a back and forth, including many times the most violent defeated kinder, gentler people with better ideas.
Wish it weren’t so, but it be.
That the battle of Thermopylae was fought by just 300 Spartans against the Persian army. Those Spartans were joined a few thousand other assorted Greek forces
That Napoleon was this abnormally short man. He was 5’6 which was pretty average back then. I’m pretty sure it was this smear campaign of sorts that painted him as this weirdly short, unpowerful guy.
That there are hot singles In my area
That Marie Antoinette said Let them eat cake.
That Rome fell in 476 ACE.
That Constantine converted to Christianity when he saw a cross in the sky.
People lie about the holocaust all the time and it’s just as disgusting as what Alex Jones did by telling his listeners that a school shooting was fake.
Wellllll,that Jesus was white comes to mind.
That my Native American ancestors weren’t fierce warriors fighting their neighbors over land and food way before the Europeans showed up with firearms and disease
Not “the biggest”, but Ferdinand Magellan did not circumnavigate the globe.
He planned the journey and set sail with the team of ships and 200-some crew members, but he was killed when they got to the Philippines. I think it was only 18 crew members that made it back to Spain.
That women stayed home and only men worked. For the poor, which was the vast majority of people throughout history everybody worked that could work, even the kids. If you didn’t the whole family would starve and die. You were working your own land, working your lords land, working as itinerant laborers. If you weren’t doing physical work you were cooking and you were spinning constantly spinning and weaving and sewing. Constant work. Women worked down mines, worked as servants, they were working in factories as soon as there were even proto factories. Wealthy women also worked. They ran the households, for a wealthy family this could be 100 people she was in charge of. Of organizing supplies, that food was cooked, that they had accommodations, food stores, she made the medicines and tended the ill. He had men to run the estates and the harvested were gathered by the poor men and women mentioned earlier as part of their rent. And those harvests went to her and her staff to store, use, distribute. Women have always worked. How the hell do they think the Lords could confidently ride off to war and know that everything was being looked after while they were away fighting for years on end.
I’m always surprised how many people believe the moon landing was faked.
Maybe that’s not a historical lie, more of a dumb conspiracy theory around a historical event. But it’s way way way too common.
There’s literally amateur radio operators who were listening to the signals as they were transmitted from the Moon, you would have needed every major world government and every ham radio nerd on earth in on the fake….
That bullshit about lemmings.
That Ancient Rome was a gleaming white marble city. For one, the marble was mostly painted with all sorts of bright colors, including the statues. Secondly, most people didn’t live in marble buildings but instead in a mixture of brick/wooden structures. There’s a reason Rome burnt down.
While Paul Revere is often credited with being the sole rider to warn the colonies of the British, he was actually one of five riders who alerted colonists on the night of April 18th. Revere’s mission relied on secrecy, and he didn’t shout “The British are coming!” as the phrase would have been confusing to locals who still considered themselves British. Instead, Revere’s network of riders, signal guns, and church bells effectively spread the alarm.
Karma will punish the bad people.
That MSG is bad for you and for that reason you shouldn’t eat Asian food.
That the Nazis were hated and opposed for their treatment of Jews from the beginning. There has been plenty of narrative building through the years around the idea that the Allies were seeking justice for the Jewish peoples from the start. It was only when we witnessed the extent of the Holocaust that the villainy of the Nazis became more of a widely recognized, acknowledged trope.
Anti-Semitism was very common in the West prior to WW2 and the Holocaust got that far, in part because nobody wanted to house Jewish refugees.
“I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the above Terms and Conditions”.
Men and Women both hunted, the idea that women stayed back isn’t true. It also doesn’t make sense, in hindsight, to think that if hunting was your primary means of sustenance, then half the able bodied population wouldn’t do it? Wouldn’t civilization had started earlier if women didn’t hunt and stayed back?
In reality. The old and the young took care of the children. There’s overwhelming fossil evidence of the average man and woman built like athletes using muscles that only would have developed the way they did if they hunted. Often women even had their spears and weapons buried with them.
That Trickle Down economics would benefit ordinary people.
The myth that Titanic was in any way badly designed, badly built, or badly operated – by the standards of the time. In fact there are so many crazy inaccuracies surrounding Titanic that it’s hard to list them all here… But I’ll give it a go!
She was an incredibly seaworthy ship – probably moreso than any passenger ship around today. The iceberg damage stretched almost a third of the way down her side, and she still stayed afloat for more than two hours!
In that time, all but two of her lifeboats were launched – there wasn’t time to launch any more. She could have had a hundred more lifeboats on board, but that wouldn’t have helped without vastly more crew to operate them.
Titanic’s passengers genuinely did believe that she was practically unsinkable. When the time came to begin loading the lifeboats, many thought they would be safer staying on Titanic. There wasn’t time for the crew to wait around convincing more people to get in, so when a lifeboat was ready, if there was no-one else waiting to get in, it had to go. This is why so many of Titanic’s lifeboats left only half-full – it’s not just because the crew were worried about over-filling them.
Titanic wasn’t travelling too fast for the conditions – by the standards of practice around at the time. Further precautions were put into practice after the incident, but no-one on board can be blamed for doing what anyone on any ship would have done the same.
Titanic was by no means a fast ship, nor was she ever intended to be. The White Star Line (Titanic’s owners) were in competition with one other big shipping line, Cunard. Cunard’s liners (Mauretania, Lusitania and later Aquatania) were the fastest in the business. To combat this, instead of fighting for speed, White Star decided to try to make their liners the most luxurious in the world. Olympic and Titanic were famed for their splendour and comfort – passengers said that it was easy to forget that you were at sea, as there were very few vibrations from the engines, and the ships remained stable even in fairly rough seas. By comparison, Cunard’s liners were very fast, but their quadruple-screw configuration made vibration more apparent. It’s a myth that Titanic was ever trying to make record-breaking speed across the Atlantic.
She wasn’t built using sub-standard materials. This rumour goes around a lot these days because of an article that was written some time ago; what the article is supposed to mean is that there is much better quality steel available today. This was not the case in 1909. Additionally, Titanic’s builders were paid on a fee plus materials basis – they were given a set fee to construct the ship, plus the cost of all materials used. There was no incentive to use anything but the best steel they could get their hands on. The shipyard had an excellent reputation and would not risk tainting it by using bad steel, which could easily be noticed on inspection anyway.
Titanic and her two sister ships Olympic and Britannic were also surprisingly manoeuvrable for their size – much moreso than was expected. Some will tell you that Titanic’s rudder was too small, but this simply isn’t true. In fact, Olympic’s wartime captain marvelled at her manoeuvrability, and was even able to throw her into a sudden turn, ramming (and sinking) a German U-boat. Olympic was the first of only two merchant vessels throughout the First World War recorded to have sunk an enemy vessel.
While it’s true that the lookouts’ binoculars were misplaced (or rather, locked away in a cabinet that no-one on board had the key to open), this made no difference to Titanic’s fate. The images of sea captains and pirates scanning the horizon through telescopes, while common in films, has virtually no stead in reality. Binoculars and telescopes narrow your field of vision down to a fine point, making it harder to spot anything. Lookouts on real ships will use their eyes alone to search for objects of interest, and once they’ve been spotted, will use a set of binoculars to further inspect it. Titanic’s lookouts would not have been using their binoculars to search for iceberg even if they’d had them.
Third class passengers were never trapped below decks. The big metal gates you might remember from the film never even existed. The only time passengers were kept below decks was near the beginning of the disaster, when the officers needed time to prepare the lifeboats. First and second class passengers were allowed on deck, but as there were so many more third-class passengers the crowd was asked to stay below for a short while, until the officers were ready to start loading lifeboats. No-one was ever locked up. In fact a higher percentage of third-class males survived the sinking than second-class males.
Titanic was the largest ship in the world, but not by much. Her older sister Olympic was identical in almost every way. A few changes to Titanic’s layout (including the covering up of some promenade decks, making them count as interior space) made her technically larger, but both ships were almost exactly the same length, breadth and height. Olympic had a GRT (gross registered tonnage) of 45,324 gross register tons. Titanic’s GRT was some 1,000 tons greater. After the disaster, Olympic received a refit, after which her GRT was up to about 30 more than Titanic’s had been. But Titanic’s younger sister, Britannic, which was launched after the disaster and had been modified during construction as a result of it, was about 2 feet wider than her sisters and had a GRT more than 2,000 tons greater than Titanic’s.
White Star Line’s owner, Bruce Ismay, likely had nothing to do with the incident. Another myth popularised by the film is that Ismay had convinced Captain Smith to sail faster and try to get to New York in record time. He’s also portrayed as a bumbling idiot, and sneaks onto a lifeboat when the officers aren’t looking. While we’ll never know whether or not Ismay really did discuss Titanic’s schedule with Smith, it’s incredibly unlikely – Smith was looking to retire after commanding Titanic, had an extremely good reputation, and was a much-loved public figure. Passengers scrambled to sail on a ship under his command. He is unlikely to have been swayed to make rash decisions based on Ismay’s need for Titanic to make headlines. Ismay himself played an active role during the sinking, helping passengers into lifeboats and doing what he could where possible (one officer recalled telling him to get out of the way as he was making a nuisance of himself by getting involved, but testified that he was trying to help). Ismay stepped into an empty spot on one of the last boats to leave the ship, just as it was preparing to lower. He didn’t take anyone else’s space. Unfortunately the media needed a scapegoat, and he was the highest-ranking official to survive the disaster. He adopted a secluded lifestyle after the disaster, funding several naval charities but otherwise staying out of the public eye.
Higher watertight compartments or compartments sealed at the top would not have saved the ship. Most people could tell you that Titanic sunk because the weight of the water in the foremost watertight compartments pulled the bow down, allowing the water to spill over the top into more compartments, and so-on throughout the ship. But had Titanic’s watertight bulkhead walls run all the way to the top deck, she might actually have sunk faster – with so much water contained in the front third of the vessel, she would have begun to tilt forwards much earlier, and possibly have broken in two sooner than she did. Sealing the tops of the bulkheads to prevent water from spilling over was actually illegal, and still is today. The International SOLAS (Safety Of Life At Sea) Regulations state that no civil (non-military) vessel can have any obstruction above watertight compartments that could impede a passenger’s escape. The bottom line is that Titanic was damaged beyond her specifications, and was doomed from the moment she hit the iceberg.
“Full Astern” – There’s a belief (popularised again by the film) that Titanic’s engines were thrown full astern on sighting the iceberg, and that this may have hindered her ability to turn away from it. This rumour started because of evidence given by the fourth officer, who who wasn’t even on the bridge at the time of the collision. The only survivor who was present was the quartermaster, but from his position in the wheelhouse he couldn’t see the commands sent to the engine room on the bridge telegraphs. Survivors from the engine room and the boiler rooms attested that the command was “stop” rather than “astern”. Whoever you choose to believe, when you think about the timescale it really makes very little difference. There was less than 40 seconds between the iceberg sighting and the collision – and in that time, the lookouts had to ring the bell, pick up the phone, wait for 6th officer Moody to enter the wheelhouse and answer it, and alert him to the iceberg; then, Moody relayed that order to the most senior officer on the bridge (1st Officer Murdoch); Murdoch ordered the turn to port, then crossed to the telegraph to send the order to stop. Try acting that out in real time, and work out how long the engineers had to act on the “stop” order – not long enough. There’s a really good article explaining exactly what went on in the engine rooms here; this goes into a lot more detail than I can, and comes to the same conclusions. Long story short – there wasn’t even enough time to stop the engines, let alone put them in reverse. Slowing down or keeping full-ahead would have had no difference, as the turning circle stays the same. Leaving the starboard engine running may have turned Titanic’s bow away from the iceberg, but it would have made it more difficult to keep the stern away.
And please, please don’t mention the Olympic switch conspiracy …
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That MLK was socially acceptable to white people during the 1960s, and not in favor of radically changing the socio economic order of the USA. He was a socialist who was widely reviled by the white culture of the time. He’s been re-imagined by white people as someone willing to accept slow electoral solutions to racial problems.
That Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Scholarly consensus is that they were written anonymously decades after Jesus’ death by second-hand sources.
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Einstein was bad at math.
Not the biggest, but Vikings didn’t wear horned helmets.
That the woman who scalded herself with McDonald’s coffee was an idiot and is the reason frivolous lawsuits now exist.
In reality, it was a massive pr spin by McDonalds. Originally all she wanted was cover for her medical bills, as her burns were so extensive and included her labia fusing to her thigh, the judge decided to award her more monetary compensation as McDonalds had a habit of serving their coffee at ridiculous temperatures that had lead to numerous injuries prior to hers.