25 Historical Facts From The 1800s That We Bet Never Came Up In School

Think the 1800s were just boring history? Think again. Beyond the top hats and old-fashioned manners, the 19th century was actually pretty gross and totally unpredictable. Forget the Civil War dates for a second. Did you know a group of rabbits once defeated an army? Or that London once smelled so bad the whole city stopped working? People were making up the rules as they went, and things got weird fast. Today we’re looking at 25 historical facts from the 1800s that we bet never came up in school. Grab your copy of What The Facts now, available on Amazon! Click the link to explore over 500 fun and fascinating facts! 👉👉https://www.amazon.com/WHAT-FACTS-ARE-TALKING-ABOUT-ebook/dp/B0DFNR2KHT/ Please support my channel and get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqJpFqlX59OML324QIByZA/join 🔔 Subscribe for more tips just like this: https://bit.ly/3Ewz99H 🚀 Watch our latest List25 Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/list25/videos 📨 Have a list idea? Submit it here: https://bit.ly/3Mu3gk1 Music: Desert Caravan - Aaron Kenny Author: Hammad 0:00 - Intro 0:35 - The Year Without a Summer 1:38 - The London Beer Flood 2:42 - The Secret Underground Tube Mail 3:42 - The 1846 Discovery of a New Planet by Math 4:39 - The Army Defeated by Rabbits 5:36 - The Invention of the Modern Stethoscope 6:31 - The Great Stink of 1858 7:27 - The Edible Wallpaper Disaster 8:25 - The First Photograph of a Human Being 9:14 - The Telegraph and the First "Online" Romance 10:05 - The Victorian Obsession with Memento Mori 11:03 - The Great Train Wreck of 1896 as a Spectacle 12:03 - The Discovery of the Gorilla 12:49 - The Transatlantic Cable and the "Slowing" of Time 13:44 - The Weird World of Victorian Mock Turtle Soup 14:42 - The Detective Who Used a Fingerprint 15:33 - The World's First Stamp and the Penny Black 16:27 - The Great Balloon Hoax of 1844 17:22 - The Creation of the First Synthetic Plastic 18:16 - The 1859 Solar Superstorm 19:14 - The Professional Sin Eaters 20:14 - The Invention of the Vibrating Chair for Nervousness 20:58 - The 1815 Eruption That Created the Bicycle 21:47 - The Secret Life of Dr. James Barry 22:44 - The Great Train Robbery That Used No W 🍿 WATCH OUR OTHER VIDEOS: ►25 Surprising Historical Facts From Before the Common Era: https://youtu.be/vRySz6k4nnE?si=xxGbEfM-W5veFujG ►25 Absurd Facts History Teachers Never Mention: https://youtu.be/jjxBfR5_ZjU?si=wKNMwpGsDuM-3nDe List25 Discord: https://discord.gg/ZcKZRspW7f Facebook: http://facebook.com/list25 Instagram: http://instagram.com/list25 Twitter/X: http://twitter.com/list25 Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/list25 Mike Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbestrin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DizMeLife Twitter: https://twitter.com/DizMeLife Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelBEstrin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikeestrin/ Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/michaelbestrin Mike's Other Channel: https://www.youtube.com/dizmelife See more lists on our website: http://list25.com Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research