I like how Chris is making more jokes than usual in this video it’s really good to see him having a good time after a tough period!

Hi, just wanted to drop in and say a massive thank you for your kindness and amazing presentation! I was sat watching the realtime analytics slightly confused as the views went from 10 an hour channel wide to 500, then I checked the comments on the video that was bringing in the numbers and found my way here. Absolutely over the moon that you enjoy our content! For me, the event that got me into history was probably the Battle of Hastings in 1066, been to Battle Abbey and Bayeux in France to see the tapestry with my own eyes around 10 years back and since then, from a casual perspective, I've always enjoyed learning about and experiencing history through one avenue or another! - Ethan

We've hit subscribe as well, I look forward to watching more of your content & discovering new history channels with you and your community!

Wow never heard of decades until they started talking and recognized them instantly as former content creators I once watched, thanks VTH for showing me what they’re doing now

A french monkey was hung as a spy in Hartlepool, when the ship on which it was a mascot was wrecked off the coast and it was the sole survivor. One of the nicknames of Hartlepool FC is "the monkey hangers"

9:40 The cat slander is not something I expected 😂

Chris is afraid of cats confirmed!

What got me into history was watching The Last of the Mohicans in 7th Grade, then reading the Leatherstocking Tales, a Christmas gift from my grandmother, one year later. By early high school, my grandmother and I were having debates over whose vision was better, Hamilton or Jefferson. Recquiescat in Pace.

For me, there wasn’t one event that got me into history really, it was Horrible Histories. I loved that show growing up (and still now). They did such a great job of presenting factual information about the past in an entertaining way to both kids and adults. Such a shame that you can’t react to them because of the copyright issues

The event that got me into history was seeing an episode of Unsolved mysteries about the Romanov’s family assassination. And the rumour of Anastasia still being alive. This was the early 90’s and it got my hooked 😍

For me, what got me into history was watching Troy as a 5 or 6 year old

the Person that really got me into history was you Chris.

3:03 The elephant that was hanged was “Murderous Mary.” On September 12, 1916, while performing at a circus in Sullivan County, Tennessee, she killed her abusive caretaker. The people that attended the show then immediately called for her to be killed, and they got their wish. On the 13th, Mary was hanged on top of Railroad tracks using a Derrick (a kind of railroad crane) and a large metal chain wrapped around her neck, which was ordered by the Circus owner who wanted to save his business. The town where it took place, Erwin, Tennessee, is still known as “the town that hung the elephant,” as many of the 2500 people attending the execution were residents of Erwin. There is a disputed photo of the aftermath of the execution that is easy to find on Google.

Not sure which event got me interested in history, but I recall our high school history teacher saying one thing that has always stuck: “If you don’t know your history, you don’t know who you are.” We all thought he was cracked at the time, but it resounded years after as history became more interesting.

ww2 normandy got me addicted at 7 years old

I was a lazy high school student. Did the bare minimum outside of class, but always participated in class discussions and did well on exams. One of my teachers in 10th grade caught onto this, and during a "work on your own" time in class he took me out into the hallway and called me out on it. He ended the discussion by saying he was essentially kicking me out of his class...in order to place me in the higher level history class that was offered so I would have more of a challenge. That was probably the moment where my love of history first started, because I actually felt motivated after being called out like that and told I'd be able to handle more.

As a teenager, I read the Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind."  The life she described was so completely foreign to me, that I could not believe the setting of the novel was less than 100 years before the year of my birth.  My grandmother (born in 1911) lived until her 95th year, and I realized that people who were born during the Civil War could still have been around when I was born in 1960.   For some reason, this put all of history in perspective for me. My grandmother was born before the first flight of the Wright brothers, before women could vote, before indoor plumbing and electricity were widely available. Horse drawn vehicles were the most common form of travel the year she was born.   But she lived to see the moon landing, home computers, and she herself travelled many times on airplanes. When one realizes the difference that can happen even during one lifetime, well,  I've been fascinated with history ever since.

That thing that got me into history was also the Titanic. Not the discovery, I was born long after that. But the story, the documentaries, the accounts…. It’s amazing how much of an impact it’s had on my life.

17:28 for me, it was around 3rd or 4th grade, when I was watching BrainPop videos and they really caught my eye so I decided to read more about the person and or event that was associated with said person, and that later developed into more areas of history like wars, obscure facts about history, etc.

What got me into history was the set of comic books that I had as a kid back in Korea. I had history book series about the 2000 year old history of Korea (3 kingdom era, Koryeo, and Joseon). I also loved to read the Romance of the 3 Kingdoms from Chinese History and I got SUPER into Asian medieval history then.

Fun fact: The first documented workers strike on the north american continent was done by polish craftsmen in Jamestown. They demanded equal rights to the english born colonists and got their way bc the Virginia Company was worried that it would discourage further settlement in Virginia