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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.

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’.

So “Let them eat cake” is basically just a meme, an early equivalent of “what could a banana cost, Michael, $15?”

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."

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

The George Washington silver dollar story is almost certainly true.  However it really wasn't that impressive because a dollar went a lot farther back then

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

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.

Being a German, I can attest to the fact that the sentence of JFK "Ich bin ein Berliner" is grammatically correct and is something that a German, that wants to express that he is from Berlin, would say. If a German wants to know if the other German is from Berlin, they may ask "bist du ein Berliner" (are you a <Berliner>). It is regularly used.

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.

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

The gordian knot story isn't about solving a problem through brute force! It's about solving a problem by thinking outside the box, and taking advantage of loopholes!

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...."

When I took English History in high school I was told, flat out, that King John was surrounded by angry barons who forced him to sign the Magna Carta under threat of death. I never heard the apocryphal stories, and didn't know they existed.

Just for obnoxious context, that red sea parting that Ben Franklin designed looks like something that would make a red sea periodically.

I had to laugh at the painting of the young-boy version of George Washington holding his hatchet and looking exactly like a miniaturized version of the middle-aged adult George Washington.  Lol.

Diogenes sounds like an absolute chad and I am certainly going to go watch the Biographics video on him after this.

Swiss person here - the myth about Einstein's poor performance in math class was actually created by German people's confusion with the Swiss school system. Einstein was born in Ulm (Germany) but he grew up in the Canton of Aargau (Switzerland). Both the German as well as the Swiss grading system use numbers ranging from 1-6. However, most Germans don't know that the Swiss grading system is the exact inverse of their own. In Germany, 1 = A+ and 6 = F but in Switzerland 6 = A+ and 1 = F. Einstein was obviously very good at math, which is why he only ever had 6's in his report cards. The first guy who wrote a biography about Einstein was German, though, and clearly didn't do his research. He simply looked at the numbers and - based on the grading system in his own country -  assumed that Einstein must've been a total loser at math. Obviously, that's preposterous. Another well-known myth spread by the same, unreliable biographer is that Einstein supposedly failed his high school finals and had to repeat his last year of high school because he was so bad at math. Einstein did indeed fail an important exam but it wasn't his high school finals. After successfully completing high school, Einstein took the entry exam to study physics at the ETH Zurich. He failed his first attempt, though not as a result of poor math skills. The true reason was that Einstein sucked at French and French was a mandatory part of this exam. Einstein's first biographer probably didn't get this because Germany isn't a multilingual country and French isn't a mandatory language at school. Einstein ended up enjoying his free time and took the entry exam once more the following year - at which point he passed comfortably.

Awwwww, c'mon, Simon... SURELY you must know that it's "Et tu, BruTAY"! He might have BEEN a brute, but his name wasn't 'Brute'.