It was just such a joy watching someone react to this who actually understands it and has a extremly good knowledge. So many people didn’t get those jokes. Loved it! Keep going

Fun Fact: there have been multiple wars over salt throughout history

"By the way, where the hell are we?"
"Hi, youre on a rock floating in space!"
the loop never ends

This man just taught me about quantum chromodynamics. Thumbs up.

"America finally decided whether racism is good or bad. 'It's bad' they decided and the world agrees. South Africa might need another minute to think about it"

As someone who lives in South Africa, this broke me 😂

You tube Algorithm "I know you've seen this 50 times but you got a half hour to kill"
Me "Nice goin Genghis"

I call this video a "data burst" because it's so packed with information (like a Zip file) that most viewers tend to hit their saturation point about halfway through.  I love how its jokes and catchy tunes keep it popping up in my thoughts over time, allowing me to unpack the info and ponder the details.  Great reaction!  Your commentary was every bit as informative and entertaining as the video itself!

It's incredible how well read you are on general subjects

"hippo" actually means Horse in Latin.

So the Hippo-mobile was the first car, called a "mechanical horse"

Hippo-potamus means River-horse.

The king of the Mali Empire, Mansa Musa, was so rich that during his pilgrimage to Mecca he gave away so much gold that he completely destroyed several economies to that point that gold were locally practically worthless. Funnily enough, the reason he was so rich was because the Mali Empire had vast amounts of natural resources, particularly gold and SALT. Everything comes back to salt and spices, lol. It is believed that Mansa's net worth was close to $400 billion USD.

Fun fact: the most expensive spice is saffron. But well, it's like pollen from a flower, you'd need TONS of flowers to get enough.

It took him 11 months to make. Such dedication.

17:30 he's on fire because in Islamic art it's forbidden to depict the prophet's face. so in miniature painting he's commonly drawn with some sort of flaming halo around his head.

You calling out so many things literally right before they're announced in this speed-trial of an overview... From gravity to empires to segments of history no sane person (I'm not sane) would ever see coming. I really commend you my friend. Insta like

6:50 There's also Sulfur based life forms down there, which is fucking nuts

"How can you make this?" Dunno, maybe because Wurtz spent like, A YEAR, in researching and making the video lol

this taught me way more about the history than any teacher I've ever had. We always learned only about Europe and America.. a little bit about Asia.. and that's all

Love your videos but I found your additions to this one particularly interesting, everyone has comments on the romans or alexander but very few reactors make mention of Norte Chico or the Bantus

The fact that you can contribute to explaining the science side of this, speaks well of your knowledge.  Awesome stuff dude.

Ethiopia deserves its own video to be honest. Out of all the civilizations to have arisen in Africa, I genuinely think it's more interesting than Carthage or Morocco. Possibly only outdone by Egypt, and even that's debatable because of how much most of the world learn about Egypt in schools in contrast to Ethiopia where we need to actively search for it.