Major Disasters That Changed History - Weird History Reaction

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  @Tomikchomik1 · 2 years ago

  On manual in camper in USA, you have point "If you turn on cruise control, you must stay behind the wheel", because in history some woman bought camper, drive on higway, turn on cruise control, and she go to bathroom, because she thought the car would drive itself. Camper crash on frist turn, she sue company who made that camper, and she won milions because, on manual, noone said that she must stay behind the wheel" ^^ PS: sory for my english...i do my best ^^

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  @brun4775 · 2 years ago

  The Lisbon earthquake and tsunami was an important event in the enlightenment and the move away from people looking for superstitious religious explanations of events to a more sensible and scientific outlook. It also kickstarted the field of seismology.

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  @highschoolhistorian · 2 years ago

  Hey VTH, thanks to your livestream yesterday on genealogy, I discovered that my 4th great-grandfather served in the 63rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, serving under Rosecrans, and was present for Sherman's march to Savanah.

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  @Yora21 · 2 years ago

  The Great Smog of Manchester probably would not have led to the same amount of environmental regulations.<br>Parliament is probably much faster to act when the smoke is hanging right outside their own bedroom windows.

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  @mlggrievous · 2 years ago

  I would say that a lot of the nuclear disasters in history have had the side effect of helping to put us in the current climate crisis we’re experiencing today around the world. Even though nuclear energy is far better for the environment than fossil fuels and major accidents actually occur a lot less, the public perception of nuclear energy will never recover from things like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima.

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  @kevin9863 · 2 years ago

  So one thing the creator forgot to mention about the nightclub fire is thats the reason why every exterior door has to open outwards. &nbsp;Not only did they have one exit door, that door only opened inwards so people couldn&apos;t get the door open because so many people rushed the door.

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  @timnewman-007 · 2 years ago

  The Great Fire of London in 1666 would be one of the top ones from a British perspective. Building regulations banning thatch in towns and encouraging brick and stone buiilding oveer wood, establishment of professional fire brigades (owned by insurance companies, you bought a plaque to fasten on your wall so they&apos;d know if your house was on fire who would come to put it out), and of course new St Paul&apos;s and other churches and buildings that changed the London skyline and London landmarks so much. Not London&apos;s first widespread fire but the last that wasn&apos;t the result of military action.

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  @johnnamorton6744 · 2 years ago

  Irish Potatoe famine... It always struck me off how in a few short years this south American vegetable root had replaced 1000s of years of oats and barley grains in the Irish diet. You have to figure in the first 100 years only the rich ate the potatoes because they were imports. (To the English crown)

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  @samedwards9979 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4g36WN4Lw&amp;t=30">0:30</a> in my high school (UK) we had textbooks that said “do not attempt to consume this book whole or in pieces”

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  @AstroLonghorn · 2 years ago

  There was a Swedish chainsaw I believe with the warning “do not attempt to stop the blade with your genitals” and that one will always be the most disturbing warning label ever placed on a commercially produced item.

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  @desertrose0027 · 2 years ago

  My grandfather was born in 1909. He lived until 2001. He lived on a farm in Michigan and also drove a school bus for the local school. His wife, my grandmother, taught there. They lived through the Great Depression in that house, and for the rest of their days they saved pennies and would buy gifts for me from garage sales. It&apos;s amazing to think of all the things he lived through in his 91 years.

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  @simonatkinson522 · 2 years ago

  In the UK, the Victoria Hall disaster of 1883, resulted in legislation that exit doors must open outwards and that they have “push bar” opening mechanisms. <br>183 children died in this incident.

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