What first comes to mind when you think of American Icons? Hmm, let’s see – probably cowboys, Mickey Mouse, and the Star-Spangled Banner. But what if I told you that some of the most iconic stories and symbols of America are a myth? Get ready for your world to be rocked as you are about to find out 12 myths you used to believe getting unveiled! Who could have thought the real Independence Day is not the 4th of July?! Other videos you might like:
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https://youtu.be/RFAqes3Hbxc TIMESTAMPS:
#12. The Wild West, …wasn’t so wild! 0:25
#11. Pocahontas’ rescue may have been exaggerated too… 1:34
#10. The real Independence Day is not the 4th of July. 2:50
#9. George Washington didn’t cut down that cherry tree. 3:40
#8. Walt Disney didn’t draw Mickey Mouse. 4:44
#7. Thomas Edison didn’t create the first light bulb. 5:27
#6. Christopher Columbus didn’t discover the Americas. 6:22
#5. Cowboys didn’t wear cowboy hats. 7:09
#4. Manhattan wasn’t purchased for beads. 7:50
#3. Einstein didn’t have bad grades in math. 8:33
#2. Charles Lindbergh wasn’t the first to fly across the Atlantic. 9:23
#1. The American National Anthem isn’t an original American tune. 10:21 #Americanmyths #factsaboutAmerica #brightside Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ SUMMARY:
-Filmmakers hyped cowboys and bandits of the 19th century, making shootouts and robberies the stuff of legend. In truth, though, the era of the Wild West was more about cooperation than conflict.
-In fact, the tribal leader and Pocahontas’ father, Powhatan, invited Smith for a meal to talk business. Pocahontas was there too, and they did become friends with the Captain… but none of it included saving lives. -The approval vote on the Declaration of Independence of the United Colonies took place two days prior to July 4, 1776.
-The whole cherry tree story was a piece of fiction written by George Washington’s biographer Mason Locke Weems in 1806. -Mickey was born in Walt’s head, but the actual drawing of the character belonged to Ub Iwerks, his favorite cartoonist. -Warren de la Rue, a British scientist, got a patent for his light bulb design 40 years before Edison. -Columbus wasn’t the first European to travel to the New World. This title belongs to Leif Erikson, who set foot on North American soil way back in the 11th century.
-Cowboys, or, more accurately, cattle hands, were mostly illiterate men who did dirty jobs in equally dirty rags and simply couldn't afford hats. -In fact, Manhattan was purchased for 60 guilders, which is about $1,000 today. -When Einstein himself was told this story in 1935, he just laughed and said he’d mastered differential and integral calculus before he was 15.
-8 years before Charles Lindbergh, in 1919, two British pilots John Alcock and Arthur Brown did the same, having flown from Newfoundland to Ireland in about 15 hours.
-The words to the “Star Spangled Banner” were indeed written by American poet Francis Scott Key. But the tune for the song representing this “country of immigrants” was itself also an immigrant. Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz
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