GUNS N' ROBOTS

Since my brother and I started making history videos online, there have been a few topics that have been kicking around our todo list and right there at the top has always been “Napoleon’s Penis.”

The story of the journey of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s stolen penis is one of the most bizarre bits of history that our childhood textbooks omit (imagine the questions teachers would have to answer) spanning the globe and even mentioning the JFK assasination, Abraham Lincoln, and Hitler — it’s like a greatest hits of history. I could make the argument you could tell the entire story of the modern world framed by the lost palus of “The Little Corporal.”

When visiting Paris this winter, we took an amazingly entertaining informative walking tour (Wego Walking Tours — a must do and it’s free). When our super enthusiastic guide brought us to the front of the Military Museum, he ran down the fall of and last days of Napoleon with a quick aside about the legend of his snatched member. After the tour, off his recommendation, we went to visit the tomb of Napoleon which is attached to the museum inside a cavernous old cathedral. While looking at the mighty sarcophagus, I couldn’t stop thinking about how there wasn’t a penis in it.

Later, on the train ride back to London and plane ride back to America, while shielding my phone from others, I did a deep research dive and found a story weirder than I had remembered and I knew It was time to share it with the world.

Even though I keep things “family-friendly,” I am fully aware that there is zero chance YouTube’s robots will turn ads on this video. Unfortunately, I’m not even sure with the subject matter and one educational Hitler reference, it will even end up ranking in searches, but oh well, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do — some stories are just worth telling.

Watch above or on the Laughing Historically YouTube.

After stumbling across the spot of the first milk pasteurization in the US, I spent far too much time researching it. So, I made a video about how pasteurization made it so milk could do your body good. It is more interesting than it sounds!

Take it from one of the whitest individuals in the world, the sun is trying to kill us. Learn about humanity’s battle with UV rays and the invention of sunscreen, which is totally safe, no matter what things on Facebook may tell you.

You don’t know how The Electoral College works. It’s okay, we explain the mysterious weird nightmare that is the history and process of America’s Electoral College - guaranteed, you don’t know the half of it.

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Feeling the call of a Third Party? Brandon uses something he knows even more about than Politics to explain the history of “Option C” on our ballots. Watch Third Parties Explained with STAR WARS

And you thought I couldn’t find a way to relate Pokemon Go to History…

Playing Pokemon Go could be good for you… and not just from all the fresh air and walking. We run down how to discover history in your backyard while finding that rare Mewtwo.