Keturah Sergeant’s Reviews > A Short History of the World in 50 Failures > Status Update

Hitler's wonder weapons - Weapon making is costly... But how have I never heard of operation paperclip? That's insane...

Thomas Midgley Jr. - Leaded Fuel AND CFC? Same dude??

Cane Toads - 200 million toads!

Pearl Harbour - Then America joins the war...

Collectivisation - The Holodomor was Horrific.

Alexander Fleming - Accidental scientific discovery is the trend.

Franz Ferdinand - All I can think of is the horrible history clip explaining how WW1 started...

Tsar Nicholas II - Wasn't prepared to be a war time leader.

Sloppy Lab work - Why are so many scientists licking their fingers while/after working with chemicals?? How did it happen so many times?!

Selling Alaska - $5 per square kilometre!! Seriously?!

General D H Hill - Plans as cigar wrappers... What a fool!

Alexander Graham Bell - German is tough, so understandable!

Napoleon - The cold really kills!

Darwin - Burke & Hare bonus! Apparently Darwin's squeamishness dissecting human cadavers did not extend to animals?

Taxes - Americans get frisky when Britain taxed their tea...

Varennes - Vive la révolution

Tulips - A bulb for a house one year then common the next! Insane!

Darien Scheme - RIP Scotland

Songhay Empire - Poor cows...

Wanggongchang explosion - Storing several tonnes of explosive powder in one place... Eesh. I wonder what set it off 🤔