The Weirdest Ideas In History That Somehow Came True

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Published 2024-01-31

The outlandish ideas of one era can eventually become predictions that come true at a later date. Something that was seen as unfathomable, implausible, or even ludicrous at one point can end up as a part of everyday life over the years. Inventors, scientists, and writers of yesterday have weirdly predicted things that people laughed at in their time - only for their predictions to become standard, if not indispensable, for later generations.

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All Comments (21)

@janeck.8695 2 months ago

All the videos on this channel are wonderful, but - I said it before and I say it again: the script and narrator are priceless.
@Truckngirl 2 months ago

Hearing Tom Blank's voice just makes my day better.
@ridureyu 2 months ago

“Something bad will happen in London someday!” -Nostradamus
@ShadowHwkX7 2 months ago

If Tesla ever won the lottery in his life, WW2 would've been using 80s tech
@lesty4w4n 2 months ago

Obomi as president perhaps is the closest or luckiest prediction
@sonaterese799 2 months ago

Love the narration on weird history - so much better than the channels that use boring, humourlessand inflectionless AI
@tremorsfan 2 months ago

Jules Verne wrote a book called "Paris in the 20th Century". It was considered so far fetched that publishers wouldn't touch it. It was finally published in 1994.
@ridureyu 2 months ago

You could order movies on demand at hotels when Ebert made his prediction, so it wasn’t that far-fetched.
@NASCARFAN93100 2 months ago

There's still the hope for Flying Cars
@DLeadVox 2 months ago

❤❤❤ Love your narration!
@auntvesuvi3872 2 months ago

Thanks for this! 📱
@bobbygermain9635 2 months ago

I love weird history and weird history food.
@btetschner 2 months ago

A+ video! LOVE IT! Love the topic of visionaries!
@CB_825 2 months ago

I had to search for the original voice! I’m not even sure what video I clicked on, but I just needed to hear this voice.
@Kalshaer86 1 month ago

I notice the narrator accent when stating the names is impressive 😮😂
@The7Reaper 2 months ago

Tesla was so ahead of his time, shame he died in poverty, he should've been celebrated like Edison was.
@btetschner 2 months ago

2:36 It would be so awesome to have one of those cars!
@FrankTedesco 2 months ago

loved this one. but Frank Zappa was far from a guitar legend...
@AnglephileSwedenGerman 1 month ago

A better narrator for today there can not be
@Ren-vl1eq 2 months ago

BEST NARRATOR IDK.