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'Weird Dudes in History' Shorts Suggestions are OPEN until 10/8!
🕑 Added 2025-10-01 17:30:08 +0000 UTCHello Historians, our next Extra History Shorts theme is Weird Dudes in History! Weird Dudes in History are in plentiful supply around the w
Hello Historians, our next Extra History Shorts theme is Weird Dudes in History!
Weird Dudes in History are in plentiful supply around the world, and we wanna hear your most bizarre suggestions, strangest recommendations, and exceptionally peculiar submissions for our next YouTube Short!
Enter YOUR suggestions for the topic HERE in this form now!
Some notes about suggestions:
Suggestions should feature content before the 1930s
If a suggestion we encounter only has enough research material/production scope for a one-off episode instead of a short, we file it in a separate list to reference later when we are planning to schedule a one-off episode between series (this is true for every survey we do).
Only one suggestion per person, please! Multiple suggestions from the same person during any given survey period will be manually removed. Extra History Suggestion Survey is OPEN until 10/8.
We can't wait to read all your suggested topics!
Comments
Pyrrhus of Epirus
Hear me out what about Pyrrhus of Epirus. He had an obsession with war to the point where he got extremely bored during peace , He often sought conflict , chose war over other duties and he basically told his advisor that he wouldn't rest until the whole of the known world was his.
Katherine Durkee
Ok, hear me out. The Mad Hatter. I know he’s not real but the phrase ‘mad as a hatter’ comes from hatters in Victorian England commonly contracting mercury poisoning which made them do crazy things. Also the illustration of the Mad Hatter in Alice in the Wonderland and Into the Looking Glass was inspired by Theophilus Carter. He owned at least one furniture shop from 1861-1894 in Britain and some believe he invented the Alarm Clock Bed that was showcased at the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was a bed that when it was time to wake up the bed would tip the person sleeping in it into a tub of cold water.
