BS Summary: This video contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Appeal to Emotion, and Framing Effect, with Overconfidence Bias as the most egregious example at 34% saturation with 69 hits. Analysis detected 534 faulty-reasoning hits from 203 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 92.2% and a BS Rank of 95% (909 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 94.60% of the video peer group.
On September 23rd, 1543, a typhoon struck off the coast of southern Japan.
Three Portuguese merchants were abroad,
a trading ship that got caught in the typhoon, blown off course, and crashlanded at Tanagashima Island.
When they stumbled off the ship, half dead, the local warlord came down to the shore to see what the hell was going on.
These foreigners looked completely different from anyone he had seen.
Tall, bearded, strange clothing.
But what really caught his attention were the two long metal tubes they were [music] carrying.
They were called matchlock guns and they could spit fire and kill somebody from a distance.
And he or anyone else in Japan for that matter had never seen anything like it.
Within days, the local warlord bought both guns for what sources describe as an astronomical sum.
Some sources claim as much as 80 pounds of pure silver
worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in today's purchasing power.
He immediately ordered his swordsmiths to reverse engineer them and within a year Japan was producing its own firearms.
[music] This moment, this accidental arrival of the Portuguese merchants were
Japan's first ever recorded contact with Europeans.
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