🥃 Hennessy: From King George to Kendrick | 43
A wounded Irish soldier crawls from a blood-soaked battlefield in the French countryside. He survives, but his fighting days are over. So he settles in the Cognac region, and in 1765, starts a modest ...
5 Elo 202541min
🛹 Skateboard: Defying Physics & Freaking Out Parents for 60+ Years | 42
Imagine yourself on a sandy SoCal beach, surfboard in hand. But the ocean’s too calm: not a single wave in sight. What do you do? Well, if you’re a kid in the early 60s, you throw some wheels on a pla...
29 Heinä 202541min
🐲 Pokémon: The Little Monsters that Played Their Cards Right | 41
What do you get when you mix a passion for collecting bugs with an obsession for video games? For Satoshi Tajiri, the answer is the world's largest media franchise (over $92 billion revenue — more tha...
22 Heinä 202542min
⭐ Michelin Guide: The Tire Company That Accidentally Conquered Food | 40
André and Édouard Michelin were desperately seeking a way to save their family rubber business, when a hapless cyclist with a flat came staggering into their workshop. The brothers saw an opportunity…...
15 Heinä 202542min
🥏Frisbee: A Pie in the Sky Idea (literally) | 39
What do you do for fun if you’re a bored college kid? For students across New England in the early 1900s, the answer was simple: toss around empty pie tins (obviously). Soon, shouts of “Frisbee!” echo...
8 Heinä 202538min
🎭 Hamilton: From Founding Father To Broadway Star | 38
In 2008, Lin-Manuel Miranda badly needed a vacation. He’d just won the Tony for his musical “In The Heights,” he’d been going nonstop. So he took a break, bringing a book with him for poolside loungin...
1 Heinä 202542min
🥤Dr Pepper: The Mystery & Magic of America’s #2 Soda | 37
Born in a sweltering Texas drugstore in 1885 - this indescribable, 23 (secret) ingredient concoction broke the first rule of marketing: never sell something you can't explain. Behind this mystery brew...
24 Kesä 202540min
🏎️ Ferrari: The Racing Machine Even A Child Could Draw | 36
Enzo Ferrari was 10 years old when he fell in love with racing… and soon, he would make it his life’s mission. After almost dying in an infirmary during WWI, Enzo schmoozed his way into the driving wo...
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