Who Started the SS and How Did They Rise from a Handful of Men to Such Extreme Power?
Discover the origins and sinister evolution of the Schutzstaffel (SS), the infamous paramilitary unit of the Nazi Party, and how it grew to become one of the most powerful forces in Germany. Learn mor...
12 Marras 202545min
Who Invented the Band-Aid?
Finish the following sentence: “I am stuck on Band-Aid…” If you immediately sang: “…cuz Band-Aid’s stuck on me!”, congratulations: you have a 50-year-old ad campaign living rent-free in your head. A ...
10 Marras 202522min
The Crazy Carnival Ride Soviet Turntable Procedure That Gave Us the First Corrective Eye Surgery
The eyes, they say, are the windows to the soul. More practically, they are our windows to the world, humans being one of many visually-dependent species on the planet. But they are also fragile windo...
8 Marras 202521min
Forgotten Hero- The Other Oskar Schindler
In 1993, legendary director Steven Spielberg released two groundbreaking films, which could not have been more different from one another. The first was Jurassic Park, a thrilling summer blockbuster a...
6 Marras 202519min
Who Were the Real Life "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” and What Did they Actually Do?
Among the many box office bombs of the 2024 movie season was The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Starring Superman himself - Henry Cavill - and directed by Guy Ritchie of Snatch and Lock, Stock, an...
4 Marras 202540min
Rebuilding Civilization, America's Most Mysterious Monument, and Blowing It Up
On July 6, 2022 around 4 AM, a loud explosion rocked a remote corner of Elbert County, Georgia. Later that morning, the sun rose to reveal the shattered remains of America’s most mysterious and contro...
2 Marras 202527min
The Horrifying World of Mind-Control Creatures
In the 2013 video game The Last of Us and its 2023 TV adaptation, humanity is overrun by a mutant parasitic fungus called Cordyceps, which disfigures its victims and takes over their minds, turning th...
30 Loka 202541min
Hollywood vs Reality: What Actually Happened During Apollo 13?
“Houston, we’ve had a problem. We’ve had a Main B Bus undervolt.” These words, spoken by astronaut Jim Lovell on April 13, 1970, signalled the start of one of NASA’s greatest crises. Apollo 13, the th...
28 Loka 20251h 50min
