Antimatter (Encore)
It is the most expensive substance in the world by a wide margin. When it was first proposed, it was actually proposed in jest. However, decades later, the joke turned out to have been true. It is a ...
17 Feb 202514min
The History of Poker: From Ancient Games to Modern Tournaments
One of the most popular card games in the world is poker. The game was played in the old west among cowboys, by dogs on velvet paintings, and by the crew of the Star Ship Enterprise. Poker is played...
16 Feb 202514min
Special Forces
Perhaps the most respected and feared soldiers in the world are those who belong to Special Forces. Special Forces are considered to be the elite of the elite. Most nations have some sort of Special ...
15 Feb 202515min
The St Valentines Day Massacre
On the morning of February 14, 1929, a horrific crime took place on the north side of Chicago. Seven men were lined up against the wall of an auto garage and gunned down in cold blood by machine gun f...
14 Feb 202514min
Spy Satellites
A reconnaissance satellite, otherwise known as a spy satellite, is somewhere above your head right now, collecting images and gathering intelligence on whatever it sees below it. Ten countries are cu...
13 Feb 202515min
Separated at Birth (Encore)
In the 1960s, a New York clinical psychiatrist and an adoption agency conducted an experiment. They separated multiple sets of identical twins and one set of identical triplets into different families...
12 Feb 202513min
The Falkland Islands
Located off the coast of South America and in the Southern Atlantic Ocean is the Falkland Islands. The Falklands are an almost treeless archipelago where sheep and penguins outnumber the people. It ...
11 Feb 202516min
The Trojan War (Encore)
Sometime about 3,200 years ago, one of the most famous wars in ancient history took place. Maybe. It has been the subject of some of the greatest works of Western literature, and it has given us some...
10 Feb 202512min
