No human ever had to fight a dinosaur – but they probably did fight these creatures. “The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw numerous extinctions of predominantly megafaunal (typically defined as having body masses over 44 kilograms (97 lb)) animal species (the Pleistocene megafauna), which resulted in […]
This crash wiped out whole families, even war veterans were horrified by its brutality. The disaster at Le Mans 1955 remains the deadliest motor racing crash in history. “The 1955 Le Mans disaster was a major crash that occurred on 11 June 1955 during the 24 Hours of Le Mans […]
Beautiful archive footage of Irish people freaking out about fairies. Yes, the mythological creature. Clip 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zIWizf_FOg Clip 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIN5aTyy5MA&t=36s Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt93hxFmjppL5nLRAX94UrA Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/qxir Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/qxir Twitter: https://twitter.com/QxirYT Discord: https://discord.gg/jZzvvwJ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/qxiryt/ Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Qxir/
You asked, and asked… and asked… and asked… Finally, your annoying prayers have been answered. This episode, Tales From the Bottle looks at the United States Air Force’s infamous “gay bomb” as well as various other similar weapons. “The “gay bomb” and “halitosis bomb” are formal names for two non-lethal […]
Does anyone know what Danzig was doing with these bricks in the first place? Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/qxir Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/qxir Twitter: https://twitter.com/QxirYT Discord: https://discord.gg/jZzvvwJ
Some had more fun during history’s deadliest conflict than others. “Koivunen was assigned to a ski patrol on 20 April 1944, along with several other men. Three days into their mission, on March 18th, the group was attacked and surrounded by Soviet forces, from which they managed to escape. Koivunen […]
A tale both beautiful and strange emanating from WWII – but lasting for decades afterwards. “The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident occurred on 20 December 1943, when, after a successful bomb run on Bremen, 2nd Lt Charles “Charlie” Brown’s B-17 Flying Fortress (named “Ye Olde Pub”) was severely damaged […]
This hunt for Hitler’s personal diaries broke into an international scandal – but not for the reasons you might think. “The Hitler Diaries (German: Hitler-Tagebücher) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were […]
With the official version of events being so strange, do we really know what happened here? “Ursula Eriksson and Sabina Eriksson (born 3 November 1967) are Swedish twin sisters who came to national attention in the United Kingdom in May 2008. The twins had been in Ireland before travelling to […]
It’s the greatest “what if” of our time; what if bin Laden was an elephant? Well, wonder no more. “Osama bin Laden was a rogue bull elephant named after the eponymous designated terrorist of the same name. It was responsible for at least 27 deaths and destruction of property in […]
