A lighthearted episode of Tales From the Bottle that follows the adventures of a man from Brazil who find out how to live the high life by marketing himself ingeniously. “Carlos Henrique Raposo (born 2 April 1963), commonly known as Carlos Kaiser, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as […]
A video looking at the tragic fate of the only people to ever perish in the vacuum of space. “Soyuz 11 (Russian: Союз 11, Union 11) was the only crewed mission to board the world’s first space station, Salyut 1 (Soyuz 10 had soft-docked but had not been able to […]
Taking a look at the book “100 Deadly Skills” written by former Navy Seal, Clint Emerson. This video looks at skills 41 to 50 and has thus far been Qxir’s favourite. “You will learn how to escape a locked trunk, make an improvised Taser, trick facial recognition software, prevent tracking, […]
The topics in Tales From the Bottle videos, while bizarre to a comical extent, too often end in tragedy. This story is no different, but maybe this time the tears are bittersweet. This is the story of Lawnchair Larry “On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters made a 45-minute flight in […]
Tales From the Bottle takes a rare look into the supernatural, and a man whose story demands an answer to the question; “do you believe?” “Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) was an American self-professed clairvoyant who gave 14,306 psychic readings while allegedly in a self-induced sleep […]
An often requested topic, today we look into the timeline of Pepsi’s (yes, the cola company) naval fleet during the Cold War, which is popularly cited as having been the 6th largest military force in the world. “In 1959, the USSR held an exhibition of Soviet technology and culture in […]
A grim discovery that changed how we view the animal kingdom, and ourselves. ‘Tales From the Bottle’ dives into the four year Gombe Chimpanzee War. “The Gombe Chimpanzee War was a violent conflict between two communities of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania lasting from 1974 to 1978. […]
What’s it like to see through the eyes of a man looking at death? “David John Shaw (20 July 1954 – 8 January 2005) was an Australian scuba diver, technical diver, and airline pilot for Cathay Pacific, flying the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, then the 747-400, and then the A330-300, A340-300, […]
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In 2015, for a single day, the possession and use of over 100 drugs was completely legal in Ireland. But why? “The Misuse of Drugs Act 1977, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1984, Misuse of Drugs Act 2015 and the Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010 are the acts of […]
