The Brits are invading (typical)! Plainly Difficult has ousted Qxir as the host of ‘Tales From the Bottle’ in an episode detailing Peter the Great’s beard tax. Qxir has mounted a counter-attack on Plainly Difficult’s channel by similarly taking over a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-6H_FWFi3A Thanks to Plainly Difficult for collaborating with […]
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 […]
You may never want to fly again after hearing this story of an airliner’s absolutely terrifying rollercoaster ride out of the sky, and the bizarre circumstances that led to it happening. “Aeroflot Flight 593 was a regular passenger flight from Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, to Kai Tak Airport in Hong […]
For this video we’re taking a trip down under the sea. And staying there… “The nuclear-powered Oscar-class submarine Kursk (Russian: Project 949A Антей Atomnaya Podvodnaya Lodka “Kursk” (APL “Kursk”)) sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the Barents Sea, during the first major Russian naval exercise in more […]
As billions went about their day in blissful ignorance, one man made sure it wasn’t their last. “Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (7 September 1939 – 19 May 2017) was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who played a key role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. […]
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 […]
