YouTube description: Everlinda Salgado Herrera is proud to be from San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia, believed to be the first town in the Americas liberated from slavery. Legend has it that, after... continue reading

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YouTube description: On August 8th, 1918, Allied forces in France launched the Hundred Days Offensive, one of the first combined arms operations of the war that included hundreds of tanks, airplanes,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 weeks 2 days ago • 335 views • 3:15

"... an educational video produced by The Computer Museum and hosted by David Neil of PBS's Newton's Apple. Join David Neil and his four young companions on an entertaining and illuminating trek through... continue reading

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YouTube description: Everything seemed normal on the second leg of American Airlines Fight 96, June 12, 1972. Captain Bryce McCormick sat back to take a sip of coffee and admire the view. Then, suddenly,... continue reading

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YouTube description: In 1966 an SR-71 "Blackbird" disintegrated at 78,000 feet. The pilot's first thought was "No one could live through what just happened. Therefore, I must be dead."... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 months 1 week ago • 1,564 views • 14:09

In the 1830s, two French brothers, François and Joseph Blanc, pulled off the first telecoms scam in history. The optical telegraph, a line of semaphore towers stretching from hilltop to hilltop, was for... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 2 months 1 week ago • 507 views • 5:49

Grama bay is gorgeous! Also, conversely, a place to see thousands of years of low-quality tagging from people of all backgrounds. From Pompeii Magnus to modern Albanian beach-goers, the walls ripple... continue reading

posted by nanrod 2 months 3 weeks ago • 172 views • 8:27

Extremism is the enemy. We give it a bunch of names, put it on a fake spectrum, and rail on each other about how our extremes will be better, but it's all the same thing. Extremism is the enemy. Welcome... continue reading

posted by nanrod 3 months ago • 630 views • 17:35

Tom Scott tells part 2 of the entertaining story about what he learned on internet marketing, part 1 here: https://videosift.com/video/HOW-TO-BE-POPULAR-ON-THE-INTERNET-S1-E1 and part 3: https://videosift.com/vid... continue reading

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The White Horse, in Uffington, is one of the oldest surviving works of art in Britain: carved into a hillside in Oxfordshire 3,000 years ago. Every year, it's rechalked by volunteers co-ordinated through... continue reading

posted by nanrod 3 months 4 weeks ago • 619 views • 2:50

YouTube description: In which John gets curious about the last time global human population declined and ends up learning about a period of human history called The General Crisis. Thanks to Our World... continue reading

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YouTube description: Giant Mine sits near Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Once it was a productive gold mine, but after the gold ran out, the mining company went bankrupt and left... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 months 3 weeks ago • 463 views • 4:34

YouTube description: Reggaeton is one of the most popular music genres in the world. Its history is rooted in diaspora migration, censorship, poverty and the reclaiming of Afro-Caribbean identity. We... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 months 2 weeks ago • 700 views • 10:49

YouTube description: A look at the colorful history of sci-fi book covers

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 months 3 weeks ago • 469 views • 6:29

If you set up a row of dominoes as a timeline of history from the Big Bang to now, and had each domino represent 1 million years it would stretch over 300 meters long. I know because that's what I did... continue reading

posted by BSR 6 months 3 weeks ago • 12 views • 13:22

YouTube description: It’s an 1980s pop music cliche that dates back to 1910. If you listen to the first few seconds of Bruno Mars’ “Finesse” (hint: listen to the Cardi B remix) you’ll hear... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 months 3 weeks ago • 575 views • 9:26