Modern depictions of father Christmas are pretty uniform. He’s an old overweight man with a beard and that weird hat that no one else wears. I’ve never seen anyone wear that kind of hat apart from people dressing up as him. So where did he get it? Hat or...
Before the invention of refrigeration people would use cool spaces for storage, like basements or dark chambers. The city of St Louis was known for it’s many underground caves. The caves were known as being good places to store alcohol. Beer companies were...
Deep within Transylvania is one of our planet’s most unusual places. It’s a forest. It’s physical geography and history alone would make the forest interesting. But that doesn’t explain why it’s known as the Bermuda Triangle of Romania....
The first episode in our new video series. Subscribe to the channel if you want more and read the transcript below for clarity. TRANSCRIPT : North Korea isn’t exactly home to a stable regime. For years now international sanctions have been imposed on it, which...
This film is called Ah! La Barbe! Produced in 1906, it’s like all films of it’s era – insane. Ah! La Barbe! is French and roughly means “A funny shave” in English. The film was created by Segundo de Chomón, who has long been well known...
Imagine this – you’re driving home one day as normal. All of a sudden, you hear a loud noise and see your surroundings thrown into the air. This shocking video captured the moment a Taiwanese woman’s car got swept into a passing tornado. The car driving in...
