Fascinating History

Alice Roth might well be the most unlucky baseball fan in history after the impossible happened during a game in 1957... youtube.com/shorts/PBK7XfU…

@DariusPumpkinRe @BranDonGam78122 @Shijishoutmon @ANTI_100_ Just looked it up. Quite the rabbit hole!

@BranDonGam78122 @Shijishoutmon @ANTI_100_ @FunHistoryTales found something for you!

I play this card and end my turn

What happened in 2007? Well... a little bit of everything, as it turns out. Here's my recap of what turned out to be quite a monumental year... youtube.com/watch?v=ryOCBO…

In 1980, Turkish Airlines Flight 293 was hijacked by a gang of militants... but the pilots didn't seem all that bothered by the situation... youtube.com/shorts/KRIFXAP…

Today I present a (hopefully NOT boring) short about the most (intentionally) boring video game in existence... youtube.com/shorts/yJe0XTH…

In late 2000 an ambitious gang of criminals did their best to steal the only thing worth stealing from the Millennium Dome... youtube.com/watch?v=QSfBLD…

The Peel P50 was a very cute and very silly-looking car which was first manufactured in the 1960s... youtube.com/shorts/lFRNZmS…

@LadyUltrasuede Agreed!

@FunHistoryTales They should’ve given him the job!

In 2006, the BBC - Britain's national broadcaster - somehow put the wrong guy on live TV for the surprise interview of a lifetime... youtube.com/shorts/vbl6q3u…

Once upon a time there existed a truly unique theme park in the town of Chatham in the south of England: Dickens World... youtube.com/watch?v=RT_OID…

In 2016 a strange artefact was discovered in a Saudi Arabian textbook; a Jedi Master sitting next to the King in a photo from 1945... youtube.com/shorts/2cjSfaB…

@LadyUltrasuede That book has to be the best antidote to wanting to climb Everest in existence...

@FunHistoryTales Didn’t they read “Into Thin Air”? 🤦🏻‍♀️

Once upon a time, a social network launched their crypto coin by burying it at the summit of Mount Everest. It went even worse than you'd expect... youtube.com/shorts/mxehCKR…

Wilhelm Voigt was a German conman who tricked a dozen soldiers into participating in a robbery, and became a folk hero as a result... youtube.com/watch?v=ZrrF8m…

In 2013 an app was released that saw people chucking their smartphones up to four storeys vertically skyward... youtube.com/shorts/0r-R-Z0…

There's a type of crisp that, until 2016, was only ever tasted by a very select portion of the population: those who had been sent to prison... youtube.com/shorts/tJOO0Bj…

Do you remember everything that happened in 1999? If not, no problem: I've got you covered! youtube.com/watch?v=6DT2qa…

Do you know the Michelin Man? Cheerful fellow? Always pushing around a tyre? Well... do you know what he used to look like? youtube.com/shorts/94M0QeL…

Happy New Year! I thought I'd start 2026 with a video about a topic I've been wanting to cover for ages: the Gävle Goat. (A lot of last-minute re-editing with this one - you'll see why when you watch the video) youtube.com/watch?v=5DwtB4…

There are endless news articles that begin with "Florida Man" and end with something bizarre and chaotic. But why? youtube.com/shorts/WLB3wHx…