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15 Jan 2021 3 minute read 13 comments Zirbo
The Concorde, the first supersonic passenger plane. It was cool, stylish, luxurious, and extremely fast! It was twice as fast as a modern day airliner, and it could cross the Atlantic Ocean in just three hours! The Tu-144 was the only other superson...
14 Jan 2021 5 minute read 7 comments Zirbo
Stockholm, Sweden, 2010 A small mystery had begun unfolding in the Swedish capital. People going out that evening were confused and scared, several cars across the city had lit up in flames, and nobody knew exactly why. The police soon arrived, but...
12 Jan 2021 1 minute read 6 comments AlexVan
Hi, one significant event happened 12 years ago, the first BTC transaction happened between Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney, where Satoshi has sent 10 BTC. The BTC network was created 9 days earlier on the 3rd of January 2009 and the idea was already...
11 Jan 2021 7 minute read 1 comment Zirbo
Haneda International Airport, Tokyo, Japan, July 1954 It's just another day at work for you as one of the immigration agents at passport control. Even back in the 50's, thousands of people pass through Tokyo's Haneda airport every day, with rarely an...
11 Jan 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Zirbo
Back in 2011 in the small Georgian village of Armazi, there lived a 75 year old woman named Hayastan Shakarian. There's not much info on Armazi, but what's important about the village is that it has a railway station. The reason this is relevant...
9 Jan 2021 5 minute read 15 comments Zirbo
The story of the tiny island nation of Nauru in the Pacific Ocean is another tragic example of the resource curse. It's a crazy story about a boom and a bust, and many missed opportunities. Nauru is small, very small! It has only 21 square kilometer...
9 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
After the tragic bombing incident at Kabul University, which killed young students, father of one of the students called his daughter's cell phone, but could not reach her. When paramedics found a bloody cell phone in the ruins, they saw the messag...
8 Jan 2021 17 minute read 7 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Born in 550 BC, Darius came to the throne following the Conspiracy of the Seven in 522 BC at the age of 28. He would rapidly go on to prove himself a more than competent military commander and a brilliant administrator of his empire. His opportunity...
8 Jan 2021 4 minute read 10 comments Zirbo
On Christmas Eve 1971, a group of 86 passengers were waiting around frustrated at the airport in Lima, Peru. They were waiting to board LANSA flight 508 to Pucallpa, which was already running seven hours late! Everybody waiting was eager to get home...
7 Jan 2021 3 minute read 14 comments Zirbo
Many places in the world are hard to get into, but if you really wanted to, you could probably travel there. Countries like North Korea and Turkmenistan are good examples of this, you can only go there after a lengthy visa process and then you have t...
