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History's most absurd decisions, told by their numbers. One decision per video: what it cost, how many, how long, and what it bought. Congress buying camels for the Army. The Air Force hunting a tree with B-52s. A government strapping firebombs to bats. Every figure comes from the record: the appropriation, the telegram, the court file, the newspaper of the day. Every figure is sourced and dated.
1d agoBoston Sent a Train Before Anyone Asked
2d agoHe Printed His Own Money and It Worked
3d agoHe Ordered a Bridge Nobody Had to Build
4d agoCongress Bought Camels for Texas
5d agoThe Fall That Started a Thirty-Year War
5d agoThey Strapped Firebombs to Bats
10d agoHe Sold the Eiffel Tower. Then He Sold It Again.
11d agoHe Sold the Eiffel Tower. Then He Sold It Again.
12d agoHe Sold the Eiffel Tower. Then He Sold It Again.
14d agoHe Invented a Country and Sold People Tickets to It
15d agoHe Invented a Country and Sold People Tickets to It
16d agoThe Olympic Marathon Won on Rat Poison and Brandy
17d agoThe Olympic Marathon Won on Rat Poison and Brandy
18d agoThe Olympic Marathon Won on Rat Poison and Brandy
19d agoThe Workshop That Made Them
19d agoThe Olympic Marathon Won on Rat Poison and Brandy
20d agoThere Was No Way to Check
21d agoA Bishop Paid a Fortune for an Arm
22d agoThe Pope Who Sold the Same Relic 50 Times
23d agoEleven Months to Produce an Heir
24d agoThe Murder That Cost Him a Crown
25d agoThe Joke That Cost a King a Kingdom
26d agoThe Bear the Polish Army Enlisted as a Private | Monte Cassino
26d agoThe Joke That Emptied the Throne of Aragon
27d agoThe Bear the Polish Army Enlisted as a Private
28d agoThe Bear the Polish Army Enlisted as a Private
29d agoThe Bear the Polish Army Enlisted as a Private
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Sep 12, 2026The Republic That Existed by Accident for 385 Years
Sep 11, 2026The Republic That Existed by Accident for 385 Years
Sep 10, 2026The Republic That Existed by Accident for 385 Years
Sep 10, 2026They Scooped It From the Gutters
Sep 9, 2026One Iron Band Was All That Held It
Sep 8, 2026What the Jury Decided It Was
Sep 7, 2026The Great London Beer Flood
Sep 7, 2026The Corpse That Fooled Hitler: Operation Mincemeat Explained
Sep 6, 2026The Republic That Existed by Accident for 385 Years
Aug 30, 2026The Worst Shipwreck in American History Nobody Remembers
Aug 29, 2026The Worst Shipwreck in American History Nobody Remembers
Aug 28, 2026The Worst Shipwreck in American History Nobody Remembers
Aug 27, 2026The Worst Shipwreck in American History Nobody Remembers
Aug 27, 2026America Sent B-52s After a Tree
Aug 27, 2026The Warship That Sank After 1,300 Metres | History Documentary
Aug 16, 2026The Halifax Explosion: The Blast That Changed a City Forever
Aug 20, 2026The 100-Year Donkey Derby: A Forgotten Feud
Aug 26, 2026The Warship That Sank After 1,300 Metres | Vasa Ship History
Aug 25, 2026The Warship That Sank After 1,300 Metres | History Documentary
Aug 24, 2026A tree that arrives every year
Aug 24, 2026The Warship That Sank After 1,300 Metres
Aug 23, 2026The city agreed
Jul 31, 2026The Day the Tigris Ran Black With Ink
Jul 25, 2026The Cadaver Synod: The Pope Who Put a Corpse on Trial
Aug 3, 2026Why Were Medieval Europeans Terrified of Rabbits?
Jul 23, 2026The Pig War: How a Pig Almost Started a War Between the US and Britain
Jul 30, 2026Why Vikings Buried Their Dead in Ships
Aug 6, 2026The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs
Jul 27, 2026