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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

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 ther...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

The Strangest Thing Ever Shipped Through Mail - A Shark!

Back in 2005, UPS the international shipping company received a very strange request. They were asked to priority overnight ship a group of whale sharks, and they even agreed to do it for free! How...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

Why You Can't Drive From North America to South America

While North America and South America are technically two different continents they are still connected by land to each other through the Isthmus of Panama. For thousands of years people have across t...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

One Vacuum, Two Free Flights, One Terrible Mistake

We all know that there are many small difference between British English and other froms of English across the world. We call them fries, they call them chips. We say cookies, they say biscuits. But w...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

The Corrupted Blood Incident - How a Virtual Pandemic Infected Millions!

On September 13th 2005, a very infectious and deadly virus began spreading through the videogame world of World of Warcraft. This wasn't a computer virus that infected your computer, but a literal vir...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

North Korea's International Restaurant Chain

Would you like to try some North Korean cuisine? Are you a fan of ginseng wine or kimchi? Do you not have a problem with the money going to the North Korean government? Then Pyongyang restaurant is th...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

How an Airliner was Stolen and Then Disappeared!

In 2002, a South African businessman named Keith Erwin traveled to Miami to buy an airplane. He and his partners had secured a contract to deliver fuel to diamond mines in Angola, but at the time ther...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

Air Koryo - The Most Infamous Airline in The World!

North Korea is a country known for its dislike of outsiders and isolationism, but even a totalitarian dictatorship needs to have a way for people to be able to get in and out of the country. Sometimes...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

The Tupolev Tu-144, The Concorde's Bad Brother

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 th...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

How a Farmer Fought Tokyo's Airport (and won!)

Tokyo Narita International Airport is known worldwide as one of the largest and busiest airports. It is home to airlines from over all over the world, serves millions of people every year, and has man...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

North Korea's "Hotel of Doom"

North Korea wants to be seen as the perfect country, but as we all know for the most part it's an impoverished communist dictatorship. Every once in a while though the government will splurge on some...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

The Deadliest Nuclear Accident That You've Never Heard Of!

Central Russia, 1957 Villagers near the southern Ural mountains were terrified! In the middle of the night men claiming to be from the government had appeared out of nowhere. People were ordered to l...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

The Mysterious Chinese Art Heists all over Europe!

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 nobo...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

The Most Ridiculous Bank Heist in History!

Handan, China, October 10th, 2006 Ren Xiaofeng, the vault manager of the Handan branch of the Agricultural Bank of China was on edge. It was near the end of the day, and he made one final sweep of th...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

The CIA's Secret Toy Factory in China

When it comes to the secret world of espionage, nothing is really off the table, but every once in a while a plot comes along that is so bold and crazy, that it's hard to believe it's actually real!...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

The Lazarus Group - How North Korea Pulled of the Biggest Bank Heist in History

When we talk about a bank heist, most of us think of people actually robbing a bank or of a team tunneling into a vault, but today that isn't necessarily the only way to pull of a heist. Back in 2016...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

How The Soviet Union Turned Pepsi Into a Naval Super Power

The Cold War, the iron curtain, and two super powers at the brink of war for decades. Two competing ideologies that are polar opposites of each other, with the USSR even outlawing any private enterpri...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

Protecting Free Speech With LBRY

Censorship today is very different than how it has been traditionally used. In the past it was much easier to censor the news or ban certain forms of media, but that all changed with the invention of...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

GoodDollar - The Cyptocurrency for Universal Basic Income

From time to time universal basic income (UBI) gets brought up, some see it as an unrealistic idea, while others think it will be a future necessity. It's inevitable that one day most jobs will be rep...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

Silk Road - The Digital Drug Empire of Dread Pirate Roberts

I think for many of us the first time we heard about Bitcoin, it might have been in connection to criminal activity and the infamous Silk Road exchange. Bitcoin and the entire crypto industry have com...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

The 15 Billion Dollar Crypto Heist and the Hunt for the Missing Cryptoqueen

During the early days of the cryptocurrency revolution before the big boom of 2017, things were a lot more uncertain than they are today. People didn't know what technologies like blockchain were and...

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@Zirbo · 3 years ago

Potcoin, North Korea, and Dennis Rodman

No, the title isn't a mistake, this is the true story of how a marijuana based cryptocurrency, sponsored a diplomatic trip for 5 time NBA champion Dennis Rodman! But before we go there, how did all...

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