In 1910, America’s banking system was collapsing.

Six men with 1/4 of the world’s wealth boarded a train in secret to a private island.

There, they created the blueprint for the Federal Reserve.

Here's the untold story of the most powerful institution in U.S. history 🧵
In the early 1900s, U.S. banking was chaotic.

Banks were small, unregulated, and prone to collapse.

The Panic of 1907 triggered mass bank runs.

The U.S. economy nearly imploded, and Congress was desperate for a fix.

In 1347, the Black Death killed 50 million people (50% of Europe) in just 5 years.

It wasn’t just a plague but a nightmare that rewrote history.

Here’s how the deadliest pandemic in history changed the world forever:
The plague began far from Europe.

Historians believe it originated somewhere near the Gobi Desert or the Mongolian steppes.

Some pointed to Lake Issyk-Kul, where strange deaths had been reported as early as the 1330s.

In 1944, a German U-boat vanished with 50 men on board.

For decades, no one knew what happened.

66 years later, a diver found it 400 feet below the Bay of Genoa.

The crew was still sealed inside.

This is the haunting story of U-455: a WWII mystery buried beneath the sea.
During WWII, German U-boats were known as the "Grey Wolves."

They prowled the oceans, targeting Allied supply ships with ruthless precision.

These submarines were celebrated in Nazi propaganda as symbols of invincibility, and their crews were considered elite soldiers.

In 1945, Hitler had a plan to bomb New York from space.

A spaceplane faster than the speed of sound, nuclear warheads, and flying saucers.

This wasn’t science fiction.

It was the Nazi's real plan for world domination.

Here’s the story of how it started and why it failed:
By 1944, Nazi Germany was losing the war.

Allied forces were closing in on all fronts, and the once-feared German war machine was crumbling.

But Hitler and his top generals were obsessed with a final, decisive weapon:

A “Wunderwaffe” (Wonder Weapon) that could turn the tide.

In 331 BC, Alexander the Great founded a city for gods and geniuses.

At its heart stood a library with every book ever written.

Then, in a tragedy, it was reduced to ash.

This is the story of Alexandria: civilization’s greatest loss of knowledge 🧵
When Alexander the Great invaded Egypt in 332 BC, he saw an opportunity to create a city that would link his empire to the Mediterranean.

He sought a location that was both a military stronghold and a cultural hub.

In 1972, a French scientist locked himself 440 feet underground alone, in total darkness.

No clocks. No sunlight. No contact. For 180 days.

When he emerged, he believed it was day 151.

This is what happens when your brain loses all sense of time:
Michael Siffre wasn’t new to isolation experiments.

In 1962, he spent two months in a glacier cave to study how the human body perceives time in the absence of external cues.

But a decade later, he decided to push the boundaries even further.

He tortured children for the Gestapo and sent 7,500 people to their deaths with a signature.

After the war, the U.S. government gave him a new name, a salary, and protected him for 30 years.

This is the horrifying story of Klaus Barbie: the Butcher of Lyon... His real name: Nikolaus Barbie.

A SS officer.

He rose through the Nazi ranks fast, not with strategy, but with cruelty.

In 1942, the Gestapo sent him to Lyon, France.

His job was to crush the French Resistance.

What he did went far beyond that.

In the 1920s, young women were told radium was harmless.

They painted their teeth with it. They even licked their brushes.

Months later, their bones glowed in the dark, and their jaws crumbled from their faces.

This is the horrifying true story of the Radium Girls:
In the 1910s, radium was the wonder element.

It was sold in face creams, energy tonics, and even toothpaste.

People believed it gave life.

No one realized it was lethal except the companies that used it.

In 1962, one Soviet officer had 10 seconds to decide.

Launch a nuclear torpedo and start World War III.

Or refuse and defy his captain.

What he did next saved 100 million lives.

This is the untold story of the Cuban Missile Crisis...
By the early 1960s, the U.S. and USSR were locked in the Cold War.

Both nations had nuclear arsenals capable of global annihilation.

But America had a massive advantage: Jupiter missiles in Turkey, right on the Soviet border.

Hitler’s deadliest weapon wasn’t a bomb, it was a doctor.

Josef Mengele, the ‘Angel of Death,’ turned Auschwitz into a twisted lab of horrors.

Children, pregnant women, the disabled, no one was spared.

Here’s how he vanished after the war & why his story still haunts history:
Josef Mengele was born in 1911 in Günzburg, Germany, into a wealthy family.

He earned a PhD in anthropology and a medical degree in genetics and heredity.

Mengele was influenced by the pseudoscientific theories of racial hygiene, the genetic "purity" of the Aryan race.

Hitler trusted his unbreakable Enigma machine.

But in a quiet English estate, a team of mathematicians, misfits and mavericks proved him wrong.

They didn’t just crack the code, they shortened WWII by 2 years & saved millions of lives.

This is the incredible story of Station X:
By the late 1930s, Nazi Germany had developed the Enigma machine, capable of encrypting messages into a seemingly unbreakable code.

With over 150 million possible configurations, the Germans believed their communications were secure.

But Britain recognized the danger.

The Titanic didn’t sink by accident.

J.P. Morgan had a first-class ticket on the Titanic.

But he canceled at the last minute.

His biggest financial rivals stayed onboard and never made it back.

Here’s the wild theory behind the ‘unsinkable’ ship:
On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, killing over 1,500 people.

A tragic accident. A maritime disaster.

But some researchers argue that the Titanic didn’t sink by accident, it was sunk on purpose.

In 1947, a U.S. Navy pilot flew over Antarctica.

Instead of endless ice, he claimed to have seen lush green land, a warm inner sun, and giant flying discs bearing swastikas.

This is the real story behind the Hollow Earth conspiracy and the lost city of Agartha:
It all began with one of the greatest scientists of the 1600s: Edmund Halley, the man behind Halley’s Comet.

In 1692, he proposed a scientific theory that the Earth was hollow. His logic?

It would explain strange compass readings and Earth’s magnetic field variations.

World War II wasn’t just won on the battlefield, it was won on the assembly line.

Ford built bombers.
Kaiser launched ships in days.
Boeing took the war to the skies.

Here’s how mass production won the war and reshaped the modern world:
In 1941, Henry Ford’s assembly line revolution met the U.S. military’s demand for airplanes.

The Willow Run plant, 4.2 million square feet, was designed to produce the B-24 Liberator bomber.

At its peak, the factory produced one B-24 per hour, cutting production time by 90%.

In the morning, Pompeii was a thriving Roman city.

By evening, it was frozen in time.

For 2,000 years, its secrets lay buried in ash.

Now, scientists and archaeologists are racing against time to uncover the city's last moments.

What they’ve found will leave you stunned:
On an ordinary day in 79 AD, Pompeii was alive with the hum of Roman life.

Shopkeepers haggled in the markets.

Gladiators prepared for combat.

Families dined, laughed, and went about their daily routines.

Above them loomed Mount Vesuvius, silent yet ominous.

In 1763, Britain became the world's most powerful empire.

It crushed France and seized new lands.

But to pay for victory, it taxed its colonies.

And in doing so, it created something it never saw coming.

This is the story of the beginning of the American Revolution: In 1763, Britain defeated France in the Seven Years’ War.

It gained vast territory in Canada, Florida, and dominance in India.

For the first time, it truly ruled an empire on which the sun never set.

But that victory came with a $200 million problem: debt.

On June 22, 1941, Hitler betrayed Stalin and launched the deadliest invasion in history.

3 million German soldiers stormed into Soviet territory, expecting victory in weeks.

Instead, it became Germany’s biggest blunder and the start of its collapse.

This is the story of Operation Barbarossa:
In 1939, Hitler was obsessed with conquering Poland, but there was a problem:

Britain and France had pledged to defend Poland.

Even worse, attacking Poland could drag the Soviets into the war, creating a two-front conflict...

A scenario that Hitler was desperate to avoid.

The Lost City of Troy was once thought to be pure myth.

Then, one German archaeologist defied every expert

And uncovered a secret that had been buried for 3,000 years.

This is the real story of the city that was never supposed to exist:
For centuries, scholars searched for Troy, the city Homer described in The Iliad.

Kings. Gods. A stolen queen named Helen.

And a wooden horse that ended a 10-year siege.

But was any of it real?

Or just epic poetry?

Adolf Eichmann murdered 6 million people from behind a desk.

Then he vanished.

15 years later, 7 Mossad agents waited at a bus stop in Argentina.

They weren’t there to arrest him. They came to kidnap him.

This is how Israel hunted down the architect of the Holocaust:
Eichmann wasn't a general.

He didn’t fire a bullet.

But he masterminded the Final Solution, Hitler’s plan to wipe out European Jewry.

He designed the system of trains, ghettos, and death camps.

He made genocide efficient.

In 1969, the US achieved the impossible: landing on the moon.

Yet, 50 years later, millions still believe it was the biggest hoax of all time.

Did NASA fake the moon landing, or is that just a conspiracy theory?

Here’s the truth behind the Apollo 11 mission:
The Case for the Moon Landing Being Real

1. Massive Scale of Collaboration

NASA’s Apollo program employed over 400,000 scientists, engineers, and support staff.

To fake such an event would require an airtight conspiracy across thousands of individuals.

The Nazis weren’t history’s only monsters.

Japan’s Unit 731 froze prisoners alive, dissected children without anesthesia, and unleashed plague bombs on cities.

And one man, Shirō Ishii, led it all.

Here’s the forgotten horror of WWII:
Shirō Ishii was born in 1892 into a wealthy Japanese noble family.

After earning his PhD in microbiology, he quickly climbed the ranks in Japan’s Imperial Army Medical Corps.

But Ishii wasn’t just interested in medicine, he wanted power.