Real Life Lore

Épisode 1 - What Does the British Flag Mean?

4 mars 2016

Épisode 2 - What Does the French Flag Mean?

8 avril 2016

Épisode 3 - What Does the Spanish Flag Mean?

1 mai 2016

Épisode 4 - The Real Life Game of Thrones Part 1: Is Great Britain Westeros?

26 mai 2016

Épisode 5 - The Real Events That Inspired the Red Wedding Game of Thrones

9 juin 2016

Épisode 6 - The Real Life Game of Thrones Part 2 The Wars of the Roses

2 juin 2016

Épisode 7 - Brexit Explained: What Could Happen to the UK Next?

14 juillet 2016

Épisode 8 - The Absurd True Scale of Pablo Escobar's Wealth Visualized

29 juillet 2016

Épisode 9 - How the World Map Looks Wildly Different Than You Think

12 août 2016

Épisode 10 - The World's Strangest Borders Part 1: Panhandles

26 août 2016

Épisode 11 - ISISISILISDaesh Explained

31 août 2016

Épisode 12 - What if the Roman Empire Reunited Today?

9 septembre 2016

Épisode 13 - What if Everyone Lived in Just One City?

23 septembre 2016

Épisode 14 - The Terrifying True Scale of Nuclear Weapons

7 octobre 2016

Épisode 15 - Where Was the Last Place Discovered on Earth?

21 octobre 2016

Épisode 16 - Are You Related to Neanderthals?

4 novembre 2016

Épisode 17 - The Ocean is Way Deeper Than You Think

11 novembre 2016

Épisode 18 - What if the Mongol Empire Reunited Today?

19 novembre 2016

Épisode 19 - How Close Do You Live to a Nuclear Bomb?

29 novembre 2016

Épisode 20 - How Far Away Can You Get From Everybody Else?

9 décembre 2016

Épisode 21 - Is the United States a Country?

20 décembre 2016

Épisode 22 - What if the British Empire Reunited Today?

25 décembre 2016

Épisode 23 - How Big do Tsunamis Get?

30 décembre 2016

Épisode 1 - The World's Strangest Borders Part 2: Spain

6 janvier 2017

Épisode 2 - Will We Ever Be Hit By an Asteroid?

21 janvier 2017

Épisode 3 - What If Everybody Lived In Just One Building? (Part 1)

27 janvier 2017

Épisode 4 - What If Austria-Hungary Reunited Today?

3 février 2017

Épisode 5 - What If Everybody Lived In the Same Building? (Part 2)

10 février 2017

Épisode 6 - Can a Volcano Destroy the World?

17 février 2017

Épisode 7 - What If Africa Was Just ONE Country?

24 février 2017

Épisode 8 - 5 "Impossible" Things That Can Happen On Other Planets

3 mars 2017

Épisode 9 - What's the Most Difficult Place to Get to In the World?

10 mars 2017

Épisode 10 - How Big Do Sea Creatures Get?

24 mars 2017

Épisode 11 - What If the Soviet Union Reunited Today?

28 mars 2017

Épisode 12 - What's On the Opposite Side of the World From You?

7 avril 2017

Épisode 13 - How Big do Tornadoes Get?

17 avril 2017

Épisode 14 - What If the Arabian Empire Reunited Today?

21 avril 2017

Épisode 15 - How the Universe is Way Bigger Than You Think

28 avril 2017

Épisode 16 - The World's Strangest Borders Part 3: Enclaves and Exclaves

5 mai 2017

Épisode 17 - This Is What Will Happen in the Next Billion Years

12 mai 2017

Épisode 18 - What If Every Human Ever Born Came Back to Life Today?

19 mai 2017

Épisode 19 - These Are the Largest Tanks Ever Designed

27 mai 2017

Épisode 20 - What If Only 100 People Existed on Earth?

9 juin 2017

Épisode 21 - The Unbelievable Scale of Black Holes Visualized

16 juin 2017

Épisode 22 - What the Most Northern Town in America is Like (Barrow)

20 juin 2017

Épisode 23 - What If Republican and Democrat States Were Separate Countries?

30 juin 2017

Épisode 24 - What's the Deepest Hole We Can Possibly Dig?

7 juillet 2017

Épisode 25 - What is the LOUDEST Sound Ever Heard?

19 juillet 2017

Épisode 26 - How Will Earth Change If All the Ice Melts?

28 juillet 2017

Épisode 27 - What If the Confederacy Reunited Today?

5 août 2017

Épisode 28 - This Is What Will Happen in the Next 100 Trillion Years

11 août 2017

Épisode 29 - Why Switzerland is the Safest Place if WW3 Ever Begins

18 août 2017

Épisode 30 - What's the Tallest Thing We Can Possibly Build?

25 août 2017

Épisode 31 - What If We Built a Road Around the World?

1 septembre 2017

Épisode 32 - What's the Biggest Explosion We Could Possibly Create?

8 septembre 2017

Épisode 33 - What Would Happen If We Drained the Mediterranean Sea?

15 septembre 2017

Épisode 34 - These Are the Events That Will Happen Before 2050

23 septembre 2017

Épisode 35 - What Happens If You Drop a Nuclear Bomb Into a Hurricane?

29 septembre 2017

Épisode 36 - Will Humanity Reach Another Star In Your Lifetime?

6 octobre 2017

Épisode 37 - Why Only 1 Gram Of This Material Is Worth $25 Billion Dollars

13 octobre 2017

Épisode 38 - What If All Spanish Speaking Countries United Today?

20 octobre 2017

Épisode 39 - What's the Safest Place on Earth?

28 octobre 2017

Épisode 40 - What the Most Powerful Magnet in the Universe is Capable of: Magnetars Explained

3 novembre 2017

Épisode 41 - Why This Room is the Most Dangerous Place in the World

10 novembre 2017

Épisode 42 - What Happens to You if You Upload Your Mind to a Computer?

17 novembre 2017

Épisode 43 - How Big Can Animals Get?

24 novembre 2017

Épisode 44 - What If We Destroyed the Moon?

2 décembre 2017

Épisode 45 - What If Earth Started Spinning Twice as Fast Right Now?

9 décembre 2017

Épisode 46 - Why It Might Be Impossible to Sink This $13 Billion Ship

15 décembre 2017

Épisode 47 - Here is the Safest Place to Hide During a Zombie Apocalypse

22 décembre 2017

Épisode 48 - Why We May Not Be Able to Visit Space in the Future

29 décembre 2017

Épisode 1 - The Stone Age Tribe on a Banned Island You Can't Visit

5 janvier 2018

Épisode 2 - How This Roller Coaster Was Literally Designed to Kill You

12 janvier 2018

Épisode 3 - How You Can Name the New Planet In Our Solar System (if it's real)

19 janvier 2018

Épisode 4 - What If Yugoslavia Reunited Today?

27 janvier 2018

Épisode 5 - What’s the Biggest Gun We Could Possibly Build?

10 février 2018

Épisode 6 - The Most Mysterious Star in the Universe We Can't Explain

16 février 2018

Épisode 7 - How to Become Humanity's First Trillionaire

23 février 2018

Épisode 8 - The Coastline Paradox Explained

3 mars 2018

Épisode 9 - How Long Can You Be Healthy?

11 mars 2018

Épisode 10 - What if Texas Was an Independent Country?

24 mars 2018

Épisode 11 - How Fast Can You Travel Around the World?

30 mars 2018

Épisode 12 - Why This Lake is the Deadliest in the World

6 avril 2018

Épisode 13 - Why Time Travel to the Past is Impossible

13 avril 2018

Épisode 14 - What's the Hardest Place to Break Into in the World?

21 avril 2018

Épisode 15 - What if the Ottoman Empire Reunited Today?

28 avril 2018

Épisode 16 - Why Nobody is EVER Allowed to Move This Ladder

4 mai 2018

Épisode 17 - Why Landlocked Countries Still Have Navies

19 mai 2018

Épisode 18 - The Insane Plan to Build a Mountain in the Netherlands

26 mai 2018

Épisode 19 - The Future Tsunami That Could Destroy the US East Coast

1 juin 2018

Épisode 20 - 142 Nonillion Degrees; What Would Happen Next?

9 juin 2018

Épisode 21 - This Country Fought a War with 250,000 Goats; Who Won?

16 juin 2018

Épisode 22 - How the Geography of the US is Weirder Than You Think

24 juin 2018

Épisode 23 - This is the Most Dangerous World Record to Beat

2 juillet 2018

Épisode 24 - The Big Problem With Interstellar Travel

7 juillet 2018

Épisode 25 - These Are the World's Strangest Time Zones

14 juillet 2018

Épisode 26 - What Every Country in the World is Best At (Part 1)

21 juillet 2018

Épisode 27 - What Every Country in the World is Best At (Part 2)

30 juillet 2018

Épisode 28 - What's the Most Unlikely Thing That Could Happen to You?

4 août 2018

Épisode 29 - What if the Holy Roman Empire Reunited Today?

9 août 2018

Épisode 30 - What Every State in the US is Best and Worst At

12 août 2018

Épisode 31 - How 2 Guys Stole $500 Million of Art in 81 Minutes

18 août 2018

Épisode 32 - Why Hundreds of Uncontacted Tribes Still Exist in South America

25 août 2018

Épisode 33 - Why Squirrels Are the Greatest Threat to the Internet (Feat. Tierzoo)

1 septembre 2018

Épisode 34 - Why You're Related to Everybody Else

8 septembre 2018

Épisode 35 - How Big Do Hurricanes Get?

16 septembre 2018

Épisode 36 - The Crazy Plan to Recreate the Russian Empire in Africa

23 septembre 2018

Épisode 37 - Could a Battle Royale Game Happen in Real Life?

2 octobre 2018

Épisode 38 - Why We Destroyed the World's 4th Largest Lake

6 octobre 2018

Épisode 39 - This is What Will Happen in the Next 24 Hours

19 octobre 2018

Épisode 40 - Why 2000 People Died Fighting Over a Bucket

26 octobre 2018

Épisode 41 - What is the Deadliest Substance in the World?

2 novembre 2018

Épisode 42 - The Loss of Life in WWI Visualized

10 novembre 2018

Épisode 43 - What if the Indian Subcontinent Was ONE Country?

18 novembre 2018

Épisode 44 - What's the Most Dangerous Road in the World?

27 novembre 2018

Épisode 45 - Why are SO Many People Alive Today?

1 décembre 2018

Épisode 46 - What’s the Farthest Away Thing You Can See?

11 décembre 2018

Épisode 47 - What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

18 décembre 2018

Épisode 48 - What if the French Empire Reunited Today?

25 décembre 2018

Épisode 1 - Why You Shouldn't Ever Touch a Dead Whale

1 janvier 2019

Épisode 2 - The Insane Plan to Build a Sea in the Sahara With Nukes

8 janvier 2019

Épisode 3 - The Secret Soviet Plan to Crush NATO in 7 Days

15 janvier 2019

Épisode 4 - How Dangerous Is Ebola Still Today?

25 janvier 2019

Épisode 5 - How 1 Man Survived Being Lost 438 Days at Sea

30 janvier 2019

Épisode 6 - Why The Sun May Suddenly Destroy All of Our Electronics

6 février 2019

Épisode 7 - How Losing a Password Just Cost a Company $190 Million

12 février 2019

Épisode 8 - An Airplane Ran Out of Fuel at 41,000 Feet. Here's What Happened Next

21 février 2019

Épisode 9 - The Insane Secret German Plan to Invade America

28 février 2019

Épisode 10 - This Was the Day the World Almost Ended

7 mars 2019

Épisode 11 - The $100 Million Belgian Diamond Heist Explained

16 mars 2019

Épisode 12 - The Insane Plan to Build an Aircraft Carrier Out of Ice

23 mars 2019

Épisode 13 - The Vela Incident: Greatest Nuclear Mystery Ever

31 mars 2019

Épisode 14 - The Insane Scale of Global Wealth Inequality Visualized

13 avril 2019

Épisode 15 - Why Russia is Shrinking Fast

20 avril 2019

Épisode 16 - This Was the World's Most Dangerous Amusement Park

29 avril 2019

Épisode 17 - The Insane Plan to Build a Bridge Between Russia and Alaska

4 mai 2019

Épisode 18 - The Terrifying True Scale of Megalodon Visualized

14 mai 2019

Épisode 19 - 3 Million Subscriber Toyota Corolla Special

24 mai 2019

Épisode 20 - How a Bird Can Destroy a $100 Million Airplane

31 mai 2019

Épisode 21 - Here's Why Chernobyl is Still a Massive Problem Today

12 juin 2019

Épisode 22 - How the Secret Russian Tsunami Bomb Works

20 juin 2019

Épisode 23 - Why 300 Dead Bodies are Used as Landmarks on Mt. Everest

26 juin 2019

Épisode 24 - The Insane Russian Plan to Conquer the World

30 juin 2019

Épisode 25 - How a Woman Survived Falling 33,000 Feet Without a Parachute

11 juillet 2019

Épisode 26 - Why the Shortest War in History Lasted 38 Minutes

20 juillet 2019

Épisode 27 - What If 2 Million People Actually Storm Area 51?

27 juillet 2019

Épisode 28 - How Macau Became the World's Gambling Capital

31 juillet 2019

Épisode 29 - What if You Lived in the Most Crowded Place on Earth?

13 août 2019

Épisode 30 - What's the Longest Walk-able Distance on Earth?

21 août 2019

Épisode 31 - How All of Stockholm's Money Got Stolen by Helicopter Bandits

27 août 2019

Épisode 32 - What's the Longest Straight Line You Can Sail Without Touching Land?

31 août 2019

Épisode 33 - What If America Actually Buys Greenland?

10 septembre 2019

Épisode 34 - Why Iran's Geography Sucks

18 septembre 2019

Épisode 35 - The Deadliest Island in the World: Snake Island Explained

25 septembre 2019

Épisode 36 - What If Earth Started Rotating Backwards Right Now?

30 septembre 2019

Épisode 37 - The 8-Year Long Worst Traffic Jam in History

7 octobre 2019

Épisode 38 - Why Japan's Geography Sucks

15 octobre 2019

Épisode 39 - 2 Airplanes Almost Collided at 37,000 Feet. Here's What Happened Next

23 octobre 2019

Épisode 40 - How a Single Math Error Caused a $500 Million Satellite to Crash

31 octobre 2019

Épisode 41 - The Insane American Plan to Invade Japan in 1945

6 novembre 2019

Épisode 42 - What If the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit Earth Today?

13 novembre 2019

Épisode 43 - The World's Strangest Borders Part 4: Ocean Madness

20 novembre 2019

Épisode 44 - What's the Highest Distance You Can Possibly Fall From?

27 novembre 2019

Épisode 45 - Here's How Google Maps Is Different In Other Countries

6 décembre 2019

Épisode 46 - Why France's Geography is Almost Perfect

14 décembre 2019

Épisode 47 - That Time When UPS Overnight Shipped a Whale in the Mail

28 décembre 2019

Épisode 1 - How 1 Guy Survived At the Bottom of the Ocean for 3 Days... Alone

4 janvier 2020

Épisode 2 - What Life Under China's Social Credit System Could Be Like

14 janvier 2020

Épisode 3 - Why Poland's Geography is the Worst

22 janvier 2020

Épisode 4 - A Plane's Roof Blew Off at 24,000 Feet. Here's What Happened Next

31 janvier 2020

Épisode 5 - Who Is the Loneliest Person to Ever Exist?

10 février 2020

Épisode 6 - The Insane Plan to Tow an Iceberg to the Middle East

14 février 2020

Épisode 7 - What's the Biggest Number That You Could Count To?

24 février 2020

Épisode 8 - Lightning Blew Up This Plane. Here’s How 1 Survived the Fall

28 février 2020

Épisode 9 - Countries That Are WAY Bigger Than You Think

7 mars 2020

Épisode 10 - Why the Speed of Light is Actually Horribly Slow

14 mars 2020

Épisode 11 - How Italy's Geography got Badly Nerfed

21 mars 2020

Épisode 12 - Europe's Unexploded Bomb Problem

28 mars 2020

Épisode 13 - What If Every Country Ending in "Stan" United?

31 mars 2020

Épisode 14 - The Black Death: Worst Pandemic in History Visualized

11 avril 2020

Épisode 15 - What Would Happen if Korea United Into 1 Country?

21 avril 2020

Épisode 16 - The Insane Chinese Plan to Build a Canal Across Nicaragua

27 avril 2020

Épisode 17 - Why Pakistan's Geography Sucks

30 avril 2020

Épisode 18 - How Earth’s Geography Will Change With Climate Change

19 mai 2020

Épisode 19 - The Insane Plan to Build a Harbor in Alaska With Nukes

27 mai 2020

Épisode 20 - Russia's Alcohol Problem

31 mai 2020

Épisode 21 - The World's Strangest Borders Part 5: Divided Islands

10 juin 2020

Épisode 22 - Why Making Fun of This Guy can Get You LIFE in Prison

18 juin 2020

Épisode 23 - Why a Single Little Spot Makes Driving Across "America" Impossible

27 juin 2020

Épisode 24 - How to Safely Cross a Piranha Infested River

8 juillet 2020

Épisode 25 - The Man Who Survived for 18 Months On an Island After His Submarine Sank

14 juillet 2020

Épisode 26 - The Insane Plan to Build a Europe to Africa Tunnel

22 juillet 2020

Épisode 27 - If You Get Stranded in the Past, How to Tell What Year You’re In

31 juillet 2020

Épisode 28 - Why Everest Isn't Earth’s Highest Mountain... sorta

15 août 2020

Épisode 29 - What Every Country in Europe Is WORST At Part 1

25 août 2020

Épisode 30 - What Every Country In Europe is Worst At (Part 2)

31 août 2020

Épisode 31 - Why Planes Don't Fly Over Tibet

15 septembre 2020

Épisode 32 - The Insane Scale of Jeff Bezos' Wealth Visualized

28 septembre 2020

Épisode 33 - Why South America's Geography is Way Weirder Than You Think

30 septembre 2020

Épisode 34 - The Insane Dutch Plan to Dam the North Sea

13 octobre 2020

Épisode 35 - What if Chile Was Waaaaaay Longer??

20 octobre 2020

Épisode 36 - Every Country England Has Invaded: Visualized

29 octobre 2020

Épisode 37 - The Insane Logistics of Transporting the Biggest Object in History

31 octobre 2020

Épisode 38 - Why There Are NO Flights Between East Asia & South America

12 novembre 2020

Épisode 39 - The Bizarre 300 Year Adventure of Oliver Cromwell's Head

21 novembre 2020

Épisode 40 - Why 4, 13, 17, 39 & 666 Are the World's Spookiest Numbers

27 novembre 2020

Épisode 41 - What Landing at the World's Most Dangerous Airport is Like

30 novembre 2020

Épisode 42 - The Pacific Ocean is VASTLY Bigger Than You Think

15 décembre 2020

Épisode 43 - The World's Most Restricted Airspaces You'll NEVER Fly Over

19 décembre 2020

Épisode 44 - The Bizarre Way We'll Keep Track of Time on Mars

26 décembre 2020

Épisode 45 - The World's Strangest Borders Pt 6: Wacky US States

31 décembre 2020

Épisode 1 - Africa's Desert Problem: How to Stop the Sahara

9 janvier 2021

Épisode 2 - That Time When Kazakhstan Was the Entire USSR For 4 Days

16 janvier 2021

Épisode 3 - Elon Musk's Insane Idea to Get 1 Million People on Mars by 2050

23 janvier 2021

Épisode 4 - How Europe's Greatest Warship Was Destroyed by a Breeze

30 janvier 2021

Épisode 5 - The World's Helium Problem: When Will We Run Out?

8 février 2021

Épisode 6 - Why the Future of Cars is Inevitably Electric

20 février 2021

Épisode 7 - China's Insane Plan to Dig a Canal Across the Balkans

23 février 2021

Épisode 8 - Why Taiwan "Sorta" Claims Mongolia and More

27 février 2021

Épisode 9 - How America's Chernobyl Could Be Happening on This Island

10 mars 2021

Épisode 10 - The Problem With the Middle East's Borders

25 mars 2021

Épisode 11 - Countries With WAY Fewer People Than You Think

31 mars 2021

Épisode 12 - How 1 Boat Just Caused a $400 Million an Hour Traffic Jam

2 avril 2021

Épisode 13 - Why the World's Biggest Ship is an AWFUL Idea

13 avril 2021

Épisode 14 - The Insane Complexity of the India/Bangladesh Border

30 avril 2021

Épisode 15 - The Insane Acceleration of Top Fuel Dragsters Visualized

11 mai 2021

Épisode 16 - What Made Haiti's Earthquake the Deadliest this Century?

15 mai 2021

Épisode 17 - What Happens If Yellowstone Blows Up Tomorrow?

26 mai 2021

Épisode 18 - Why Climate Change Will Make Russia a Superpower Again

28 mai 2021

Épisode 19 - How the US East Coast Lost Half It's Oil to 1 Hacker

29 mai 2021

Épisode 20 - How 100,000 Satellites Will Change Earth Forever by 2040

11 juin 2021

Épisode 21 - Why Turkey is Transforming Istanbul Into an Island

19 juin 2021

Épisode 22 - How a Dome Makes Israel Almost Invulnerable

26 juin 2021

Épisode 23 - What If We Covered the Sahara With Solar Panels?

9 juillet 2021

Épisode 24 - What If You Were Stranded In the Sahara Alone?

17 juillet 2021

Épisode 25 - Why 50% of Canadians Live South of This Line

23 juillet 2021

Épisode 26 - Why Afghanistan Is Impossible to Conquer

31 juillet 2021

Épisode 27 - What If the 1908 Tunguska Asteroid Hit Earth Today?

9 août 2021

Épisode 28 - Why Mexico City's Geography SUCKS

17 août 2021

Épisode 29 - Why North Korea is the Hardest Country to Escape

27 août 2021

Épisode 30 - Why Nobody Wants This Part of Africa

31 août 2021

Épisode 31 - Why New Orleans' Geography SUCKS

14 septembre 2021

Épisode 32 - Why Nobody Knows the World’s Longest River

24 septembre 2021

Épisode 33 - Why Blocking this Strait Will Start WW3

30 septembre 2021

Épisode 34 - The 15 Countries People Think Are FAKE

8 octobre 2021

Épisode 35 - Why 94% of China Lives East of This Line

16 octobre 2021

Épisode 36 - Portugal’s Insane Plan to Double Its Territory

29 octobre 2021

Épisode 37 - What If You Were Stranded on the World's Most Remote Island?

31 octobre 2021

Épisode 38 - Why France is Secretly the World's 5th Biggest Country

9 novembre 2021

Épisode 39 - Why Venice's Geography SUCKS

16 novembre 2021

Épisode 40 - Why Iraq Is a Dying Country

30 novembre 2021

Épisode 41 - Why Japan is Shrinking Fast

9 décembre 2021

Épisode 42 - Why Belarus is Constantly Attacking Europe

14 décembre 2021

Épisode 43 - Why Anchorage is America's Most OP City

22 décembre 2021

Épisode 44 - The Insane Transportation of a 17-ton Magnet

27 décembre 2021

Épisode 1 - Why Most Humans Live Inside This Small Circle

8 janvier 2022

Épisode 2 - Why Indonesia is Moving Their Capital City

22 janvier 2022

Épisode 3 - How This 1 Picture Explains ALL of History

31 janvier 2022

Épisode 4 - Why Nobody Wants This Part of Europe

5 février 2022

Épisode 5 - How Maps LIE To You

11 février 2022

Épisode 6 - Why the New Space Race is More Insane than Ever

23 février 2022

Épisode 7 - Why Russia is Invading Ukraine

26 février 2022

Épisode 8 - What Lands Did Europeans Discover First?

7 mars 2022

Original Title: What Lands Did Europeans Actually Discover? During the Age of Discovery, the Europeans mostly just found a bunch of places that had already inhabited by other humans for thousands of years. So what places did they actually, genuinely discover that nobody else previously had?

Épisode 9 - How Pirates, Rebels & Insurgents Make Money

16 mars 2022

Pirates, rebels, insurgents and partisans across the world don't exactly have the easiest access to conventional sources of capital. So, how do they raise money then?

Épisode 10 - Why 1/3rd of France is Almost Empty

22 mars 2022

The Empty Diagonal is a region of France that demographers have long identified within the country as being very low in population density when compared to the rest of France and Europe. So, why?

Épisode 11 - How Putin's Invasion Is Changing the World Forever

30 mars 2022

On the 24th of February 2022, Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian Armed Forces to invade Ukraine, sparking the largest conflict seen on the European continent since World War 2. These are all of the myriad ways in which our world has rapidly changed ever since.

Épisode 12 - Why Russia Is Fighting Japan Over These Islands

7 avril 2022

A group of 4 islands in the northern Pacific are hotly contested between Russia and Japan, with each claiming the islands for themselves. The issue has been going on for decades and is so serious that neither side has ever signed a formal peace treaty ending World War 2 between them over it. This video attempts to explain why.

Épisode 13 - Why the Ukraine No-Fly Zone Won't Ever Happen

12 avril 2022

Throughout Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there have been demands from many for NATO and the United States to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine to help the Ukrainian people and nation survive the onslaught. But that's not likely to ever happen, and here is why.

Épisode 14 - Why Ghana Deliberately Flooded 3.5% of Their Land

22 avril 2022

The largest man-made lake in the world is in Ghana, created after the country created a dam and flooded more than 3.5% of their available land on purpose. But why?

Épisode 15 - Will Taiwan Trigger WW3 by 2027?

29 avril 2022

The island of Taiwan looms large in the minds of foreign policy experts in both Beijing and Washington. This little island is perhaps the most valuable and essential part of the world to control by the superpowers of the 21st century, and there is a severe risk of conflict over it that should not be underestimated. This is the story behind why Taiwan is so valuable to both America and China.

Épisode 16 - Why 70% of Spain is Empty

5 mai 2022

Spain is one of Europe's largest countries, but it's also one of Europe's most sparsely populated, with some areas that are more comparable to the northernmost fringes of Scandinavia. Why?

Épisode 17 - Why China is Killing Asia's 3rd Longest River

10 mai 2022

The Mekong River is the primary source of fresh water in Southeast Asia and the 3rd longest river on the Asian continent. And China is heavily contributing to the river's destruction.

Épisode 18 - Why California Failed High-Speed-Rail

26 mai 2022

When it was initially proposed, the California High Speed Rail was supposed to only cost $40 billion and link San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2029. However, the costs have now ballooned to nearly $100 billion, and the target completion date has been pushed out to at least 2033. What went wrong for California's construction efforts?

Épisode 19 - Russia's Catastrophic Oil & Gas Problem

30 mai 2022

Oil & gas define nearly every aspect of the Russian Federation. These resources determine Russia's global strategy, and her aggressive actions in places like Ukraine, Georgia, and Chechnya. Russia is a gas station that happens to control one of the world's most powerful nations, and this is why that's a problem for everyone.

Épisode 20 - Why 95% of Australia is Empty

4 juin 2022

Australia is an entire continent with a lower population than Texas. Why is that the case?

Épisode 21 - Why California High Speed Rail is Struggling (Re-upload)

10 juin 2022

When finished, the California High Speed Rail will take passengers between San Francisco and Los Angeles in as little as 2 hours and 40 minutes. But as it stands today, the project is years behind schedule and tens of billions of dollars over budget. What happened? For those who have noticed, yes, this is a re-upload. The older version of this video had a LOT that was wrong, and it was not something I was proud about or comfortable having up on this channel. This new version has fixed all those errors, and I'm much happier with this one. Thank you so much to everyone who left comments on the old video pointing out the many problems with it and to everyone who reached out to me directly to voice their concerns. I'm always listening to y'all and value your thoughts. Cheers 🙂

Épisode 22 - Why Does Russia Own This Old Piece of Germany?

15 juin 2022

The city and Oblast of Kaliningrad is a separated exclave of the Russian Federation deep in the heart of the European Union. And for nearly seven centuries before it was Russian, it was German and better known as Konigsberg. How did this ancient piece of Germany become a part of Russia today?

Épisode 23 - Why California is Running Out of Water

24 juin 2022

California is a state in the center of one of the world's greatest water shortages. But why is this all happening now?

Épisode 24 - Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine

29 juin 2022

How the war in Ukraine is generating the worst global food crisis seen in the 21st century.

Épisode 25 - What's Hidden Under the Ice of Greenland?

7 juillet 2022

Greenland is the largest island in the world, but nearly all of it is hidden beneath the 2nd largest body of ice in the world. So what's hiding beneath it?

Épisode 26 - How Canada Just Got a Land-Border With Denmark

14 juillet 2022

Canada and Denmark just became two countries who officially border each other by land, meaning that the distance between them is technically 0. At least, in theory.

Épisode 27 - How Las Vegas Exists In America's Driest Desert

19 juillet 2022

Las Vegas is a city of more than 2.2 million people, and yet just 70 years ago it was a small town of less than 100,000. How did this rapid acceleration of growth happen, and happen within the driest desert anywhere in the world outside of the Sahara and the Middle East?

Épisode 28 - China's Catastrophic Oil & Gas Problem

28 juillet 2022

China is emerging onto the world stage as a global superpower rivaling the United States. But China has one very critical, and very dangerous weakness that this video will explain in depth.

Épisode 29 - Why This Tiny Island Has More People Than Russia

7 août 2022

Java is only the world's 13th largest island by landmass, and yet it is by far the world's most populous island. With more than 148 million people, there are more humans who live on Java than within the entirety of Russia. So how did this island get so populated?

Épisode 30 - South Africa’s Catastrophic Water Problem

11 août 2022

Original Title: Cape Town's Catastrophic Water Problem. In 2017 and early 2018, the city of Cape Town in South Africa was at a severe risk of becoming the first major city in the world to officially run out of water. Here's how it happened, and how it just narrowly avoided happening.

Épisode 31 - Why There's a CIA Base in the Center of Australia

18 août 2022

Pine Gap is a major US-Australian military base partially run by the American CIA and NSA, and it's located near the geographic center of Australia deep inside the Outback. Why?

Épisode 32 - Why Geography Makes the US Insanely OP

29 août 2022

The United States is the most powerful civilization that has ever existed in human history. The source of that power lies within the unique geography and geology of the North American continent itself.

Épisode 33 - Why China is Fighting Japan Over These Islands

8 septembre 2022

The Senkaku Islands are specs of rocks no larger than a city airport administered by Japan in the East China Sea. Despite their small size, they are at the epicenter of the greatest territorial clash between two of the world's most powerful nations: China and Japan. These are the reasons why.

Épisode 34 - Why 80% of Americans Live East of This Line

15 septembre 2022

Why 80% of the US Population lives roughly east of the 98th meridian of longitude

Épisode 35 - Why Ireland Has Fewer People Than 200 Years Ago

22 septembre 2022

Ireland today has about 1 million fewer people than it had nearly 200 years ago. On top of that, the Irish population today should actually be around 30 million or so had the historical growth rate been more comparable to England or Wales. This video attempts to explain why this is the case.

Épisode 36 - Germany's Catastrophic Gas Problem

30 septembre 2022

Germany is facing what is perhaps its greatest energy crisis since the Second World War, a crisis that is largely the result of Europe's geography and Germany's own poor and misguided energy policies over the past three decades.

Épisode 37 - The Big Trouble if DC Becomes the 51st State

7 octobre 2022

Original Title: Will Washington DC Become America's 51st State? Washington DC has been fighting for centuries to gain representation in the US Congress, and the fight has recently shifted towards transforming it into America's newest and 51st state. But why has this effort still not been successful? Let's find out.

Épisode 38 - Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia

15 octobre 2022

In September, Azerbaijani forces attacked Armenian positions across their mutual border and occupied a small chunk of Armenia's internationally recognized territory. It won't be the last time they do.

Épisode 39 - How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara

19 octobre 2022

Across the late 20th century, the Gadhafi-regime in Libya carried out the largest and the most ambitious irrigation project in human history. They built new rivers across the Sahara Desert. This is how.

Épisode 40 - How War in Ukraine is Destroying Russia

28 octobre 2022

How Russia' Invasion of Ukraine is leading to a worsening situation in both countries demography.

Épisode 41 - Why the Russians Destroyed the World's 4th Largest Lake

7 novembre 2022

The Aral Sea used to be the 4th largest lake in the world. Today, it no longer exists because of decisions taken by the Russians decades ago. And its destruction is now pushing the nations of Central Asia into one of the 21st-century's most significant brewing conflicts.

Épisode 42 - Why Most Indians Live Above This Line

22 novembre 2022

Why is the most heavily populated part of India in the north of the country?

Épisode 43 - Why Finland Joining NATO Checkmates Russia

25 novembre 2022

For more than 200 years, Finland has either been dominated by Russia or been neutral. Next year, those centuries of tradition will finally come to an end, and the geopolitical consequences will be disastrous for Russia.

Épisode 44 - How Qatar Became the World's Most OP Country

30 novembre 2022

How the state of Qatar became the most overpowered country in the 21st-century world.

Épisode 45 - Why Visiting This Lost Island Will Kill You

7 décembre 2022

North Sentinel Island is the world's most forbidden island, and for good reason. There is no guarantee that you will survive if you arrive there.

Épisode 46 - Why NATO's Biggest Weakness is Scotland

13 décembre 2022

NATO has a fundamental hidden problem: the risk of Scotland leaving the UK as an independent nation.

Épisode 47 - Why No One Has Measured the Coastline of Britain

16 décembre 2022

It is impossible to precisely measure the exact length of the British coastline, a phenomenon known as the Coastline Paradox. Watch and learn why

Épisode 48 - Why Turkey is Preparing to Invade Syria (Again)

30 décembre 2022

Turkey has already invaded Syria on multiple occasions over the past 5 years, and they already occupy large amounts of Syrian territory. But the invasion that they're planning next has the potential to be the largest and most ambitious one yet.

Épisode 1 - Why 97% of Namibia is Empty

7 janvier 2023

Namibia is the world's second most sparsely populated country, and its coastline is about as empty of people as Greenland. Why is that the case?

Épisode 2 - Why Belarus Might Invade Ukraine Too

16 janvier 2023

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been going on for nearly an entire year. Yet, the Kremlin's most loyal ally on the international stage, Belarus, has continually refused to join the war officially. Why have they taken so long, and why might that be changing in the future?

Épisode 3 - Why Nobody Can Stop North Korea

27 janvier 2023

2022 was a record-breaking year for North Korea. The Kim regime spent it by firing more missiles than in any previous year and setting new records for both altitude and distance. It ultimately begs a question; why hasn't anyone ever stopped North Korea, and is it now too late?

Épisode 4 - How Satellite Images Reveal What’s Happening in Ukraine

10 février 2023

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been ongoing for a full year now. Over those past 12 months, commercial satellites have captured thousands of images depicting the events that have been going on from above. Never before in human history has a conflict of this scale ever been so thoroughly documented from space. And in this video, we'll explore a few harrowing examples.

Épisode 5 - Why 82% of Mexico is Empty

18 février 2023

The majority of Mexico's population lives within just 18% of Mexico's land. This video explains why that's the case.

Épisode 6 - Why Russia's Biggest Threat is Actually China

28 février 2023

Why one of Russia's greatest long-term threats is China, despite their temporary partnership at the moment.

Épisode 7 - Why Ukraine Re-Taking Crimea Will Destroy Russia

13 mars 2023

Why Crimea is so important to both sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Épisode 8 - Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War

24 mars 2023

Egypt and Ethiopia are countries that each exist on the Nile River. Ethiopia's recent construction of Africa's largest hydroelectric dam on their portion of the Nile could spell conflict in the future, and this is why.

Épisode 9 - Why 80% of New Zealand is Empty

28 mars 2023

Why 80% of New Zealand's landmass is uninhabited by humans.

Épisode 10 - Why the Americas Still Aren't Connected by a Road

31 mars 2023

North and South America may be connected by land, but they have never been connected by road. These are the reasons why.

Épisode 11 - Why Wyoming is VASTLY Emptier Than Colorado

13 avril 2023

Wyoming and Colorado are two very similar-looking states that are about the same size and directly next to each other. And yet, Colorado has more than 10 times Wyoming's population. Why?

Épisode 12 - Why Every Country Has Military Bases in Djibouti

26 avril 2023

Djibouti has, per capita, the largest number of foreign military bases on its soil. Why is that the case?

Épisode 13 - Why Iran is Helping Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

2 mai 2023

There is a growing sense of an alliance being established between Russia and Iran, which historically speaking is a rather strange development. Why has this been happening? Let's find out.

Épisode 14 - Why Texas is Becoming America's Most OP State

12 mai 2023

Texas is America's fastest-growing state and is quickly becoming America's most geopolitically valuable state as well. These are all of the many reasons why.

Épisode 15 - Why 99.7% of Mongolia is EMPTY

26 mai 2023

Mongolia is the most sparely populated country on the planet, and for many fascinating reasons that this video explores in depth.

Épisode 16 - Why The Middle East’s Borders Guarantee Forever Wars

18 juin 2023

The Middle East has long been one of the most geopolitically turbulent regions in the world, but it has been this way for nearly the entirety of the past century. This video attempts to explain the root causes of this turbulence and provide a general overview of the forces that shaped the modern Middle East and made it the way it is.

Épisode 17 - Why the Russians Blew Up Ukraine's Largest Dam

26 juin 2023

In early June of 2023, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine; the largest dam holding back the largest water reservoir in the country behind it. The destruction ultimately resulted in what has been called the worst industrial disaster seen in Europe in decades, and this video attempts to analyze why it all took place.

Épisode 18 - Why China is Shrinking VERY Fast

7 juillet 2023

China's population is entering into a terminal state of decline, which will have profound geopolitical implications over the coming years and decades.

Épisode 19 - Saudi Arabia’s Catastrophic “Everything” Problem

22 juillet 2023

Saudi Arabia faces numerous challenges ahead of itself in order to survive the 21st century. These are many of them.

Épisode 20 - How Ukraine is Breaking Through Russia's Naval Blockade

29 juillet 2023

Since the war in Ukraine began, the country has been placed under a very strict naval blockade by the Russian Navy. This video covers Ukraine's strategy to get through it.

Épisode 21 - How North Korea Finally Made it Impossible to Escape

4 août 2023

Since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, North Korea has seized on the opportunity by clamping down on their society harder than any other, and in doing so, made escape out of the country effectively impossible for the very first time.