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History

Stones, letters, towers and typewriters that were there when history happened.

0:51 the last payphone The last payphone in New York City 0:50 the statue The dog who waited 9 years at Shibuya Station 0:49 the bottle The oldest message in a bottle ever found (1886) 0:50 the footprint Why the first footprint on the Moon is still there 0:51 the crane Why people fold 1,000 paper cranes 0:51 the first web page The first website ever made is still online 0:48 the lighthouse What happened to the lighthouse keepers? 1:01 the duck How 28,800 lost rubber ducks mapped the ocean (1992) 1:05 the volcano Krakatau 1883: the loudest sound in recorded history 0:58 the bulb The light bulb that has been on since 1901 1:03 the banana The $6.2 million banana taped to a wall 1:04 the pigeon Cher Ami: the pigeon who saved the Lost Battalion (1918) 1:00 the tower Why the Leaning Tower of Pisa never fell 1:02 the typewriter The borrowed typewriter that typed Indonesia's independence 1:01 the painting The 1911 theft that made the Mona Lisa world-famous 1:06 the stone The Rosetta Stone: how one rock taught us to read ancient Egypt 1:07 the stone Borobudur: buried by ash, found in 1814, rebuilt stone by stone 0:59 the tower The Eiffel Tower was meant to be torn down. Radio saved it. 1:00 the letter Kartini: the letters that brought light after darkness 0:59 the starter The sourdough starter that's been alive since 1849 1:07 the pinisi The pinisi: Indonesia's wooden ships built without blueprints 0:59 the mould Penicillin: the mouldy dish that changed medicine 1:08 the stopwatch The first marathon under two hours: Kipchoge in Vienna, 2019 0:59 the statue Why the Statue of Liberty is green (and why she was almost painted) 0:57 the violin The violin that first played Indonesia's anthem in 1928 1:00 the bobsled The real story of Jamaica's 1988 Olympic bobsled team 1:06 the box The steel box that changed the world: the first container ship (1956) 1:06 the flyer From 12 seconds at Kitty Hawk to Mars: the Wright Flyer's journey 1:00 the soldier The Terracotta Army: 8,000 clay soldiers found by farmers digging a well 1:06 the bonsai The 400-year-old bonsai that survived Hiroshima 1:05 the shuttlecock The shuttlecock from Indonesia's first Olympic gold (Barcelona 1992) 1:03 the mechanism The Antikythera mechanism: a 2,000-year-old computer from a shipwreck 0:50 the tea bowl Kintsugi: the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold 1:00 the paperclip How one red paperclip was traded up to a house 1:05 the crossbar The Fosbury Flop: the backwards jump that changed the high jump forever (1968) 0:59 the football The Christmas Truce of 1914: when enemies stopped to play 0:57 the water drop Subak: Bali's thousand-year-old system for sharing water fairly 1:05 the seed Methuselah: the 2,000-year-old seed that brought back an extinct tree 1:02 the oak The Tree That Owns Itself (and its son) 0:59 the word Why we say 'hello' on the phone (and not 'ahoy')