Name: History by the Numbers
Uploaded: 2018
Description: This series is loaded with mind-blowing factoids and stats, entertaining expert interviews, and infographics injected with cheeky humor.

This series is loaded with mind-blowing factoids and stats, entertaining expert interviews, and infographics injected with cheeky humor.

FOUR TRILLION FRIES - we are what we eat: a drive-thru history of a hundred years of fast food, from the burger's humble beginnings to its conquest of America and the world beyond.

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We are what we eat: a drive-thru history of a hundred years of fast food, from the burger's humble beginnings to its conquest of America and the world beyond.

4 Trillion French Fries

EVEREST - where earth meets sky: discover how the most thrilling and dangerous point at the top of the world continues to fascinate us, and what it takes to conquer the Big One.

EVEREST - where earth meets sky: discover how the most thrilling and dangerous point at the top of the world continues to fascinate us, and what it takes to conquer it.

Everest

QUEENS FOR LIFE - Victoria & Elizabeth II: in the last 200 years, 2 women have sat on the British throne for two-thirds of the time - find out what it takes to be a royal success in an ever-changing world.

Victoria & Elizabeth II: in the last 200 years, 2 women have sat on the British throne for two-thirds of the time - find out what it takes to be a royal success.

Queens For Life

CRIME BOSSES - the most exclusive job in the world: discover the secrets of five of the world's most notorious crime bosses as we reveal how they did it, who got away with it, and which of them didn't...

CRIME BOSSES - the most exclusive job in the world: discover the secrets of five of the world's most notorious crime bosses as we reveal how they did it.

Crime Bosses

CRAZY RICH PEOPLE - wealth beyond your wildest dreams: if you've ever wondered what it takes to become fabulously wealthy, get the inside scoop on six of the wealthiest people in history as we reveal the secret of how they became crazy rich.

Wealth beyond your wildest dreams: if you've ever wondered what it takes to become fabulously wealthy, get the inside scoop on six of the wealthiest people in history.

Crazy Rich People

Ever wonder what happens after a global pandemic? Sometimes the secrets of the future can be found in the past. In the wake of the Spanish Flu, the 1920s become the decade of flappers, jazz, and the speakeasy, and for many a time of unprecedented opportunity.

The Roaring 20s - when anything goes: exactly a hundred years after the world's last great global pandemic, find out if the 2020s will roar anything like the 1920s did.

The Roaring 20s

Psychedelics have impacted history for as long as there have been people wanting to get their minds blown. Discover who's been under the influence from Salem witches and Santa Claus to 1960s hippies and Steve Jobs, and find out how mind-altering substances have changed our world.

Psychedelics - a trippy history with groovy numbers: discover how psychedelic drugs have changed the course of history.

Psychedelics

Get the inside track on five of the greatest heists in history. These are not petty robberies, but high-stakes operations meticulously planned and audaciously executed, with a cast of colorful characters from the mastermind to the snitch. Find out who gets away with the loot, and who doesn't.

Heists - masterminds of crime: Discover the secrets of five of the greatest real-life heists in criminal history and find out who gets away with it … and who doesn't.

Heists

When the lost tomb of King Tut is opened in 1922, it's not only the famous Curse that is unleashed. Fashion, movies and architecture all come under the pharaoh's spell as the world goes mad for Tut-mania. Discover how a 3,000-year-old teenager becomes a celebrity pharaoh and changes the modern world

When the lost tomb of an obscure teenage pharaoh is opened in 1922, Tut-mania is born and the world goes mad for his gold, his eye-liner and his Curse.

King Tut

It's June 1944. the Soviet Red Army and the Western Allies are in a race to the finish line. The prize is Hitler's Berlin, and whoever is first to cover 700 miles will not only win the war but will get to decide the future of Europe and the world.

In the last year of World War 2, two gigantic armies charge across northern Europe in a race to see who can topple Hitler and grab the spoils of victory.

Race To Berlin

Everyone’s heard of the gender pay gap, but the gender gap is much much bigger. Find out how the insidious ‘standard man’ makes it hard to find a place where the gap doesn’t impact us.

THE GENDER GAP - Money is just the tip of the iceberg; uncover the surprising spread of the gender gap throughout our world.

The Gender Gap

The Amazon rainforest is one of the enduring mysteries of the natural world - and no wonder, it is as big as the whole continental US! It’s home to over 2 million Indigenous peoples, and a massive 10% of the world’s known plant and animal species - and thousands more we haven’t even discovered.

Dangerous and irresistible; discover the astonishing numbers behind the world’s biggest rainforest, the largest river, and the people and creatures that fill it.

The Amazon

From royal mistresses to White House scandals, ancient texts to the internet, the history of infidelity is loaded with pants-dropping numbers. And the science behind the salacious history and shockingly common behavior will surprise you.

From kinky kings and passionate presidents to everyday people with a bit on the side, the science and stories will make you rethink everything you know about cheating.

Infidelity

Humans are born to party animals - and whether it’s a chance to cut loose, break the rules, or just plain show off, you just never know which party will go down in history. These 13 stand out - for excess, success, or epic failure.

Exclusive, expensive, or downright revolutionary; we are born to party, and you never know what will become a history-changing bash like these 13 iconic shindigs.

Party Animals

The history of skyscrapers is the history of American cities, technological ingenuity, and a global boom in urbanization. From West to East, and 5 stories up to 1km high, there’s nowhere to go but up.

Bigger, taller, faster; find out how we’ve supercharged our skyline, facing down our fears and defeating seemingly impossible engineering challenges.

Skyscrapers

Since the earliest pioneers of flight, we've dreamed of conquering the skies. From the first brave passenger flying across Tampa Bay in 1915 in a rickety rust bucket to 40 million commercial flights each year, discover how innovation, coach class, and sex have made our flying fantasies come true.

Buckle up and discover how in the space of just 100 years we've gone from the first-ever commercial air passenger to more than 1 million passengers each and every day.

Air Travel

Discover what it takes to become an astronaut and be part of the greatest human adventure of all time, blasting into outer space at 17,000 mph, propelled by 5 million pounds of exploding fuel and with only a quarter-inch of thin metal standing between success and total obliteration.

ASTRONAUTS - reaching for the stars: find out what it takes to risk everything and be part of the greatest human adventure of all time.

Astronauts

Humans have evolved alongside millions of species, but we've invited only 2 of them out of the wild into our homes. Discover the furball history of Cats & Dogs, from caveman to Instagram, hunting companion to pampered pooch - with 7.4 million likes and 6.8 billion snapshots of our cuddly companions.

This is the furball history of our ancient fuzzy friends, who stand by our side, cuddle in our lap, and remind us we're never alone…

Cats & Dogs

It takes just 25 years for Genghis Khan to conquer the greatest land empire the world has ever seen. It's said he's responsible for over 40 million deaths, and even now 16 million people carry his personal DNA.

GENGHIS KHAN - the myth and the man: find out if the greatest conqueror the world has ever seen is the world's greatest villain or a hero of history.

Genghis Khan

It's one of the most overlooked stories of 20th century American history - when 6 million African Americans leave the southern states in the Great Migration to seek freedom and opportunity in the north and west, they transform everything from civil rights and politics to sport, music, and culture.

Exodus from Dixie: when 6 million African-Americans moved from the southern states of the U.S. to cities in the north and west they will transform America as we know it.