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Friday, 10 October 2025
42 facts about Kyshtym disaster
42 facts about Kyshtym disaster
The first nuclear accident in Earth's history
Before information about it saw the light of day, the Soviets hid it for over 30 years. The explosion at the Mayak combine was the first nuclear accid ...

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Dyatlov Pass incident
For health reasons, Yuri Yudin separated from the group on January 28.
Most likely, he got a sciatica attack and decided to withdraw from the expedition. It is safe to say ...
Dyatlov Pass incident
In the case of the Dyatlov Pass tragedy, the involvement of the Mansi is also a popular hypothesis.
The Mansi inhabit the Siberian territories between the Urals and the Ob River. It is an autonomous g ...
Battle of Thermopylae
According to Herodotus, of the 300 Spartans who fought at Thermopylae, two did not take part in the battle due to violent eye pain.
After returning to Sparta, one of them hanged himself (“effeminate, this he suffered: none of the Sp ...
Black death
Although until recently it was believed that the Black Death stayed away from the areas of Poland and the Bohemia, there is no grain of truth in this story.
Poland and Bohemia were not isolated places, so both insects and travelers moved through these areas ...
Mohenjo-daro
Another hypothesis put forward by a team of American geologists is that 140 km north of Mohenjo-daro was the epicenter of a powerful earthquake that changed the Indus Valley.
Powerful tremors caused the ground surface to rise, which blocked the river and its waters changed c ...
Troy
As the main sources for the course of the Trojan War are only the works of Homer, it is impossible to determine the actual events of the Trojan conflict. 
To this day, scholars argue about whether the war actually took place.
Battle of Thermopylae
On Xerxes’ orders, the “Immortals” detachment, under cover of darkness, set off along the path indicated by Ephialtes.
Information about the road, which allowed them to bypass the Thermopylae isthmus, created the possib ...
Jamestown
The idea of establishing an overseas British colony came from the Virginia Company of London, with the blessing of King James I.
King James I charted the Virginia Company of London in 1606 with the sole goal of colonizing the eas ...
Dyatlov Pass incident
Before setting out, Dyatlov promised his parents that the trip would be his last. He was right.
Igor's parents were against the expedition. Their son was a final-year student and they wanted him t ...
Mali Empire
Sundiata was not an absolute ruler, as the title he used might suggest, although he had universal power in the empire.
The Mali Empire was probably a federation in which each tribe had a representative on the council. T ...