The Rewind Daily

History's best stories, rewound daily. Forgotten facts, strange twists and the moments that changed everything. Hit follow and press play.

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The last Javan rhinos survive thanks to a volcano, and a volcano could also end them. 🌋

After Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its tsunami emptied the coast of Ujung Kulon. The jungle grew back and became their final refuge.

Today, every one of them lives in that single park, in Krakatoa's shadow. 🦏

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@engineers_feed The rocket that carried them into space was built to destroy London. 🚀

The V-2 was a captured Nazi weapon, made partly by slave labor. After the war, America used it to answer a question no one could: could anything survive up there?

Some tiny flies found out first. 🪰

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Until 1995, nobody could prove other stars like our Sun had planets at all. 🪐

Oct 6, 1995: Two Swiss astronomers announced 51 Pegasi b, the first one ever found.

We now know of over 5,000. Still think we're alone?

Follow for a new one every day. 📺

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This record was just the warm-up. ✈️

Seven months later, Macready and Kelly flew the same Fokker T-2 nonstop from New York to San Diego in about 27 hours. It was the first nonstop flight across America.
The plane survives at the Smithsonian today.

Could you sit in that cockpit for 35 hours? 👇

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@VoicesofWW2 One of WWII's most feared weapons was named after a love song. 🎶

Soviet troops called them "Katyusha," after a hit song about a girl waiting for her soldier.

The Germans had their own name for that howling sound: "Stalin's organ."

Which name fits better? 👇

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@PopCrave Zara Larsson was famous before most of us had a phone. 🎤

At just 10, she won Sweden's version of Got Talent singing Céline Dion's "My Heart Will Go On." She's been a pop force ever since.

From a talent-show kid to Las Culturistas. Iconic. ✨

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The man who gave movies a voice died the day before anyone heard it. 🎙️

99 years ago today, Oct 6, 1927, The Jazz Singer premiered in New
York.

Sam Warner had begged his brothers to bet Warner Bros. on sound. He died on October 5. His brothers missed the premiere to bury him.

Here's the twist most people never hear:

→ The film was still mostly silent
→ Only a couple of minutes had spoken dialogue
→ Some of it was Al Jolson ad-libbing

Then Jolson turned to the crowd:

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet!"

The audience erupted. Within a few years, silent film was all but gone.

A complicated film (Jolson performs in blackface), but it changed cinema forever. 🎬

Imagine knowing a story like this for every day of the year.

Follow @TheRewindDaily. You ain't heard nothin' yet.

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@HistoryWJacob The regime that murdered teachers was led by a former teacher. 📚

Pol Pot studied in Paris and taught at a school in Phnom Penh. His most notorious prison, S-21, was a converted high school.
He died in 1998 without ever facing trial.

Never forget. 🕯️

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@historyinmemes You may not have known: Charlie Sheen's real name is Carlos Estévez. 🎬

His dad, Martin Sheen, took the stage name from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, a famous Catholic TV preacher. Brother Emilio kept Estevez.

Hollywood's wildest name was borrowed from an archbishop. 😅

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In 1994, a broke window cleaner left London on a bicycle. He didn't come home for 13 years. 🌍

19 years ago today, Oct 6, 2007, Jason Lewis crossed the Greenwich Meridia
n and became the first person to circle the Earth on human power alone.

No motors. No sails. Just:

🚲 Bikes
🛼 Rollerblades
🛶 Kayaks
🚣 A wooden pedal boat called Moksha

What it cost him:

→ 111 days pedalling across the Atlantic
→ Both legs broken by a drunk driver in Colorado
→ 73 days alone on the Pacific
→ Arrested in Egypt on suspicion of spying

46,505 miles. Five continents. Every single one earned.

Some stories make you want to do something brave. Save this one for the day you need it.

And follow @TheRewindDaily, because tomorrow's story is just as wild.

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@romanhistory1 Rome's bloodiest defeat may not have been caused by the enemy. ⚔️

It was caused by pride.

Two Roman commanders hated each other so much they refused to camp together. The Cimbri, a tribe possibly from Denmark, crushed them one by one.

Who were the Cimbri, really? 👀

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@AlbertEinstein Two men the Nazis couldn't stand, in one photo. 📸

Einstein had fled Hitler's Germany in 1933. A year after this, La Guardia suggested a "chamber of horrors" at the World's Fair starring Hitler, sparking official protests from Berlin.

Bold company to keep. 👀

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@CinemaTweets1 Part of why it feels so real: much of it was filmed in genuine LA neighborhoods like Imperial Courts and the Jungle. 🎬

Antoine Fuqua worked with locals to film there, and some residents ended up on screen.

A film that still hits this hard 25 years on? Timeless is right. 👏

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@NikTek Fun fact: in most early Spider-Man games, Spidey's webs stuck to the sky.

It wasn't until 2004's Spider-Man 2 that webs had to attach to real buildings, and that game's swinging set the bar for every one since.

Now Trevor's doing it in his underwear.

Progress? 😂

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@TipOfTheBanana Here's another twist: Del Monte didn't start with fruit at all. ☕

The name began in the 1880s on a premium coffee blend made for the Hotel Del Monte, a luxury resort in Monterey, California. Fruit came later.

What else in your pantry isn't what you think? 👀

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America's first train robbery didn't happen in the Wild West. 🚂

Oct 6, 1866: The Reno brothers robbed a train near Seymour, Indiana
— often called the country's first peacetime train robbery.

Would you have guessed Indiana?

Save this one for trivia night. There's a new one here every day. 📺

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@trendyhoopstars The team that gave Taj her first ring doesn't exist anymore. 🏀

The Detroit Shock moved to Tulsa in 2010, then became the Dallas Wings in 2016. And Taj didn't even reach the WNBA until her late 20s, after playing at a small NAIA school.

Most underrated career in WNBA history?

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@clashreport James Bond had gadgets. Modern spies apparently just forget to flush. 🚽🕵️

It's an old trick, though. East Germany's Stasi broke into homes to rearrange furniture and swap people's tea, just to make them doubt their sanity.

Spycraft really has gone downhill. 💩

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@visegrad24 Lithuania already knows what nuclear weapons look like up close. ☢️

In the Cold War, the Soviets hid nuclear missiles in its forests at Plokštinė, now a museum. After independence, the 1992 constitution banned them.

Now the ban could fall in January 2027.

Full circle? 👀

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Scientists didn't even know this monkey existed until 1990. 🐒

The black-faced lion tamarin was discovered on a remote island off Brazil, and only a few hundred are thought to survive. Now it's getting vaccines in the wild.

Wonder sometimes, what other species are still hiding out there? 👀