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5 Hidden Treasures to Explore
We all need a little adventure now and then. In this reel, hide away in London’s 900-year-old secret garden, grab a bite at Madrid’s...
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5 Unlikely And Extraordinary Stories Behind Everyday Things
Great Big Reel 161: New to our channel, or don’t have time to look through our back catalog? This video is part of a series of...
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7 Spaces Reshaped By Time
Great Big Reel 119: New to our channel, or don’t have time to look through our back catalog? This video is part of a series of...
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A Colorful Castle Sits Empty in Italy
In the middle of Tuscany sits an empty technicolor palace. Castello di Sammezzano, a resplendent Moorish revival castle with an intr...
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A Day in the Life of the Queen’s Double
Every televised appearance Queen Elizabeth II makes is a carefully orchestrated operation, meticulously prepped for and rehearsed in...
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A Pageant for Holocaust Survivors
Each year, Haifa, Israel, plays host to a beauty pageant. But the contestants aren’t what you’d expect. Each one is a Ho...
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Before Alarm Clocks, There Were ‘Knocker-Uppers’
Imagine life without alarm clocks. Workdays would start at noon, breakfast would be brunch, and no one would make it to class before...
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Behind Our Childhood Fads
In this reel, we get to the bottom of some of the most memorable fads of our collective youths, from Lisa Frank to POGs. Great Big R...
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Benjamin Franklin: Founding Father and Fireman
Firetrucks, fire stations, even those cool poles that firefighters slide down—they all date back to colonial times and a certain fou...
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Bigfoot and Bamboo: The Unlikely History of Fireworks
Fireworks are synonymous with Independence Day in the United States, but how did they go from gunpowder to today’s 4th of July firec...