[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/twitter/_HistoryNerd) "A Vietnam veteran being told how much his Rolex is worth"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1944837191047221734) 2025-07-14 19:11:34 UTC 237K followers, 62.4K engagements "Osama Bin Laden with his family on vacation in Sweden 1971"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1942783563738538170) 2025-07-09 03:11:11 UTC 237K followers, 22.5K engagements "The first slaves in America werent African they were Irish. Men women and children were sold starved and worked to death. Their suffering was buried for centuries. Heres the dark & forgotten truth about Irelands hidden history of slavery:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1921662494457622558) 2025-05-11 20:23:36 UTC 237K followers, 8.8M engagements "In 1969 the US achieved the impossible: landing on the moon. Yet XX years later millions still believe it was the biggest hoax of all time. Did NASA fake the moon landing or is that just a conspiracy theory Heres the truth behind the Apollo XX mission:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1939401224517832883) 2025-06-29 19:10:58 UTC 237K followers, 351.4K engagements "What caused it Some claim a fire had been burning in the coal bunker before the Titanic even set sail. If true the ship was already doomed before it hit the iceberg"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1945206312733663483) 2025-07-15 19:38:19 UTC 237K followers, 13.4K engagements "The Battle of El Alamein (1942): Ultra exposed German supply routes enabling the British to disrupt Rommels operations in North Africa. Ultra was so effective that Churchill described it as the goose that laid the golden egg"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254679827939402) 2025-07-18 17:04:09 UTC 237K followers, 8088 engagements "I made a private history community for people who want to: Debunk theories and talk about the wild parts of history that school never touched. If That's You Join History Nerds"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254698819854713) 2025-07-18 17:04:14 UTC 237.1K followers, 8662 engagements "The Titanic didnt sink by accident. J.P. Morgan had a first-class ticket on the Titanic. But he canceled at the last minute. His biggest financial rivals stayed onboard and never made it back. Heres the wild theory behind the unsinkable ship:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1945206294102650933) 2025-07-15 19:38:15 UTC 237K followers, 449.1K engagements "In the morning Pompeii was a thriving Roman city. By evening it was frozen in time. For 2000 years its secrets lay buried in ash. Now scientists and archaeologists are racing against time to uncover the city's last moments. What theyve found will leave you stunned:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1941589674679472391) 2025-07-05 20:07:06 UTC 237K followers, 305.6K engagements "The Titanic didnt sink the way you think. J.P. Morgan had a first-class ticket on the Titanic. But he canceled at the last minute. His biggest financial rivals stayed onboardand never made it back. Heres the truth about the unsinkable ship:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1909354689902112799) 2025-04-07 21:16:46 UTC 237.1K followers, 21.9M engagements "Alcatraz was built to be escape-proof. Sharks in the water Guards on every tower Freezing currents no man could survive For years no one made it out until June XX 1962. The true story of the greatest prison break in history:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1915866027528798514) 2025-04-25 20:30:30 UTC 237.1K followers, 43.2M engagements "In 1941 the capture of U-110 a German submarine provided the codebooks needed to crack the naval Enigma. With this breakthrough Station X could locate U-boat wolf packs and help Allied ships avoid destruction"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254684722733466) 2025-07-18 17:04:11 UTC 237K followers, 7481 engagements "A man guarding his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 the time of the British Raj India"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946716840824086852) 2025-07-19 23:40:37 UTC 237.1K followers, 39.5K engagements "In 1947 a U.S. Navy pilot flew over Antarctica. Instead of endless ice he claimed to have seen lush green land a warm inner sun and giant flying discs bearing swastikas. This is the real story behind the Hollow Earth conspiracy and the lost city of Agartha:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1942345718041137372) 2025-07-07 22:11:20 UTC 237K followers, 64K engagements "In 1939 they transformed Bletchley Park into a top-secret codebreaking hub Station X. The stakes were clear: breaking Enigma was the key to winning the war. Station X assembled an unconventional group of individuals:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254667370967538) 2025-07-18 17:04:07 UTC 237K followers, 11.8K engagements "Interior of the National Opera of Paris Palais Garnier"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1944469136932798845) 2025-07-13 18:49:03 UTC 237K followers, 7412 engagements "In 1763 Britain became the world's most powerful empire. It crushed France and seized new lands. But to pay for victory it taxed its colonies. And in doing so it created something it never saw coming. This is the story of the beginning of the American Revolution:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1941276779282563479) 2025-07-04 23:23:46 UTC 237K followers, 379.3K engagements "No thorough investigation took place. No one was ever held responsible. The U.S. government and British authorities closed the case. J.P. Morgan meanwhile went on to establish the Federal Reserve the very next year securing his place as the most powerful banker in history"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1945206314793070713) 2025-07-15 19:38:20 UTC 237K followers, 12.7K engagements "The Lost City of Troy was once thought to be pure myth. Then one German archaeologist defied every expert And uncovered a secret that had been buried for 3000 years. This is the real story of the city that was never supposed to exist:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1940513456085766259) 2025-07-02 20:50:35 UTC 237K followers, 343.3K engagements "The Nazis werent historys only monsters. Japans Unit XXX froze prisoners alive dissected children without anesthesia and unleashed plague bombs on cities. And one man Shir Ishii led it all. Heres the forgotten horror of WWII:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1939019977245310982) 2025-06-28 17:56:02 UTC 237K followers, 894K engagements "By the late 1930s Nazi Germany had developed the Enigma machine capable of encrypting messages into a seemingly unbreakable code. With over XXX million possible configurations the Germans believed their communications were secure. But Britain recognized the danger"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254664892055909) 2025-07-18 17:04:06 UTC 237.1K followers, 14.4K engagements "Polish intelligence made progress by uncovering some Enigmas mechanics and passed this knowledge to the British just before Germany invaded Poland. However the Germans added more layers of complexity. Station X faced a nearly impossible challenge until they discovered a flaw"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254673150656988) 2025-07-18 17:04:08 UTC 237.1K followers, 10.2K engagements "80 years old cartoon that is still relevant"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1942395711771058579) 2025-07-08 01:30:00 UTC 237K followers, 1.4M engagements "The original 1891 patent for a toilet paper roll illustrates the correct rolling direction"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1943354781864726921) 2025-07-10 17:01:00 UTC 237K followers, 15.5K engagements "Alan Turings genius led to the invention of the Bombe an electromechanical machine designed to quickly test Enigmas possible settings. By automating the process the Bombe could decrypt messages in hours instead of weeks"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254675050733967) 2025-07-18 17:04:08 UTC 237.1K followers, 9682 engagements "Hitler trusted his unbreakable Enigma machine. But in a quiet English estate a team of mathematicians misfits and mavericks proved him wrong. They didnt just crack the code they shortened WWII by X years & saved millions of lives. This is the incredible story of Station X:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254662169944189) 2025-07-18 17:04:05 UTC 237.1K followers, 407.6K engagements "In 1944 the Germans deployed an even more advanced cipher machine Lorenz used for high-level communications. It was more complex than Enigma with XX rotors generating nearly infinite combinations"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254686585081950) 2025-07-18 17:04:11 UTC 237K followers, 6863 engagements "Zinaida Portnova took the lives of more than XXX Nazis by poisoning their food at just XX years of age. She was captured by the Gestapo and while being interrogated she disarmed the Nazi detective and shot him in the head. In her attempt to escape she executed X more Nazis"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1941998763582673060) 2025-07-06 23:12:40 UTC 237K followers, 996K engagements "In 1983 one man had XX minutes to decide the fate of the world. Stanislav Petrov sat at his console as alarms blared: X U.S. nuclear missiles were "en route" to Russia. He had two choices: launch a counterstrike or trust his gut. What he did next saved the fate of humanity"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1943714309646737587) 2025-07-11 16:49:38 UTC 237K followers, 128.1K engagements "On June XX 1941 Hitler betrayed Stalin and launched the deadliest invasion in history. X million German soldiers stormed into Soviet territory expecting victory in weeks. Instead it became Germanys biggest blunder and the start of its collapse. This is the story of Operation Barbarossa:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1940908985567076512) 2025-07-03 23:02:17 UTC 237K followers, 349.9K engagements "A 2000-year-old Ancient Greek floor mosaic that was accidentally discovered in Turkey"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1944474408648585636) 2025-07-13 19:10:00 UTC 237.1K followers, 24.9K engagements "While Luftwaffe and army messages were being decrypted the naval Enigma posed a greater challenge. German U-boats were decimating Allied convoys in the Atlantic threatening Britains lifeline of supplies"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254683057586300) 2025-07-18 17:04:10 UTC 237K followers, 7511 engagements "This man risked his life to help America win the Cold War. He betrayed the Soviet Union and gave the CIA secrets worth billions. But in the end he was betrayed by his allies. This is the story of Adolf Tolkachev (the Billion Dollar Spy):"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1943397574985101427) 2025-07-10 19:51:03 UTC 237.1K followers, 437.5K engagements "- Alan Turing a shy mathematical prodigy who would later pioneer the modern computer - Anthropologists paleontologists and Egyptologists with a knack for spotting patterns - Teenagers and crossword enthusiasts recruited for their lateral thinking"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254670260744701) 2025-07-18 17:04:07 UTC 237.1K followers, 10.8K engagements "Adolf Eichmann murdered X million people from behind a desk. Then he vanished. XX years later X Mossad agents waited at a bus stop in Argentina. They werent there to arrest him. They came to kidnap him. This is how Israel hunted down the architect of the Holocaust:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1940096967796809995) 2025-07-01 17:15:37 UTC 237K followers, 25.6M engagements
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"A Vietnam veteran being told how much his Rolex is worth"
@_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-14 19:11:34 UTC 237K followers, 62.4K engagements
"Osama Bin Laden with his family on vacation in Sweden 1971" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-09 03:11:11 UTC 237K followers, 22.5K engagements
"The first slaves in America werent African they were Irish. Men women and children were sold starved and worked to death. Their suffering was buried for centuries. Heres the dark & forgotten truth about Irelands hidden history of slavery:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-05-11 20:23:36 UTC 237K followers, 8.8M engagements
"In 1969 the US achieved the impossible: landing on the moon. Yet XX years later millions still believe it was the biggest hoax of all time. Did NASA fake the moon landing or is that just a conspiracy theory Heres the truth behind the Apollo XX mission:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-06-29 19:10:58 UTC 237K followers, 351.4K engagements
"What caused it Some claim a fire had been burning in the coal bunker before the Titanic even set sail. If true the ship was already doomed before it hit the iceberg" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-15 19:38:19 UTC 237K followers, 13.4K engagements
"The Battle of El Alamein (1942): Ultra exposed German supply routes enabling the British to disrupt Rommels operations in North Africa. Ultra was so effective that Churchill described it as the goose that laid the golden egg" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:09 UTC 237K followers, 8088 engagements
"I made a private history community for people who want to: Debunk theories and talk about the wild parts of history that school never touched. If That's You Join History Nerds" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:14 UTC 237.1K followers, 8662 engagements
"The Titanic didnt sink by accident. J.P. Morgan had a first-class ticket on the Titanic. But he canceled at the last minute. His biggest financial rivals stayed onboard and never made it back. Heres the wild theory behind the unsinkable ship:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-15 19:38:15 UTC 237K followers, 449.1K engagements
"In the morning Pompeii was a thriving Roman city. By evening it was frozen in time. For 2000 years its secrets lay buried in ash. Now scientists and archaeologists are racing against time to uncover the city's last moments. What theyve found will leave you stunned:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-05 20:07:06 UTC 237K followers, 305.6K engagements
"The Titanic didnt sink the way you think. J.P. Morgan had a first-class ticket on the Titanic. But he canceled at the last minute. His biggest financial rivals stayed onboardand never made it back. Heres the truth about the unsinkable ship:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-04-07 21:16:46 UTC 237.1K followers, 21.9M engagements
"Alcatraz was built to be escape-proof. Sharks in the water Guards on every tower Freezing currents no man could survive For years no one made it out until June XX 1962. The true story of the greatest prison break in history:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-04-25 20:30:30 UTC 237.1K followers, 43.2M engagements
"In 1941 the capture of U-110 a German submarine provided the codebooks needed to crack the naval Enigma. With this breakthrough Station X could locate U-boat wolf packs and help Allied ships avoid destruction" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:11 UTC 237K followers, 7481 engagements
"A man guarding his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 the time of the British Raj India" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-19 23:40:37 UTC 237.1K followers, 39.5K engagements
"In 1947 a U.S. Navy pilot flew over Antarctica. Instead of endless ice he claimed to have seen lush green land a warm inner sun and giant flying discs bearing swastikas. This is the real story behind the Hollow Earth conspiracy and the lost city of Agartha:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-07 22:11:20 UTC 237K followers, 64K engagements
"In 1939 they transformed Bletchley Park into a top-secret codebreaking hub Station X. The stakes were clear: breaking Enigma was the key to winning the war. Station X assembled an unconventional group of individuals:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:07 UTC 237K followers, 11.8K engagements
"Interior of the National Opera of Paris Palais Garnier" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-13 18:49:03 UTC 237K followers, 7412 engagements
"In 1763 Britain became the world's most powerful empire. It crushed France and seized new lands. But to pay for victory it taxed its colonies. And in doing so it created something it never saw coming. This is the story of the beginning of the American Revolution:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-04 23:23:46 UTC 237K followers, 379.3K engagements
"No thorough investigation took place. No one was ever held responsible. The U.S. government and British authorities closed the case. J.P. Morgan meanwhile went on to establish the Federal Reserve the very next year securing his place as the most powerful banker in history" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-15 19:38:20 UTC 237K followers, 12.7K engagements
"The Lost City of Troy was once thought to be pure myth. Then one German archaeologist defied every expert And uncovered a secret that had been buried for 3000 years. This is the real story of the city that was never supposed to exist:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-02 20:50:35 UTC 237K followers, 343.3K engagements
"The Nazis werent historys only monsters. Japans Unit XXX froze prisoners alive dissected children without anesthesia and unleashed plague bombs on cities. And one man Shir Ishii led it all. Heres the forgotten horror of WWII:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-06-28 17:56:02 UTC 237K followers, 894K engagements
"By the late 1930s Nazi Germany had developed the Enigma machine capable of encrypting messages into a seemingly unbreakable code. With over XXX million possible configurations the Germans believed their communications were secure. But Britain recognized the danger" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:06 UTC 237.1K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Polish intelligence made progress by uncovering some Enigmas mechanics and passed this knowledge to the British just before Germany invaded Poland. However the Germans added more layers of complexity. Station X faced a nearly impossible challenge until they discovered a flaw" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:08 UTC 237.1K followers, 10.2K engagements
"80 years old cartoon that is still relevant" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-08 01:30:00 UTC 237K followers, 1.4M engagements
"The original 1891 patent for a toilet paper roll illustrates the correct rolling direction" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-10 17:01:00 UTC 237K followers, 15.5K engagements
"Alan Turings genius led to the invention of the Bombe an electromechanical machine designed to quickly test Enigmas possible settings. By automating the process the Bombe could decrypt messages in hours instead of weeks" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:08 UTC 237.1K followers, 9682 engagements
"Hitler trusted his unbreakable Enigma machine. But in a quiet English estate a team of mathematicians misfits and mavericks proved him wrong. They didnt just crack the code they shortened WWII by X years & saved millions of lives. This is the incredible story of Station X:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:05 UTC 237.1K followers, 407.6K engagements
"In 1944 the Germans deployed an even more advanced cipher machine Lorenz used for high-level communications. It was more complex than Enigma with XX rotors generating nearly infinite combinations" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:11 UTC 237K followers, 6863 engagements
"Zinaida Portnova took the lives of more than XXX Nazis by poisoning their food at just XX years of age. She was captured by the Gestapo and while being interrogated she disarmed the Nazi detective and shot him in the head. In her attempt to escape she executed X more Nazis" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-06 23:12:40 UTC 237K followers, 996K engagements
"In 1983 one man had XX minutes to decide the fate of the world. Stanislav Petrov sat at his console as alarms blared: X U.S. nuclear missiles were "en route" to Russia. He had two choices: launch a counterstrike or trust his gut. What he did next saved the fate of humanity" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-11 16:49:38 UTC 237K followers, 128.1K engagements
"On June XX 1941 Hitler betrayed Stalin and launched the deadliest invasion in history. X million German soldiers stormed into Soviet territory expecting victory in weeks. Instead it became Germanys biggest blunder and the start of its collapse. This is the story of Operation Barbarossa:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-03 23:02:17 UTC 237K followers, 349.9K engagements
"A 2000-year-old Ancient Greek floor mosaic that was accidentally discovered in Turkey" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-13 19:10:00 UTC 237.1K followers, 24.9K engagements
"While Luftwaffe and army messages were being decrypted the naval Enigma posed a greater challenge. German U-boats were decimating Allied convoys in the Atlantic threatening Britains lifeline of supplies" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:10 UTC 237K followers, 7511 engagements
"This man risked his life to help America win the Cold War. He betrayed the Soviet Union and gave the CIA secrets worth billions. But in the end he was betrayed by his allies. This is the story of Adolf Tolkachev (the Billion Dollar Spy):" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-10 19:51:03 UTC 237.1K followers, 437.5K engagements
"- Alan Turing a shy mathematical prodigy who would later pioneer the modern computer - Anthropologists paleontologists and Egyptologists with a knack for spotting patterns - Teenagers and crossword enthusiasts recruited for their lateral thinking" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:07 UTC 237.1K followers, 10.8K engagements
"Adolf Eichmann murdered X million people from behind a desk. Then he vanished. XX years later X Mossad agents waited at a bus stop in Argentina. They werent there to arrest him. They came to kidnap him. This is how Israel hunted down the architect of the Holocaust:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-01 17:15:37 UTC 237K followers, 25.6M engagements