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On 12 September across recent decades, history delivered an improbable collection of human moments. In 2025, Nepal elected interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki through a parliamentary vote held on Discord, the gaming chat platform. In 1990, the Faroe Islands, a nation of 47,000 with a fisherman in goal, defeated Austria 1-0 in their first competitive international football match. In 1994, Frank Corder flew a stolen Cessna into the White House lawn whilst President Clinton was staying elsewhere, triggering a major security reassessment. And in 2005, Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft arrived at asteroid Itokawa after two years of travel, eventually returning samples that changed our understanding of rubble pile asteroids. From digital democracy in the Himalayas to deep space sample collection, this episode explores how the improbable becomes historical fact, and how humans continue to surprise themselves with what they can achieve, even when the method involves a Discord server or a potato-shaped rock 300 million kilometres away.