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The audio side of DamnInteresting.com: Legitimately intriguing true stories from history, science, and psychology. Audiobook-like narration with sound effects and music.
Episódios
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A Trail Gone Cold
20/03/2024 Duração: 43minAgainst the odds, a tiny Icelandic town speaks of a local Black ancestor. Geneticists and historians combine forces to uncover the man’s eventful life.
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Journey To The Invisible Planet
13/06/2023 Duração: 28minThe tangled history of humanity’s search for the solar system’s uncharted planets.
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From Where The Sun Now Stands
21/05/2023 Duração: 53minWhen the U.S. Army came for their land in 1877, the Nez Perce tribe complied. But tensions boiled over, and Chief Joseph led as they ran for their lives.
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The Ancient Order Of Bali
28/03/2023 Duração: 01h01minIn 1970s Bali, a sudden rice crisis prompted an unexpectedly far-reaching scientific discovery
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Lofty Ambitions
13/12/2022 Duração: 26minIn 1933, British WWI vet Maurice Wilson hatched an unorthodox plan to reach the still-untouched summit of Everest.
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Devouring The Heart Of Portugal
03/05/2022 Duração: 01h02minIn 1924 a bankrupt businessman in Portugal launched an audacious international scheme to become one of the wealthiest men in the world.
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The Mount St. Helens Trespasser
28/02/2022 Duração: 30minRobert Rogers, a man obsessed with trespassing, sets his sights on Mount St. Helens in the spring of 1980
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Hunting For Kobyla
07/02/2022 Duração: 45minThe true story of a runaway Nazi, a determined sleuth, and a chase around the world.
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The Unceasing Cessna Hacienda
26/10/2021 Duração: 28minIn 1958, one heavily modified airplane flew out of Las Vegas with a single objective: Don’t land.
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The Kingpin of Shanghai
25/08/2021 Duração: 44minFrom the depths of poverty, Du Yuesheng rose through Shanghai’s underworld to become one of the most influential, and overlooked, figures in modern China.
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The Traveler And His Baggage
02/06/2021 Duração: 01h16minIn Nazi-occupied Paris, “Dr. Eugène” offered Jews an alternative to deportation, slavery, and death camps. But the escape network was not what it seemed.
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Fifteen Years Forsaken
27/04/2021 Duração: 01h03minA true story of castaways on a lost and hostile scrap of land, all thanks to some meddlesome Frenchmen and terrible luck.
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A Blight On Soviet Science
02/03/2021 Duração: 47minNikolai Vavilov dedicated his life to improving Soviet agriculture and eradicating famine, but his allegiance to science would ultimately lead to his downfall.
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Pugilism On The Plains
28/12/2020 Duração: 27minHow a booming oil town aimed to become a western metropolis through one of the most ill-conceived boxing matches of all time.
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How Miss Shilling's Orifice Helped Win the War
08/10/2020 Duração: 24minHow a female engineer defied all norms to save England in the Second World War.
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Dupes and Duplicity
04/09/2020 Duração: 01h06minThe true story of the 18th century's greatest femme fatale, and the most unfortunate of her victims.
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Chronicles of Charnia
29/06/2020 Duração: 33minWhen an ancient, unexpected imprint is discovered in a stone quarry, scientists endeavor to explain its mysterious origin.
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Radical Solutions
25/03/2020 Duração: 01h02minFrench mathematician Évariste Galois lived a full life. When he wasn't trying to overthrow the government, he was reinventing algebra.