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Boring History for Sleep

Welcome to Boring History to Sleep — the only show where falling asleep in the middle is not only allowed… it’s encouraged. Each episode takes you on a slow, uneventful stroll through the most yawn-worthy corners of the past: treaties nobody remembers, kings who ruled for three weeks, and revolutions that never really got started. Delivered in the softest, most sleep-inducing voice we could find, this show is like warm milk with a side of ancient trivia. Perfect for insomniacs, history nerds, and

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04:03:13

Boring History For Sleep | The Secret of the Minoans...

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2025/12/22

🏺🌊 Long before classical Greece, the Minoans ruled the seas from their palaces on Crete — building cities without walls, worshipping strange gods, and leaving behind symbols no one can fully read. They vanished without a clear ending, leaving only frescoes, ruins, and questions buried beneath ash, myth, and the sea.Tonight, close your eyes and drift through labyrinths, quiet courtyards, and sunlit harbors — into the calm mystery of a civilization that rose early, lived beautifully, and disappeared

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03:55:20

Boring History For Sleep | The Drug That Turned...

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2025/12/21

💊🕯️ In Victorian England, the perfect lady wore silk, smiled politely… and was quietly medicated into oblivion. Laudanum and other “miracle cures” were prescribed for nerves, boredom, sadness, ambition, and basically existing as a woman — turning parlors into pharmacies and tea time into chemical roulette. What society called “hysteria,” doctors treated with bottles, and addiction spread behind lace curtains and respectable silence.Tonight, close your eyes and drift into a world of velvet sofas,

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04:02:46

Boring History For Sleep | The Pharaoh Who Lived Like...

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2025/12/20

👑😎 Amenhotep III ruled Egypt at its peak — when gold was everywhere, enemies were quiet, and building giant statues of yourself felt totally reasonable. He married strategically, traded internationally, declared himself semi-divine, and turned Egypt into a luxury empire powered by vibes, diplomacy, and extreme self-confidence.So close your eyes and drift into the golden age of ancient Egypt — where peace meant more monuments, power meant more titles, and one pharaoh really leaned into the

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03:51:32

Boring History For Sleep | What Christmas Was REALLY...

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2025/12/19

🕯️🎁 Victorian England didn’t just celebrate Christmas — it reinvented it. From glowing candlelit trees to handwritten cards, steaming puddings, charity, ghost stories, and carols drifting through frosty streets, the Victorians shaped nearly every tradition we think of as “classic Christmas.”Tonight, close your eyes and wander through a snow-dusted world of holly, gas-lamps, warm parlors, and the gentle magic of a holiday still taking shape.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Quiet snow, soft candles,

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04:01:30

Boring History For Sleep | The Social World of...

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2025/12/18

🏛️🌋 Pompeii was more than a disaster — it was a living, breathing Roman town filled with markets, baths, taverns, gossip, and daily routines. Ordinary people worked, argued, relaxed, prayed, and decorated their homes with art that still surprises us today, unaware that their city was quietly becoming a time capsule. From street food to social classes, Pompeii reveals how Romans actually lived, not how statues pretend they did.So close your eyes and wander through its cobbled streets, echoing with

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03:56:57

Boring History For Sleep | Why You Wouldn’t Survive...

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2025/12/17

⚔️🛡️ Being a medieval knight sounds glamorous — shining armor, noble quests, heroic battles — but the reality was closer to heavy metal discomfort, endless expenses, and a lifetime subscription to pain. Knights trained since childhood, spent fortunes maintaining armor and horses, and were expected to fight, bleed, and obey their lords without hesitation.Tonight, close your eyes and drift into the loud, muddy, sweaty world of medieval knighthood — a place where glory was rare, danger was constant,

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04:06:21

Boring History For Sleep | Medieval Struggle:...

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2025/12/16

🌾💀 Medieval peasants lived in a world where plague, starvation, and heavy taxes were normal parts of life — yet somehow they survived, adapted, and kept their families alive. Through harsh winters, failing harvests, and demanding lords, they relied on community, tradition, and a kind of everyday resilience modern people can barely imagine.Tonight, close your eyes and step into the fields, cottage fires, and quiet courage of the medieval poor — a world where survival itself was its own kind of

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04:02:21

Boring History For Sleep | The Entire Story of Hades...

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2025/12/15

🌑🍂 Long before kingdoms rose and fell, the Greeks told a quiet, haunting story about the god of the Underworld and the daughter of spring. Hades ruled a world of shadows and silence; Persephone lived among blossoms and sunlight — until a single moment bound their destinies together and changed the rhythm of the seasons forever.Tonight, close your eyes and drift into the ancient myth where love, loss, darkness, and renewal intertwine beneath the earth and above it, shaping the world in ways the old

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03:49:41

Boring History For Sleep | Titanic First Class:...

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2025/12/15

Boring History For Sleep | Titanic First Class: Glamour, Wealth & the Final Night 🌙✨

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03:58:27

Boring History For Sleep | What Happened to the...

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2025/12/14

🏛️🌍 The Seven Ancient Wonders once dazzled travelers with towering statues, golden temples, and impossible engineering — but today, only one remains standing. Earthquakes, fires, wars, and time slowly erased these masterpieces, leaving behind ruins, legends, and quiet questions about what the ancient world truly looked like.Tonight, close your eyes and drift through lost gardens, vanished colossuses, and temples swallowed by history — a peaceful journey into what once was.👉 Boring History For

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03:58:47

Boring History For Sleep | The Crown’s Messiest Love...

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2025/12/13

🕯️👑 Behind the polished portraits and royal ceremonies, some British monarchs and nobles lived lives filled with whispered scandals, late-night rumors, and reputations that shocked their own courts. From wandering heirs to flirtatious queens, these royals became legendary not for politics or power, but for the chaotic personal dramas they left behind.Tonight, close your eyes as we drift through palaces, ballrooms, and candlelit corridors, exploring the kings, queens, and aristocrats whose love

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03:57:53

Boring History For Sleep | The 12 Days of Tudor...

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2025/12/12

🎄🏰 In Tudor England, Christmas wasn’t just a day — it was twelve long nights of feasting, mischief, music, and rituals that blended faith with folklore. Lords, servants, and villagers all took part in traditions that ranged from joyful to downright strange, turning winter darkness into celebration and chaos.Tonight, close your eyes and wander into a candlelit world of wassail bowls, mummers, boar’s heads, and the curious customs that made a Tudor Christmas unforgettable.👉 Boring History For Sleep

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04:01:44

Boring History For Sleep | How the Vanderbilts Built...

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2025/12/12

💼🏛️ The Vanderbilt family rose from a modest ferry business to become one of the richest and most powerful dynasties in American history. Their world of mansions, railroads, rivalries, glittering parties, and quiet scandals shaped the Gilded Age and transformed the United States forever.Tonight, close your eyes and drift into the story of wealth built at impossible speed — and how fortune, fame, and family ambition can rise as quickly as they fall.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Power, legacy, and

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03:45:31

Boring History For Sleep | Victorian Women’s Real...

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2025/12/11

🌸🕯️ Victorian women lived in a world of strict rules, endless chores, and carefully managed appearances — far less glamorous than the novels make it seem. From morning routines filled with laundry, letter-writing, and social etiquette to afternoons spent sewing, hosting, or simply trying not to violate any of society’s unspoken rules, their days were a quiet blend of duty and decorum.Tonight, close your eyes and step into a slower, stiffer world where time moved gently, expectations ruled

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03:21:01

Boring History For Sleep | Why So Many Ancient...

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2025/12/10

🏺🕯️ From droughts and invasions to mysterious disappearances, ancient civilizations fell for reasons as dramatic as their rise. Some were undone by nature, others by war, and some vanished so completely that the earth swallowed their stories.Tonight, drift into the ruins and echoes of the world’s greatest lost cultures.

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04:00:09

Boring History For Sleep | How Ancient People Built...

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2025/12/09

❄️🔥 Long before central heating and insulated walls, surviving winter was a battle between humans and the cold itself. People built shelters from snow, earth, wood, animal skins, and whatever nature offered, relying on ingenuity to stay alive when temperatures fell dangerously low.Tonight, close your eyes and step into the quiet world of early winter survival — where fire, shelter, and determination were the only things standing between life and the frozen dark.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Cold

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03:44:43

Boring History For Sleep | The Napoleonic Wars...

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2025/12/08

⚔️ Napoleon’s rise reshaped Europe, rewriting borders and rewriting destiny through brilliance, ambition, and catastrophic miscalculations. Battles raged from Spain to Russia, but the empire’s collapse was as sudden as its rise.Tonight, drift across battlefields, palaces, and snowy roads as the world changes under one man’s ambition.

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03:31:39

Boring History For Sleep | The First Crusade: A...

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2025/12/07

🕯️⚔️ In 1095, a single speech in France sparked one of the most dramatic movements in medieval history — a march of thousands toward a distant and holy city. Knights, peasants, pilgrims, and wanderers crossed continents, driven by faith, fear, opportunity, and rumor, shaping a conflict far bigger than they understood.Tonight, close your eyes and follow the dusty roads of the First Crusade — a story of belief, chaos, and the strange power of medieval devotion.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Quiet

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03:36:52

Boring History For Sleep | How Three Cities Designed...

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2025/12/06

🌍🕯️ Long before modern nations existed, three extraordinary cities laid the foundations of how we think, rule, build, and live today. From law and writing to democracy, astronomy, roads, maps, and architecture — these ancient centers shaped human civilization in ways that still echo through every city on Earth.Tonight, close your eyes and wander through the quiet ruins of the three places that didn’t just make history… they invented the world.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Cities, stories, and the

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03:51:16

Boring History For Sleep | How Medieval People...

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2025/12/05

🎄🕯️ In the Middle Ages, Christmas wasn’t just a single day — it was a long season of feasting, fasting, carols, and traditions that blended faith with winter survival. Villagers filled cold stone churches with candlelight, nobles hosted noisy banquets, and entire towns paused their work to enjoy rare warmth, food, and community.Tonight, close your eyes and step into a medieval winter, where Christmas meant simple joys, sacred rituals, and a welcome break from the darkness of the season.👉 Boring

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