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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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04:01:46

Boring History For Sleep | Royal Addictions: The Dark...

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2025/11/21

🍷 Behind the polished portraits and royal etiquette, some British monarchs fought battles far darker than any war — with their own addictions, vices, and self-destructive habits. From kings who couldn’t put down the bottle to princes undone by excess, these stories reveal a monarchy far messier, more human, and more chaotic than the history books admit.So close your eyes and wander through candlelit palaces where power glittered on the surface… and ruin often lurked just beneath the crown.👉 Boring

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03:29:16

Boring History For Sleep | How Humans Accidentally...

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2025/11/21

🐈‍⬛✨ Humans didn’t tame cats — cats simply showed up, judged us, and decided we were acceptable roommates. We domesticated them once in the ancient Near East, lost them to the wild, and then somehow ended up doing it all over again thousands of years later. Now close your eyes and drift into the quiet, purring history of the world’s most aloof companions — who domesticated us just as much as we domesticated them.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Cats, chaos, and cozy ancient vibes. 💤

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03:22:36

Boring History For Sleep | Imperial China Was Not...

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2025/11/20

🍵💀 Imperial China looked elegant in paintings — silk robes, poetry, perfectly trimmed gardens — but daily life was a whole different dynasty. Between strict social rules, exhausting labor, terrifying punishments, and a bureaucracy that made everything harder, most people spent more time surviving than admiring the scenery. One wrong bow, one wrong word, or one unlucky year of harvest could change everything.So close your eyes and drift into the crowded streets, smoky tea houses, and palace shadows

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03:44:59

Boring History For Sleep | Lust, Shame & Scandal...

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2025/11/19

🕯️😈 Medieval Europe preached purity by day… but lived a very different story after dark. Behind monastery walls, castle gates, and timbered village houses, people battled temptation, broke rules, whispered secrets, and confessed sins they hoped no one would ever repeat. The Church tried to control desire, but rumor, scandal, and human nature spread faster than any sermon.So close your eyes and wander into the shadowy corners of the Middle Ages — where lust was forbidden, sin was everywhere, and

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03:57:36

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

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2025/11/18

🏚️🍵 In Victorian cities, not everyone lived in grand homes — most squeezed into boarding houses filled with strangers, secrets, and the faint smell of tea and coal smoke. Behind the lace curtains and polite smiles, people from every walk of life shared rooms, gossip, and the occasional scandal. It was a world of whispered ambitions, hidden romances, and the quiet desperation of trying to appear respectable.So close your eyes and step inside a creaking London house lit by gaslight, where every

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03:47:29

Boring History For Sleep | Lost Empires of Ancient...

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2025/11/17

🏺🌄 Long before European ships appeared on the horizon, vast civilizations were already thriving across the Americas. From the temple cities of the Maya and the roads of the Inca to the mound builders of North America, ancient societies built, traded, and dreamed in ways the world is still uncovering.So close your eyes and drift through forgotten cities buried in jungle and soil — echoes of a continent that had its own empires, myths, and genius long before history decided to notice.👉 Boring

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03:38:17

Boring History For Sleep | What People Did After Dark...

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2025/11/16

💀🏚️ The Middle Ages had kings, knights, and cathedrals — but also entire neighborhoods that history politely ignored. In the narrow alleys of medieval cities, “houses of pleasure” were crowded, unsanitary, and constantly under the watch of church and crown. For many women and servants, it wasn’t sin or glamour — it was survival.So close your eyes and drift through the flickering candlelight of a medieval city after dark, where morals were loud, hygiene was optional, and safety was mostly

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03:36:54

Boring History For Sleep | What Victorian Dating Was...

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2025/11/15

🎩🕯️ Love in the Victorian era wasn’t all roses and romance — it was more like paperwork with emotions. Every glance, handshake, or misplaced fan meant something, and breaking the rules could ruin your reputation before breakfast. Between chaperones, secret letters, and the occasional fainting couch, dating was basically a full-time job with terrible communication.So close your eyes and drift into the candlelit parlor of a more “refined” time — where courtship was complicated, love was whispered,

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03:50:33

Boring History For Sleep | The ENTIRE History of...

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2025/11/14

🏺🌾 From the Indus Valley to independence, India’s story stretches farther than almost any on Earth. Empires rose and fell, religions were born, philosophers debated everything, and somehow—despite invasions, dynasties, and colonial chaos—civilization never stopped reinventing itself.So close your eyes and drift across five millennia of color, chaos, and creation—from ancient cities to modern dreams—because few places have ever contained so much history, and so little sleep.👉 Boring History For

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03:51:53

Boring History For Sleep | Monsters, Magic & Madness:...

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2025/11/13

👹🕯️ In the Middle Ages, the world was dark, cold, and full of things that probably weren’t real — but everyone believed them anyway. Witches, fairies, cursed forests, talking animals, and demons in disguise filled the imaginations (and nightmares) of medieval villagers. Every shadow could be a warning, every strange noise a sign that something unholy was nearby.So close your eyes and wander back to a time before science, when fear and faith danced by candlelight, and stories kept people awake — or

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04:01:07

Boring History For Sleep | The Greatest Queens in...

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2025/11/12

Close your eyes and drift through palaces, empires, and candlelit courts, where every jeweled crown hid a story of courage, politics, and perfectly delivered shade.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Queens, crowns, and bedtime royalty. 💤

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04:06:11

The Entire History of the United States

Boring History for Sleep ·

2025/11/11

The Entire History of the United States

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04:01:05

Boring History For Sleep | World War Two 🌍⚔️ (The War...

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2025/11/10

💣🕯️ Between 1939 and 1945, the world tore itself apart — and then tried to piece itself back together again.

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03:55:49

What Ottoman Did to Christian Nuns 🕯️Boring History...

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2025/11/09

Welcome to Boring History For Sleep, where history whispers instead of shouts. 🕯️Here, battles, empires, and strange old stories are told softly — slow enough to fall asleep to, but interesting enough to dream about.Because sometimes, the past is the best lullaby. 💤

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03:49:03

Boring History For Sleep | Disgusting Secrets the...

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2025/11/08

💀👑 Palaces looked glamorous from the outside — but inside, they smelled like bad plumbing and worse secrets. From medieval monarchs who refused to bathe to emperors with horrifying dinner habits, history’s royals proved that money can buy crowns, but not soap, manners, or common sense.So close your eyes and drift into the scandalous side of history — where gossip was deadly, perfume was a defense mechanism, and royal hygiene was mostly… theoretical.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Power, perfume, and

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04:01:46

Boring History For Sleep | Christmas 1901 🎄 The Last...

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2025/11/07

🕯️🎁 In December 1901, the snow fell softly over a changing world. Queen Victoria’s long reign was ending, and with it, the era that had defined how Christmas looked, sounded, and felt. The trees glittered with candles instead of bulbs, the carols were sung by real voices instead of radios, and hope for the new century hung in the frosty air.So close your eyes and drift back to a Christmas of gaslight and horse hooves, of lace, letters, and quiet wonder — the last holiday before the world woke up

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03:51:05

Boring History For Sleep | Pilgrims and Thanksgiving...

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2025/11/06

🕯️🍁 In the autumn of 1621, weary travelers and wary natives shared a fragile peace — and a meal that would echo through centuries. The Pilgrims had survived starvation, storms, and strange new lands, while the Wampanoag carried wisdom born from generations on that same soil. Together, they created a legend that would later be polished, simplified, and served with cranberry sauce.So close your eyes and drift back to the smoky air of the first Thanksgiving — a story of hunger, hope, and humanity

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04:17:10

Boring History For Sleep | When Did People Start...

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2025/11/05

🌿💨 Long before lighters and rolling papers, ancient people were already setting things on fire and calling it medicine, magic, or both. From Chinese emperors using hemp for healing, to Scythian warriors hotboxing their tents 2,500 years ago, cannabis has been sparking curiosity — and controversy — since the dawn of civilization.So close your eyes and drift through smoky temples, steppe rituals, and desert caravans, where history itself got a little hazy.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Calm voices,

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04:10:12

Boring History For Sleep | The True Story of the...

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2025/11/04

Welcome to Boring History For Sleep, where history whispers instead of shouts. 🕯️Here, battles, empires, and strange old stories are told softly — slow enough to fall asleep to, but interesting enough to dream about.Because sometimes, the past is the best lullaby. 💤

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04:48:13

Boring History For Sleep | The Maya Civilization:...

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2025/11/03

🌞🩸 The temples were tall, the art was beautiful, and the calendars were terrifyingly accurate — but daily life in the ancient Maya world was no paradise. Farmers broke their backs in the sun, nobles played deadly ball games for honor, and the gods demanded constant attention… and sometimes, a little blood.From humid jungles to sacred cities, every moment balanced between devotion and survival. Food could vanish with one bad harvest, enemies came wearing feathers and obsidian, and even time itself

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