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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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04:06:31

Boring History For Sleep | The AIDS Crisis: The...

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2025/11/29

🧬🌍 The AIDS epidemic reshaped the world — medically, socially, and emotionally — beginning in the early 1980s and leaving a legacy that still echoes today. Scientists fought to understand a mysterious new virus, communities battled fear and stigma, and people around the world faced unimaginable loss while demanding action and compassion.Close your eyes and follow the quiet, human story behind one of the most transformative public-health crises in modern history.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Calm,

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04:01:52

Boring History For Sleep | Secrets of Angkor Wat:...

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2025/11/28

🏛️🌄 Deep in the Cambodian jungle rises Angkor Wat — a stone masterpiece built by a civilization powerful enough to reshape the landscape itself. For centuries it stood as the heart of the Khmer Empire, its towers reflecting the heavens while its walls whispered stories of gods, kings, and worlds long forgotten.Tonight, close your eyes and wander through its silent corridors and shadowed carvings, where time slows, mysteries linger, and history sleeps beneath layers of moss and moonlight.👉 Boring

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04:01:32

Boring History For Sleep | Cocaine: A Dark History of...

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2025/11/27

🍃💊 Long before it became infamous, cocaine began as a sacred Andean plant — chewed quietly by ancient people for strength, ritual, and survival. Over centuries, explorers, scientists, doctors, and empires transformed it from a leaf into a global obsession, reshaping medicine, crime, and culture.Close your eyes and drift through a history both fascinating and tragic — a story of discovery, ambition, and the dangerous power of one small plant.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Calm voices, big history,

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04:04:57

Boring History For Sleep | WW2 Facts You’ve Never Heard

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2025/11/26

🕯️🌍 World War II was one of the most intense events in human history — but hidden beneath the battles are quiet stories, strange coincidences, and surprising details that feel more dreamy than frightening. From forgotten inventions to bizarre accidents and peaceful moments in the middle of chaos, these soft WW2 facts will gently pull your mind away from the day.Close your eyes and drift into a calmer corner of history, where even the world’s biggest conflict has quiet details worth whispering.👉

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03:59:37

Boring History For Sleep | British Royals and Their...

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2025/11/25

🕯️👑 Behind silks, palaces, and perfect portraits, some British royals hid addictions and obsessions stranger than the scandals that made the newspapers. From unusual habits to full-blown fixations, their private lives were far messier — and far more human — than history likes to admit.Close your eyes and step behind the velvet curtain into the royal world of secrets, vices, and very strange hobbies.

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03:23:23

Boring History For Sleep | How We Lost the Greatest...

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2025/11/24

📚🔥 The Library of Alexandria was once the brightest mind on Earth — a place where scholars dreamed, argued, and gathered every scrap of human knowledge they could find. For centuries it grew like a living brain, collecting scrolls from ships, philosophers, kings, and wanderers… until politics, war, and time slowly turned brilliance into ash.Tonight, close your eyes and drift through marble halls, whispering scrolls, and the quiet tragedy of a world that forgot how precious knowledge could be.👉

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04:03:03

Boring History For Sleep | Adolf Hitler: The Fall of...

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2025/11/23

📜🕯️ Adolf Hitler’s life remains one of the darkest and most consequential stories in modern history — a rise from obscurity to absolute power, built on violence, propaganda, and hatred. His leadership plunged the world into war, caused immeasurable suffering, and left a legacy that serves only as a warning of how dangerous a single ideology can become.Tonight, we take a calm, factual journey through the events, choices, and consequences that shaped one of the most catastrophic eras humanity has

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03:47:52

Boring History For Sleep | Neanderthals: The Guys Who...

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2025/11/23

💀🔥 Neanderthals weren’t the quiet, thoughtful cave philosophers you see in museums — they were walking chaos machines built like tanks and powered by pure impulse. They invented bad decisions, picked fights with animals ten times their size, and somehow survived on a diet that was 90% meat and 10% “let’s see if this kills me.” Their lives were loud, wild, and tragically hilarious — the perfect blend of brute strength and absolutely zero long-term planning.So close your eyes and drift back to a

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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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