Damn Interesting

By DamnInteresting.com

The audio side of DamnInteresting.com: Legitimately intriguing true stories from history, science, and psychology. Audiobook-like narration with sound effects and music.... more

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The podcast currently has 73 episodes available.

Damn Interesting episodes:

November 20, 2017 Death By Derivatives
The opening of a canal in 1848 led to the birth of modern financial derivatives, and the early demise of some of the men who traded them
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15min
July 29, 2017 Ghoulish Acts & Dastardly Deeds
In the 1950s, an anonymous terrorist planted a pipe bomb in a New York City public space. Then another. And another.
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55min
July 17, 2017 No Country For Ye Olde Men
Britain’s practice of transporting convicts to American colonies was a fearsome punishment, but not for the chronic criminal James Dalton.
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13min
June 12, 2017 Fire And Dice
The story of a tragic hotel fire of Rube Goldberg proportions.
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24min
April 11, 2017 The Reconstruction of Ulysses S. Grant
As a civilian, the beloved American Civil War general and two-term president failed at every attempt to make money. Except for one.
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26min
March 06, 2017 The Greatest Baroque Composer Never Known
A 300-year-old hunt for the unsung hero of Salzburg.
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20min
December 28, 2016 Foreign Exchanges
He made a name for himself organizing the world’s most important economic conference, only to have it tarnished by an outrageous accusation.
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31min
November 30, 2016 Starving For Answers
During WWII, 36 American conscientious objectors volunteered as subjects in a brutal science experiment to measure the body's response to starvation.
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15min
September 26, 2016 Ten Minutes In Lituya Bay
A remote bay in Alaska is home to an odd and occasionally catastrophic geology. In 1958, a handful of people experienced this firsthand.
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25min
August 06, 2016 The King's Letters
The 15th-century scholar who upset the Korean aristocracy by creating a native script for the Korean language, and thus wean it off Chinese characters.
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20min

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