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Damn Interesting

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

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Ghoulish Acts & Dastardly Deeds

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.

29 Jul 2017

54mins

Ranked #2

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Colonels Of Truth

Colonels Of Truth

The tumultuous true story of the life of a fast food icon.

13 Mar 2016

54mins

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The Curse Of Konzo

The Curse Of Konzo

In 1981, an international group of doctors identified the devastating disease behind a perplexing outbreak of paralysis ... Read more

1 May 2018

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The Arizona Dragonslayer

The Arizona Dragonslayer

A simple telegram plunged America into the Great War. The Zimmermann telegram, intercepted by American intelligence in A... Read more

6 Dec 2012

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The Zero Armed Bandit

The Zero Armed Bandit

"I don’t think it belongs here." Such was the assessment of Bob Vinson, the graveyard shift supervisor at Harvey's Wagon... Read more

14 Jun 2015

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Faxes From The Far Side

Faxes From The Far Side

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21 Oct 2015

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89, 263, 201, 500, 337, 480

89, 263, 201, 500, 337, 480

The story of the Beale Ciphers; a set of three encrypted notes from the nineteenth century purportedly describing the lo... Read more

14 Dec 2015

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The Derelict

The Derelict

Under ordinary circumstances, the final evening of a cruise aboard the luxury turbo-electric ocean liner SS Morro Castle... Read more

11 Jan 2015

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Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning

The 18th century misadventures of HMS Wager and her reluctant crew

10 Sep 2019

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The Spy Who Loved Nothing

The Spy Who Loved Nothing

The meeting had not gone well, the man gloomily reflected as he was driven out of East Berlin. His head was still heavy ... Read more

18 Feb 2013

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The City Under Ice

The City Under Ice

The story of Camp Century: A "nuclear city" under the Greenland ice sheet that was not entirely what it seemed.

26 Sep 2013

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No Country For Ye Olde Men

No Country For Ye Olde Men

Britain’s practice of transporting convicts to American colonies was a fearsome punishment, but not for the chronic crim... Read more

17 Jul 2017

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The Isle of Doctor Seaborg

The Isle of Doctor Seaborg

It was the summer of 1936 when Ernest Lawrence, the inventor of the atom-smashing cyclotron, received a visit from Emili... Read more

27 Jan 2013

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Absolute Zero is 0K

Absolute Zero is 0K

Near the heart of Scotland lies a large morass known as Dullatur Bog. Water seeps from these moistened acres and coalesc... Read more

19 Mar 2014

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The Clockmaker

The Clockmaker

It was the middle of a cool September night in Munich, Germany. The year was 1939. In an otherwise unoccupied auditorium... Read more

28 May 2014

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Three Thrown Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Three Thrown Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sometime in the 1940s an improbable encounter occurred at a mental institution in Maryland. Two women, each of whom was ... Read more

21 Nov 2013

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Fire And Dice

Fire And Dice

The story of a tragic hotel fire of Rube Goldberg proportions.

12 Jun 2017

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Andrée and the Aeronauts' Voyage to the Top of the World

Andrée and the Aeronauts' Voyage to the Top of the World

On the 11th of July 1897, the world breathlessly awaited word from the small Norwegian island of Danskøya in the Arctic ... Read more

24 Jun 2013

46mins

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Ten Minutes In Lituya Bay

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... Read more

26 Sep 2016

24mins

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White Death

White Death

In April of 1938, representatives from the USSR approached the Finnish government and expressed a concern that Nazi Germ... Read more

4 May 2014

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