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The true, strange, whimsical, overlooked stories from across all of human history — the bits that didn't make the textbooks. Join the rabbits as they discover those nuggets of history that you didn't learn about at school. New episodes drop twice a week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Unknown Host hosts Horde of Rabbits, a history show with 28 episodes published.
The US Army's 23rd Headquarters Special Troops was made up of artists, sound engineers, and designers. Their job: create a phantom army to fool the Nazis. They used inflatable tanks and planes, fake radio transmissions,
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, working in Baghdad's House of Wisdom around 820 CE, wrote "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing" — the text that gave us the word "algebra" (from "al-jabr," mean
In 1956, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev addressed Western diplomats at a reception. In Russian, he used a common idiom: 'Мы вас похороним' (My vas pokhoronim)—literally 'We will bury you,' but idiomatically meaning 'We
In 1900, Greek sponge divers found a Roman shipwreck off the island of Antikythera. Among the statues and amphorae was a corroded lump of bronze. Nobody paid much attention until 1902, when archaeologist Valerios Stais n
For roughly five hundred years, European courts tried animals as genuine defendants — pigs for homicide, roosters for laying eggs, caterpillars formally excommunicated by the Church. By 1750 the practice was fading, but
In April 1945, the German submarine U-1206 was on its first combat patrol in the North Sea when it sank — not from enemy action, but from a toilet malfunction. The sub featured a new high-pressure toilet system designed
Born Araminta Ross and enslaved in Maryland, Harriet Tubman escaped alone in 1849 — ninety miles on foot through swamp and forest, guided by the North Star. She reached Philadelphia. She was free. And then she went back.
In July 1799, French soldiers were rebuilding and reinforcing an old fort in the town of Rosetta (Rashid), Egypt. Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard noticed a stone with three different scripts: Greek, Demotic, and hier
On 24 August 1875, Captain Matthew Webb dived from Admiralty Pier, Dover, into the cold grey English Channel. He was 27 years old, coated in porpoise fat, and carried nothing but determination and a support boat stocked
On November 9, 1970, a 45-foot (14-metre) sperm whale carcass washed ashore one mile south of the Siuslaw River, near Florence, Oregon. The Oregon State Highway Division, responsible for Oregon beaches (which are classif
After the oxygen tank explosion on Apollo 13, the three astronauts had to shelter in the lunar module—designed for two people for two days. The carbon dioxide was building up to lethal levels. The command module had spar
In 1856, during the Easter holidays from London's Royal College of Chemistry, 18-year-old William Henry Perkin was attempting to synthesise quinine — the antimalarial drug derived from cinchona tree bark — from coal tar.
In 1906, a scholar discovered that a 13th-century prayer book in a Constantinople monastery had been made by scraping off and overwriting a much older text — a 10th-century copy of works by Archimedes. The palimpsest con
In 1897, a German Jewish doctor named Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee — the world's first organisation dedicated to LGBTQ+ rights. By 1919, he had opened the Institut für Sexualwissenschaf
The Weapon Salve (or Powder of Sympathy) was a widespread medical practice from the 16th to 18th centuries. Instead of treating a wound directly, physicians would apply a special ointment or powder to the weapon that cau
After WWI, Australian veterans were given farmland in Western Australia. Then 20,000 emus migrated through, destroying crops. The government sent soldiers with machine guns to kill the emus. The emus proved surprisingly
In 1928, Radclyffe Hall published The Well of Loneliness, a novel about a lesbian woman. It was not explicit — the most controversial line was 'and that night, they were not divided.' The Sunday Express demanded it be ba
Rigoberta Menchú was born in 1959 in Laj Chimel, a remote highland village in Guatemala's Quiché department. She was K'iche' Maya, one of the Indigenous peoples who make up 60 per cent of Guatemala's population but have
The idea of "nothing" as a number seems obvious today, but it took millennia to develop. While the Babylonians and Maya used zero as a placeholder, it was Indian mathematician Brahmagupta who first treated zero as a numb
On 28 June 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York — a routine harassment of queer people that happened to go spectacularly wrong. Marsha P. Johnson, a Black transgender woman and street acti
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