Hosted by Adam · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 21 episodes
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Welcome to And That’s What You Didn’t Know, the podcast that takes the headlines of history and flips them over to reveal the truth hiding on the back.Do you know the names that changed the world? Of course you do. But do you know the secrets they kept, the failures that fueled them, or the small moments of courage that almost never happened? In every episode, we dive deep into unknown history to uncover the hidden stories behind the legends you think you already know.Inspired by the legendary craft of Paul Harvey, this is narrative storytelling at its most deliberate. Whether we are follo
Adam hosts what you didn't know, a history show with 21 episodes published.
This is the story of a man who saw the end of the world twice in three days—and lived to tell the story for ninety-three years. In August 1945, a young engineer was preparing to leave Hiroshima after a three-month busine
Show notesThis is the story of a man who was essentially a human lightning rod—a man the heavens simply could not leave alone. Most people have a 1-in-15,000 chance of being struck by lightning in their lifetime. For one man in Vi
Show notesThis is the story of the strangest battle of World War II—a moment when the rules of war were thrown out the window, and enemies became brothers-in-arms to defend a medieval fortress. In May 1945, Hitler was dead, and th
Show notesThis is the story of a woman who saw a machine made of gears and steam and realized it could actually "weave" music, art, and the very future of human thought. In the mid-1800s, the world was obsessed with the industrial
Show notesThis is the story that keeps the Wright Brothers’ estate up at night—a tale of a "Condor" in the night and a secret agreement that might be holding history hostage. Two years, four months, and three days. That is how muc
Show notesThis is the story of a woman whose face was known by millions as the "most beautiful in the world," but whose mind was so far ahead of its time that her most brilliant invention was dismissed as a toy. In the 1940s, she
Show notesThis is the story of a man who spent forty years learning how to fly, only to be defined by the 208 seconds where he didn't. On a freezing January afternoon in 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia Airport
Show notesThis is the story of a man who held the keys to both life and death—a scientist who is responsible for the existence of half the people on Earth today, and the horrific end of millions of others. In 1909, a German chemis
Show notesThis is the story of a boy from a rainy logging town who hated the spotlight, yet ended up becoming the sun that an entire generation revolved around. In the early 1990s, the music world was dominated by hairspray, spand
Show notesThe Man with the Golden Arm In 1951, a fourteen-year-old boy in Australia underwent a major chest surgery that required thirteen units of blood to save his life. As he recovered, he made a vow: as soon as he turned eight
Show notesThe Limping Lady of Lyon She wanted to be a diplomat, but a tragic hunting accident cost her a leg and, according to the State Department at the time, her career. They told her a woman with a disability had no place in t
Show notesThe Man Who Boxed the World In 1937, a young truck driver sat at a pier in New Jersey, fuming. He had been sitting there all day, watching men manually haul heavy crates and cotton bales from his truck into the belly of
Show notesThe Scholar in the Shadow In the late 1800s, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary faced an impossible task: cataloging every word in the English language and finding its first recorded use. They sent out a desper
Show notesThe Secret of the Steel Needle In the late 1920s, two men were standing on opposite ends of Manhattan, staring at each other through telescopes. They weren't looking at stars; they were looking at the skeletons of each o
Show notesThe Thief Who Caught Himself He was a brawler, a deserter, and a master of disguise who escaped from the most "escape-proof" prisons in Europe. By his early thirties, he was one of the most wanted men in France, living i
Show notesThis is the story of the most important five minutes in human history—and the man who decided to do absolutely nothing. At midnight on September 26, 1983, the world as we know it nearly ended. Inside a secret Soviet bunk
Show notesThis is the story of a man who was only four feet tall, lived with a hump on his back, and was nearly deported from America for being "unfit." Yet, he became the only man in the world who could talk to lightning—and the
Show notesA nineteen-year-old boy stands in a dim room in occupied Paris. His hands are stained with chemicals, and his eyes are heavy with sleep. He isn't holding a rifle or a grenade. He is holding a fountain pen and a bottle of
Show notesFor eleven years, a woman in a horse-drawn carriage was a constant sight on the construction site of what was then the largest suspension bridge in the world. The workers called her the messenger. The politicians called
Show notesHe was a world-class long-distance runner—a man who could have competed for Olympic gold. But in 1939, he wasn’t running for a medal. He was running a race against a clock that was ticking in Berlin. In this episode of A
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