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The Toba Eruption

Episode 1085

74,000 years ago, the Earth suffered the greatest natural disaster that it has seen in the last several million years. 

A supervolcano erupted in what…

2 years, 8 months ago

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More Than You Ever Really Wanted to Know About Sewers (Encore)

Episode 1084

Sometimes the most important things are things we don’t even want to think about let alone talk about. 

The issue of handling and removing human waste…

2 years, 8 months ago

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The Large Hadron Collider

Episode 1080

Straddling the border of Switzerland and France is the largest scientific instrument ever created. 

It sits in a tunnel 27 kilometers or 17 miles long…

2 years, 8 months ago

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The Anarchy

Episode 1082

In the mid-12th century, England was in chaos. 

The king of England, Henry I, died without an heir. The country was divided between forces loyal to hi…

2 years, 8 months ago

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The Persian Empire(s)

Episode 1081

Located roughly in the territory of the modern-day nation of Iran is the ancient region known as Persia. 

Persia sat at a strategic crossroad between …

2 years, 8 months ago

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Lady Death: Lyudmila Pavlichenko (Encore)

Episode 1080

In 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a 24-year-old woman in Ukraine volunteered to join the Red Army. 

She was initially pressured …

2 years, 8 months ago

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