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ENJOY AD FREE ON THE WIKISLEEP APP... find it at wikisleep.com or on the App Store or Google Play Store Mushrooms are not quite plants or animals. They exist in a kingdom between and have helped shape our world for billions of years. They are magical, frightening, curious and tasty to many...but there is more to these fungi than even that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...

ENJOY AD FREE ON THE WIKISLEEP APP... find it at wikisleep.com or on the App Store or Google Play Store Although we don't always remember them, everyone dreams every night. Dreams are a mysterious, sometimes beautiful, sometimes scary experience that science still can't really explain...even though we've been trying to figure them out for over 4,000 years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

ENJOY AD FREE ON THE WIKISLEEP APP... find it at wikisleep.com or on the App Store or Google Play Store Genghis Khan rose from a tumultuous childhood on the Mongolian steppes to eventually unify warring tribes into the formidable Mongol Empire. Renowned for his brutal military campaigns, he employed innovative tactics and psychological warfare to conquer vast territories. But beyond warfare, he es...

ENJOY AD FREE ON THE WIKISLEEP APP... find it at wikisleep.com or on the App Store or Google Play Store In this playful sleep diversion, we explore the origin of phrases such as "butter someone up" and "sleep like a baby." A simple yet effective way to steer your brain away from busy or anxious thinking into a soft, soothing series of random facts...  . . . . . #WikiSleep #sleep #sleepiest #s...

ENJOY AD FREE ON THE WIKISLEEP APP... find it at wikisleep.com or on the App Store or Google Play Store Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie is a classic whodunit featuring the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. In this first chapter, we follow Poirt from France to England and back as he gets swept up in the mysterious murder of a wealthy financier. The case is filled with twists: a myster...

ENJOY AD FREE ON THE WIKISLEEP APP... find it at wikisleep.com or on the App Store or Google Play Store Originating from ancient Celtic traditions, Halloween marks a time when people believed the boundary between the living and the dead was particularly thin. Today, it is viewed as a playful holiday and exploration of themes around fear and mortality, celebrating both the mystery of the unknown an...

ENJOY AD FREE ON THE WIKISLEEP APP... find it at wikisleep.com or on the App Store or Google Play Store The Salem Witch Trials were one of Colonial America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria. All in all, more than two hundred people were accused between February 1692 and May 1693. Thirty were found guilty and nineteen were executed. The trials have been described as a vivid cautionary tale ab...

Listen 100% ad-free on the WikiSleep app by visiting WikiSleep.com In part two of Myths & Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, we learn about Reah, the division of the worlds and the origin of humans. It's a fascinating exploration of the true meaning of myth and what lies beneath...  . . . . #mythology #GreekMyth #wikisleep #sleep #mentalhealth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

Listen ad-free on the WikiSleep app by visiting WikiSleep.com In the canon of Greek and Roman mythology countless stories abound, each intersecting and intermingling with another. In this series, we explore the origins of the myths and how they manifested in the legends of the people of ancient times... . . . . #mythology #greekmythology #wikisleep #sleep #sleepstories Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

Listen to the full episode on the WikiSleep app by visiting WikiSleep.com Born in 1883 in Prague, Franz Kafka was a Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-b...

Listen Ad-Free on the WikiSleep app by visiting WikiSleep.com Perhaps one of the most unhinged medical procedures of the 20th century, lobotomies were highly controversial from the very start. Based on flimsy research and a distinct lack of knowledge on how the brain actually functions, the procedure was performs tens of thousands of times with often horrifying results. Yet it took until 1977 for...

Listen Ad-Free on the WikiSleep app by visiting WikiSleep.com Famous for his exceptional skill and speed as a martial artist, Bruce Lee’s life was a fascinating journey toward stardom. Raised in Hong Kong and forced into street fights, his parents urged him to train for self-defence. He would take that experience and training to create his own style of martial arts, Jeet Kune Do style, or the Way...

Listen Ad-Free on the WikiSleep App... The Great Fire of London swept through central London from Sunday, September 2nd to Thursday, September 6th, 1666, gutting the medieval city inside the old Roman wall, before extending past the wall to the west, engulfing the Royal Exchange, St. Paul's Cathedral and nearly 13,000 homes. It is considered to be one of the most destructive fires in city history....

Listen Ad-Free on the WikiSleep app by visiting WikiSleep.com Cleopatra is one of the most fascinating humans in all of history. A queen, a brilliant political tactician and mother to both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony's children, her relatively short life was full of intrigue and cunning.... . . . . #wikisleep #sleepstories #sleep #sleephelp #sleepstuff #Cleopatra #Egypt #Pharaoh #MentalHealth #S...

Enjoy ad-free listening on the WikiSleep app by visiting WikiSleep.com . Jerry Garcia is best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist for the Grateful Dead, a band that became a symbol of the 1960s counterculture. His unique blend of rock, folk and blues, coupled with his improvisational guitar style, made him a central figure in the jam band scene. He was also a visual artist and a cultural icon...

Listen to the full episode on the WikiSleep app by visiting WikiSleep.com He was the world's first international movie star at 25 years old, with enough clout and money to dictate his terms. Starting from nothing, Charlie Chaplin's rise to superstardom is fraught with intrigue, despair and more success than most anyone could handle.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...