

Boring History for Sleep
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Welcome to Boring History to Sleep — the only show where falling asleep in the middle is not only allowed… it’s encouraged. Each episode takes you on a slow, uneventful stroll through the most yawn-worthy corners of the past: treaties nobody remembers, kings who ruled for three weeks, and revolutions that never really got started. Delivered in the softest, most sleep-inducing voice we could find, this show is like warm milk with a side of ancient trivia. Perfect for insomniacs, history nerds, and anyone who thinks a Roman tax policy discussion sounds like a lullaby.
Lay back, close your eyes
Lay back, close your eyes
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Nov 26, 2025 • 4h 5min
Boring History For Sleep | WW2 Facts You’ve Never Heard
🕯️🌍 World War II was one of the most intense events in human history — but hidden beneath the battles are quiet stories, strange coincidences, and surprising details that feel more dreamy than frightening. From forgotten inventions to bizarre accidents and peaceful moments in the middle of chaos, these soft WW2 facts will gently pull your mind away from the day.Close your eyes and drift into a calmer corner of history, where even the world’s biggest conflict has quiet details worth whispering.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Soft facts, slow voices, and sleepy timelines. 💤

Nov 25, 2025 • 3h 60min
Boring History For Sleep | British Royals and Their Secret Addictions EXPOSED 👑😱
🕯️👑 Behind silks, palaces, and perfect portraits, some British royals hid addictions and obsessions stranger than the scandals that made the newspapers. From unusual habits to full-blown fixations, their private lives were far messier — and far more human — than history likes to admit.Close your eyes and step behind the velvet curtain into the royal world of secrets, vices, and very strange hobbies.

Nov 24, 2025 • 3h 23min
Boring History For Sleep | How We Lost the Greatest Library Ever Built 😩📚
📚🔥 The Library of Alexandria was once the brightest mind on Earth — a place where scholars dreamed, argued, and gathered every scrap of human knowledge they could find. For centuries it grew like a living brain, collecting scrolls from ships, philosophers, kings, and wanderers… until politics, war, and time slowly turned brilliance into ash.Tonight, close your eyes and drift through marble halls, whispering scrolls, and the quiet tragedy of a world that forgot how precious knowledge could be.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Wisdom, wonder, and a flame that changed history. 💤

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Nov 23, 2025 • 4h 3min
Boring History For Sleep | Adolf Hitler: The Fall of the Third Reich 🕯️💣
Explore the chilling ascent of Adolf Hitler, from his chaotic childhood and artistic failures to his radicalization in Vienna. Delve into the propaganda tactics that garnered Nazi support during economic crises. Witness his rapid rise to power, including his appointment as Chancellor and consolidation of authority through the Reichstag fire. Discover the dark realities of persecution leading to Kristallnacht and the warning signs of tyranny. This insightful journey reveals how one man’s ideology plunged the world into chaos.

Nov 23, 2025 • 3h 48min
Boring History For Sleep | Neanderthals: The Guys Who Invented Bad Decisions 🪓😬
💀🔥 Neanderthals weren’t the quiet, thoughtful cave philosophers you see in museums — they were walking chaos machines built like tanks and powered by pure impulse. They invented bad decisions, picked fights with animals ten times their size, and somehow survived on a diet that was 90% meat and 10% “let’s see if this kills me.” Their lives were loud, wild, and tragically hilarious — the perfect blend of brute strength and absolutely zero long-term planning.So close your eyes and drift back to a world where every day was chest-beating, mammoth-dodging, rock-throwing insanity… and weirdly, that’s how humanity made it this far.

Nov 21, 2025 • 4h 2min
Boring History For Sleep | Royal Addictions: The Dark Side of British Monarchy 👀👑
🍷 Behind the polished portraits and royal etiquette, some British monarchs fought battles far darker than any war — with their own addictions, vices, and self-destructive habits. From kings who couldn’t put down the bottle to princes undone by excess, these stories reveal a monarchy far messier, more human, and more chaotic than the history books admit.So close your eyes and wander through candlelit palaces where power glittered on the surface… and ruin often lurked just beneath the crown.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Scandal, struggle, and the soft fall of royal disgrace. 💤

Nov 21, 2025 • 3h 29min
Boring History For Sleep | How Humans Accidentally Domesticated Cats… Twice 🐈⬛🤦♂️
🐈⬛✨ Humans didn’t tame cats — cats simply showed up, judged us, and decided we were acceptable roommates. We domesticated them once in the ancient Near East, lost them to the wild, and then somehow ended up doing it all over again thousands of years later. Now close your eyes and drift into the quiet, purring history of the world’s most aloof companions — who domesticated us just as much as we domesticated them.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Cats, chaos, and cozy ancient vibes. 💤

Nov 20, 2025 • 3h 23min
Boring History For Sleep | Imperial China Was Not Built for You 🏮😬
🍵💀 Imperial China looked elegant in paintings — silk robes, poetry, perfectly trimmed gardens — but daily life was a whole different dynasty. Between strict social rules, exhausting labor, terrifying punishments, and a bureaucracy that made everything harder, most people spent more time surviving than admiring the scenery. One wrong bow, one wrong word, or one unlucky year of harvest could change everything.So close your eyes and drift into the crowded streets, smoky tea houses, and palace shadows of old China — a world beautiful to study, but brutal to live in.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Dynasties, discipline, and daily chaos. 💤

Nov 19, 2025 • 3h 45min
Boring History For Sleep | Lust, Shame & Scandal Behind Medieval Closed Doors 👀🌑
🕯️😈 Medieval Europe preached purity by day… but lived a very different story after dark. Behind monastery walls, castle gates, and timbered village houses, people battled temptation, broke rules, whispered secrets, and confessed sins they hoped no one would ever repeat. The Church tried to control desire, but rumor, scandal, and human nature spread faster than any sermon.So close your eyes and wander into the shadowy corners of the Middle Ages — where lust was forbidden, sin was everywhere, and everyone had something to hide.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Scandal, silence, and medieval mischief at midnight. 💤

Nov 18, 2025 • 3h 58min
Boring History For Sleep | The Strange Social World of Victorian Boarding 🕯️🥀
🏚️🍵 In Victorian cities, not everyone lived in grand homes — most squeezed into boarding houses filled with strangers, secrets, and the faint smell of tea and coal smoke. Behind the lace curtains and polite smiles, people from every walk of life shared rooms, gossip, and the occasional scandal. It was a world of whispered ambitions, hidden romances, and the quiet desperation of trying to appear respectable.So close your eyes and step inside a creaking London house lit by gaslight, where every knock at the door came with a new story — and no one really knew who was sleeping in the next room.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Secrets, society, and Victorian survival. 💤


