9 Hours of Boring Facts for Deep Sleep

9 Hours of Boring Facts for Deep Sleep

In this calm and deliberately boring episode, you'll listen to hundreds of quiet facts drawn from every corner of ordinary knowledge, arranged in no particular hurry across nine unhurried hours. You'll hear about the way envelope glue is made, how traffic lights are timed, why manhole covers are round, and what happens inside a vending machine the moment a coin drops through the slot. You'll learn how pencils get their hardness ratings, why clocks in advertisements are almost always set to ten past ten, and how the little plastic tables inside pizza boxes were invented by accident. You'll follow the origins of everyday things most people never think to ask about, from the reflective paint on highway signs to the reason elevators have mirrors and the process that puts the stripes in striped toothpaste. You'll discover how library books are cataloged, why ice cubes crack when you drop them in water, and how the world's time zones were drawn up by a Canadian railway engineer who was tired of missing trains. Tonight, as you listen, you can simply rest inside the thought that even the most ordinary subject contains more quiet details than anyone could ever notice at once.

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Boring Facts About Why We Snore to Fall Asleep To

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Boring Facts About Sheep to Fall Asleep To

Boring Facts About Sheep to Fall Asleep To

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Boring Facts About Blankets to Fall Asleep To

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Boring Facts About Owls to Fall Asleep To

Boring Facts About Owls to Fall Asleep To

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Boring Facts About the Heartbeat to Fall Asleep To

Boring Facts About the Heartbeat to Fall Asleep To

In this calm and deliberately boring episode, you'll listen to hundreds of quiet facts about the heartbeat — the small, steady contraction that has been repeating inside your chest since before you we...

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Boring Facts About Why We Get Sleepy to Fall Asleep To

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29 Syys 2h 14min

Boring Facts About Rabbits to Fall Asleep To

Boring Facts About Rabbits to Fall Asleep To

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