Boring Facts About Manta Rays to Fall Asleep To

Boring Facts About Manta Rays to Fall Asleep To

In this calm and deliberately boring episode, you'll listen to hundreds of quiet facts about manta rays, the large, flat, gentle sea creatures that glide through the open ocean on broad, wing-like fins. We take a slow and unhurried look at what a manta ray actually is and how it lives, since it swims by slowly flapping its huge triangular fins like a bird in slow motion, steers tiny plankton into its mouth using a pair of fleshy paddles on its head, and lives entirely on some of the smallest life in the sea. Along the way, we cover the manta's calm, unhurried life in warm waters, from its enormous width and graceful movement to the way it visits cleaning stations to have small fish tidy its skin, the difference between the reef mantas of the shallows and the giant oceanic mantas of the deep, and how these rays are among the most intelligent of all fish, with the largest brains of any fish for their size. There are many overlooked details, including why mantas are harmless despite their size and have no dangerous sting, how each one can be recognized by the unique pattern of spots on its underside, why they sometimes leap clear of the water, and how slowly they reproduce, usually raising just one pup at a time. Nothing here is dramatic, and nothing needs to be remembered. 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

In this calm and deliberately boring episode, you'll listen to hundreds of quiet facts about sheep — from the simple mechanics of how they chew cud and grow wool to the ancient history of their domest...

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Boring Facts About Blankets to Fall Asleep To

Boring Facts About Blankets to Fall Asleep To

In this calm and deliberately boring episode, you'll listen to hundreds of quiet facts about blankets — the ordinary layers of fabric that people pull over themselves every single night without giving...

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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'l...

2 Okt 8h 52min

Boring Facts About Owls to Fall Asleep To

Boring Facts About Owls to Fall Asleep To

In this calm and deliberately boring episode, you'll listen to hundreds of quiet facts about owls, the soft-footed hunters that share the night with you right now. You'll hear how their feathers are e...

1 Okt 2h 16min

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...

30 Sep 2h 13min

Boring Facts About Why We Get Sleepy to Fall Asleep To

Boring Facts About Why We Get Sleepy to Fall Asleep To

In this calm and deliberately boring episode, you'll listen to hundreds of quiet facts about why we get sleepy — the slow chemical buildup that makes your eyelids heavy, the ancient clock ticking insi...

29 Sep 2h 14min

Boring Facts About Rabbits to Fall Asleep To

Boring Facts About Rabbits to Fall Asleep To

In this calm and deliberately boring episode, you'll listen to hundreds of quiet facts about rabbits. You'll learn how their ears work as built-in cooling systems, why they eat their own droppings as ...

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