Horde of Rabbits
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Podcast Overview
<p>The true, strange, whimsical, overlooked stories from across all of human history — the bits that didn't make the textbooks. Join the rabbits as they discover those nuggets of history that you didn't learn about at school.</p><br><p>New episodes drop twice a week.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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5/21/2026
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July 16, 2026
Nothing Great Is Easy
On 24 August 1875, Captain Matthew Webb dived from Admiralty Pier, Dover, into the cold grey English Channel. He was 27 years old, coated in porpoise fat, and carried nothing but determination and a support boat stocked with beef tea, brandy, and ale. Twenty-one hours and forty-five minutes later — after a jellyfish sting, a three-hour tidal reversal that pushed him backwards, gusts of wind, and at least two cups of ale handed over the gunwale — he crawled ashore near Calais and became the most famous man in the world. The Mayor of Dover declared that no one would ever do it again. He was wrong: the next person managed it 36 years later. Webb's story is about what happens when a human being decides to do something that everyone agrees is impossible — and what happens after, when the fame runs out and the next impossible thing beckons.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
July 13, 2026
Exploding Whale
On November 9, 1970, a 45-foot (14-metre) sperm whale carcass washed ashore one mile south of the Siuslaw River, near Florence, Oregon. The Oregon State Highway Division, responsible for Oregon beaches (which are classified as state highways), decided to dispose of it using dynamite — reasoning the explosion would disintegrate the remains and scavengers would clean up the rest. Assistant District Highway Engineer George Thornton supervised the operation, reportedly landing the job because his supervisor had gone deer hunting. On November 12, 1970, they detonated 20 cases (half a ton / 1,000 pounds) of dynamite. The explosion launched massive chunks of blubber up to 800 feet (240 metres), crushing a parked car (a brand-new 1969 Oldsmobile 98 belonging to Walter Umenhofer — a charcoal company executive who had warned them they were using too much dynamite) and sending spectators fleeing. Most of the whale remained intact. The story became one of the first viral videos when reporter Paul Linnman's KATU footage spread online decades later, after Dave Barry's 1990 column 'Moby Yuck' brought it renewed attention.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
July 9, 2026
Tape That Could
After the oxygen tank explosion on Apollo 13, the three astronauts had to shelter in the lunar module—designed for two people for two days. The carbon dioxide was building up to lethal levels. The command module had spare filters, but they were square. The lunar module's sockets were round. Engineers on Earth had to figure out how to fit a square peg in a round hole using only materials on the spacecraft. They grabbed everything the astronauts had—duct tape, plastic bags, cardboard from manuals, a sock—and built an adapter. Instructions were radioed up, and the crew assembled it in space. It worked. The improvised air scrubber kept them alive for the four-day journey home. Sometimes the most sophisticated space mission in history depends on duct tape.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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- What is Horde of Rabbits?
<p>The true, strange, whimsical, overlooked stories from across all of human history — the bits that didn't make the textbooks. Join the rabbits as they discover those nuggets of history that you didn't learn about at school.</p><br><p>New episodes drop twice a week.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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