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Horde of Rabbits

Horde of Rabbits

By: Atween Studios
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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.


New episodes drop twice a week.

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  • Inventing Nothing

    Inventing Nothing
    Jun 11 2026
    The idea of "nothing" as a number seems obvious today, but it took millennia to develop. While the Babylonians and Maya used zero as a placeholder, it was Indian mathematician Brahmagupta who first treated zero as a number in its own right around 628 CE, defining rules for arithmetic with zero. The concept traveled to the Islamic world via al-Khwarizmi and eventually to Europe through Fibonacci in the 13th century. Without zero, there would be no binary code, no computers, no modern mathematics. The symbol "0" we use today evolved from a dot used in Indian manuscripts.

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    12 mins
  • The Movement That Pushed Her Out

    The Movement That Pushed Her Out
    Jun 8 2026
    On 28 June 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York — a routine harassment of queer people that happened to go spectacularly wrong. Marsha P. Johnson, a Black transgender woman and street activist, was among those who fought back. Eyewitnesses place her at the front of the resistance, throwing a shot glass at a mirror in defiance — the 'shot glass heard round the world.' She became a tireless activist, co-founding STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) with Sylvia Rivera to house homeless queer youth. But as the gay rights movement became more respectable, it quietly pushed Marsha — Black, trans, poor, mentally ill — to the margins. She was found dead in the Hudson River in 1992. Police ruled it suicide; her community said otherwise. The investigation was reopened in 2012. History is finally putting her name back where it belongs.

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    12 mins
  • The Ball Method

    The Ball Method
    Jun 4 2026
    Leprosy had tormented humanity for millennia. The only treatment — chaulmoogra oil — was so thick and bitter that patients vomited it up, and injecting it caused painful pustules. Alice Ball, the first woman and first Black American to earn a chemistry master's degree from the University of Hawaii, was approached in 1915 by Dr Harry Hollmann of the Leprosy Investigation Station. She was 23. Within months, she had solved the problem that had defeated every chemist before her: she isolated the active fatty acids from chaulmoogra oil and converted them into water-soluble ethyl esters that could be injected safely. By 1920, the 'Ball Method' had enabled 78 patients in Honolulu to leave quarantine and return home. Then Ball died — of accidental chlorine gas inhalation in her laboratory — before she could publish. The president of the College of Hawaii published her findings under his own name, calling it the 'Dean Method.' It took over 50 years, and the efforts of a single scholar, to restore her name to her discovery.

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    13 mins
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