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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Castbox |
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| Oct 22 | — | — | — |
| Oct 19 | #162 | #162 | — |
| Oct 18 | #74 | #75 | #60 |
| Oct 17 | #169 | #166 | — |
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Soothing History for Sleep explores the strange, intimate, uncomfortable, and often surprising realities of everyday life in the past. From ancient sex and marriage to medieval medicine, bizarre hygiene, dangerous beauty, forgotten drugs, disease, survival, work, food, and private customs, each episode reveals what life was really like for ordinary people throughout history. Calm, carefully researched narration turns even history’s strangest subjects into relaxing stories designed for sleep.
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