Softly Random Useless Facts to Fall Asleep To

Useless Facts for Sleep · Oct 26, 2026 · 2h 30m

Tonight, you’ll discover why prehistoric dentists in Pakistan were drilling teeth with bow drills seven thousand years ago, how a clay disc found on Crete carries symbols no one has ever deciphered, and what made an ancient kingdom in Ethiopia put the Christian cross on its coins decades before Rome did. You’ll hear about mud-brick towers in Yemen that have been lived in since the sixteenth century, a board game from ancient Iraq that people were still playing in 1950s India, and a Roman sewer tunnel beneath the Forum that quietly does its job two and a half thousand years after it was built…