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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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  • I, Rigoberta Menchú: Voice of the Maya

    I, Rigoberta Menchú: Voice of the Maya
    Jun 15 2026
    Rigoberta Menchú was born in 1959 in Laj Chimel, a remote highland village in Guatemala's Quiché department. She was K'iche' Maya, one of the Indigenous peoples who make up 60 per cent of Guatemala's population but have been systematically dispossessed and persecuted since the Spanish conquest. In 1980, her father Vicente was killed when the Guatemalan army stormed the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala City, burning it to the ground with 37 people inside. Her mother was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by the army. Her teenage brother was killed. Rigoberta fled to Mexico in 1981. In Paris in 1983, she dictated her life story to anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. The resulting book, 'I, Rigoberta Menchú,' was translated into more than a dozen languages and brought global attention to the genocide being carried out against Guatemala's Indigenous population. An estimated 200,000 people were killed during the Guatemalan Civil War, the majority Indigenous Maya. In 1992 — the 500th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas — Rigoberta Menchú was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She was 33. The committee said the prize recognised her 'work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples.' She accepted it on behalf of 'the indigenous people of all America.'

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    11 mins
  • 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
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