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Welcome to Minute Odyssey, where the world’s most fascinating mysteries, forgotten histories, unbelievable discoveries, and awe inspiring stories are explored in cinematic 10 minute documentaries.

From ancient civilizations and lost legends to unexplained phenomena, hidden places, scientific wonders, and extraordinary people, every episode is designed to take you on a fast paced journey into the remarkable.

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Lake Nyos: The Night the Lake Exhaled Death

Lake Nyos: The Night the Lake Exhaled Death

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Salt of the Earth: The Underground City of Wieliczka

Salt of the Earth: The Underground City of Wieliczka

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The Golden Stitch: Inside the Goodyear Welt

The Golden Stitch: Inside the Goodyear Welt

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Lothal's Dock: How a Bronze Age Port Ran the Indus Trade

Lothal's Dock: How a Bronze Age Port Ran the Indus Trade

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The Sicilian Defense: Inside Chess's Most Combative Opening

The Sicilian Defense: Inside Chess's Most Combative Opening

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The Terracotta Roofs That Followed Spain's Empire Across the Ocean

The Terracotta Roofs That Followed Spain's Empire Across the Ocean

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Lalique's Glass Muse: The Birth of the Modern Perfume Bottle

Lalique's Glass Muse: The Birth of the Modern Perfume Bottle

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90 Degrees of Engineering: Inside the Cayan Tower Twist

90 Degrees of Engineering: Inside the Cayan Tower Twist

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Ed Dwight and the Astronaut Program That Wasn't

Ed Dwight and the Astronaut Program That Wasn't

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Sekigahara's Long Shadow: How One Afternoon in 1600 Sealed Japan's Fate

Sekigahara's Long Shadow: How One Afternoon in 1600 Sealed Japan's Fate

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The Anatomy of Loss: Mapping Grief Inside the Human Brain

The Anatomy of Loss: Mapping Grief Inside the Human Brain

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The Chocolate Houses: London's Forbidden 17th-Century Clubs

The Chocolate Houses: London's Forbidden 17th-Century Clubs

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Sleepless Minds: How a Wandering Brain Rewrites Memory at Night

Sleepless Minds: How a Wandering Brain Rewrites Memory at Night

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Master of None: Emily Dickinson's Secret Life in the Post

Master of None: Emily Dickinson's Secret Life in the Post

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Bodie: The Ghost Town Frozen in "Arrested Decay"

Bodie: The Ghost Town Frozen in "Arrested Decay"

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The Erector Set: Building America's Industrial Imagination

The Erector Set: Building America's Industrial Imagination

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Rebuilding the Neanderthal Larynx: What Prehistoric Voices Sounded Like

Rebuilding the Neanderthal Larynx: What Prehistoric Voices Sounded Like

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Little Wars, Big Ideas: How H.G. Wells Invented the Wargame

Little Wars, Big Ideas: How H.G. Wells Invented the Wargame

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Secret Symbols Hidden in America's Capital

Secret Symbols Hidden in America's Capital

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The Hungry Light: How Waitomo's Glowworms Lure Their Prey

The Hungry Light: How Waitomo's Glowworms Lure Their Prey

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Red Tails Over Anzio: The Tuskegee Airmen's First Combat

Red Tails Over Anzio: The Tuskegee Airmen's First Combat

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Stitched in Skin: The Revival of Inuit Tattooing

Stitched in Skin: The Revival of Inuit Tattooing

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Bushranger Queens: The Women Who Rode with Outlaws

Bushranger Queens: The Women Who Rode with Outlaws

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The Cobbles Under the Crossrail: What Diggers Found Below Fleet Street

The Cobbles Under the Crossrail: What Diggers Found Below Fleet Street

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The Sponge Divers Who Found a Greek Treasure Ship

The Sponge Divers Who Found a Greek Treasure Ship

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Growing Gems for Science: The Verneuil Process and the Laser Age

Growing Gems for Science: The Verneuil Process and the Laser Age

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Jaak Panksepp and the Ultrasonic Giggle

Jaak Panksepp and the Ultrasonic Giggle

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The Dragon-Headed Cathedrals of the Norwegian Fjords

The Dragon-Headed Cathedrals of the Norwegian Fjords

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Six Hours to Live: Survival in the Tidal Pool

Six Hours to Live: Survival in the Tidal Pool

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The First Hebrew Child in 2,000 Years

The First Hebrew Child in 2,000 Years

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Wind, Sun, and Steel: The Physics of Cayan Tower

Wind, Sun, and Steel: The Physics of Cayan Tower

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Why Mandarin Speakers Hear Music Differently

Why Mandarin Speakers Hear Music Differently

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Tuned in Pairs: The Shimmering Sound of Balinese Gamelan

Tuned in Pairs: The Shimmering Sound of Balinese Gamelan

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Why Straight Lines Bend: Inside the Café Wall Illusion

Why Straight Lines Bend: Inside the Café Wall Illusion

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Calving Season: Three Weeks That Define the Migration

Calving Season: Three Weeks That Define the Migration

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The Forgotten Petri Dish: Fleming's Lucky Mistake

The Forgotten Petri Dish: Fleming's Lucky Mistake

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The Carvers Who Make the Devils of December

The Carvers Who Make the Devils of December

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From Topcraft's Ashes: The Founding of Studio Ghibli

From Topcraft's Ashes: The Founding of Studio Ghibli

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A Thousand Shells, One Lacquer Box: The Art of Najeon Chilgi

A Thousand Shells, One Lacquer Box: The Art of Najeon Chilgi

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Pinch Your Nose: The Hidden Truth About Taste

Pinch Your Nose: The Hidden Truth About Taste

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The Blind Fish of the Congo's Abyss

The Blind Fish of the Congo's Abyss

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Metal Full of Holes: The Foam Holding Up the Next Spacecraft

Metal Full of Holes: The Foam Holding Up the Next Spacecraft

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The Architect Who Cracked Linear B

The Architect Who Cracked Linear B

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600 Years of Steel: The Last Sakai Bladesmiths

600 Years of Steel: The Last Sakai Bladesmiths

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The 4,000-Pound Arm: Unimate's First Shift at Ewing Township

The 4,000-Pound Arm: Unimate's First Shift at Ewing Township

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Ned Kelly's Last Stand at Glenrowan

Ned Kelly's Last Stand at Glenrowan

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Fish, Floods, and Angkor: The Empire Built on a Backward River

Fish, Floods, and Angkor: The Empire Built on a Backward River

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Before Banksy: The Man Who Sprayed Paris First

Before Banksy: The Man Who Sprayed Paris First

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The Sunken Currency: Yap's Underwater Fortunes

The Sunken Currency: Yap's Underwater Fortunes

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The Brush That Cannot Stop: Mastering Cursive Script

The Brush That Cannot Stop: Mastering Cursive Script

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The Owl That Lives in a Prairie Dog's Burrow

The Owl That Lives in a Prairie Dog's Burrow

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The Four Humors of Akbar: Greek Medicine in Mughal India

The Four Humors of Akbar: Greek Medicine in Mughal India

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Rewiring Connection: How the Brain Heals From Isolation

Rewiring Connection: How the Brain Heals From Isolation

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The Skunk Bear: Pound for Pound, the Arctic's Fiercest Hunter

The Skunk Bear: Pound for Pound, the Arctic's Fiercest Hunter

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From Brick to Bot: The Birth of LEGO Mindstorms

From Brick to Bot: The Birth of LEGO Mindstorms

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The Physics Behind Alexandrite's Impossible Color Shift

The Physics Behind Alexandrite's Impossible Color Shift

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Naica: The Cave of Giant Crystals That Could Kill You

Naica: The Cave of Giant Crystals That Could Kill You

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Frozen Smoke: Samuel Kistler's 1931 Bet That Changed Materials Science

Frozen Smoke: Samuel Kistler's 1931 Bet That Changed Materials Science

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Free Electricity for the World: Tesla's Final Gamble

Free Electricity for the World: Tesla's Final Gamble

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12,000 Dead: The Smog That Forced a Nation to Breathe

12,000 Dead: The Smog That Forced a Nation to Breathe

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Vanishing Giants: The Last Harpy Nests of Brazil

Vanishing Giants: The Last Harpy Nests of Brazil

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From Rajasthan to Seville: The 1,000-Year Journey of Flamenco

From Rajasthan to Seville: The 1,000-Year Journey of Flamenco

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The Tribe Without Numbers: Inside the Pirahã Mind

The Tribe Without Numbers: Inside the Pirahã Mind

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Hashima's Dark Shadow: Forced Labor Beneath the Waves

Hashima's Dark Shadow: Forced Labor Beneath the Waves

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What Makes a Good Life: Inside the World's Longest Happiness Study

What Makes a Good Life: Inside the World's Longest Happiness Study

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The 30-Year Wait: Wild Tobalá and the Hunt for Mountain Agave

The 30-Year Wait: Wild Tobalá and the Hunt for Mountain Agave

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Drilling Two Miles Down: The Race to Reach Lake Vostok

Drilling Two Miles Down: The Race to Reach Lake Vostok

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