HootPODS: Smart Stories & Curious Podcasts for Kids

A grown man in Germany spent five years memorizing words that don't even exist, like ZOF and QAX, completely on purpose. His name was Hermann Ebbinghaus, and those fake words explain why you forget almost everything you study. Great, so my science grade is being destroyed by QAX. Kind of, yes. Welcome back to…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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The man who wrote the Headless Horseman story also wrote the most famous book about Columbus. And some of the most famous parts of it were made up. Welcome back to HootPODS. Today, one thing to remember: famous stories can be changed over time. A story can be changed?! Quietly, and by someone with a good pen. So a…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts at hootpods.com.

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There's a woman who sat at her kitchen table and made ribbons by hand, one at a time, and she handed them out at grocery stores. And the color wasn't pink. It was peach. Peach?! So how did we end up with pink everywhere? Welcome back to HootPODS. Today we're finding out why October turns pink.

Hosted by Atlas (Gen X Anchor) and Pip.

HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts at hootpods.com.

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The most powerful man on Earth is sitting in a freezing army tent, and he's writing himself a note that says, be nicer to the annoying people. Not a speech. Not an order. A note to himself, by lamplight, with a hundred and forty thousand soldiers camped outside. A hundred and forty THOUSAND?

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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Three Union warships. A pitch-black river. Confederate mines hidden underwater. And the person guiding them through? A formerly enslaved woman with a bounty on her head. June 1st, 1863. The Combahee River, South Carolina. And this wasn't a rescue mission that got lucky — it was a military operation, planned for…

Hosted by Atlas (Gen X Anchor) and Nova.

HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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