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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
When events are out of our control, all we can do is just make the best of it. The folks in our stories today did exactly that after life threw them some bizarre and unusual curveballs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm |
| 0:08.7 | and Mild. |
| 0:13.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:16.3 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:22.2 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:36.8 | Not long ago, the world witnessed an unimaginable sight, a cargo ship known as the Evergiven |
| 0:42.4 | had gotten stuck in Egypt's Suez Canal. |
| 0:45.5 | Steered off its path by an oncoming sandstorm, the freighter blocked over 360 other ships |
| 0:50.8 | from getting through the canal. |
| 0:52.8 | The ordeal lasted almost a week and had everyone wondering how such a thing could have happened |
| 0:57.1 | in the first place. |
| 0:58.5 | Apparently, few remembered that the canal had gotten blocked once before, with a very |
| 1:02.8 | different outcome. |
| 1:05.3 | On June 5th of 1967, Israel went to war against Egypt and Syria in what came to be known as |
| 1:11.2 | the June War. |
| 1:12.2 | However, due to the surprising length of the fight, it also went by another name, the |
| 1:16.9 | Six Day War. |
| 1:18.6 | The conflict was over by June 10th, with Egypt retreating west. |
| 1:22.7 | However, as they crossed the canal, Egyptian forces blocked it on both sides to keep the |
| 1:27.1 | Israelis from using it. |
| 1:29.0 | What they didn't realize was that their actions had inadvertently stranded a convoy of 15 |
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