*Sample* | 1882 Case of the Stolen Nitroglycerin (Bonus Episode #11)
Calm History - Bedtime Sleep Stories for Education & Relaxation (By A Real Person; Not AI)
Harris | ASMR & Insomnia Network
4.4 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another bonus episode of Calm History. |
| 0:05.9 | Today, you're going to hear a true crime story that occurred around 1882. |
| 0:14.0 | It's a real case about a detective, a criminal, and a stolen ton of highly explosive nitroglycerin. |
| 0:25.1 | I discovered this case a while ago, and I read it as a bonus episode for my other podcast, Sleep Whisper's. |
| 0:35.5 | But now, I've greatly expanded the prior introduction with a lot more historical |
| 0:42.1 | facts and related stories to make it even more suitable for calm history. Your squirrels are about |
| 0:52.1 | to chew on some curious and fascinating history about nitroglycerin. |
| 0:59.0 | For example, another title for this true crime story could be |
| 1:04.0 | the case of the moonshiner and the torpedoes. |
| 1:10.0 | Go ahead, try to visualize what this case will be about. |
| 1:15.6 | If you think the moonshiner in this story will be making illegal alcohol in an outdoor still, |
| 1:23.6 | then you're about to learn about another type of moonshiner. And if you think the torpedoes in this story are projectiles fired from a submarine, |
| 1:35.3 | then you're about to learn about another type of torpedo. |
| 1:39.3 | See, this case is not about illegal booze and submarines. |
| 1:47.0 | This case is about oil. |
| 1:51.1 | The terms, moonshiners and torpedoes, |
| 1:55.1 | mean something different in the oil industry. |
| 1:59.2 | You've probably heard of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. |
| 2:06.8 | It's a method to fracture bedrock formations by a pressurized liquid. |
| 2:14.9 | This makes it easier to access underground oil and to keep it flowing. |
| 2:21.5 | It was initially developed in 1947 as a simple way to unclog the flow of oil under oil rakes. |
| 2:32.3 | The oil got clogged under these rakes |
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