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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: How the Terracotta Army Works

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 1974, Chinese farmers discovered the first of what would number 7,000 terracotta soldiers meant to protect China's first emperor in the afterlife. Learn all about them in this classic episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:30.8

Hi friends.

0:32.4

If this were to be July 20th, 2015, and you're a stuff you should know listener, you might

0:36.8

be queuing up the following episode.

0:39.0

But it's not.

0:40.0

It's modern times.

0:41.0

But I enjoyed this one, so it's my selects pick.

0:43.4

It's all about the terracotta army and it's called How the terracotta army works.

0:53.7

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

1:00.1

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

1:04.5

I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry.

1:08.8

We're just hanging.

1:10.8

Figure we press record and see what happens.

1:12.9

Yeah.

1:13.9

The I Heart Radio.

1:14.9

You know, a terracotta army of three.

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