The Hidden History of Assassins, Part I: An Origin Story

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What's the difference between an assassination and a garden-variety murder? Where does the term 'assassin' actually come from, and how did an obscure sect founded almost one thousand years ago fundamentally change the course of history as we know it? Tune in for the answers to these questions and more in the first part of this special two-part series.

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0:31.5	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained
0:37.2	events.
0:38.2	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
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1:10.9	you to know.
1:12.3	Today we're embarking on a two part episode, one that travels across time and space from
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