The Tunguska Event
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 23.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On June 30, 1908 at approximately 7:15am, the sky over Siberia lit up with what was described by witnesses as a massive fireball, or the sky engulfed in fire. For the last century, scientists have been trying to figure out exactly what happened.
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| 0:30.7 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowStuffWorks.com. |
| 0:36.1 | Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Holly Frye, and I'm Tracy B Wilson. |
| 0:47.0 | This episode is a little bit of a history mystery. |
| 0:50.3 | It's also got a good bit of scientific work to counter that mystery, |
| 0:54.4 | but there's still that little sliver that remains of uncertainty |
| 0:58.5 | that keeps people guessing slash, I think, interested. |
| 1:01.7 | And also just hopeful that it will turn out to be something crazy. |
| 1:05.1 | Right. Yeah. We are talking today about something that I think a lot of people know a little bit about. |
| 1:11.4 | We'll talk about why at the end in terms of pop culture, which is the Tunguska event. |
| 1:16.7 | It's a strange phenomenon that happened in 1908. |
| 1:20.5 | And there is good news because while this was, I think you could categorize it as a catastrophic event, |
| 1:26.9 | it is not really a sad topic. |
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