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listening. Terms apply. Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of IHeart Radio and grim and mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities.

Water. It's one of the most essential resources around. Most of our bodies and most of the

planets are made up of it. Nowadays, we take water for granted, very literally. You turn on the

tap and water flows indefinitely. It never crosses your mind that there is a finite amount.

The sky is blue, the earth is round, and water comes out of a faucet. Our ancient ancestors used to spend

every day of their lives ensuring that they had access to clean water. They developed ingenious

methods for supplying it, methods that have shaped our modern world more than we realize.

Four thousand years ago, for example, an ancient people began to make their way north from

the Maya civilization in Mexico.

Their entire worldview was different.

They had no concept of how big the Earth is or their place in it.

No scientific method to give them answers to where the weather comes from or what it might be like one day after the next.

And the Sonoran Desert, where they were headed, is not an

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