C.L. Berns

Audiobook Narrator | Voice Actor
🎧 Narrated by C.L. Berns

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The World Wide Web started with plain text…

not videos…

not memes…

not social media.

Sometimes history’s biggest revolutions begin very quietly.

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#WorldWideWeb #NikolaTesla #ThisDayInHistory

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When Skylab fell from orbit in 1979…

people actually bought insurance in case it landed on their house.

History is weird sometimes.

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#Skylab #FredSavage

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When Atlantis launched on July 8, 2011…

everyone knew they were watching the final Space Shuttle mission.

Some endings feel historic the moment they happen.

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#SpaceShuttle #KevinBacon

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Traveler’s checks were once considered one of the smartest ways to travel.

Today…

many people have never even seen one.

Technology moves fast.

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#TravelersChecks #ShelleyDuvall

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Before he ruled the Soviet Union…

Joseph Stalin helped organize one of history’s boldest bank robberies.

History is weird.

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#JosephStalin #SylvesterStallone

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The Secret Service wasn’t originally created to protect the President.

Its first mission?

Stopping counterfeit money.

Sometimes history’s biggest surprises are hiding in plain sight.

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#SecretService #PTBarnum

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The two Founding Fathers passed away on July 4, 1826—exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence.

Some true stories don’t need embellishment.

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#JohnAdams #FourthOfJuly

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On July 4, 1826—exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence—both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died.

The irony of Adams’ final words makes the story even more remarkable.

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#FourthOfJuly #History

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Before 1963, Americans mailed millions of letters without ZIP Codes.

Which raises a very reasonable question:

How did anything get anywhere?

#WaitThatsRandom #ThisDayInHistory #DidYouKnow #ZIPCode #DebbieHarry

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Check out the full episode: https://t.co/cxTPPfJB9C

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What if George Washington had been assassinated…

before the Declaration of Independence?

History came closer than most people realize.

#WaitThatsRandom #ThisDayInHistory #DidYouKnow #GeorgeWashington #MelBrooks

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The first iPhone wasn’t the first smartphone.

It was the first one that made everyone else rethink what a phone should be.

#WaitThatsRandom #ThisDayInHistory #DidYouKnow #iPhone #SlimPickens

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🎧 Listen to the episode here: https://t.co/mFz7axIVUx

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The first ATM used radioactive paper vouchers.

1967 was wild.

#WaitThatsRandom
#ThisDayInHistory
#DidYouKnow
#ATM
#JJAbrams

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Check out the episode here: https://t.co/wyuG2J6lwJ

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The Pied Piper story may have started with a real historical mystery.

More than 700 years later…

we’re still trying to figure out what actually happened.

#WaitThatsRandom #ThisDayInHistory #DidYouKnow #PiedPiper

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The Black Hole of Calcutta.
Lizzie Borden.
Jaws.

Three stories that refused to stay buried.

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⌨️ Typewriters
🌭 Giant hot dogs
🦔 Sonic the Hedgehog

June 23 got weird.