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Is it possible to win Scrabble world championships in a language you don't speak? For Nigel Richards it is. As an English speaker, he's done it in both Spanish and French, neither of which he understands even remotely. How? It turns out Scrabble isn't really a game about knowing what words mean...

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Every breath you take has at some point been inside a tree. From terraforming to a symbiotic relationship with mushrooms, trees are the lungs of the Earth and the foundation of our progress of humans. But how much do you really know about the history of trees? A living, breathing exploration of what keeps us alive...

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Eccentric and misunderstood, Nikola Tesla's innovations and vision helped shape the world we live in today. A genius whose ability to build entire machines inside his mind, he rose to great heights after moving to New York from Eastern Europe as a young man. But although his ideas never seemed to stop, they also became his undoing...

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Caravaggio was a stunningly talented painter who helped usher in the Italian Baroque era. Famous in his own time, he lived a life beyond the studio that was every bit as compelling as his art. Celebrated as one of Rome’s leading painters, he later became a fugitive, sought redemption through a knighthood in Malta, fell spectacularly from grace, escaped from prison, and spent his final years trying to find his way back home...

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Glass is perhaps the most undervalued material invention in human history. Without it, we have no telescopes, microscopes, television, eye glasses, scientific standardization, internet, windows, touch screens and more—yet most of us hardly notice its presence. It was only through thousands of years of refinement and experimentation, that we've managed to harness its properties and turn them toward our innovation as a species...

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Mushrooms are not quite plants or animals. They exist in a kingdom between and have helped shape our world for billions of years. They are magical, frightening, curious and tasty to many...but there is more to these fungi than even that.

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Although we don't always remember them, everyone dreams every night. Dreams are a mysterious, sometimes beautiful, sometimes scary experience that science still can't really explain...even though we've been trying to figure them out for over 4,000 years.

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Genghis Khan rose from a tumultuous childhood on the Mongolian steppes to eventually unify warring tribes into the formidable Mongol Empire. Renowned for his brutal military campaigns, he employed innovative tactics and psychological warfare to conquer vast territories. But beyond warfare, he established a legal code, promoted religious tolerance and developed trade routes—laying the foundation for modern governance...

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In this playful sleep diversion, we explore the origin of phrases such as "butter someone up" and "sleep like a baby." A simple yet effective way to steer your brain away from busy or anxious thinking into a soft, soothing series of random facts... 

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Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie is a classic whodunit featuring the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. In this first chapter, we follow Poirt from France to England and back as he gets swept up in the mysterious murder of a wealthy financier. The case is filled with twists: a mysterious mistress, a long-lost love, a secret identity, and rivalries over money and power...

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