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A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.
In the world of sports, most people enjoy very close fought, exciting games that go down to the wire. If you were to take a poll on what the best games or matches in history were in any given sport, it would probably involve a close score with a last-second victory to put one team over the edge.
However, there are times when a team gets whooped so bad, you just have to sit back and admire the shellacking they received.
This is the realm of the blowout.
The British Crown is unquestionably the best-known monarchy in the world. As with all monarchies, there is a strict line of succession featuring many names you’ve probably heard of: Prince Charles, Prince William, and little Prince George.
However, the rules regarding succession are more elaborate than most people realize, and the number of people in the line of succession now goes into the thousands.
If you look at the list of officer ranks in the United States armed forces, there are 10 ranks listed which are held today They go from Second Lieutenant all the way up to the rank of General, which is the four-star variant of the rank.
There is a rank above general, a five-star general, which hasn’t been awarded in 70 years. Most people are familiar with these generals as having served in WWII.
However, there is still one more rank above that of five-star general in the United States Military.
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There have been 5 acknowledged presidential elections in US history where the winner of the popular vote did not win in the electoral college.
However, there is a very good argument to be made that there is a sixth election that should be added to that list.
The conventional wisdom holds that John F. Kennedy narrowly beat Richard Nixon in the 1960 popular vote by 112,827 votes. However, to get to this number, you have to put a tortured spin on the numbers from one state in particular.
Jessie Ownes was the world record holder in the men’s 100m dash and won the gold medal at the 1936 Olympics.
Usain Bolt is the current world record holder in the men’s 100m and won 3 gold medals in the event.
This episode is going to try and answer an impossible, yet interesting question: who would win in a race between Jessie Owens and Usain Bolt?
Not in the sense that Seinfield was a TV show about nothing, but rather this is literally about nothing.
It is about the number zero.
A number that few people bother to give much thought to, yet without it, modern mathematics wouldn’t exist and neither would any of the technologies we’ve developed over the centuries.
Learn more about the fascinating history of zero, and why it took so long to develop on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Bluffing is one of the most important aspects of playing poker. In any strategic game, in fact, deception can be critical to success.
Warfare is no different. Deceiving an enemy can often mean the difference between winning and losing. Between life and death.
During WWII, the allied forces unleashed the largest and most complicated deception in military history. A deception which resulted in the success of the Allied invasion of Europe, and saved thousands, if not tens of thousands of lives.
This week we learn how one enamored entrepreneur on a shoe-string budget gave birth to the Murphy bed in San Francisco. Then, we revisit one of our most-popular Bay Curious episodes of all time, about the Flintstone House in Hillsborough. The home's architect, who wasn't available for our original story, shares the backstory to his unique design.
Reported by Katrina Schwartz and Rachael Myrow. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz and Rob Speight. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Bianca Hernandez, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Michelle Wiley.
