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In Braveheart he shouts "Freedom!" In real life, no one recorded any last words.
You've been told 300 Spartans held the pass. Really, thousands of Greeks marched.
Attila the Hun terrified Rome. Then a nosebleed killed him on his wedding night.
Months after he opened King Tut's tomb, he was dead. The world blamed a curse.
The Romans flogged her and attacked her daughters. So she burned London to the ground.
The sultan who took Constantinople marched on Vlad and found a forest of stakes.
Caligula's horse had a marble stable, a jeweled collar and servants. Then came the plan.
Elizabeth I's coronation ring grew so deep into her finger it had to be filed off.
Henry VIII married six women. He asked to be buried beside only one.
It took five bullets and about twenty cuts to kill Blackbeard.
Machines in Tesla's head
Your first engine runs on live June bugs. A boy wanders by and eats them. Your professor says you'll never build a motor without sparks. You do.
You light up the world, fall in love with a pigeon, and die broke in a hotel room. This is your life as Nikola Tesla ⚡
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Did Tesla say 369
Your first engine runs on live June bugs. A boy wanders by and eats them. Your professor says you'll never build a motor without sparks. You do.
You light up the world, fall in love with a pigeon, and die broke in a hotel room. This is your life as Nikola Tesla ⚡
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Nikola Tesla gave it all away
Your first engine runs on live June bugs. A boy wanders by and eats them. Your professor says you'll never build a motor without sparks. You do.
You light up the world, fall in love with a pigeon, and die broke in a hotel room. This is your life as Nikola Tesla ⚡
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Nikola Tesla saw your phone 100 years ago
Your first engine runs on live June bugs. A boy wanders by and eats them. Your professor says you'll never build a motor without sparks. You do.
You light up the world, fall in love with a pigeon, and die broke in a hotel room. This is your life as Nikola Tesla ⚡
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Tesla's earthquake machine
Your first engine runs on live June bugs. A boy wanders by and eats them. Your professor says you'll never build a motor without sparks. You do.
You light up the world, fall in love with a pigeon, and die broke in a hotel room. This is your life as Nikola Tesla ⚡
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Edison's $50,000 Joke
Your first engine runs on live June bugs. A boy wanders by and eats them. Your professor says you'll never build a motor without sparks. You do.
You light up the world, fall in love with a pigeon, and die broke in a hotel room. This is your life as Nikola Tesla ⚡
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Tesla's gift for a dead friend
Your first engine runs on live June bugs. A boy wanders by and eats them. Your professor says you'll never build a motor without sparks. You do.
You light up the world, fall in love with a pigeon, and die broke in a hotel room. This is your life as Nikola Tesla ⚡
Full episode on YouTube:
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Your first engine runs on live June bugs. A boy wanders by and eats them. Your professor says you'll never build a motor without sparks. You do.
You light up the world, fall in love with a pigeon, and die broke in a hotel room. This is your life as Nikola Tesla ⚡
Full episode on YouTube:
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There are two versions of Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet. One sold for $82.5 million in 1990 and vanished. The other came to France in 1949 from the doctor's own children, and for decades scholars doubted it: Van Gogh's letters describe only one portrait, and Gachet and his son copied paintings at home under the name Van Ryssel. In 1999, the Louver's laboratory looked under the paint. The family's copies were outlined first, then filled in, almost like paint-by-numbers. This one was fast and sure: the verdict was authentic. The full story is in "Where Is Van Gogh's Missing Portrait?"
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In 1990, someone paid $82.5 million for this Van Gogh. It has not been seen in public since.
Dr Paul Gachet looked after Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890. At first Vincent wrote that the doctor seemed iller than he was; days later he called him a ready-made friend, like a new brother, and painted his portrait. On Sunday 27 July 1890 Gachet was sent for: Vincent had shot himself. Gachet dressed the wound and stayed. Vincent died early on 29 July, and Gachet drew him on his deathbed; the etching he made of it is in the Rijksmuseum. The full story is in "Where Is Van Gogh's Missing Portrait?".
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In 1990, someone paid $82.5 million for this Van Gogh. It has not been seen in public since.
