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No Such Thing As The Treaty Of Velociraptors

2025-08-07 · 2 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. University of BerlinOne-offGermany

    Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer hated his contemporary Hegel so much he intentionally scheduled his lectures at the same time as Hegel's and had zero people attend. This was at the University of Berlin — Schopenhauer…

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  2. Andrew Carnegie had the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and he needed a showstopper. He read in the paper, well, they found this gigantic thing. Actually what had been found was a thigh bone.

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