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For Want of a Nail

Your Brain on Facts
Your Brain on Facts
Episode • Apr 10, 2018 • 30m

Small things can have reverberating effects on history, both good and bad.  In 1453, the great walled city of Constantinople, which had withstood sieges for 1,100 years, fell to the Ottomans...because someone left the door open.

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