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For Want of a Nail
Season 1 · Episode 11

For Want of a Nail

The far-reaching effects of tiny things

Your Brain on Facts

April 10, 201829m 49s

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Show Notes

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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