Amazing Races (do-over‪)‬ Your Brain on Facts

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From using a train in a car race to marathon doping with deadly poison, there's far more excitement in racing than simply declaring a winner.
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Music by Kevin MacLeod, Steve Oxen, David Fesliyan.  
Links to all the research resources are on our website.
 
 Sources:
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/01/the-historic-new-york-to-paris-race-in-1908/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/
http://biologywriter.com/on-science/articles/pigeons/
https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Toronto-Stork-Derby
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/paris-or-bust-the-great-new-york-to-paris-auto-race-of-1908-116784616/
 
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