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362 - A Generous Number of Apples

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

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Cuba's First Olympic Athlete, Felix Carbajal

Felix de la Caridad Caraval Isoto was Cuba's first Olympic athlete. At 14, he challenges a much older decorated Spanish athlete to an endurance race. The two runners start at eight in the morning and they're still racing well into the evening. When his Spanish competitor finally throws in the towel around 5 p.m., 14 year old Felix keeps going for another two hours. By the time Felix finally stops at 7 p.M., he's been running for 11 hours straight.

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