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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Gino Bartali Was A Champion And A Hero On A Bike
Description: Today in 1914, the birthday of Gino Bartali. The Italian cycling star won the Tour de France in 1938, and won a second time a decade later. But what was even more impressive was what he did in between those two wins. Plus: today in 1995, researchers in Slovenia found what was believed to be the oldest musical instrument ever discovered.
Gino Bartali (Yad Vashem)
Hear the world’s oldest instrument, the 50,000 year old neanderthal flute (Classic FM)
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