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After a year plus long absence of curios, we once again rank a strange item! This time around we travel to the 1700s to find an automaton chess player dressed as a Turkish man. The 1700s had robots!? Join us on this journey to discover the reality behind this robotic chess player who played against people such as Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon. There are so many twists and turns in this story, you may throw your back out!
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