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In this Deep Dive episode, our hosts discuss the legal, cultural, and surprising everyday connections between a landmark war-crimes trial, a Nobel-winning author, and a startling food fact.
- 📜 The Nuremberg Trials — how the 1945 prosecutions of top Nazi officials established international accountability, created a legal record that shaped historical storytelling, and made the concept of justice visible on a global stage.
- 🎂 Selma Lagerlöf — a focused birthday segment on the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1909), exploring how her folklore-rooted narratives carried moral and social weight, influenced cultural perception, and asserted women’s intellectual contributions.
- 💡 Fact of the day — the surprising statistic that one cow can produce 400 quarter‑pounders, and how that simple ratio clarifies supply-chain scale, informs regulatory conversations, and provides a cinematic image for listeners.
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