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Mastodons and 'Murica, with Lauren Vogelbaum, Part Two: A Grudge Match with the French
Thomas Jefferson wasn't just obsessed with mastodons for no reason. Instead, he was in an intense dispute with a French naturalist named Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Leclerc argued that the American continent...
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Mastodons and 'Murica, with Lauren Vogelbaum, Part Two: A Grudge Match with the French is an episode from Ridiculous History by iHeartPodcasts. Thomas Jefferson wasn't just obsessed with mastodons for no reason. Instead, he was in an intens...
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Published Aug 13, 2026, 33:32 long, audio available.
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