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Jul 2022
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Minicast 03: France is bacon

Frank Carrizo Zirit
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Who doesn't want more knowledge? Today I'm bringing three wonderful expressions with the word knowledge. One of them, knowledge is power, even has a funny story of a guy who misunderstood it until he was an adult. Read more about this by following this link.

As always, this minicast has a transcript that you can download from here

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