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Oct 2022
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Comment l’inventeur de la dynamite est-i...

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Si je vous dis Alfred Nobel. Vous me dites prix Nobel. Normal, c'est écrit dessus comme ils disent. Mais saviez vous qu'il était l’inventeur de la dynamite ? Et que cette invention a entrainé la création du prix Nobel de la paix. Et de tous les autres au passage. Ne bougez pas, on vous raconte tout.


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