When Johann Rahl received the letter on Christmas Day 1776, he put it away to read later.

Maybe he thought it was a season's greeting and wanted to save it for the fireside.

But what it actually was, was a warning, delivered to the Hesian colonel, letting him know that General George Washington was crossing the Delaware and would soon attack his forces.

The next day, when Rawl lost the Battle of Trenton and died from two colonial Boxing Day musket balls, the letter was found, unopened in his vest pocket.

As someone with 15,000 unread emails in his inbox, I feel like there's a lesson there.

Oh well, this is the constant, a history of getting things wrong. I'm Mark Chrysler. Every episode, we look at the bad

ideas, mistakes, and accidents that misshaped our world. Find us at Constantpodcast.com

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Hi there, Nurse Mo here, and with over 400, soon to be over 500 episodes, chances are there's some really good stuff in the backlog that you haven't discovered yet.

That's why I'm pulling this episode up to the top of your podcast feed because I definitely don't want you to miss this one.

Well, hello again, everyone.

This is Nurse Mo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing podcast.

As always, I'm super stoked that you are here today spending your precious free time or commute time or exercise time or laundry folding time with me. Today is episode 149 and we are going to be talking about some basics of burns.

But before we dive into that, I always like to take a moment and acknowledge my listeners with

the listener shoutout. So this one is from Lena. So Lena, thank you so much for writing in

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