Welcome to AirNenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

There's nothing wrong with the little competition.

In fact, experts claim it drives both sides toward better innovation and improvement.

Think about it.

How would a professional athlete know how fast they could run if they didn't have a competitor

to try and beat?

Some of the great inventions of our day are a result of competition.

The mobile computers we all have in our pockets would most likely not have arrived so soon

if it weren't for the competition between a number of companies.

And the war of the currents in the 1880s, between alternating current and direct current,

gave us the home electrical systems we have today.

So we can't fault Daniel Burnham for thinking about his own competition and wanting to

do better.

He was an architect with an unusual and rare project.

Take a massive section of Chicago and turn it into an attraction that would captivate

the world.

Just a year before, in 1889, the city of Paris played host to the world exhibition, and

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