What if the invention that reshaped the modern world was created by a man sitting in a debtor’s prison? What if he died believing he had failed — never knowing that his discovery would circle the globe on billions of wheels?

This episode tells the incredible true story of a man who spent years bankrupt, ridiculed, and imprisoned… all because he couldn’t let go of one impossible idea. His obsession cost him everything — yet changed everything for everyone else.

A story of sacrifice. A story of persistence. A story of a twist of fate that arrived decades too late for its inventor.

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It started with a single gold watch and became the world’s largest store. For over a century, it brought modern life to millions of American homes—until the very idea that made it great turned against it.

This is the story of the rise and fall of Sears—and how it almost became Amazon before there was an Amazon.

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When the Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre in 1911, detectives around the world were baffled. For two years, the trail went cold—until a humble art dealer in Florence followed up on a strange letter. His small act of curiosity solved one of history’s greatest art mysteries… and forever changed the fame of the world’s most famous painting.

More than a century later, the Louvre faces a new heist in 2025—raising the question: could another ordinary observer be the one to solve it?

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