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Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics,

the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history.

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When Spaniards first encountered platinum in Colombia, they named it Platina, which means little silver.

What they wanted was the silver, and the platinum was a sort of unwanted impurity.

But today, on the American precious metals exchange on September 23rd and 2024, the price for an ounce of platinum was about $978 U.S.

dollars while silver was going for only about $31.

We have found lots of uses for platinum and other platinum group metals like palladium

and rhodium.

The chemical industry uses platinum group metals in the production of nitric oxide, which we use to make fertilizers.

The metals are also important in the automotive industry.

For example, we use them in catalytic converters to try to clean up automobile exhausts.

And they're also used in jewelry.

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