Why did the calendar jump ahead 11 days in 1752? …and what’s the deal with 1 in every 5 miles of interstate supposedly being a straightaway?
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Ep 46: Calendars and Runways
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Ep 45: Phone books and Heinz 57
Ep 44: You’ve got mail and can you break a $1?
What is the most amount of coinage you can have while still not being able to make change for a dollar?
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Ep 43: Tied – Al Gore and George Bush weren’t first
Ep 42: Snake Island and 43,252,003,274,489,856,000
I can’t stand the Rubik’s Cube, but thats probably because as a kid my brother was always so good at them and I wasn’t.
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Ep41: 911 and Bloemfontein
How did 911 get chosen as the three numbers that represent emergency services?
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Ep 40: The world’s tiniest sculptures
Ep 39: A dying people
I highly recommend the BBC series Human Planet (2010). It is by the same people who made Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series.
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Ep 38: Orange and Human Navals
Attack of the clones! And how best to tell identical twins apart.
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Ep 37: 100 Trillion Dollar Bill (Zimbabwe)
…and America has a $100,000 bill. The real question is how do you get your hands on one!?
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