Lateral with Tom Scott cover image

4: The currency that cuts crime

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Cuban Missile Crisis?

In September 1970, an aerial photo was taken of the island of Kozo Alcatraz in Cuba. The photo shows a soccer field, tennis court, volleyball courts, and a basketball court. How did that provoke a major crisis? In-huh because they're having far more fun than everybody else by the look of the opposite.

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