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10: The day that cost $700m

Lateral with Tom Scott

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Did They Play a Different Kazakhstan National Anthem?

In 2012, Mariah Dementrienko from Kazakhstan won a shooting competition and they weren't really prepared for it. Instead of the actual Kazakhstan national anthem being played, a parody anthem from Borat was played at this event. Why might a company advertise a telephone number that is one digit longer than its actual number? Metallica's tour took 11,592 days to do this. Cola Al-Ramethi did this in just over three and a half days.

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