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6: Solve a 13th Century murder!

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Pythagorean Triple

Three plus four plus five equals 12. It's used as a form of set square. The Pythagorean triple since three squared plus four squared equals five squared. That's why it's that triangle shape thing you had in school to measure angles. Any ideas from the panel on 1972 film where an elderly man goes to sleep in Hollywood, but wakes up next to cartoon just before we go?

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