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43: Six unopenable letterboxes

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Importance of Playing CDs at Home

The maximum length of a full CD was meant to be, I think, 76 minutes. But you could burn outside that range with some CD burners. And at some point, CD players would like reach their limit and break. You can't put it in and play for 41 minutes there if you've got to flip it as well. There used to be vinyl records that did that because you put a physical needle on them.

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