16: The 2-year-old newborn
Lateral with Tom Scott
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I'll Give 80% of That to Medi.
Newton abandoned London after the Great Plague and returned to Cambridge where he experimented with light and colour. Putting small holes in his window blind during the daytime provided a beam of light. He put a prism in front of it and it turned into an oblong shaped rainbow of colours. Adding more holes to the blind simply extended the length of the oblong. So you guys were really good and you got Newton there as well, so well done. I'll give 80% of that to Medi. And it wasn't a riddle. It wasn't an actual man.
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