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40: Swimming without water

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Olympics for Arts

From 1912 to 1948, the Olympics awarded medals for various art disciplines. Frank Capra's team used fomite, sugar, water and soap instead of cornflakes and plaster. This sounds like a materials question. They will make it a bomb. I don't think that many professional sports people were there back then. Oh, they were much bigger on amateurs.

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