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19: 315,000 obsolete index cards

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Backward Index of the Miriam Webster Dictionary

In 1957, B F Goodrich patented a simple improvement that allowed the belt surface to cool down for a lot longer. In some industrial processes, conveyor belts are used to convey hot ashes or foundry sand. There's a basement somewhere that has Buck Minster Fuller's entire Diamaxian diary.

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