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3: Why did 1959's album charts vanish?

Lateral with Tom Scott

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Do You Really Need a Spectroscope?

The Simpsons uses millhouses glasses to make sparks and light a fire. The problem with the scene was that Piggy was short-sighted, so his strongly diverging lenses wouldn't focus light. J.M.W. Turner rode a boat into the Thames and stayed there overnight. He dumped his entire art supplies just out into the Thames.

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