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Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Death Valley Thermometer

I've experienced 122 before Fahrenheit. That was like unimaginably hot. It's wet bulb temperature, which is some combination of heat and humidity at which point the human body literally cannot remove excess heat. At least I was in the desert where there was no moisture in the air. We've got healthy teeth. They just aren't straight. Anna is a performer. Every few days she needs to do something with a couple of lengths of dental floss. Why does she do this? And what's her job? Only floss in her teeth every few days.

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