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29: The passenger going nowhere

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Red Cross in Video Games

The symbol of the red cross is protected in almost every country's law when they put the Geneva Convention. You don't shoot someone in a war zone if they're wearing the Red Cross symbol or the Red Crescent or the Red Diamond. This is also the reason that the nurses hat on the Blink 182 album, Enema of the State, was removed because it had a Red Cross on it.

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