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28: An 'out of this world' lecture

Lateral with Tom Scott

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How to Trick the Devil With a Clock

In 1955, the countries of India, Turkey and Yugoslavia cut processed and sold 11 square miles of flowers to the United States. They went into storage untouched for the next 40 years. In a multi-church building there are two clocks: one on the right tells the correct time and then the one on the left is the devil's time because the left side is sinister. Next question has been sent in by a listener.

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