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42: Giant concrete balls

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Importance of Smiling

The action of driving over the rice doesn't seem to damage it nor cause it to spread out. After a few days, the farm workers bag up the rice for storage and the practice was banned in 1973 but still happens regularly. One more time, the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal, New York, was to receive a star Atlas design for its 1913 opening. What was it? And what was the cause? I've got to say, it's a train station question,. It's a railway station question. To which I don't know the answer.

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