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31: The genius of cheese slices

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Protest of the Colombian Soccer Team

As a protest, the Colombian soccer team ATHLETRICAL JUNIOR decided to put only half of their club badge on their shirts. All the other leading Colombian teams followed suit. You have it like to know when the telephone was invented. I got nothing. Pretty sure it was after 1825. It's not Samuel Morse is it? Yet again, completely out the blue. That was Samuel Morse developing the telegraph. And he ended up doing that by demonstrating the telegraph machine in 1838,. 13 years later.

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