
25: A deliberately bad program
Lateral with Tom Scott
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The Effects of Dog Urine on the Metal Base of a Street Lamp
Dog urine accelerated the corrosion of the metal base of the street lamp and the pole fell over onto a car, narrowly missing the driver. It's happened in Japan as well and it's a common issue in countries that have specific types of metal at the base of the lamps. I don't know why I went to chewing on a water lamp post instead of like a poor dog pee on a lamp post. Between us, between us we got that one. We both get half credit for that one, right? Yeah.
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