The world championships of belly flopping are taking place in Norwegians. Death diving was invented by earling bruno hovden one year before the ban on lead gas came into effect. And curling is a sport that no-one has ever heard of, but it's pretty good.
How fast does cheese roll down a hill? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly walk us through the physics behind the weirdest sports: cheese rolling, belly flopping, face slapping and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu.
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