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How to Shoot a Cannon Ball in a Roundabout

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No matter where you're firing a cannon, om whether the equator or the poles, it's going to curve the same way in the northern or the southern hemisphere. If you drive on the right hand side of the road and you enter a roundabout, you're going to be going counter clockwise around it. Is it really that simple? Yes, it depends on which way the air's moving. So if you're talking ota roundabout, do you remember our am episode? We just did the short stuff on the direction humans tend to travel? Y you the right, you's right if you're certain countries.

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