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28: An 'out of this world' lecture

Lateral with Tom Scott

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How to Win Without Bella Suspecting Anything

Abby takes out a US one cent coin and says, let's use this to decide fairly. Abby is able to give herself an 80% chance of winning without Bella suspecting anything. Can you have a loaded penny? I don't know. My suspicion was maybe all one cent pennies are loaded. Unless they put butter on the penny. That's what she did. She's smeared butter on it. Yes. In 1922, Austrian physicist Lee's Meithner gave a public lecture on radioactivity in cosmic processes as cosmetic. The newspaper type-oated as cosmetic. Sabrina asked: "How do you buy a loaded coin?" We're just making faces as if we

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