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4: The currency that cuts crime

Lateral with Tom Scott

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What Is This Bank Note Unique Feature?

In 1976, Steve Jobs was in part getting back at Atari by naming his new company Apple. Would a one or a zero or any numbers show up before an A alphabetized? And they've tried that as well. When it went on to ordering by computer, yep, people just use whatever came up first.

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