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19: 315,000 obsolete index cards

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The International War Over Exit Signs

In the basement of a Massachusetts office building, there is a collection of 315,000 index cards. Each card has two things typed on it. One would make sense to you and the other probably wouldn't. If I say the word dimaxion, does that mean anything here?

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