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5: When time goes up to 30 o'clock

Lateral with Tom Scott

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How to Make Dice Float

If they have a weight in them, wouldn't they sink to the bottom of the drink? They'll always turn up the same numbers. I did a little research and it turns out that not all dice float. A lot of people use like very salty water to make that's more dense. If they're loaded, they'll turn to face a certain direction each time. So would you put the weight, like say you wanted the number six to always come up at the top, where would you putThe weight in the cube? Presumably on the one because all the sides of the... Opposing sides of the dice always add up to seven,. so  you roll the dice and yeah

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