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Lateral with Tom Scott

65: Air-conditioned pilots

Jan 5, 2024
The podcast discusses unconventional episode numbering systems, the connection between restaurants and hairstylists, a mystery job involving physical contact, Disney cast member training, mobile phone tower health issues, and places named like other places.
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Quick takeaways

  • Mobile phone towers may not always be the cause of reported health symptoms.
  • The crew of Soviet Union bomber, TU-22, used excess coolant from the air conditioning system for personal consumption or bribing officials.

Deep dives

Residents experience symptoms from mobile phone tower that was turned off

Residents of Craig Avon Johannesburg claimed that a mobile phone tower was causing headaches, nausea, insomnia, and itchy skin. However, the phone company showed that the tower had been turned off for six weeks and could not have been the cause of their symptoms.

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