Episode
162: No Such Thing As Catastrophic Shoelaces
If you dig a hole deep enough, it gets really hot at the bottom because it's the pressure, and that heats up the air, and obviously the air at the top because it's in the middle of Siberia is cold, and so you get this…
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Nelson's ship, HMS Victory, nearly didn't get out of the dock it was built in because it was too big. It was a classic mistake. They thought we're going to build this fantastic big ship. They built it. The night before…
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He worked for Meredith and Drew, which became United Biscuits, which are the company that owned McVitie's, in 1960. He invented a whole bunch of recipes. Apparently people who worked at the company would just write down…
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