The Plaice to Know

Episode

No Such Thing As Apocalypse 1988

2015-12-11 ยท 2 places on the map ยท episode transcript

  1. Royal SocietyRecurringUnited Kingdom

    The Royal Society in 1713 set up a committee to decide once and for all who'd invented calculus โ€” Newton or Leibniz โ€” and it found that it was Newton. Who was chair of the committee?

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  2. New HampshireOne-offUnited States

    There's a guy in New Hampshire who set up a business called Eternal Earthbound Pets, which will look after the pets if you believe you're going to be raptured. You pay him to look after your pet, because the ones whoโ€ฆ

    mentioned at 00:34:52 ยท See it on the map โ†’

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