In 1969, who asked the US Postal Service to change the state abbreviation for Nebraska from NB to N.E?

The answer to that, at the end of the show.

My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

Welcome to this very special show, which has been voted the funniest ever episode of LATRELB by the International Time Travelers Club.

So, no pressure for our guests today.

We start with mathematician and writer Hannah Fry.

Welcome back to the show.

Hi, thank you for having me.

That was a really...

I'm annoyed that you made up that joke and I didn't. That was great. I'll be honest. I don't write most of these. This is just a brilliant one that's come in from the producer. Sometimes they try and have me talk in a pirate accent. Sometimes they give me just long strings of alliteration. This one, be proud of this one.

You are their meat puppet, Tom.

That's a...

Thanks. Thanks for that.

I was going to ask how it was first time on the show for you last time.

But you know what?

I've just been called a meat puppet.

I might just move on.

How was your first appearance last time?

It was good. I think, you know, I think we worked well as a team. I think that we got some

lateral stuff out there. We, basically, we had fun and that's what it's really about.

Also, joining us, domino artist, extraordinary, professional domino artist. I don't know what, how on earth do you describe someone who puts up dominoes and knocks him down for a living? I don't know, but Lily Hvesh, welcome back to the show. Thank you so much. Yeah, and you can also just say Domino Builder, or Domino Setter Upper. Sometimes people say that. What's the biggest thing you've made with Dominoes? I feel like that's the obvious question everyone has to ask, but like, do you have solo stuff? Do you have team efforts? How does it all work? Yeah. Actually, early this year, I was in the Netherlands helping to set up 800,000 dominoes. And this took over 30 people in two weeks to set up.

Gosh.

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