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Today on something you should know, you probably have a lot of batteries around and there are some things you need to know about them.

Then the good and bad of artificial intelligence. It's great for some things, but it's also limiting your choices in many ways.

So I think that we're going to see just enough choice to make us think we are making choices while shrinking those choices down. You see this in industry after industry.

Also a simple way to persuade someone and you don't want to miss it. Plus the secret science of stickiness. Like what makes glue so sticky.

Super glue, the way that it gets it's stickiness is that it is incredibly sensitive to the presence of water. So I think a lot of people think that super glue hardens when it gets into the air.

But it's not the air so much as the water vapor that's present in there.

All this today on something you should know.

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Something you should know. Fascinating Intel. The world's top experts. And practical advice you can use in your life today. Something you should know with Mike Karothers.

Hi, this may sound weird, although I've mentioned it before, but this part of the podcast, this part of the episode is the last thing I do before the episode is assembled and uploaded and you can hear it. So I've already heard what you're about to hear. And I think you're really going to enjoy this very interesting episode of something you should know.

And first up today, batteries. You know, in our house, in our kitchen, we have a drawer that is full of unused batteries ready to go.

And I think pretty much in every room in our house, there's at least one or two things powered by batteries.

We battery power a lot of things in our lives. From our cars, our phones, laptops, tablets, toys, tools, you name it. And there are a lot of things about batteries you may not know.

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