Things You Thought You Knew – Magnetic Cores & Flipping Poles

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🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Is your compass actually wrong? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore magnetic fields, why clocks go clockwise, and how phone numbers got their area codes.

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0:00.0	For the rest of this day I'm just going to be playing out the gang rat in New York.
0:09.7	Every rat mafia movie, you know, rat corleon.
0:13.6	You come to me on the day of my daughter's wedding.
0:17.4	Are you asking me for this cheese?
0:21.4	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:28.6	Star Talk.
0:29.6	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:35.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:39.9	This is Star Talk, a things you thought you knew edition, which abbreviated as T-Y-T-Y-K.
0:51.4	T-Y-T-Y-K.
0:52.4	Things you thought you knew.
0:53.4	There you go.
0:54.4	All right, Chuck, good to have you here.
0:56.4	It's just stuff you might have known about, but maybe you didn't know everything you
1:00.6	could have known.
1:01.6	It's something that I know something that maybe you didn't know, and I'm just putting
1:05.4	it out there.
1:06.4	That's all.
1:07.4	There you go.
1:08.4	And it's some of our most popular segments have come from things you thought you knew.
1:13.4	You said most people don't know anything.
1:15.4	That's why Chuck don't know you don't know nothing.
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