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Hi, I'm Neil.

And I'm Ken.

And we are from the Triviality Podcast, a pub trivia-style game show where a lack of seriousness meets a little bit of knowledge.

Join us each week for an hour-long game of general knowledge trivia, featuring special

guests from around the world, plus tons of extra themed episodes.

If you want to improve your trivia game, or you just want to scream at us in your car when we get easy

questions wrong then we're the show for you find triviality on all your favorite podcast apps but you know

that because you're already listening to a podcast this is the second part of a three-part series so as

usual i'm recommending you go back and listen to Part 1 first,

if you haven't, and as usual, I'm starting things off with a bit of a look-back.

Coincidentally, the second half of this story really does begin with a look-back of its own,

a sort of post-mortem.

In 1761, urged on by the ghost of Edmund Halley, the great scientists of Europe had banded together to accomplish the single most important feat in astronomy, figuring the distance

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