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| − | | Relativistic Baseball || || 1 || 2
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| − | | SAT Guessing || || 2 || 66
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| − | | Yoda || || 3 || 32
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| − | | Mole of Moles || || 4 || 10
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| − | | Glass Half Empty || || 6 || 26
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| − | | Everybody Out || || 7 || 35
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| − | | Soul Mates || || 9 || 6
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| − | | Cassini || || 10 ||
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| − | | Raindrop || || 12 || 65
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| − | | Mariana Trench Explosion || || 15 ||
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| − | | Today’s topic: Lightning || Lightning || 16 || 19
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| − | | Short Answer Section II || Short-Answer Section || 23 || 18
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| − | | Interplanetary Cessna || || 30 || 30
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| − | | Longest Sunset || || 42 || 52
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| − | | High Throw || || 44 || 38
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| − | | Falling with Helium || || 62 || 34
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| − | | The Constant Groundskeeper || || 70 ||
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| − | | Stirring Tea || || 71 || 61
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| − | | Great Tree, Great Axe || || 90 ||
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| − | | $2 Undecillion Lawsuit || || 96 ||
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| − | | Blood Alcohol || || 98 ||
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| − | | Alternate Universe What Ifs || || 120 ||
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