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Makes me more likely to watch. Maybe OP isn't aware of Veritasium's reputation.
I love the fact that the channel evolved from dunking on the uninformed public to full blown documentaries.
I thought my memory was failing me but it really was low key at the start eh?
Seeing him on German TV in a documentary was surprising.
There is an element of truth.
Well played :)
I mean that must have been his pun from the outset but it didn't occur to me.
My first year at the college paper, we had the photo credit in the cutline box in the library filled in as Tungsten J. Smith. The "J" stood for statinum, as in, right the fuck now, playing off tungsten being W on the periodic table. One of the other designers was into chemistry.
WJ getting credited in print introduced me to the problem of using something that at a glance seemed plausible on deadline. This was after my disastrous "just write something" hed on a sports feature of "My leaking heart" that the editor did not revisit.
TIL Tungsten is represented as W on the periodic table. But you lost me with the rest...
Bed time here. Maybe I wake up to a humourous reveal here tomorrow.