What makes a coin more valuable than its face value? Rarity. And you can't get much rarer than the 1933 British penny, of which there are only seven. The mint wasn't going to make any at all, but they were needed for a royal tradition. Five of those coins are accounted for, and one is missing. The seventh is ...somewhere in that area over there, but good luck getting to it.

The very idea of finding that one coin, which would be worth somewhere around £100,000, brings up the notion of a crime or crime movie, but Tom Scott nervously goes out of his way to discourage the former and encourage the latter.#coin #rarecoin #TomScott #penny

A Heist Movie (or a Heist) Waiting to Happen

We've seen Spot, the quadruped robot from Boston Dynamics, performing some amazing feats, like <a href="https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/17/UpTown-Spot/">dancing</a>, marching in <a href="https://pictojam.com/p/spot-robot-dances-in-a-halftime-show">a halftime show</a>, and recreating a <a href="https://popculturista.com/p/spot-robot-perfectly-imitates-a-rolling-stones-video">Rolling Stones video</a>.&nbsp;Sure they're entertaining, but somewhere along the way you may have wondered if they can do anything useful. That is, something necessary that clients might be willing to pay for.

Tom Scott wondered that as well, so he went to find out. At an Austrian hydroelectric plant, Spot robots are doing inspections, which is a monotonous job that involves a lot of time spent walking through huge facilities. As far as we know, robot dogs don't mind that kind of drudgery. #Spotrobot #quadrupedrobot #BostonDynamics #TomScott #robot

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