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    Things You Thought You Knew – Kicked into Orbit

    Things You Thought You Knew – Kicked into Orbit

    How do bikes and motorcycles stay up? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explain how to kick a ball into orbit, what’s going on with cricket, and the physics of bicycles. 

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    Photo Credit: NASA/W. Liller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons