THE COMPASS INVENTED BEFORE THE CLOCK

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The 5 Drive crew takes a break from the usual daily chaos to tackle a fascinating piece of world history. It turns out humans were using magnetic fields to chart global voyages long before we figured out how to build ticking gears to track the minutes.

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