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He saved the NBA with this simple invention. 🧵

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Watch the full story.

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He saved the NBA with this simple invention. 🧵

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The Syracuse Nationals win the championship that year.

Danny Biasone's napkin math becomes the foundation of the modern NBA.

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Here’s how it all comes down. Watch.

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In 1982, a truck driver from North Hollywood ties 42 weather balloons to a lawn chair and goes up.

Way up. 🧵

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Landing is its own problem. He hits the power lines and blacks out part of Long Beach.

The police are waiting. So is the FAA.

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Do they make it back up? Watch.

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In 1620, an inventor takes a rowing boat under the River Thames, with a crew of oarsmen sealed inside.

This is Cornelis Drebbel’s story. 🧵

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Down there it’s dark, it stinks, and every plank is groaning.

Up top, people are already praying for them.