AMT393: Glow Sticks, Walking the Plank, and the Pringles Sweats - 7 January 2021 by Answer Me This

New year, new questions, about naming ravens at the Tower of London, how glow sticks work, did pirates really walk the plank, and how come prawn cocktail-flavour Pringles bring out one listener in the sweats.

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