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Anything that's spinning around a fixed central axis with no load becomes a gyroscope. So, when he went to turn the suitcase, the spinning motion of the flywheel wanted to maintain its direction of travel. This, to the bellhop, caused him to let go, which then made the suitcase continue traveling on a linear path tangent to the circle with a radius equal to the curve of the turn he was trying to make.
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