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This is Very Dumb

Dennis G. Jerz / 27 Mar 2003

“THE world’s biggest rubber band ball has been dropped from an aeroplane a mile up… Experts thought the ball would bounce hundreds of feet into the air.|Instead, it created a massive crater…” —This is Very DumbicWales)

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