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  2. MythBusters (2007 season) - Wikipedia

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    The lead bullet penetrated farther than the silver bullet due to its greater density and mass, thus it is more effective in bringing down an opponent. Also, silver shrinks when cooled, forcing precision accuracy when forging bullets out of it, and was used as a form of currency back in the Wild West, which would make using silver bullets ...

  3. Prince Rupert's drop - Wikipedia

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    Prince Rupert's drops have remained a scientific curiosity for nearly 400 years due to two unusual mechanical properties: [4] when the tail is snipped, the drop disintegrates explosively into powder, whereas the bulbous head can withstand compressive forces of up to 664,300 newtons (67,740 kg f).

  4. MythBusters (2008 season) - Wikipedia

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    Someone can break a lightbulb by spraying it with drain cleaner. Confirmed The spray caused a thermal shock to the hot glass of the lamp, making it break. You can repair a blown fuse by wrapping it in a gum wrapper. Confirmed Adam demonstrated that this is possible. You can fix an acid leak with chocolate. Confirmed

  5. Lonsdaleite - Wikipedia

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    In diamond, all the carbon-to-carbon bonds, both within a layer of rings and between them, are in the staggered conformation, thus causing all four cubic-diagonal directions to be equivalent; whereas in lonsdaleite the bonds between layers are in the eclipsed conformation, which defines the axis of hexagonal symmetry.

  6. Zendaya channels old Hollywood glamour as fans speculate over ...

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    Zendaya was a picture of old Hollywood glamour at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday ... also sported a new bob haircut — part of a look her stylist, Law Roach, said was inspired by Black ...

  7. Wikipedia:Silly Things - Wikipedia

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    But I do know it'd just get carried away and turn into an encyclopedia of silliness, so look forward to frequent updates of this page. — BryceHarrington However, in 2007, consensus (sort of) shifted against keeping most BJAODN on Wikipedia (see Wikipedia talk:Silly Things ), and it came to be viewed by many as encouraging vandalism.

  8. Child who shattered rare 3,500-year-old artifact is invited ...

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    A 4-year-old accidentally knocked over and shattered a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age jar during a visit to the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa in Israel on Friday.. The museum said the ...

  9. What Bullets Do to Bodies - Highline

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    The action-movie hero is shot in the stomach; he limps to a safe house; he takes off his shirt, removes the bullet with a tweezer, and now he is better. This is not trauma surgery. Trauma surgery is about fixing the damage the bullet causes as it rips through muscle and vessel and organ and bone. The bullet can stay in the body just fine.