I’m starting to suspect that nobody actually reads anything I write in this space. I’m coming to believe that all anyone does is skip to the bottom of the article to see what the question is, and only then, only if they can’t think of anything, or possibly if they need some clarification, [...]
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No, they didn’t drop this truck nine times. This press photo is from the 2009 Guinness World Record setting event where Henkel (inventor of the glue stick) suspended a Ford truck with a Smart Fortwo in the back using just nine drops of off-the-shelf Loctite glue. Total weight was 5.02 tons, or slightly less [...] In 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver was working at 3M developing new formulas for super-glue. In one experiment that massively failed, he managed to develop the exact opposite: the weakest adhesive since mother’s spit. He tried to get 3M interested in it, but with no apparent uses, they were ready to toss it out. Another [...] |
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