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"HEDGE: Well, folks, here you have it. A hedge cut in half. Now that is not something you see every day! Can't say we have much more to say on this so we're just going to move along."
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"It's okay to admit all of us have devoured a whole pint of Ben & Jerry's ice cream in one sitting. And while the yummy flavor description written on the package outside might sound good, when you see the pint split in half- it's drool-worthy!"
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"Sure, they might be slow, but did you know that tortoises are ancient creatures? They've been around for over 200 million years- that's longer than lizards, birds, snakes, and other mammals! Plus, they can live a very long time; some over 100 years old!"
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"Female sheep are called ewes, male sheep are called rams, and the process of giving birth is called lambing. A group of sheep is called a flock. Within only minutes, newly born lambs can stand and are walking with the flock almost immediately."
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"FOOTBALL HELMET: The original game of American Football looked like a mix of soccer and rugby. It involves an oval-shaped ball called a football. The objective of the game is to get the ball into the end zone for a touchdown."
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"METEORITE: This space rock was found in the mountains near Fukang, China in 2000. It is a pallasite, which is a type of iron meteorite with crystals. Fukang meteorites are estimated to be 4.5 billion years old, almost the same age as Earth."
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"WW1 SHELL FUZE: An artillery fuze or fuse is the type of munition fuze used with artillery munitions, typically projectiles fired by guns (field, anti-aircraft, coast and naval), howitzers and mortars."
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"DEADMAU5'S HELMET: We've all seen Deadmau5's helmet and have all come to love the giant mouse head. You might have asked yourself though, "what's inside of the Deadmau5 helmet though?" Well, here you have it!
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"Container ships are basically cargo ships that carry all their load in huge containers. Not going to lie, it would be pretty intimidating to stand right under that huge ship."
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"PLANE: There is no other time when anyone would want to hear the words "plane cut in half." The idea of getting in a plane crash scares so many people that they altogether refuse to fly anywhere."
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"There isn't one person we've met who has never used a lock and key. But before the modern lock and key we're all used to, 6,000 years ago locks were made of iron and looked a lot like the ones you might've seen in movies."
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"HAND GRENADE: We have seen them in movies and television shows, maybe even read about them in books, but we've never really gotten a good look at a hand grenade (and good thing, too!)."
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"BOWLING BALL: We were never really wondering what the inside of a bowling ball looked like, but here we are."
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"RANGE ROVER: We're really not sure why anyone would cut a perfectly fine vehicle in half, but we're looking at it. Why did they do this? Just to take a picture of the inside of a car cut in half?"
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"Yeah, you know, if you asked us to imagine what a tube of toothpaste would look like cut in half, then this is exactly what we would picture. It makes a lot of sense. It fits the bill, as they say."
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"BASEBALL: Wow, well, this is pretty cool! Honestly never thought the inside of a baseball would be pink and cardboard. A quick search told us that a baseball is made out of a rubber or cork center wrapped in yarn and covered with white horsehide or cowhide."
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"MANY TYPES OF CABLES: We did not expect a bunch of different cables cut in half to look so pretty! It honestly looks like an enlarged replica of cells underneath a microscope. It is super cool to look at- like art!"
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"JUNE BEETLE: For science nerds, this picture is awesome! For everyone else, not so much. June bugs (also referred to as June beetles) are apparently common insects with more than 100 species. So if you aren't a fan, you should watch out for this guy!"
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"TIRE: What are tires made of? Today tires consist of about 19% natural rubber and 24 percent synthetic rubber. The rest is made up of metal and other compounds like what we see here."
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"CANNON CAMERA: It's so crazy how this doesn't even look anything like a camera! We're honestly not even sure we would guess it was a camera if it wasn't written above in the title. So cool."
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"FIREWORK SHELL: Baby, you're a firework! Come on, show 'em what you're worth. Make 'em go, "Oh, oh, oh" as you shoot across the sky. Baby, you're a firework! Come on, let your colors burst!"
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"ORIGINAL APPLE MAC: It's often cited that the Apple Lisa was named after Steve Jobs' daughter, but where did the name 'Macintosh' come from? Apple employee Jef Raskin is responsible for coining the machine after his favorite variety of apple, smartly tying the whole fruit theme together."
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"BONE: The adult human body has 206 of them. There are 26 bones in the human foot. The human hand, including the wrist, contains 54 bones. The femur, or thighbone, is the longest and strongest bone of the human skeleton."
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"We brush them every day, see a specialized doctor to check them once a year, some even spend thousands of dollars on making them whiter or straighter, but how much do you really know about your own teeth? Interesting to think about, right?
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"CIGAR: The word 'cigar' is the English translation of the word, cigarro. Christopher Columbus introduced tobacco to Europe. Roman Catholic missionaries helped to increase the popularity of smoking cigars by giving out tobacco seeds. The first Spanish cigar company was established in Cuba."
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"Sneakers got their name because their rubber soles do not make noise. In the late 1800s, people started calling sneakers their name because they had rubber soles which enabled people to walk or "sneak" around without making a sound. Not really worth $120, is it?"
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