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What Happens When You Saw A Rubber Band Ball in Half?

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clock-iconPUBLISHEDDecember 15, 2014

What Happens When You Saw A Rubber Band Ball in Half?

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Lisa Winter

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Screen shot via YouTube user Jordan

Rubber band balls are a lot of fun to make, and the record for the largest one ever made used 700,000 elastic bands and weighed 4,097 kilograms (9,032 lb).

YouTube user Jordan brought the fun to a more destructive level when he cut open a rubber band ball to see the internal structure. The result was quite bizarre, in a way that really can’t be put into words. Check it out here:

 

 
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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHEDDecember 15, 2014

Written by Elise Andrew

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