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Mystery solved: Why raw spaghetti always snaps in more than two pieces

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Smarter Every Day has found out a solution to a mystery that even a Nobel Prize in Physics like Richard Feynman couldn’t solve: Why spaghetti never breaks in half, but in three or four parts. To find out he filmed the break at 250,000 frames per second—it’s a fascinating answer to a question I never had.


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