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orleans

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7. while scrolling thru these i started thinking of silly putty
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 11:13 PM
Mar 2025

and how i used to flatten/pancake it while pressing it against a picture from the funnies

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interesting stuff about silly putty (including a mansion worth over 500 million dollars)



7. IT ONCE LIFTED INK OFF NEWSPRINT.
Before Photoshop, crafty kids could digitally manipulate and distort images by placing Silly Putty over newspaper, lifting it off, and transferring the ink onto a new surface. Sadly, this is no longer the case; today’s newspapers are printed using nontransferable ink.



https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/68467/15-facts-about-silly-putty

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while scrolling thru these i started thinking of silly putty orleans Mar 2025 #7
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