Record-Breaking PR Stunt Ends in Citywide Chaos

They Thought It Would Work

In order to contain the balloons, the team constructed a gigantic receptacle the size of a city block in Cleveland's Public Square. It towered over the city, standing 250 feet by 150 feet, three stories tall. The structure was enclosed in a single layer of woven mesh.

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The More You Know

  • The patient in the game Operation has a name.
  • Scorpions are incredibly resilient: scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
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  • The woolly mammoth survived until Egyptian times.
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