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Silly Putty invention: A wartime effort to develop synthetic rubber accidentally led to the invention of Silly Putty.

In 1942, British scientists carried out a classified military experiment on the remote island of Gruinard off the coast of Scotland. The test involved detonating anthrax spores to evaluate their ...

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