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Erin McCarthy

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MentalFloss.com Deputy Editor. Karaoke and tsunami obsessive. Nerd. Future crazy cat lady.

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Purdue University professor Mark French has been using a subsonic ping pong gun to teach his students about physics. But why be subsonic when you can go supersonic? Not satisfied with propelling the balls a measly 400mph, French and his students recently built a ping pong bazooka that fires the balls at an astounding 900mph—135mph faster than the speed of sound.... READ ON

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DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)