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Unexpected uses for tennis and golf balls

By Rain Noe - January 2, 2008

in Object Culture

We'd heard of putting tennis balls in a clothes dryer before--apparently the spheres create air pockets in the tumbling mess that help laundry dry quicker--but we'd never heard of a non-sports use for golf balls, let alone a farm-related one, until now.

Apparently farmers in Australia put golf balls under brooding hens, because the sensation of sitting atop something egg-like keeps them happy while they're not conceiving. But in New South Wales, an interloping carpet python had "got in thinking that he has got a free meal and swallowed up these four golf balls." The snake was x-rayed and the golf balls were surgically removed. (Which leads us to wonder, how do snakes, particularly carpet pythons, convalesce? Do they stretch them out on a Slip-n-Slide and cover them with a long blanket?)

And in case you haven't yet seen this video, here's another odd use for a tennis ball:

via the age and crooked brains

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CrisX

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They use for the test a Dacia Logan Est-European&French kind of car which is the cheapest car in the world (around 6to8 thousand euro), Nisan Tiida use the same technical base, I hope that the lockers are different but since even the hood mechanism is the same became obvious that for less money the manufacturers have the freedom to invent a very low standard for the car industry. By the other hand for the ones who cannot afford an expensive car they can buy a Toyota Aygo or even Fiat Panda with the benefits of a natural technological evolution.
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will

16 years ago

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game set and match to car thieves!
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Peter

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Unfortunately Mythbusters busted the 2nd video as just editing & electronic door opener
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Jason

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That tennis ball door opener one is a hoax...
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