Scientists figure out why interleaved phonebooks can’t be pulled apart

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By Ryan WhitwamAug 29, 2015, 12:26 pm144 pts
The humble phonebook has been the subject of one of the more entertaining physics puzzles in recent years. It’s well known that two phonebooks with their pages interleaved are almost impossible to separate […]

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