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When I was in high school, I asked a friend if I could borrow a pencil. He flung one in my direction at a fairly high rate of speed. I missed it. The pencil bounced off my chest and fell to the floor. Our school was old and had the standard tan, linoleum square tiles of the day. The pencil fell and landed standing straight up and down with its point in the intersection of four of the floor tiles.
We all freaked out a bit. What are the odds of a pencil landing on its point standing straight up and down??? After staring at it for a few minutes I got down in the floor and barely touched the side of the pencil. It immediately fell over. We spent the next 10 minutes trying our best to manually stand a pencil on its end between the floor tiles. We couldn't do it.
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Lee
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