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[Photo: Mike Warren, Instructables] In its current form, Silly Putty isn’t quite as silly as the name suggests. Add in some ferric powder, like what Instructables user Mike Warren did, and now you’re ...

The inventor of Silly Putty probably didn’t find the substance that silly. Not only did he not make any money off of it, he doesn’t even get a clean claim at the invention: at least two men have ...

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The image above is a screen capture from a video clip where the black ooze gobbles up that rare-earth magnet. It’s actually a blob of Silly Putty which was slightly altered to add magnetic properties.