"Higgs Boson" wrote in message
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Found a huge cache of dental floss in a bathroom cabinet long unvisited.
I'd always heard it was very strong, so went on-line and found many sites
listing scores of uses from shoelaces to fishing line to repairing cracks in
walls, to slicing cakes, and on & on.

This one was clever:

Quiet A Dripping Faucet
This little trick might mean the different between you and a good night's
sleep. If your faucet is leaking and it's too late at night to call a
plumber, tie a piece of floss at the spout and let it trail down into the
basin. This way, the water will simply slide down the string, instead of
drip-drip-dripping you awake all night.

HB

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"Robert Shepard did not need a file baked in a cake to get out of jail.
Instead, he used dental floss to make his escape. While cameras, guards and
computer-controlled doors were keeping other inmates in, Shepard reportedly
braided the floss into a rope as thick as a telephone cord and used it to
scale an 18-foot wall."