How SuperBalls Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

You can thank Wham-O's SuperBall for inspiring the name of the NFL's Big Game (buh) and you can thank the fear and the Soviet launch of Sputnik aroused in America for the invention of SuperBall! Learn the history and physics of this bouncy legend.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from Howstuffworks.com.
0:41.2	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
0:42.6	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.5	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's over there.
0:46.8	We're just bouncing off the walls here.
0:50.0	I'm sick.
0:50.6	I'm not bouncing anywhere.
0:51.9	I'm bouncing to the doctor.
0:53.2	Are you?
0:54.2	I'm not sick.
0:55.2	Because I hurt.
0:56.2	Well, why did you get sick?
0:57.2	You know, people get sick from other things.
1:00.2	I thought it was baby sick.
1:01.2	I thought once you had a kid like that's the only way you got sick.
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