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The Riveting, Super-Exciting, Egg Rearing Journal
A cephalopod fan while looking for a large octopus to buy finds a pet shop with a mom octopus with a cache of eggs. Thus begins a quest to raise baby octopuses at home, a seriously non-trivial task.
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A guy buys three and half pounds of pure sodium from eBay and has a party where he experiments with what is the best way to to get it to explode and make pretty flames. Lots of pictures and videos.