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  2. Size–weight illusion - Wikipedia

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    The illusion occurs when a person underestimates the weight of a larger object (e.g. a box) when compared to a smaller object of the same mass.The illusion also occurs when the objects are not lifted against gravity, but accelerated horizontally, so it should be called a size-mass illusion. [6]

  3. Hysterical strength - Wikipedia

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    The most common anecdotal examples based on hearsay are of parents lifting vehicles to rescue their children, and when people are in life-and-death situations. Periods of increased strength are short-lived, usually no longer than a few minutes, and might lead to muscle injuries and exhaustion later.

  4. Heavy machine gun - Wikipedia

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    The M2 Browning machine gun with a tripod weighs 58 kg (128 lb).. A heavy machine gun (HMG) is significantly larger than light, medium or general-purpose machine guns. [1] HMGs are typically too heavy to be man-portable (carried by one person) and require mounting onto a weapons platform to be operably stable or tactically mobile, have more formidable firepower, and generally require a team of ...

  5. .950 JDJ - Wikipedia

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    .950 JDJ cases are approximately 70 mm in length, and are based on a 20×102mm Vulcan case shortened and necked up to accept the .950 in (24.1 mm) bullet. Projectiles are custom-made and most commonly weigh 3,600 grains (230 g) which is 8.2 ounces or over half a pound.

  6. Walter Hudson - Wikipedia

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    He had regained much of the weight he previously lost, and weighed 1,025 pounds (465 kg) at the time of his death. Emergency rescuers from the Hempstead Fire Department cut a 15-by-9-foot (4.6 by 2.7 m) hole in the bedroom wall to remove his body from the premises.

  7. Paul Anderson (weightlifter) - Wikipedia

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    He followed this up with another total of 1,129.5 lb (512.3 kg) in Leningrad on June 18, again easily winning his weight class. [16] During the 1955 World Championships in Munich, Germany, Anderson went on to establish two other world records in the press with 407.7 lb (184.9 kg) and total with 1,129.5 lb (512.3 kg) as he easily won the ...

  8. Human body weight - Wikipedia

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    Human body weight is a person's mass or weight. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales .

  9. Submachine gun - Wikipedia

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    A Mini Uzi and a Heckler & Koch MP5K, two common submachine guns. A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges.The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, [1] to describe its design concept as an automatic firearm with notably less firepower than a machine gun (hence the prefix "sub-").