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  2. Headless Rider urban legend - Wikipedia

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    However, the bike remained upright and continued traveling for some time with the headless rider still on board. The rider becomes a ghost and continues to ride down the same road every night (or at the time/anniversary of the death). The decapitation is sometimes attributed to falling objects from road signs, guardrails, or trucks.

  3. MythBusters (2005 season) - Wikipedia

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    While it is certainly possible to rear-end an arrow with another, only a fiberglass arrow can be split down the middle (known as telescoping in archery circles). With a wooden arrow, even under the most ideal conditions, the best one can do is a partial split along the grain of the wood, and even that is improbable.

  4. List of MythBusters episodes - Wikipedia

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    Can piano wire be used to catch a shark? Can a shark ram through a boat or shark cage? Can a shark hold three flotation barrels under water? Note: This is a special double-length episode. It was a Jaws-themed episode.

  5. Garrote - Wikipedia

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    A garrote can be made of different materials, including ropes, cloth, cable ties, fishing lines, nylon, guitar strings, telephone cord or piano wire. [2] [3] [4] A stick may be used to tighten the garrote; the Spanish word refers to the stick itself. [5] In Spanish, the term may also refer to a rope and stick used to constrict a limb as a ...

  6. Action (piano) - Wikipedia

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    (The back catch has no mark in the cut, but is explained below in connection with the "back check".) BC, is the back check which is simply a piece of wood with a thick piece of felt glued to the inner face and suspended on a wire. BCW, back check wire supporting the back check, and screwed to the wippen. The purpose of the back check is to ...

  7. Piano wire - Wikipedia

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    Piano string ends Piano strings. Piano wire, or "music wire", is a specialized type of wire made for use in piano strings but also in other applications as springs.It is made from tempered high-carbon steel, also known as spring steel, which replaced iron as the material starting in 1834.

  8. Erwin von Witzleben - Wikipedia

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    By Hitler's direct orders, he was hanged from a meat hook with a thin hemp rope, [3] often mistakenly reported as a piano wire, and the execution was filmed, [4] [5] with the footage since lost. [ 6 ]

  9. List of Happy Tree Friends episodes - Wikipedia

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    At Toothy's hiding spot, behind a tree, Toothy giggles while hiding. Fliqpy, in camouflage to the tree behind Toothy, grabs Toothy's head and gives it a big twist, which snaps his neck. Elsewhere, a panting Flaky continues to look for her hiding spot. Suddenly, a piano wire comes down and it snatches Flaky by her neck, which strangles her to death.