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single mom

Spaghetti and Straw Bridge

February 8, 2026May 12, 2009 by single mom

We found that it holds 5lbs so far and potentialy more, considering our first bridge broke with a large ball of string as the weight and our second broke with a coke can. I think our success rate was pretty high

Categories Examples Tags reader submitted, spaghetti bridge, straw bridge 1 Comment

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