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                       The wonders of restaurant cutlery
                                        
Bunny and I were out eating at a restaurant when I noticed something a bit
odd about my cutlery—the butter knife was magnetized!

[The knife has a magnetic personality] [1]
 [2] 

No other utensil on the table was thusly magnetized. Just the one butter
knife. How odd.

Update on Tuesday, September 2^nd, 2014

My friend Jason Vervlied sent me this:

> I actually know why this happens.
> 
> When I was in my late teens/early 20's, late night dining at Denny's was a
> common occurrence, and we often noticed this there. We finally talked to a
> server about it and figured out why. It turns out, the trash bins they use
> for discarding waste food is lined with magnets to catch the silverware
> that is accidentally thrown away. Over time the knifes have such thick
> handles that they eventually become slightly magnetized themselves.
> 

And know you know.


[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/08/28/MagneticKnife.jpg
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/9Phlog:2014/08/28/MagneticKnife.mov

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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