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Electromagnetic Floating Planet Earth Globe

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This electromagnetic globe costs about $140 and floats in the air as if by magic. And when I say "as if by magic" I mean by actual magic. How else would you explain it? Physics? Ha! I laugh at your physics. This, my friends, is sorcery.

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