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In 1927, Australian physicist Thomas Parnell began an experiment: letting pitch (tar)—solid-looking, shattering when struck—drip from a funnel to prove it is liquid. The first drop took 8 years. Drops fall every 8–13 years, but no one has ever witnessed one fall.
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