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Kansas has a town built around a giant ball of twine

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When you have absolutely nothing else going for you, you start frantically tying twine together until it becomes a grotesque municipal idol. The locals actually hold an annual event just to add more rotting string to this completely useless sphere.

Kansas has a town built around a giant ball of twine
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