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“Amazing New Hyperbolic Chamber Greatest Invention In The History Of Mankind Ever”. “Popular Science quickly placed the chamber on the fold-out cover of its next issue, which reads, ‘FUCKING AWESOME!!! THE BALLS-OUT H.C. IS 40 TIMES BETTER THAN SEX… AND COUNTING!!!’”


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