
If you still have all your fingers left after blowing up that jar full of sugar and potassium chlorate, you could learn a few sleight-of-hand magic tricks like making a toothpick disappear. In fact, here’s a video of that creepy Criss Angel guy showing you how to do the trick.
Just be careful you don’t show this trick to anybody in Florida. Apparently, a teacher in Land O’ Lakes, FL showed this trick to some of his students, and some parents called to complain that he was “practicing wizardry” and got the guy fired.
(Why do I suspect those parents were Christians? Hmmmm??????)

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I’d better be careful when I show the sugar disolving in water trick to my friends. I don’t want none of that burning at the stake business happening to me.