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The physics of... soccer balls?

Has anyone ever thought about that? The physics of soccer balls are amazing. The way hexagons and pentagons interact to form it's surface is nearly impossible to imitate on a computer, even though you're given a couple of easy things:

- All the sides of all the polygons are identical
- There are 12 pentagons
- There are 20 hexagons

Given that, you'd think it'd be easy to do the math on, but no! It took one of my teammates and I about 2 hours to wade through some math to eventually find some solution for the angle between hexagons we deemed correct. Any other random physics concepts you've found completely mind-boggling that have to do with every day objects?

(excuse the randomness )
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