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Watch: a basketball with backspin appears to defy gravity off a dam

Veritasium films a trick-shot team dropping a spinning basketball off a 100-metre dam, where backspin and the Magnus effect send it curving sharply away from a straight fall.

— Veritasium, Backspin Basketball Flies Off Dam — YouTube video

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