Why does dry spaghetti break into more than two pieces when bent?

August 15, 2005 | Science | By: Mark VandeWettering

My tagline for this blog is “there is much pleasure in useless knowledge”. What knowledge could be more useless than trying to understand why spaghetti breaks into more than two pieces when bent? Apparently this problem has been considered interesting by no greater physics luminary than Richard Feynman. Cool.