If you glue two matches together, you’ll find the sticks won’t be parallel to each other because the match heads at the top are slightly thicker. If you keep on going, and eventually glue 42,000 of them together, you’ll end up with a giant sphere that produces a fantastic chain reaction of fire when you light a single…
Source: Gizmodo – Man Spends Months Building a Giant Sphere of Matches and Then Spectacularly Sets It on Fire