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I failed to even think about what the water would do to the hands, and also predicted that the towel would unwring itself once it was let go (well, that could've been the fault of the towel, which is more of a piece of cloth). Otherwise, I got this one correct.
Same. I also wasn't expecting as much air to be wrung out of the cloth as there was, although that might be thanks to the moistening process he used; it would probably be hard to saturate the cloth completely that way without making a mess.
Getting his hands wet is simple enough and it's clear what I wasn't taking into account there, but I'm still trying to figure out why the water wasn't resorbed as soon as he let up the tension on the towel. That doesn't seem like something gravity could account for. Maybe you're right and it's just a quirk of the material.
It looked to me that the water that remained near the cloth was reabsorbed.
Ah, you're right. Looks like some of the water on his hands got picked up too. Guess I wasn't paying close enough attention.