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Human farts and sneezes can be big — so imagine the size if they came from the world’s biggest animals?
Confederate paper money was a promise to exchange the bill for gold or silver, but only after the Confederacy won the war.
Your eyebrows can tell a whole story without saying a word.
People have painted on cave walls and written on clay and wax tablets, papyrus and paper made from wood. Could screens replace paper someday?
Only one president has done so – Franklin Delano Roosevelt – but others considered it, and even tried.
A curious kid asks: what do blind people experience in their dreams?
Everest didn’t become the highest mountain overnight. This process was excruciatingly slow; a result of complex interactions between the solid earth, the atmosphere and the biosphere.
The U.S. is broken up into 50 states, plus territories like Puerto Rico and Guam, and a federal district, Washington, D.C. Most other countries have smaller parts too.
A young reader asks: What is the sky?
A young reader asks: How are languages formed?
Our biggest evolutionary advantages are an ability to walk on two legs and our big brains.
If both people like and trust each other enough to kiss, the good shared feelings they get makes them more likely to stay together.
It’s a mixture of your genes which you get from your parents, and also your life experience.
Even if every human being on Earth went for a dip in the ocean at the same time, they’d be just a drop in the bucket compared to the size of the planet’s seas.
Blame your ears, your eyes and your brain. But mainly your ears!
Where we would be without our brains? But think about it. How do they work?
Freezers use a evaporation and condensation to pump heat out of the fridge and into the kitchen.
Going to the bathroom is much more complicated in space without any gravity. To solve this problem of tricky orbital potty breaks, NASA builds special toilets that work without gravity.
If octopuses simply started evolving a smarter brain, what stops them from ruling over humans? Why has this not happened already? An expert explains what these cephalopods might be capable of.
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