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What Would Happen If All The Water In The Ocean Turned To Heavy Water?
This is a really super fun question. I only wish that Randall Munroe, not me, were answering, so he could draw cool pictures.
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Ben Franklin’s Daylight Saving Time Proposal Was Written As A Joke
Today I found out Ben Franklin’s proposal of something like daylight saving time was written as a joke.
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Has Anyone Ever Actually Poisoned Or Put Razors In Halloween Treats?
Remember your mum sorting through your Halloween candy as a kid, looking for signs of ‘tainted’ candy laced with poison, needles or razor blades? It turns out, unless she was just using it as an excuse to steal the good candy before you got it, she was wasting her time.
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Battlefield ER: Combat Medicine Fights To Keep More Troops Alive
When a nation sends its citizens to war, there are few things more important than providing the best treatment possible after they get injured in the line of duty.