In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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