Beware, your brain can force you to spend a lot more time than you might think watching these
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Stock up now, the Sriracha factory is facing shutdown
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The researchers found that the people with synesthesia seem to go into more of a trance during sex than those without
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Since they're already going to the flowers anyway, why not give them some pesticides to carry?
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Given math's applicability to everything in our world and beyond, it's not so far fetched to think that a theory of everything really does exist
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These rocks can not only spy on you, they can communicate with each other and report back to base
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New research shows that animals trapped in the tar would linger for months on end
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The boats are fashioned entirely by hand using simple tools, and traditionally are carved from magongo tree wood
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Here's how Bishop John Wilkins got all the animals to fit on Noah's Ark
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Two months before he died, Heaney wrote "In a Field" at the request of poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy
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This might seem like an obvious question, but it turns out that no one has looked into it until now
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Music has been with humans for a very, very long time. But as time marches on, history can lose the records of what that music sounded like
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The average temperature in the Arctic, says new research, is hotter than at any time in the past 44,000 years, and maybe more
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Hibernation tends to go hand-in-hand with cold temperatures, but the greater mouse-tailed bat hibernates at a comfortable 68-degrees Fahrenheit
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Some early Americans came not from Asia, it seems, but by way of Europe
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Those companies have designed dark, bold packaging and bigger "man-sized" portions
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The conflict pit the U.S. military against Grenadian revolutionaries and the Cuban army
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The acacia was the only tree for 250 miles in Niger's Sahara desert and was used as a landmark by travelers and caravans
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Of the 8 million tweets sent in the days following the Boston bombing, just 20% were accurate pieces of factual information
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When they get stressed by the heat, coral make their own shade by releasing a chemical that helps clouds form
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