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Do hares chew cud?
In Leviticus 11:6, a hare is referred to as a "chewer of the cud." What evidence is there on this matter?
It is not necessary, strictly speaking, that the evidence be on chewing cud in the same sense ...
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Does a lobster feel little/no pain when boiled alive?
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I have just read Cracked.com's "9 Ridiculous Cooking Myths You Probably Believe", where it says:
... [the lobster's] nervous system isn't very complex, so it's feeling little to no
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Do Vitamin B1 patches prevent mosquito bites? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is Vitamin B12 an effective mosquito repellent?
This Denver Post article suggests that mosquitoes dislike biting people who have excess vitamin B1.
The notion behind ...
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Can trained humans run faster than all other animals on a marathon distance?
During the athletics world championship a commentator mentioned casually during the marathon discipline that humans are faster on long distances than all animals.
I'm unsure if this can be said ...
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Does every species get around a billion heartbeats on average?
I read this web comic today:
(from http://www.abominable.cc/)
I have no idea where the author got his factoid about the billion heartbeats. But it sounds interesting. The examples I can think of ...
