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Do fireworks kills birds, dogs and other animals?
Diwali is a Hindu festival of lights, celebrated with fireworks.
My closest friend on Facebook shared this picture on my wall:
Happy Diwali
Thousands of birds, dogs & other animals die out of ...
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Smell of a Body [closed]
There's many fictional and nonfictional stories about passerby detecting dead bodies inside buildings and such by an "overwhelming stench of decay" or something equivalent, usually even through thick ...
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Does injecting Bacillus F improve one's health? [closed]
In a Siberian times report,
a Russian scientist Anatoli Brouchkov claims that 3.5 million year old bacteria Bacillus F
improves longevity and fertility of fruit flies and mice
stimulated the growth ...
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Is it almost impossible to find animals that are not contaminated by chemicals?
From Chapter 3 of Rachel Carson's seminal book, Silent Spring (1962):
FOR THE FIRST TIME in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from ...
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Does stress make you age faster, biologically? [closed]
Excess cortisol can damage the hippocampus, and we also know that stress can reduce the length of telomeres, which can lead to a shortened lifespan.
But does stress accelerate aging in other ways ...
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Is hand gel effective against Norovirus?
I saw the following claim in an article in The Guardian - How not to catch the norovirus
Incidentally – and you can consider this a public service announcement – forget most hand gels, the majority ...
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Does one drop of nicotine kill a horse?
There is a popular aphorism in Russia, translated as "one drop of nicotine kills a horse":
, which is widely used on the anti-tobacco posters etc.
Can 0.05 ml of nicotine really kill a healthy 400-...
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Is there enough tetrodotoxin in a single fugu (blowfish) to kill 30 people?
As a section about Fugu fish in the "Top 10 Most Dangerous Foods" article on the Time magazine website suggests
The toxin is so potent that a lethal dose is smaller than the head of a pin, and a ...
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Do cacti absorb harmful radiation emitted by computers?
It is a common belief that cacti absorb radiation; consequently, a lot of people put potted cacti by their computer as a safety means.
Do cacti actually absorb radiation? Even if so, will a small ...
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