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Birds Get Drunk And Sing Drunken Songs
Like humans, birds just don’t sing as well drunk as they do when sober
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The most searched for artists, according to one website, run the gamut from classic masters to Duck Stamp contest winners
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Argentina Has a Superstition That Seventh Sons Will Turn into Werewolves
If the president adopts them, however, the seventh sons are spared from their werewolf fate
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Tesla’s New Car Can Go From Boston to Baltimore on a Single Charge
One charge can carry the Tesla Roadster up to 400 miles
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Live Happier (And More Energy Efficiently) by Sleeping More And Inviting Your Friends Over
Increasing your well being in the new year can also be good for the planet
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Examining Martian Meteorites, Scientists Think They’ve Found The Red Planet’s Missing Water
Mars may have an underground water reservoir
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Repeat a Bit of Regular Speech, And It’ll Turn Into a Song
Throw it in a loop, and listen to the music
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Scientifically Accurate ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ Is Still Charming
Stars aren’t diamonds at all—they’re giant balls of gas
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Ants Usually Turn Left While Exploring
It’s a sinister version of human’s tendency towards right-handedness
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A Few Things You Can Do With Unneeded Presents
The first challenge is saying thank you for something you can’t use, but here’s some ideas about what to do next
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Echolocation acts as such a close a proxy for vision that it falls victim to the same shortcomings
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In Catalonia a Christmas Log Delivers Presents in An Unusual Way
Called Tió de Nadal, the log is decorated with a smiling face and fed until Christmas, but that’s not the strangest part of the tradition
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Why There’s a Dangling Thing In Our Throats
The riddle of the uvula may not be solved yet, but it looks like we have some ideas
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Meet The Culprits Behind Bright Lights And Strange Floaters in Your Vision
So-called entoptic phenomena remind us that what we see isn’t always a clear view of the world around us
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Mercury Was Once Bigger, Then It Shrank
As the planet cooled, it contracted and shut off the surface lava flows about 3.8 billion years ago
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CBS Executives Thought ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ Would Fail
There wasn’t much CBS executives liked about the Christmas special
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There’s More to Frankincense and Myrrh Than Meets the Eye
Frankincense and myrrh have interesting medicinal properties
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Satellite Photos Show Hundreds of Syrian Heritage Sites Damaged In Ongoing Fighting
The new satellite photos show the extent of the damage
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