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Amazing and fascinating questions and solutions from the workforce in the back of the overseas phenomenon Why do not Penguins' ft Freeze?

The popular-science journal in the back of the runaway overseas bestsellers Why do not Penguins' toes Freeze? and Does whatever devour Wasps? takes on one other impossible to resist batch of the unusual, foolish, and mind-boggling questions that plague curious minds across the world:
- Can pigeons sweat, can fish get thirsty, and will bugs get fat?- may anyone dedicate the right homicide by way of killing anyone the day after receiving an entire blood transfusion?- Is there how to beat the percentages of the lottery through the use of math?- How a lot mucus does a nostril produce through the commonplace cold?- If compelled to devour components of your self to outlive, which non-vital organs may be the so much nutritious?
Culled from New Scientist's renowned "The final be aware" column and edited by way of Mick O'Hare, the writer of How to Fossilize Your Hamster, Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is sure to amuse and amaze up to it informs.

(And if a polar undergo seems to be lonely, it most likely ability there wasn't adequate walrus for dinner.)

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