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Posts- Category: animals
- How can birds sit on electrical wires and not get electrocuted?
- How can hummingbirds fly upside-down and backwards?
- How come flies don't fall off the ceiling?
- How come humans can't use sonar in the dark, like bats?
- How do cats see in the dark?
- How do dogs smell things we canβt?
- If a bee dies, is its stinger still active?
- Is it true that bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly?
- Where do bugs like flies go when the weather gets cold?
- Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
- Why do elephants have trunks?
- Why do giraffes have such long necks? Is it to reach higher leaves?
- Category: astronomy
- How come eggs can balance on end on the first day of Spring?
- How come it is still light for an hour after the sun sets?
- How come there are bars in some galaxies?
- How come you can still see a star that disappeared many years ago?
- How is it possible to see stars in the daytime from the depths of a well?
- When the Moon is just a crescent, how come we can faintly see the darkened side?
- Why does the moon change color in the fall?
- Why does the moon look gigantic rising on the horizon but not nearly so large overhead?
- Why does the Moon seem to follow us when we drive?
- Category: food
- How come foods like apples can get moldy, even in a cold refrigerator crisper drawer?
- How come in cold weather your nose runs and your eyes tear?
- How come it's so hard to break a piece of dry spaghetti in two?
- How come onions make you cry?
- How come some cereals make a popping sound when you pour on milk? And why do we get white spots on our fingernails?
- How come when I open a can of mixed nuts, the Brazil nuts are always at the top?
- How come when you put sugar into boiling water, it fizzes?
- How come, if you put water and oil together, the water will rise and the oil will sink?
- How does ice cream give you brain freeze?
- What causes tea to run down the underside of the spout rather than out of the teapot?
- What is the hot chocolate effect?
- Why does a falling piece of toast always seem to land on the buttered side?
- Why does ice cream melt?
- Why does your tongue stick to freezing-cold metal? Also, why is it easier to burn your tongue or mouth on pizza than on a hot drink?
- Why is the cashew the only nut you cannot buy in its shell?
- Category: human body
- Does cold weather really make you catch a cold?
- How come human beings have appendixes if they don't need really them?
- How come humans can't use sonar in the dark, like bats?
- How come in cold weather your nose runs and your eyes tear?
- How come our blood is a blue-purple color inside our bodies, but red when it's on the outside of us?
- How come our fingers are different sizes and lengths?
- How come some cereals make a popping sound when you pour on milk? And why do we get white spots on our fingernails?
- How come when you eat sour candy you make weird faces?
- How come when you rub a balloon on your head your hair stands on end?
- How come your funny bone is called your funny bone?
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