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When animals disappear, how are humans affected?
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Animals
Do black dogs experience prejudice?
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Animals
Do all animals yawn and stretch?
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What’s the skinny on artificial sweeteners like aspartame?
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What happened to all the supergeniuses?
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What’s with the weird British pronunciation of words like Gloucester?
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Do jails and prisons allow video-conferencing with inmates?
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How useful are at-home DNA tests?
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Food
Why are there so few kinds of cutlery?
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Is the West kidding itself about the good intentions of Islam?
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What’s with the weird fluctuations in gas prices?
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Who first figured out how to make coffee?
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What’s the worst outcome in the net-neutrality debate?
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Do men really think about sex every six seconds?
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Are the Navy SEALs really so special?
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Does quantum mechanics prove the universe is conscious?
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What’s the leading cause of death in human history?
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