Can alcohol keep you warm? No, alcohol can’t keep you warm. It might make you feel warm for a short period of time, but it will actually make you lose heat in the long term. There is often a scene in a movie where someone comes in from the cold and has a quick shot […]
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What causes gout? Gout is caused by a buildup of uric acid crystals in joints, which leads to a form of inflammatory arthritis. You have probably heard of gout. King Henry VIII was, amongst other things, famous for suffering from gout. It was often an illness associated with rich and powerful people because the majority
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How does deodorant work? There are three ways that deodorants work. They can cover the smell of sweat with a scent, they can kill the bacteria that make the smell, or they can reduce the amount that a person sweats. When the summer comes around, we all sweat. Some people sweat more than others, and
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What causes an avalanche or landslide? The causes of avalanches and landslides do have some similarities, but landslides involve the movement of rock, earth, and debris, while avalanches involve snow and ice. An avalanche starts when an unstable mass of snow and ice breaks loose and slides down the slope. The avalanche picks up speed
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Why did the Spruce Goose only fly once? The Spruce Goose only flew once because the need for it had passed, it was too heavy, and Howard Hughes lost interest. Spruce Goose was the nickname for the Hughes H-4 Hercules, a flying boat that was built to transport troops to Europe during the Second World
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What is a calorie? A calorie is a unit of energy. There are small calories and large Calories. A small calorie is a measurement of the energy required to raise 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius at 1 atmospheric pressure (or sea level). What is a small calorie and a large calorie? A
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What was the Gilded Age? It was the period in American history between 1870 and about 1900 where the country rapidly industrialized and there was a lot of wealth inequality. The wealthy became increasingly richer and the poor became increasingly poorer. The name for the era was taken from a book by Mark Twain and
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How do compound eyes work? Compound eyes work by having a large number of microscopic eyes that each have a lens and see an image, which then gets combined in the brain. Most of the insects that have eyes have compound eyes. The only insects that don’t have compound eyes don’t really have eyes at
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Why did Stalin’s daughter defect to the USA? Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s only daughter, defected to the USA because she was unhappy with life in the Soviet Union, and the government wouldn’t let her marry the person she wanted. Joseph Stalin had three biological children and one child whom he adopted. Svetlana was his youngest child
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Why do dogs pant? Dogs pant to lose heat because they don’t have as many sweat glands as we do. Many animals have different ways of losing heat. We have evolved to be able to lose a lot of heat through our skin. We have roughly 2 to 4 million sweat glands all over our
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