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Who invented scotch tape?

20 Mar 2017

The Scots did not invent Scotch tape. But their reputation for thriftiness did inspire the name of this amazing product. Two-tone cars were the in thing way back in the 1920s and car manufacturers...

What is The History of Tattoos?

20 Mar 2017

On a fall day in 1991, two Germans hiking in the Alps near the Italian- Austrian border stumbled across what they initially believed to be a modern corpse frozen in the ice. Once the body was...

Why Do Nails Have Ridges?

20 Mar 2017

There is a wealth of information at our fingertips 鈥 in our nails. Anyone who has ever wished for some kind of health-o-meter to signal the body鈥檚 state of wellness need look no further than the...

Are there any health benefits in taking maca in a pill form?

20 Mar 2017

Maca is a cruciferous plant, in the same family as broccoli and cabbage. However, in this case it is the root not the leaves that are eaten. The plant is an unusual one, cultivated only at high...

How Do Anti-Fog sprays for Glasses Work?

20 Mar 2017

The fog on glasses consists of small droplets of liquid water. This happens because water vapour from the air condenses on the cold glass surface. The droplets are thick enough to distort our...

Do men's and women's armpits smell differently?

20 Mar 2017

If you鈥檙e into cheese scents, you鈥檒l find them in a male armpit,聽but if onion or grapefruit aromas are more your thing, then you鈥檙e more likely to find it armpit of a perspiring woman.Yes, men and...

Why is milk white and not green like grass?

20 Mar 2017

Questions about milk are always interesting because, after all, it is our first food. Milk is meant to be the only sustaining food during early life and therefore it must contain all the required...

What makes a fish 鈥渙rganic?鈥

20 Mar 2017

The use of the label "organic" is regulated by a strict set of guidelines. As it applies to farmed fish, it implies following a number of rules with respect to water recycling, disposal of waste...

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