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According to a 2007 University of New Mexico study, strippers earn nearly double when ovulating than when they’re on their period.
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University of Barcelona neuroscientists concluded that rats could tell the difference between Japanese and Dutch, but not when spoken backwards.
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In 1962, Warren Thomas injected Tusko the elephant with 297 milligrams of LSD—1,000 times the amount humans normally take—to test its effects. Tusko died within two hours.
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The artificial, 100% closed ecosystem, the Biosphere 2, was built to test space colonization. The $200 million-dollar project ended in MUTINY: after being kicked out with a restraining order, the crew snuck back to the Biosphere in the middle of the night and opened an outside door.
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5. DUMBEST OF THE DUMB: all of these experiments. More here.
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Scientists in China observed fruit bats giving BJs. The conclusion: the act prolongs fruit bat sex.
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Congress pulled the plug on the Superconducting Super Collider particle accelerator—after digging 13 miles of tunnel, and spending $2 billion.
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After crunching the hard data from 30 trials, a New Zealand study proved that wearing socks over your shoes reduces your chances of slipping on ice.
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In 1964, a graduate student cut a tree down in Nevada to determine its age—turns out, it was the oldest non-clonal organism ever recorded: 4,862-years-old.
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In 1954, scientist Demikhov created the first of twenty 2-headed dogs. The longest living one (err…two?) survived 1 month.
10 Dumb Science Experiments & Studies
Senator Coburn criticizes the government spending millions on “wasteful” experiments, like the $1.5 million laundry-folding robot. Actually, that sounds like a smart investment, but these next 10 experiments and studies? Not so much…
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