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		<title>Who invented the toilet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While Thomas Crapper was indeed a 19th century plumber in England, he did not invent the modern flushing toilet. That honor goes to Sir John Harrington who came up with a prototype for Queen Elizabeth I&#8217;s palace in the 16th century. Also more than 60 years before Crapper was even born, Alexander Cummings received the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do people live in Antarctica?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The general answer is no, as there are no permanent residents of Antarctica. Several contries however, do maintain permanent research stations with scientists and support personnel that number up to 5,000 in the summer and about 1,000 in the winter. Most researchers do not stay through the winter but those that do are typically there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TheScienceExperts.com/answers/do-people-live-in-antarctica/</link>
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		<title>How fast is the speed of light?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The speed of light, typically noted as c in math and physics formulas is 299,792,458 meters per second (186,282 miles per second). Note, this figure is for the speed in a vacuum as light will propagate at different speeds through different mediums. Here&#8217;s the speed of light compared to other fast things (in miles per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do people eat spiders in their sleep?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The short answer: no. Is it possible that of the seven billion people in the world, all sleeping at some point during a 24 hour period, some might accidentally eat a spider during their sleep? Sure, it&#8217;s possible but very unlikely. The source of this urban legend is generally unknown but a plausible explanation (from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why does hair turn gray?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To understand this, we should first answer what causes hair color to begin with. All hair, whether on your head, your arms, or your cat&#8217;s tail has pigment cells called melanocytes. These melanocytes produce a pigment called melanin- more specifically, the chemicals eumelanin and pheomelanin. Hair with more eumelanin will be darker (brownish to black) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who was the first person in space?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space when he orbited the Earth on April 12, 1961. He was only 25 years old at the time. Gagarin was a Russian cosmonaut. A cosmonaut is what the Russians call their astronauts. And for you really young readers, a Russian is what we used to call someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How many galaxies are there?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a couple of good posts on this from astronomycafe.net on their ask the astronomer page. The general consensus of all the answers out there seems to be that we do not know exactly, but there are at least a hundred billion, and possibly several hundred billion. The following is quoted from Astronomy Cafe: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TheScienceExperts.com/answers/how-many-galaxies-are-there/</link>
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		<title>Who invented the first microscope?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the late sixteenth century, two Dutch eyeglass makers discovered that objects appear magnified when viewed through multiple convex lenses in a tube. For this simple discovery, Hans Janssen and his son Zaccharias are considered by some to have invented the microscope around 1590. About this same time, another eyeglass maker from Holland, Hans Lippershey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TheScienceExperts.com/answers/who-invented-the-first-microscope/</link>
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		<title>How can I make slime?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every few months or so, my son and I like to make straight-chain polymers out of of polyvinyl acrylic (PVA) and sodium tetraborate. It’s pretty simple to do. You just mix one part PVA with one part dihydrogen oxide. Then make a solution of about 40 mg of Na2B4O7, and 400 cc of more dihydrogen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What animal has the longest gestation period?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might think the animal with the longest gestation period would be one of the larger mammals, but in fact it is the Alpine black salamander. It is a viviparous amphibian which lives in the high altitude Swiss Alps. At altitudes above 4,600 feet, it&#8217;s gestation period can be up to 38 months. It bears [...]]]></description>
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