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Washing clothes with deoderant

Sometimes when I wash my husbands football gear it comes out of the washing machine and I can still smell his odour and the stale deoderant. I'm guessing that the deoderant is so good that is just...

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White gold

I just wondered if there was a way of preventing my white gold ring from reverting back to its yellow gold colour. I vaguely remember in my chemistry lessons at school learning about how steel ship...

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Earths orbit

What makes the earths orbit around the Sun eliptical? Why not a constant distance all the way around? Thank you!

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Does Cold food burn more calories?

I was just having a cold Mullerice for my breakfast this morning and wondered if having it cold would burn more calories as my body would need to heat it to body temperature to digest it. Can anyone...

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What's in a tin of tuna?

I was sitting at my desk making a tuna sandwich for my lunch and pickled up the tin to read its ingredients: Tuna and salt. Its nutritional contents were ?in 100g of drained contents: 25g protein. I...

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Where did the dollar go?

i got this email today.... does anybody know the answer because it's starting to hurt my brain.... :) thank you! 3 men go into a motel. the man behind the desk said the room is $30, so each man paid...

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Earth's rotation

If the earth were to revolve faster on its axis than it does today, what would happen to its shape?

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Science

What is a Yottabyte?

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Alcohol absorption

Does food comsuption prevent/delay alcohol absorption? So, if two people had 3 pints over a two hour period but one of them had steak and chips to eat during that period then they were both...

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Life of various beverages

Is there a certain percentage of alcohol by volume when drinks cease to 'go off' once opened? i.e. lagers, beers ciders etc go bad quickly almost overnight. Red wine might last a day or 2 in the...

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Does a dimmer switch use electricity?

Hello, How does a variable resistor change the flow of electricity? For example, on a dimmer light switch does it use any of the electricity that flowing through it in order to dim the light? Thank...

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Cloudy water

I was just washing my glass in the sink here at work and i often notice that the (very hot) water comes out really cloudy, then after a couple of minutes goes clear. Why does this happen?

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Leap Years and Extra Days

Hi everyone this is my first question...it relates to another question asked ages go? if we get another 24 hours every leap year, we get an extra 4 minutes on that day. So should we be having an extra...