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How do you keep a lemon from getting mouldy?
Store it in a water-filled jar.
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Store it in a plastic bag in the bathroom.
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Put it next to an apple in a fruit bowl.
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It prevents oxygen from getting to the lemon.
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What's useful for cleaning a cooking grid?
The essential oils of the onion are a fat solvent.
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What does the ORAC-value on groceries stand for?
Vitamin absorbance expressed as a percentage
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Muscle building potential
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It stands for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity.
4.
If you publish a new children's book in Norway, then
you have to read it once in a Kindergarten in an honorary capacity.
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you can be sure that the government will buy 1500 copies.
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you should be careful that no foxes appear in it.
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5.
Which novelty from England might soon make streets safer?
Proactive sound-wave-traffic-light-system
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LED-crosswalks reacting to traffic
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Magnetic stopping procedure at dangerous crossings
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6.
What can cause back aches?
Horizontally oriented bicycle seat
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Wallet in the back pocket
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Wearing socks with flip-flops
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7.
Why does the body temperature of astronauts in space increase?
Their skin pores get tightened.
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Their sweat evaporates less.
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They use more energy by moving around.
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8.
What happens, if you put a copper spiral over a candle flame.
The spiral starts glowing.
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The spiral takes heat from the candle, so the temperature sinks below the combustion temperature of wax.
9.
The Mercator projection makes sure that
Greenland appears to be the same size as Africa on maps.
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people think that they're smarter than the masses.
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pictures on the cinema screen aren't back-to-front.
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10.
It takes more than 400 years to
go around the earth at walking pace ten times.
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spend a night in every hotel room in Las Vegas.
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watch one episode a week of The Simpsons.
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There are almost 150.000 hotel rooms in Las Vegas
11.
What's special about a cone snail?
It hypnotizes other snails with its rotating eyes.
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It renders fish defenseless with insulin.
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It opens sea anemones by tickling them.
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12.
What do most robotic lawn mowers come with?
Funnel for water filling purposes
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It's a boundary wire which is recognized by the robot.