n creatures as in Chryslers, external bilateral symmetry just makes sense
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The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
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Do dogs have better protection from ticks than people do?
Blame climate change in part, as more regions become warm and humid enough to support tick activity
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Can Congress override a presidential pardon?
It’s simply not the president’s jurisdiction. This may come as some surprise to the current officeholder, who last year tweeted that “all agree the U.S. President has the complete power to pardon.”
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Why is Asian earwax different from black and white people’s earwax?
It’s been understood for a while that the consistency of one’s earwax is a genetic trait, distributed ethnogeographically.
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Why does ‘nuts’ mean crazy?
The word nut has been in circulation since the very dawn of the English language
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Why does South America grow all the coca?
Hailing from the genus Erythroxylum, coca’s indigenous to the Andes, where for millennia people have been cultivating a few species whose leaves they chew as a stimulant.
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How often do emergency vehicles get into accidents?
Perhaps a reason you haven’t witnessed these accidents yourself is they tend to occur under specific conditions: often on rural roads, often at night.