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Why Do We Get Hiccups?
Almost everyone gets hiccups, yet nobody is sure why the reflex exists, and the best clues come from unborn babies and tadpoles.
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Why Do Your Fingers Wrinkle in the Bath?
It looks like your skin has simply soaked up too much water, but the wrinkles are made on purpose by your nervous system, and they may be there to help you hold on.
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Why Do We Get Goosebumps?
A cold breeze, a scary film and a favourite song can all raise the same tiny bumps on your arms, which is a lot of effort for hair we barely have.
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Koalas Have Fingerprints Almost Identical to Ours
Under a microscope a koala's fingertip carries the same loops and whorls a human one does, close enough that specialists have struggled to tell the two apart.
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Are Trees Really Plumbed Into Each Other by Fungi?
Fungi really do live on tree roots and help trees grow. Whether they link whole forests into a sharing network is far less certain than the popular story says.
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Cats Cannot Taste Sweetness
A gene cats need to build a sweet taste receptor is broken, so the cake your cat is sniffing does not taste sweet to it at all.
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Sharks Are Older Than Trees
Shark-like scales go back about 450 million years. The oldest known forest grew about 385 million years ago.