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If each day is only 23h56m4s, over the course of 4 years, we accumulate 95.7 hours of unaccounted time when approximating each day to 24 hours. We give ourselves one extra day in February, which accounts for only 24 hours of that extra time, but where does that extra 71.7 hours go?
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How are sutures dissolved if they are made of chitin and if chitin has beta-glycosidic bonds like cellulose?
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When meteorologists tell you what temperature it feels like, what instrument to they use to measure that? And if they measured it, why isn't that just the temperature?
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Is there calculateable amount of vegetation needed to keep a positive balance of oxygen in the atmosphere on Earth to sustain the amount of cell respiration taking place?
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