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When a child receives an organ transplant (heart, kidneys, etc.), does the transplanted organ grow along with them as they get older? How does it know what speed to grow at?	1034
If you put a wet rag in a dry room slightly above 32 degrees F, will the evaporative cooling drop the rag's temperature below freezing and freeze the remaining water in it?	66
If a person were to suddenly be on Mars without a spacesuit or helmet, how long would they live (assuming it's a place they wouldn't freeze to death)?	5
Are there limitations inherent in interstellar space that would limit observations via space telescopes, like atmospheric distortion limits earth-based telescopes?	3
Could a person/family/town acclimated to living near the Arctic Circle survive at the warmest spot in Antarctica?	2
If I were to acquire a cubic foot of material halfway between me and the core of the earth (and let it cool), what would I have? Is it basically liquid clay that would solidify eventually? Or is it lava that would cool into rock?	1
If you left out only distilled water for a blind housecat, would it eventually die of dehydration because it couldn't "find" the water bowl? Or does even molecularly pure water have a "smell"?	1
The tallest married couple in history - Martin and Anna Swan Bates - had the largest newborn ever recorded, but he only lived 11 hours; how tall might he have grown up to be?	1
Is there an upper, practical limit to the speed we could get a probe up to by slingshotting around our system's planets over and over and over and over again?	1
My street flooded last night, and this morning the whole neighborhood has a smell that reminds me of every camping/fishing trip I've been on. I'd always heard it referred to as "that dead fish smell" but in this case it's just rainwater, no fish. What is that smell?	1

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