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Why/how did we come to name wine jug measurements after Biblical characters? Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Methusaleh, Nebuchadnezzar and Melchior?

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How can copper treat infections and kill germs, specifically?

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How do they know that comet is spewing out 500 bottles of wine's-worth of alcohol, and sugars, if we haven't had a probe actually come near it?

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What if we took DNA samples of endangered species to make more (cloning)? Would that help? They've got a vault for the planet's seeds....

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Why do they say cats aren't sentient--self-aware?

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BEAM, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, is going to be a part of the International Space Station. It is made of "soft fabrics, not metal". How will soft fabrics protect them from space?

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Does medical marijuana (or other types) kill a a lot of brain cells? (They used to say 100,000 per cigarette.)

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Presumably the poison dart frog's ancestors were not so brightly colored, or their skin toxic at all. How did their skin evolve into the brightly-patterned, cardiac-inducing toxin-spewing coolness they are today? How did their skin 'decide' to turn this way, to keep away predators?

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Can you name specifically each thing Rosie the Riveter is holding & describe its use?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why/how did we come to name wine jug measurements after Biblical characters? Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Methusaleh, Nebuchadnezzar and Melchior?	160	AskHistorians
How can copper treat infections and kill germs, specifically?	15	askscience
How do they know that comet is spewing out 500 bottles of wine's-worth of alcohol, and sugars, if we haven't had a probe actually come near it?	3	askscience
What if we took DNA samples of endangered species to make more (cloning)? Would that help? They've got a vault for the planet's seeds....	1	askscience
Why do they say cats aren't sentient--self-aware?	1	askscience
BEAM, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, is going to be a part of the International Space Station. It is made of "soft fabrics, not metal". How will soft fabrics protect them from space?	1	askscience
Does medical marijuana (or other types) kill a a lot of brain cells? (They used to say 100,000 per cigarette.)	1	askscience
Presumably the poison dart frog's ancestors were not so brightly colored, or their skin toxic at all. How did their skin evolve into the brightly-patterned, cardiac-inducing toxin-spewing coolness they are today? How did their skin 'decide' to turn this way, to keep away predators?	1	askscience
Can you name specifically each thing Rosie the Riveter is holding & describe its use?	0	AskHistorians