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11 Things We Didn't Know Last Week
By Steve Mencher, August 6, 2014 04:14 PM
News, discoveries and ... fun
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1. What do you get if you cross a sheep and a goat? A "geep." (Learn more at People)
2. After 10 years and four billion miles, the Rosetta spacecraft will slow to the pace of a person walking to examine a 2.5-mile-wide comet. (Learn more at NY Times)
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3. Your bag of potato chips can hear what you're saying - and perhaps even let others eavesdrop. (Learn more at The Verge)
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4. A tear, like a snowflake, is unique. (Learn more at Studio 360)
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5. President Barack Obama received a total of 274 gifts from foreign countries and their leaders from 2009 to 2012, including a bottle of Å»ubrówka (Bison Grass Vodka). (Learn more at the Washington Post)
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6. Scientists have created transparent mice that could help them trace the flow of blood or see how cancer spreads. (Learn more at CBS News)
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8. The unhealthiest restaurant meal in the United States? Weighing in at 3,540 calories and 69 grams of saturated fat, it's Red Robin's "Monster"-size A.1. Peppercorn Burger with "Bottomless Steak Fries" and a "Monster Salted Caramel Milkshake." (Learn more at AARP)
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9. After age 30, a man's testosterone drops about 1 percent a year. (Learn more at AARP)
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Images - "Geep": My Petting Zoo via Facebook; Rosetta Orbiter: European Space Agency; potato chips: theimpulsivebuy via Flickr; tear: Facing North East via Flickr; vodka: Jojo via Wikipedia; transparent mice: Cell, Yang et al., 2014, Cell.com © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved; mega penguin: New Scientist; men: Eli Brody via Flickr; Nixon: Wikimedia; "Ken" model: Celso Santebanes via Instragram
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