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Curious Folks Ask

162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries

Sherry Seethaler

For everyone who has ever wondered

Contents

Chapter 1 Ingenious inventions

Full of cold air

May the Force be with you

Catching a wave

Out, damned spot!

Glass stretch marks

On the road again

Lost with digital

Era arrangement

Let there be light

Temperature tales

Spying on Martians

Earthling outpost

Pharaoh’s secrets

Twinkle, twinkle

Mr. Weasley’s collection

Electric synchrony

Man’s best friend v. 2.0

Taking to the sky

Architecture by numbers

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