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Question 1:
The Earth is an estimated four and a half billion years old. If geologic time were somehow compressed into a single calendar year, on what date would human beings appear?
Depends on what you believe in. If you believe in evolution; that man evolved from apes, then there is not a certain date. If you don't believe in Evolution, then it is simple. October 31st.
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Question 2:
How much water can be stored in a camel's hump?
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From: http://www.biol.lu.se/zoofysiol/Djurartiklar/Kamel.html
Firstly, it can be ascertained that the camel's hump is not in fact filled with water, simply by cutting into it. Such action would reveal that the hump is in fact composed mostly of fat. Yet, this could still suggest that the hump acts as a water store - if a gram of fat is broken down during metabolism, it produces more than a gram of water. However, camels cannot use this fat for water production - due to the arid conditions prevailing in their habitat, they would lose too much water across their lungs in obtaining enough oxygen for fat degradation.
So, what is the role of the camel's hump? Unfortunately the answer is relatively dull - it appears that the humps are merely food reserves, and the fat and flesh contained within are absorbed as nutrition when food is scarce.
Then how exactly do camels get water? When dehydrated camels are offered water, they drink and they drink a lot. It is uncertain whether they drink more than they have actually lost. If they do, they store some water, not in their hump, but in their diluted body fluids. Camels also have an exceptional ability to minimize their water losses
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Question 3:
How high up do a nation's borders or airspace extend? Would an astronaut orbiting the Earth be in the U.S. when "flying over" the U.S. territorial area?
3 miles
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Question 4:
Why do Life Savers candy make blue sparks when you bite them?
Build up of electrical charge
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Question 5:
Under what special circumstances were the typewriter, carbon paper and LP record invented? Were they all just the result of blind chance?
For the military.
[Disclaimer: Some answers might be correct, some might not be, some where meant for humor, others were meant for confusion. While questions 1-4; were not total guesses, 5, was. And if you believe this, you need to add more salt to your diet.] :D
