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Can You Unscramble These UK Slang Words?

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British slang is as colourful as it is creative, and that means that remembering all of it can be a challenge, even if you're a native yourself! Can you make head or tail of this quiz?

Can You Name the Landform From a Definition?

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From mountains to battures, hoodoos to plains, our planet is covered in landforms of all types. How well do you know them? Start taking this quiz to find out!

Can You Name the British Movie From One Screenshot?

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God save the Queen and British cinema as well! Hollywood may dominate, but the U.K. is doing fine, shaking and not stirring drinks for James Bond and heading to Hogwarts with Harry Potter. Think you can name all of these British films? Take the quiz and see!

We Challenge You to ID All of These Species If You Think You're a Snake Expert!

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Snake eyes are bad when you're rolling the dice, but pretty cool when you're just dealing with real snakes. If you're feeling like betting on your snake expertise, take this quiz and show us what you've got!

Can You Match These Female Action Heroes to Their Movies?

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People used to say girls are made from sugar and spice and everything nice. These women are made from power, strength and serious butt-kicking heroism. How many female action heroes can you ID? Take the quiz and see!

How Foot Binding Worked

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What was foot binding? Find out how foot binding worked from HowStuffWorks.

Could we resurrect dinosaurs from fossil embryos?

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You likely heard that paleontologists uncovered a cache of dinosaur embryos, bone fragments and eggshells in China. You also may recall that we've made crazy leaps forward in genetics and genomics. Can we put the two together and create a dinosaur?

How Death Masks Work

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The best photograph can't touch one. A death mask, in all its 3-D glory, is the last likeness of a loved one that a family can own. After all, it vividly preserves what some consider to be the very essence of a person -- the face.

How Zambonis Work

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All eyes are trained on you at halftime as you make slow sweeps across the rink, leaving sparkling smooth ice in your lumbering wake. The fans cheer. You tip your head slightly in modest acknowledgement. This is the life of the Zamboni driver.

What Is the Strongest Currency in the World?

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If you found a bag full of cash, which currency would you prefer it to be? The quick answer might not be the best one; while a suitcase full of U.S. dollars would mean you could start spending immediately (provided you were in the U.S., or in a country that accepted the U.S. dollar as an official currency), there are actually more valuable currencies out there.

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