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How Trains Work
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We humans are mobile. Long before flight, FusionMan or even your average automobile arrived on the scene, trains were transporting us all over civilization. How did we get from horse-drawn carts to high-speed trains?
How Suicide Bombers Work
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Suicide bombers use a unique form of terrorism in order to advance their message. Learn about suicide bombers.
How Chinese Traditions Work
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Many Chinese traditions go back for hundreds or thousands of years. Find out about Chinese traditions at HowStuffWorks.
How Japanese Traditions Work
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Many Japanese traditions go back for hundreds of years. Find out about Japanese traditions at HowStuffWorks.
What is corn plastic?
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Corn plastic is made from polylactic acid plastic and looks like normal oil-based plastic. But can corn plastic reduce our dependence on foreign oil?
How Whale Sharks Work
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How whale sharks work is fascinating. See how whale sharks work and if whale shark length exceeds a bus.
Can You Identify These Fragrant Flowers?
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Fragrant flowers inspire not only admiration but also evoke a feeling. Are you a flower connoisseur? Do you know your petunia from your heliotrope? Take this quiz and find out just how many blissfully-scented flowers you can identify!
Which Was It: Toyota, Chevy, Dodge, or Ford?
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Don't swerve out of control when you come face to face with these challenging questions! If you consider yourself an expert gearhead, then this quiz should be no problem for you. Get ready to switch gears and show us what you've got!
How Impressive Is Your Venomous Snakes Knowledge?
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Danger, danger! Venomous snakes are dangerous if you don't know how to handle them, much more if you can't even identify them. Think you could spot one in the wild? Find out by taking this quiz!
10 of the Bloodiest Battles of World War II
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The war that began with German dictator Adolf Hitler's rise to power led to more than 50 million combatant and civilian deaths. Which 10 battles during the World War II were the costliest?