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Hydrogen peroxide is most likely in your first-aid kit. But it can be deployed for a whole variety of cleaning, gardening and beauty purposes you may have never ever thought of.
You don't need to be a fan of chemistry to appreciate isotopes. They affect geology and medicine, too.
Sleeping with a weighted blanket is said to help alleviate stress and anxiety by creating a "snuggle effect." But does science back this up?
Garter snakes are harmless, very common and beneficially feed on slugs, leeches, large insects and small rodents in North American gardens.
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"The distribution of brown recluses in the U.S. is a little like a rain cloud over the midwest. If you're standing in the center of the storm — in Kansas or Oklahoma — you're going to get very wet, a lot of water droplets are going to hit you. If you're standing at the edge of the thunder shower in Georgia, the droplets will be much fewer and farther between." — Richard Vetter, Author and Retired Entomologist, University of California Riverside
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