Despite its effectiveness in controlling malarial mosquitoes, what controversial chemical vanished from use after Rachel Carson blamed it for killing birds and poisoning people in her 1962 book Silent Spring?
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In 1897 Representative TI Record of Posen County, Indiana, introduced House Bill #246, which fixed the value of what number at 3.23?
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By what name is the bay lynx usually known?
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How can you tell a mammoth from a mastodon?
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Before he designed the Saturn V that launched Apollo 11, he was a member of both the Nazi party and the SS, having used slave labor from the Dora concentration camp. Who?
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What was the Avtomat Kalashnikova model 1947 g.?
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Humphry Davy discovered this element in 1807 and renamed it twice, which is why the Brits spell it with an I and the Americans don't. What is it?
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Nikola Tesla never patented his ideas, but after Tesla died, the Supreme Court invalidated Marconi's patents and gave Tesla credit for what invention?
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Eureka! King Heiro of Syracuse asked Archimedes to figure out if a gold crown was really made of gold. By tradition, what was he doing when he figured out how?
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Doctors call it aeroembolism. Some engineers call it caisson disease. What do we usually call it?
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