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Antivenom Production Recipe

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In an age where everything is synthesized, I was touched to discover that snake bite anti-venoms are not made in a lab but in a HORSE. Yes, if you’re off for a stroll in the desert, you’ll need the following ingredients : The snake that bit you A horse A syringe A decorative jar Optional : a fridge Instructions : Milk the snake Inject the resulting venom into the horse Wait for the horse’s immune response to kick in Extract blood from the horse Separate out the hemoglobin and put…read more

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The Sun

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It’s common knowledge that it takes a photon about 8 minutes to travel the 150 million km to the earth from the surface of the sun, but did you know that it takes A MILLION YEARS to travel the 696 thousand km from the center of the sun to the surface? The reason is not due to the sun’s gravitational field, but due to the path the photon takes, zigzagging randomly as it is absorbed and reemitted by plasma particles. This was one of the interesting facts from the How…read more

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