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Talk about a bizarre feature of the human body: If you happened to swallow a razor blade, your stomach acid would dissolve it. Acids are ranked on a scale from zero to 14—the lower the pH level, the ...

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After years of getting your emails and phone calls, we know that SciFri listeners are in the 99th percentile when it comes to nerdy knowledge. We’re putting your fact retention skills to the test with ...

The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...