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Olympic Torch In Flight How do they keep the Olympic flame alight whilst in flight?	Running Out of Oil When will the worlds oil reserves run dry?
Lightning on TV Should you unplug your TV in a thunderstorm?	Surviving in a Sealed Car How much air does the average car hold? If it were perfectly sealed, how long could you keep driving for without passing out?
Drink Wine or Drink Nothing? Is it better to drink wine than to drink nothing at all? In a desert, would drinking wine stop, or speed up your dehydration? If you have to drink wine, is it best to leave it open to let the alcohol evaporate?	Vocal Accent While Singing Why should people lose their regional or foreign accent when they sing?
Timing the Tides How do they predict the tides with such precision? And who needs it that precise?	Clean Cut Hair Grows Quicker? Can you slow the growth of your hair by refusing to wash or cut it? Does clean cut hair grow quicker?
Speed of Caves Will the increased levels of carbon-dioxide speed up the formation of caves?	Size of Smell Sense Does a strong smell mean a lot of odour in the air, or can we be tricked by small smells?
The Smell of Old Books The older the book, the better it smells, right? But just what is the smell of old books?	Self-Shocking Electric Eels? How do Electric Eels avoid shocking themselves?
Recycling Oxygen How is oxygen made and recycled on the International Space Station?	Treadmill runway? Could a plane take off on a 'treadmill' runway?
Fatter Cyclists Faster Downhill? Who would go faster freewheeling downhill, a fat cyclist of a thin cyclist?	Boomerang Physics How does a boomerang work? Is it the shape or the technique that makes it come back? Would any old stick, thrown in the right way, return?
Why do wires tangle? Why is it that headphone wires, even when put away neatly, always end up in a tangle - worse even than you could do on purpose?!	The Electrified Car Hop Is the safest way to escape an electrified car to hop?
Power of a Magnet Where do Magnets get the power to stick or repel?	Skydiving from Space Could an astronaut skydive from space? Would a spacesuit handle the re-entry heat?

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