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Bread would be flat if it weren't for farts. Little critters called yeast are put into bread dough. When the yeast eats the sugar in the dough, it gives them carbon dioxide gas. They fart the gas which causes the bread dough to rise. Think about that the next time you bite into a peanut butter sandwich.


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Warm giants
Zoologists who work with crocodiles say that large dinosaurs may have had a high and stable body temperature which they would have been able to maintain due to their size. They say that they have observed a similar effect in large crocodiles.
9 JANUARY 1999, P. 10
New Scientist
9 JANUARY 1999, P. 10

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