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'Farting as a defense against unspeakable dread' - This paper by Mara Sidoli looks at the case of a boy who uses flatulence as a defense mechanism when feeling endangered.

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'The possibility of unicorns: Kripke v Dummett' - The paper everyone wants to read. Spoiler alert: they don't exist.

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'Effects of cocaine on honey bee dance behavior' - If you ever wondered what would happen to bees if they did coke, then this is the paper for you.

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'Pigeons' discrimination of paintings by Monet and Picasso' - It looks like pigeons can actually distinguish between works by the two painters, when trained to do so.

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'Jesus Potter Harry Christ' - The thesis (which is now available as a book) by Ph.D. student Derek Murphy looks at the parallels between two of the world's most popular literary characters.

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'Safe and painless manipulation of penile zipper entrapment' - Dr. Satish Chandra Mishra looked at the best method to solve this problem.

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'Intimate relationships with artificial partners' - The paper predicts that by 2050 this might become a reality.

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'Chickens prefer beautiful humans' - Apparently, chickens prefer "faces consistent with human sexual preferences."

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'The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhyncho' - Yes, this paper is about same-sex dead duck sex.

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'Impact of wet underwear on thermoregulatory responses and thermal comfort in the cold.' - Well, it's pretty uncomfortable, as you can imagine.

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'Human digestive effects on a micromammalian skeleton' - The paper looked a what would happen to a shrew if it was swallowed by a human without being chewed.

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'The effect of country music on suicide' - The research concluded that "the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate."

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'Fellat*o by fruit bats prolongs copulation time' - Yes, bats do it too, and it looks like foreplay works great for them.

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'The nature of navel fluff' - The study found that lint might actually be a cleaning function for the navel.

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'Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage' - The paper suggests "that this manoeuvre should be considered in cases of intractable hiccups before proceeding with pharmacological agents."

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'Selective, retrieval-independent disruption of methamphetamine-associated memory by actin depolymerization' - Erasing bad memories seems like something out of a sci-fi movie, but researchers managed to delete drug-related ones in mice.

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'Pressures produced when penguins pooh – calculations on avian defecation' - Penguins have an impressive pooing technique. Luckily, someone decided to do a paper on it.

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'Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?' - The study looks at the difference between being hit by a full and an empty bottle, and how much damage it inflicts.

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'Optimizing the sensory characteristics and acceptance of canned cat food: use of a human taste panel' - If you've always wanted to evaluate cat food, we're sorry that you didn't take part in this study.

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'Which feels heavier—a pound of lead or a pound of feathers?" A potential perceptual basis of a cognitive riddle' - This study looks at perception of weight.

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'On human odor, malaria mosquitoes, and Limburger cheese' - Mosquitoes like to bite human feet, so maybe cheese with a similar odor to our feet would make a good trap?

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'Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers' - The research concluded that London cabbies actually have more gray matter volume, when compared to subjects who didn't drive taxis.

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'The "booty call": a compromise between men's and women's ideal mating strategies' - The Department of Psychology at New Mexico State University conducted a study on this topic.

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'Cure for a headache' - Do woodpeckers get headaches from  hammering their beaks into trees? No, apparently they developed mechanisms to prevent any type of damage to their heads.

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'Do ethicists steal more books?' - Apparently books on ethics are more likely to go missing from university libraries than books on other philosophical subjects.

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'Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap dancers: economic evidence for human estrus?' - Yes, strippers will earn more tips when they're ovulating. Blame biology.

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'A comparison of jump performances of the dog flea, Ctenocephalides canis, and the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis felis' - Someone finally compared the jump performances of dogs and cats' fleas! The canine flea won, in case you're wondering.

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Lady gaga and Pop Art -

Student Amrou Al-Kadhi managed to convince Cambridge University to accept a dissertation on Lady Gaga's role in the history of pop art.

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'Sword swallowing and its side effects' -

The research found that sore throats are common, and gastrointestinal bleeding occurs sometimes.

See also: Bizarre medical facts you won’t believe are true.

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