Find out the answer right here.
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How do fish gills work?
How do fish breathe underwater?
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How do stalactites form?
Drip, drop, drip, drop.
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Why are rain clouds dark?
Read on to find out the answer.
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How do water striders walk on water?
The aquatic insect that uses water tension to stay on top.
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What is dandruff?
Carols Grau from the Science Museum has the answer for us.
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Video: Home Experiment – Walking on Water
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Top Five Facts: Toilets
Here’s some, uh, ‘fascinating’ facts about toilets…
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What is a shock wave?
The science behind breaking the sound barrier
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Why do salmon swim upstream?
You’ll jump for joy after learning these fantastic facts.
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What is the source of the River Nile?
The How It Works team goes ‘up river’ in a quest for the holy grail of Nile-related facts.
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Why do pelicans have such large beaks compared with other birds?
Hein van Grouw from the Department of Zoology at the Natural History Museum, London, goes fishing with a bucket of tasty facts.
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How are underwater tunnels built without them flooding?
We really had to dig deep into the How It Works facts pit for this one. Check it out after the jump.
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Video: Incredible waterspout tornadoes form over Australia
Water columns 600 metres high formed off the coast of Australia on 30 May 2011
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Can you have too much sleep?
We wake Olivia Harwood up to give us the answer
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Video: The power of a flash flood
Watch an incredible example of these torrents of water in action
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Why do elephants have a trunk and a mouth?
Simon Garrett gives us an answer we’ll never forget
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Question Of The Day: Why does WD-40 stop hinges from squeaking?
It’s a squeaky clean answer from Connor Skates we’ve got here
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Are any plants sensitive to touch?
Wesley Shaw, keeper of the Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, answers right here, right now.
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Top Five Facts: Tsunami
Learn more about these mega waves right here