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When Science Goes Wrong, It Can Be So Beautifully Right

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Science, Nature’s hard-headed sister, is a beautiful, wonderful and powerful mistress, perfectly encapsulating the explainable and unexplainable and swiftly reducing the world we live in to complex yet precise equations tailor-made for our understanding and convenience. For those of us on the less knowledgeable side of the looking glass, there is a side to science that we can also enjoy, away from the numbers, formulas and complexities.

These strange happenstance experiments resulted in some truly hilarious and absolutely dazzling scientific reactions, proving that accidental science can be fun and informative when the carefully crafted research conducted inside laboratories finds a fascinating way into our everyday lives.

1. What happens when mist freezes around a waterfall

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2. What happens when you heat a marble and immediately drop it into cold water

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3. What happens when lightning hits a flag on a golf course

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4. What happens when you polish a coconut

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5. What happens when you put M & Ms in a dish of water

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6. What happens when you leave potatoes in a moist place for too long

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7. What happens when you drive over fresh sidewalk chalk on a hot day

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8. What happens when you forget to thin out the carrots in your garden

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9. What happens when you photograph an airplane propellor with a high quality camera (called the rolling shutter effect)

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10. What happens when you leave a summer roll out for 4 days

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11. What happens when a frog has fireflies for dinner

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12. What happens when you leave half a head of cabbage in the refrigerator for weeks

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13. What happens to an indoor basketball court or gymnasium when the pipes burst

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14. What happens to mesh furniture on the patio during an ice storm

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15. What happens when water freezes rapidly

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16. What happens when you grow a pumpkin inside a plastic mold

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17. What happens to sand on a beach when after it’s been hit by lightning

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18. What happens when you heat a highlighter in a microwave

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19. What happens to food at -94°F, the temperature in Antarctica

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20. What happens when the triple foam conditioner at a car wash begins to leak

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21. What happens when you leave a bowl of beet juice out for many hours

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22. What happens when you leave candelabrum out on a hot day

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23. What happens when you leave your bicycle outside for too long

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24. What happens when you take a picture with an iPhone while another camera’s flash goes off

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25. What happens when you see the sun hitting a newly paved tarmac through a polarized window

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