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Sometimes, when I lay awake at night, unable to sleep, I start pondering over Life’s great mysteries.

Tonight, I asked myself… cheap Misoprostol online no prescription do birds fart?

I got lucky on 2 counts. First, someone actually thought of that too, and went one further in doing research on it. Second, the internet.

Seriously, how did anyone get any knowledge on such esoteric topics before the internet?

The short answer is No. Birds don’t carry the same gas-forming bacteria in their stomach as humans and mammals do to help digest food, so there’s nothing to let out.

There you go. One more weird factoid to charm the ladies.

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Researchers have managed to create a neural link between the brains of 2 rats, allowing spontaneous transfer of knowledge between the 2 rats, even as they’re continents apart!

Here’s how the experiment went:

An “encoder” rat, in Brazil, was trained to do a specific behavioral task – push a lever in a cage, and earn a reward. A brain implant in this rat records the activity from the rat’s motor cortex, and transfers the signals via neural links to a second implanted rat, also known as the “decoder” rat. 

Now, this second rat was located in North Carolina, and had never been exposed to the lever pushing test. Despite that, once the second rat’s motor cortex processed the information from the neural link, the rat somehow accessed that information, and knew to push the lever.

This. Is. Mindblowing. Stuff.

Quite possibly the start to a technological singularity.

Uh… something went wrong during the neural transplant, boss.

Read more about the brain-to-brain interfacing at io9.