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The Wombat Poop Mystery - Who's Your Answer?

Scientists in Taiwan have solved the wombat poop mystery. They used a balloon to stretch an intestine and found that some parts of it contracted faster than others. The shape of the intestine itself was also not uniform all the way around. This research won Patricia Young the Ig Nobel Prize for physics.

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