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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
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The Fire Swamp: A Scientific Phenomenon
In 1783, George Washington debated Thomas Payne and his soldiers about how these will the Wisps formed. Some people consider this to be the first American science experiment. Bart: Methane gas is very flammable; sometimes it jostles around surfaces and then it gets ignited as a plume of flame.
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