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  • The University Of Minnesota Determined Swimming In Syrup Is No More Difficult Than Swimming In Water on Random Weirdest Scientific Experiments That You Won't Believe People Actually Got Funding For

    (#8) The University Of Minnesota Determined Swimming In Syrup Is No More Difficult Than Swimming In Water

    Edward Cussler, who oversaw Michael Hopkins's 2004 experiment at the University of Minnesota, admitted that "the bizarreness of the idea," is a reason it received funding. Sixteen people of varying swimming skills swam in a regular pool and a pool of guar syrup, which is twice as thick as water. The differences in their recorded times were negligible. 

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    (#12) A Stingray Robot Powered By Rat Cells Was Created In 2016

    Harvard bioengineer Kit Parker wanted to see  if he could power a robot stingray with light-powered heart-cells of rats instead of electricity. The experiment was costly, as the first stingray skeleton-bot was made of pure gold. 

    Parker discovered that rat heart cells can indeed power a robotic stingray sans electricity. The video above proves it.

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    (#9) In 2016, Scientists Grew A "Dinosaur-Like" Leg On A Chicken

    Brazilian researcher Joâo Botelho discovered he could produce a chicken with a fibula comparable to that of dinosaurs', but to appropriate chicken-scale. Basically, it's a chicken with an extra bone in its leg. The gene involved in the process is called the Indian Hedgehog (IHH), a bone maturation gene.

    By inhibiting this gene, chickens will apparently grow a larger, tubular fibula. 

  • An Elephant Died Of An LSD Overdose In This 1962 Experiment on Random Weirdest Scientific Experiments That You Won't Believe People Actually Got Funding For

    (#7) An Elephant Died Of An LSD Overdose In This 1962 Experiment

    Dr. Louis Jolyon "Jolly" West ran the 1962 experiment on an elephant named Tusko, whom he and his colleagues murdered. West's aim was to determine if LSD could induce a natural state in a bull elephant called "musth," which "is a period of heightened testosterone production and high aggression," according to The Guardian.

    West and his cohorts injected Tusko with 297mg of LSD, way too much even for a three-ton elephant (a human of that size would still be flying high on 10mg). But it probably wasn't even the acid that killed Tusko. West overcompensated by pumping the elephant with too much Thorazine, an anti-psychotic. He then followed up with a tranquilizer. Tusko died one hour and 40 minutes after the initial dose of LSD. The Guardian claims West has been linked to the CIA's MKUltra program, which involved illegal experimentation on unwitting humans to see if mind control was possible.

  • Thumb of Dr. Robert E. Cornish Brought Dogs Back To Life In The '30s Using Seesaw Technology video

    (#2) Dr. Robert E. Cornish Brought Dogs Back To Life In The '30s Using Seesaw Technology

    Dr. Robert E. Cornish was a University of California-Berkeley grad who wished to master death. He unsuccessfully attempted this with humans, so he tried with dogs. He actually did see success there. On two occasions, he managed to bring dogs back to life that had just been killed via nitrogen gas suffocation. After the dogs were dead, Cornish fixed the dogs to a seesaw and began lifting them up and down to circulate blood flow while injecting them with anti-coagulants and epinephrine. The dogs returned to life and went on living.

    After his dog success, Cornish wanted to try his method on a human once again. A death row inmate named Thomas McMonigle offered his body for experimentation post-execution, but the state of California wouldn't allow it, fearing the murderer would be immune to further prosecution if returned to life via the double jeopardy clause

  • In 2011, A British Scientist Spent Six Months Teaching A Tortoise To Yawn on Random Weirdest Scientific Experiments That You Won't Believe People Actually Got Funding For

    (#6) In 2011, A British Scientist Spent Six Months Teaching A Tortoise To Yawn

    Anna Wilkinson of the University of Lincoln in the UK has a pet tortoise named Moses, and she has studied him for years, putting him up to all kinds of tests. In 2006, she proved Moses was more capable of navigating a maze than mice and rats. And now Moses can yawn. Wilkinson taught Moses to yawn in an effort to study the "contagiousness" of yawning and whether or not it's related to empathy. She did this to challenge the theory the contagiousness of yawns is a result of human empathy; since tortoises lack empathy, if they also displayed contagious yawning, it would dispel that theory.

    Unfortunately, while Moses learned to yawn, it did not spread among his tortoise friends. We still don't know if yawns are contagious because of empathy.

     

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