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91A light-emitting polymer can keep glowing while the surface beneath it bends and stretches.
92An upside-down jellyfish passes the behavioral tests for sleep without possessing a centralized brain.
93A solar array can harvest electricity above the same ground where tomatoes harvest light and water.
94Louis Brennan made a railcar balance on one steel line—even while it stood still.
95A Utah aspen grove occupies 106 acres, yet its trunks share one genetic identity beneath the soil.
96For one official delivery, the mailbag was loaded into a submarine-launched cruise missile.
98Some of the Smithsonian's most precise specimen preparators are colonies of hungry beetles.
99In Willaston, victory goes to the team that persuades the ground to surrender the most worms.
100A burst from the Sun turned miles of telegraph wire into an accidental electrical instrument.
The Weird Please editorial desk collects true stories about curious inventions, peculiar history, strange science, and the gloriously unexpected.
