From scientific findings awarded Ig Nobel Prizes since 2014.

Fake medicine that causes painful side effects can be more effective than fake medicine that does not cause painful side effects.

Electrified chopsticks can change the taste of food.

An itch on the left side of your body can be relieved by looking into a mirror and scratching the right side of the body (and vice versa).

It is safer to transport an airborne rhinoceros upside down.

People who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually rise early in the morning.

Caloric intake from a cannibalistic diet is significantly lower than the caloric intake from most traditional meat diets.

The obesity of a country’s politicians may be a good indicator of that country’s corruption.

Pizza may protect against illness and death if the pizza is made and eaten in Italy.

Wine experts can reliably identify, by smell, the presence of a single fly in a glass of wine.

Sexual orgasms can be as effective as decongestant medicines at improving nasal breathing.

Many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus.

Knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work well.

Regular playing of a didgeridoo is an effective treatment for obstructive sleep apnea and snoring.

Some real plants imitate the shapes of neighboring artificial plastic plants.

Chimpanzees imitate humans about as often, and about as well, as humans imitate chimpanzees.

Many identical twins cannot tell themselves apart visually.

A developing human fetus responds more strongly to music that is played electromechanically inside the mother’s vagina than to music that is played electromechanically on the mother’s belly.

Most people who use complicated products do not read the instruction manuals.

The word “huh” or its equivalent seems to exist in every human language, for unknown reasons.