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Can I, purely through looks, determine if a woman is pregnant or... not?	[ "Not through looks, the best thing to do is to go up to the woman in question. look her dead in the eyes and say \"when are you due?\" If she gets angry and slaps you , you know you were wrong, but if she starts to glow and answers you have you have your answer my friend" ]	[ "Probably because you associate the styles they’re dressed in with the people who are from that era. What was popular in the 50’s-90’s with the youth is still getting worn by people from that era only they’re older. Hairstyles mostly. That’s why a lot of senior citizens wear their hair in curls bc it was popular ...
... After a sporting event that's broadcast live.. like the winter Olympics... are the rebroadcasts not in public domain now?	[ "Why would you assume they're public domain? Somebody spent a lot of money to get broadcast rights for the event & spent a lot of money sending a film crew to Korea to film it. It's very much under copyright & they're going to actively enforce those copyrights." ]	[ "This is a hold-over from the physical book era. When physical books had to be printed, publishers had local partners in many different places in the world that did local marketing, printing, and distributing to local bookshops. So if you were in New York, you didn't have to talk to a book shop in Switzerland. The...
Can computers be inoculated against malware?	[ "> If you could preserve a single file on say a partition that could not be over written and you knew the exact location of an identical file that was over written could the two files be used as Rosetta Stone to decrypt the whole computer? In principle, maybe. In practice, usually not. What you're describing is (ba...	[ "A disease like HIV/AIDS mutates so rapidly, that by the time you've made a vaccine for it, it's ineffective. Many diseases are bacterial, and you can't create a vaccine for a bacteria -- only a virus." ]
Why /r/all is filled with TPP posts. What is it and why the sudden popular posts?	[ "TTP stands for Twitch Plays Pokemon. There is a stream on _URL_0_ where users can type b, a, left, right, etc to control a game of Pokemon. As you might imagine, thousands of people trying to do this yeilds interesting results." ]	[ "> What is single payer healthcare? It's a system where the government acts as a health insurance provider, paid for via taxes, and you don't need to have health insurance through a private company. > What type of healthcare is Obamacare? Obamacare isn't a type of healthcare. \"Obamacare\" is another name for the...
What's all the hooplah about the great gatsby?	[ "\" It captured a moment of America with real precision, not to mention fine writing. Fitzgerald, in Gatsby, painted a vivid portrait of what America was like between the wars and before the Wall St. Crash. The main characters, while they may not necessarily exemplify types, can be said to stand for values and ambi...	[ "Very few places gets crazy, it's just that when they do everyone hears about it. It's just a day that many stores put a lot of products on sale." ]
. Why is IPhone so popular? The new 6s has 2gigs of ram the same as my old Galaxy 4 and half as much as my note 5.	[ "Like every Apple product, it is user friendly. It is really hard to screw anything up on it, and it is designed to be intuitive. How it is marketed has something to do with it too. (and their planned obsolescence helps keep them making money)" ]	[ "If you don't have storage space, where do you put stuff? The neural structures that store memories and things literally don't exist in a newborn's head. They've got no storage space. They literally don't possess a conscious memory yet." ]
why don’t your testicles wrap around each other’s chords?	[ "Testicles are attached to the scrotum, which keeps them more-or-less in place next to eachother. This doesn't absolutely prevent the issue, but it does keep them separated fairly well. One testicle often hangs slightly lower than the other, which also helps to prevent the issue. When they do twist or wrap around e...	[ "Probability wise, there are millions of configurations for a piece of rope, and being straight and untangled is 1 of them." ]
There is plenty on how many Americans have died in U.S.-involved wars, but how many of America's enemy combatants have died in U.S. wars?	[ "As a historian with a specialization in military history, I can give you this very educated estimate. 2,230,115. Some things are very hard to estimate, namely casualties in some of the Plains Indian Wars and the Banana Wars, but that figure incorporates my best professional estimate. I'd say that's about as close ...	[ "People who are not citizens or those who host them, like land lords or relatives, will feel reluctant to report the true number of people living under their roof if they believe that doing so could mark them for raid and or deportation. It is put there as a scare tactic to make people afraid to be counted, similar...
Why doesn't Tumblr receive child pornography charges even though it's full of nudes of minors?	[ "These sites can't police every single post. If one is brought to their attention they deal with it, but sites like Facebook and Tumblr get literally thousands of posts a minute. Users are generally responsible for the content they post, not the hosting site as long as they've got policies in place to handle inappr...	[ "Because silk road was an eBay, not an amazon. Users were the ones doing the shipping, not the business. That means regular mail as usual, not shipments from one single location." ]
Why do muscles shake when we tense them?	[ "Your muscles are innervated by motor neurons - nerve cells that signal to the muscle to contract. To activate a muscle, the central nervous system sends a signal via the motor neurons and the motor neurons \"fire\" on the muscle with pulses. There are generally speaking three types of motor neurons which are class...	[ "You won't get an answer to this - no one really knows! Somehow the motor neuron(s) controlling normal blinking etc. are triggered." ]
Why does water hiss when it is about to boil, while water already at a rolling boil does not?	[ "This is a result of a phenomenon called cavitation. What happens is that the water that is in direct contact with the heating surface tends to become vapour (steam) and form little steam bubbles. But the moment these tiny bubbles are formed, being less dense than the water around them, they begin to rise in the wa...	[ "To fire a bullet from a gun, gunpowder is ignited behind the bullet. The gunpowder creates a high-pressure pulse of hot gas. The pressure of the gas forces the bullet down the barrel of the gun. When the bullet exits the end of the barrel, it is like uncorking a bottle. The pressure behind the bullet is immense, h...
What does a "double mickey mouse" in the artery mean?	[ "It's nothing scary or anything like that. When doing ultrasounds, a Mickey Mouse is a collection of veins and arteries that form the characteristic shape of Mickey's head and ears. A double Mickey is just two groups smooshed together, which doesn't happen often, and you have to get just the right angle to see it. ...	[ "1 dimension) meet me at Bologna St. Needs more information. 2 dimensions) meet me at the corner of Bologna St. and Cheese St. Now you know you're in the general vicinity of where you need to be. 3 dimensions) meet me on the 3rd floor of the office building at the corner of Bologna St. and Cheese St. Great, now you...
Was the USSR really communist or was it a veil for state capitalism?	[ "It was run by people that called themselves communists, believed in communism, and were called communists by other people who called themselves communists. The fact that they failed to achieve communism is immaterial to whether or not it was a communist state. I am always amazed that the repeated and bloody failur...	[ "This question is getting a lot of traffic after being [tweeted by @reddit](_URL_5_), so I thought I'd welcome those of you that haven't visited /r/AskHistorians before to the subreddit. Please do bear in mind that in order to keep the quality of answers here high we have [strict rules on comments](/r/AskHistorians...
Why do we have two eyes not more or less and how does it benefit other animals like spiders to have 8?	[ "Eyes are a high maintenance sense organ, higher life forms have the minimum necessary for both 3D perception and the need for a backup. Two. Spiders have much simpler eyes than ours. No lenses." ]	[ "I explained it to my girlfriend (who is older than 5) like this: Imagine a piece of paper, and you draw some little stick figures on it (their faces pointing sideways). Then imagine magic happening and these figures coming to live. They're living their happy lives in their paper world, they can only look sideways ...
were there any exclusively hunter people left in Europe in 1100BC?	[ "Isn't this the third time you pose this question, slightly differently formulated? The only hunter-gatherer peoples that still existed by 1100 BC are the inhabitants of Northern Scandinavia, the ancestors (in lifestyle at least) of the modern Lapps. Everywhere else, farming constituted at least part of the food ec...	[ "Is there a specific region and time period you are interested in? If not, your question would break our \"poll type\" question rule." ]
What do salts, specifically NaCl, do chemically that inhibits cell growth?	[ "It's not the salt directly, but the movement of water due to salt concentration that inhibits or destroys cells, specifically animal (eukaryote) cells. The osmotic movement of water out of a cell, due to a high surrounding osmolality, causes dessication. Besides being an integral part of the physical stability of ...	[ "\"Cupping\" therapy is performed by taking a hollow container (such as a cup) and causing it to contain lower than usual air pressure, often by filling it with warm air from a candle. It is then placed against the flesh where the air cools, pulling tissue into the container from the pressure difference. This pulli...
Why do two nuts on a bolt lock and stop spinning? Why don't they just act as one longer nut?	[ "pushing them up and down doesn't do anything you have to turn them, by turning one on top of another you actually just push down on the other. It's friction, that's the fundamentals of how they work and why even single ones don't just fall off when you tighten them. If you think about it, whatever you tighten it a...	[ "[Here's a java demo of a double mass-spring system](_URL_3_). The motion of these types of systems can often be described as a sum of [normal modes](_URL_4_). In the geometry you described, a common normal mode is for the masses to sort of [pass the oscillation back and forth](_URL_0_). There are plenty of other s...
How did various cultures all develop similar weapons?	[ "This is not quite the case. Swords and bows have not appeared in \"every culture.\" The melee weapon of choice in the ancient Andes, for instance, was the mace. These are represented in the art of several cultures: [Moche](_URL_4_) warriors, both [mythical](_URL_5_) and [real](_URL_6_) are seen on ceramics; Recuay...	[ "Back then people still needed jobs, now they dont and can practice harder for longer. And science helps by showing then methods on improving motions. You cam find cool videos on youtube" ]
Can Paypal just "make" money? Context inside.	[ "They did not give him money. They mistakenly said he had money in his account that did not exist. He presumably could have used the erroneous balance to make purchases, sure. He could not have used it all. That's enough money to, in essence, buy the earth. And Paypal would have caught onto the error rather quickly...	[ "Do you want marketing firms to know what kind of weird ass porn you're into? Or what kind of stuff you talk about with others in your home around your Google home device? Or that you have a particularly troublesome medical condition? Google knows all of these things, and absent privacy policies has no obligation n...
How do plants/trees react to their environment if they don't have a nervous system?	[ "Plants work on a purely chemical basis. How exactly venus flytraps work is not well understood, but the theories with the most evidence to support them say that an insect moving along the leaf triggers tiny hairs that release a chemical into the leaf. When enough hairs are triggered the chemical buildup triggers t...	[ "Because it has to grow that way? Genetic code doesn't know anything, it just does everything it's supposed to. It literally follows its own orders, that's its point. Genetic code that had bad orders resulted in bad creatures, creatures that died leaving only those with good genetic code around. Or at least good en...
how can celebrities and others go on tv/radio/documentaries etc., openly admitting illegal drug use, and not be prosecuted?	[ "they can just say they lied. you'd need to find evidence to actually bring charges. And random recreational drug busts arent really the goal." ]	[ "Governments give tax breaks and subsidies to corporations to lure them in to their area. The idea is that bringing that business to the area will, ultimately, bring more business and jobs to the area which, theoretically, will bring jobs to the locals and more tax revenue for the government. Again, theoretically, ...
Why is everything scarier at night time?	[ "its dark, and we are afraid of what we cant see. its primal instinct. you cant see a lion at night, so we just have to be scared of everythig we cant see to survive on the off chance that it is a lion." ]	[ "History would say we are currently in the safest era of living. 24/7 media would have you believe otherwise. Add into the fact that coverage is higher when it happens in 1st world countries too, and it may seem like the world is ending at times. It isn't." ]
Why do fish have to be a certain weight to legally catch them?	[ "[It's a simplistic but not very good way to ensure the fish has time to reproduce and we'll have fish in the future too.](_URL_0_)" ]	[ "This is a very common question. You can use search to find [all the other really good answers](_URL_0_ ). This is instant, and faster than ust typing in your question every time. It's a way of cheating elections. Read the others, and then ask a more specific question." ]
How does the calculator know 2+2=4?	[ "ELIaMOM: You use a fulladder. It actually adds the bits up: \\ 1 0 = 2 in binary \\ 1 0 = 2 in binary \\ 1 0 0 = 4 in binary 10+10=00, carry the one, you get 100. For more complicated calculations it would have look-up tables, just as you probably know the small multiplication table. ELI5: Does your daught...	[ "Google Android has a feature that sends location data to the google servers, even if you have GPS turned off. If you use a Google Android phone, you can actually view your own data if login to Google and goto this site: _URL_0_ What Google is doing is fetching all this data that is sent from all the Google Android...
What is this odd feeling I get before falling asleep?	[ "Your sensory body is expanding. It happens every night as part of the falling to sleep process but we usually are not conscious of it. In waking state the sensory body is contracted because of various thigs going on in our body and psyche. For example yoga means union and the goal is to expand the sensory body bac...	[ "Someone correct me if I am wrong but it goes back to when we had much hairier bodies and when alarmed we as well as a lot of other mammals would puff up our hair to make ourselves look bigger. Think of how when you scare a dog or a cat it hunches up and its hair stands on end, same thing happens to us just we dont...
How is it that the newborns, at a very early age (a few days/weeks), of our house pets can already grasp the idea that they and their parents have an owner?	[ "You're personafying the puppies- it's not nearly that complicated. The parent dog is showing no signs of agression towards you. Your smell is part of the surroundings. For all the puppies are concerned, you are (as dogs are innately social, like ourselves) another care provider, since their primary care provider ...	[ "One of the main ways animals distinguish prey animals from predators is by the eyes. The eyes on prey animals tend to point to the sides, while a predator's eyes are directed forward. Another crucial factor in how animals behave around others is apparent size. I don't know if you were expecting the rabbit to be fr...
The Difference Between Radians and Degrees	[ "Radians are the more natural measure. To understand why, look at [this picture](_URL_0_). The angle between the two red lines is, in radians, precisely the length of the red arc. And this relationship holds for any angle you choose: 1) Draw the angle inside the circle with the vertex centered at the origin. 2) T...	[ "As a builder, I eye ball things everyday for the last 11 years. I can get most things +\\- a bees dick amount. The only thing I can accurately estimate is roof pitches, but there are only certain pitches used where I work. It comes with experience I guess. I don't know if someone can consistently know distances an...
How is it that insects can carry/pull many many times their own weight?	[ "1stly, A human can lift and pull many times their own weight. You just need to train yourself daily to do so to develop those muscles. 2nd, Humans have reduced muscular strength when compared to primates as a consequence for having greater muscle control Finally, the mass of a creature and its strength do not scal...	[ "Wildlife photographer here. They do it with long lenses, and weeks of squatting in cold, damp nature blinds, waiting for the right scene to happen in front of them. I cruise around Yellowstone for days at a time with a 600mm lens looking for critters. Or if you happen to be Walt Disney, you cheat. For the 1958 wil...
Why do you sometimes get a little electric shock without touching any source of it?	[ "If you're talking about static electricity, you are the source. Specifically your skin, clothes, shoes or hair rubbing against a different type of fabric, leather or plastic cause static electricity to build up. The rubbing causes some of the electrons to move from one side to the other. The static charge can buil...	[ "They're just ghosts of the bugs and insects you have killed... @_@" ]
How does a single microphone pick up sounds to send to a surround sound speaker system?	[ "That isn't how it usually works. There are usually a bunch of microphones that are recorded onto many tracks then mixed down for your surround sound system." ]	[ "They don't work around them, they work with them. Malcolm in the Middle, for example, was not shot in front of a live audience. That gave them a LOT more flexibility. You'll also notice (if you pay attention) how much editing and looping is used in that show. It's a lot. It's like that for most single-camera ...
What is cortisol and what does it do exactly?	[ "Cortisol helps reduce inflammation, as well as to convert long-term chemical energy storage in fat cells into glucose that can be readily used by the mitochondria, which as we all know, produces energy molecules for the cell. It also has secondary effects on mood, memory, and the gastrointestinal system." ]	[ "Could somebody explain how, if true, small amounts of alcohol is good for you?" ]
What is stopping someone with insurmountable debt from immigrating to another country and starting over?	[ "Credit companies are transnational? Reminds me of The Town when Ben Afflecks character thinks moving to Florida will get him off the hook for bank robbery charges." ]	[ "The supreme court had previously held that making private copies available for use by others was legal in Canada (see BMG vs. John Doe). As such, there was no legal copyright infringement that copyright holders could use as leverage to get (the subpoenas required to get) ISPs to disclose the identities of the file...
Why was Washington D.C chosen over other US cities as the Capital?	[ "[I answered this question a few months back.](_URL_0_) I've pasted the answer here: At the time of the creation of Washington D.C., the government did not control the military, and the states provided militia to keep the peace. An 18th century National Guard in a way. In Pennsylvania, in 1783, the Congress of the ...	[ "This is a very common question. You can use search to find [all the other really good answers](_URL_0_ ). This is instant, and faster than ust typing in your question every time. It's a way of cheating elections. Read the others, and then ask a more specific question." ]
How common were romantic relations between African slave women and white men in the Americas in the days of slavery?	[ "It was pretty common for the owner of a plantation to take a trip down to the slave quarters. Some wealthy slave owners even bought \"Fancy Girls\" -- Mixed race (mulatto was the term in the day) young women who were auctioned off for the specific purpose of sex. They fetched a price way higher than the average sl...	[ "This submission has been removed because it is [soapboxing](_URL_1_.), [promoting a political agenda, or moralizing](_URL_0_). We don't allow content that does these things because they are detrimental to unbiased and academic discussion of history." ]
How do cranes get set up?	[ "It is awesome. They build themselves. Here's a an animated gif: _URL_0_ Here's a gif from actual footage: _URL_1_" ]	[ "The extras most certainly know what is going to happen in a scene, anything about them being kept \"in the dark\" is just Hollywood rumors. How do we know this is true? One simple fact. Nothing is done in one take. Every scene from ever major hollywood movie is shot many many times. Dozens of times if not more. Th...
Why in every other state a county is a county, but in Louisiana a county is a "Parish"?	[ "Because Louisiana was originally settled by French and Spanish people, there was a heavy influence by the Catholic Church, so they were broken up into the same type of church divisions. Many parishes are named after saints." ]	[ "The change came with the meeting between Nixon and Mao. Reading up on that meeting might be a place to start. The relationship between China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC) is interesting. Both governments consider them to be one country. As long as the exiled-government-of-China-which-resides-in-Taiwan continued (and cont...
why are some people tone deaf?	[ "It is usually because of not being trained in music. When I say training, I don't mean being taught by maestro from Italy, but as in listening to music and being familiar with notes' \"place\". It's like being able to speak in an accent you are familiar with, but not being able to speak in another accent that you ...	[ "Warning: anecdotal evidence ahead. I'd consider myself mathematically minded (studied Math and CS in college, currently working as a software engineer), and this is definitely true for me. I'm pretty terrible at remembering (and sometimes even understanding) song lyrics, but I'll often be in a bar or other noisy e...
Is it possible to measure the average distance between stars?	[ "Well, not exactly the average distance between stars, but it can be quite easily calculated how many stars on average there are in a cube with a certain volume. Using the highest values stated in [the wikipedia article on the Milky Way](_URL_0_), so radius = 18000 pc, thickness = 150 pc and 400 billion stars, we g...	[ "You can use pulsars to do something like that, although that would only work within a single galaxy. In fact, the Voyager probe has a map to Earth using pulsars for triangulation." ]
How do astronauts get wifi in space?	[ "The same way that they get voice communication, and essentially the same way your cell phone works. A series of relay satellites broadcast communications signals to and from the space station. The waves that carry a phone call can carry a data signal (as evidenced by your smart phone). Here's a more in-depth arti...	[ "I think Musk should consult with HughesNet on this adventure. Because they deliver!" ]
Were women used as soldiers in Nazi germany?	[ "There were ca. 500000 Wehrmachthelferinnnen, often called Blitz-Mädel. Most of them worked in \"office jobs\" like shorthand typist, telephone operator or radio operator. In 1944, the Luftwaffe had 660000 regular male soldiers and ca. 450000 female \"auxiliary soldiers\", most of them served as operators for ...	[ "This post probably violates the rules, but, some might find it interesting from a personal viewpoint. I was a fairly senior staff officer at the 7th Army Training Command in Grafenwoher, FRG, 91-94. I very clearly remember watching a battalion of T72s drive from the railhead to the range. Quite a shock to me as I ...
Why is it that I can stand on a balance ball and look everywhere and be steady, but when I close my eyes, I lose balance quickly?	[ "Because vision is important to balance, particularly so on an unsteady surface where constant weight redistribution is necessary. 20% of our optic nerve's output goes to our vestibular system. Some [articles](_URL_0_) to back this up." ]	[ "As you're rolling forward you turn the wheel to the left Momentum continues to carry you forward Since the wheel's moved to the left you 'fall' into the space where the wheel used to be. The bike leans over to the right (the space in which you're falling) The bike's wheels draw a curve that has your 'lean' towards...
What would happen if one of my eyes are covered for a long time?	[ "If you are a child and still in a developing stage for vision and perception, covering one of your eyes can cause amblyopia. Amblyopia -a disorder also called lazy eye- causes decreased vision in covered eye due to the interruption in the eye-brain pathway. If done with growing up, i think it is fine to strut arou...	[ "When we do the same mundane task over and over and over, our brain basically shuts off. We just continue doing the mundane task as a brain \"sub routine\" and we drift out. Car accidents are exciting and different, it wakes your brain up. Something is happening so now you're active in your involvement in driving. ...
why do people say water has no taste, if nothing else tastes like it? Wouldn't it have its own unique taste, becuase milk, juice, pop, and coffee taste different than water.	[ "Does water have a unique taste to you? I mean except for the texture and temperature change I can't really \"taste\" water. It's the same taste as air in my mouth tbh." ]	[ "Think of the cup and water as two different objects. You are providing forces for the cup(object 1) to move, buy you are not directly involved in the moving of the water(object 2). The water is moved by a coefficient of friction from the cup. As cups are usually quick smooth, the effect of friction is very low res...
Why do some .gif files take longer to load than a better quality, even longer, video?	[ "Another component worth mentioning is that YouTube clips can 'intelligently buffer', while GIFs lack this functionality. Imagine your friend likes pistachios, but hates opening them. You, in your infinite kindness, start to crack open the shells and placing the open pistachios next to him/her. If your friend were ...	[ "Your field of vision is shaped like a cone, which gets wider the farther away something is. The higher you are, the bigger the area of 'ground ' you see is, so the farther it has to move to be noticeable. Close to the ground, the movement is much more dramatic, so your brain interprets it as a higher speed. It's ...
What caused unemployment to rise in the United States from 2000 to 2003?	[ "The .com bubble popped and that led into a recession. A devastating terrorist attack certainly did not help." ]	[ "Each county Telco's have something called Termination fee. That is when you call some one; The company dosent charge you for calling, it charges for Terminating the call in their network. YOU-- > Your TELCO-- > US TELCO-- > US PHONE -- > Your friend. US Phone--Termination fee-- > Your Telco-Bill for a call - > Y...
How much "younger" than us on Earth did the crew on Apollo 11 get from their travel due to time dilation?	[ "The average speed of Apollo 11 was [5500 km/hr](_URL_0_) = 1528 m/s. At that speed, the effect of relativistic time dilation is 1:1.00000000001298521 s, which over the course of a 73 hour, 27 min flight would be 3.4e-6 seconds. This is a minimum estimate of the relativistic time dilation effect. The maximum speed ...	[ "They used the patched conics method. With this you basically reduce the equation to a 2 body equation. You are orbiting the earth, then you are orbiting the sun, then you are orbiting jupiter, then you are orbiting the sun again, then saturn... Of course this like any other simplification is going to introduce er...
Anonymous and What they do.	[ "protect your free speech by imposing censorship on agencies that would take it away from you. and teh lulz" ]	[ "Woodstock, moon landing, all sorts of cool stuff. _URL_0_" ]
Why is "going commando" used to describe someone wearing no underwear	[ "Commando units often refer to small teams deployed in the field of battle without readily available support. No support out in the open = \"Going in naked.\"" ]	[ "I'll use blackjack as an example. When you play a game like blackjack, the numeral cards (2 to 10) have their face value, Queens and Kings are valued at 10, and an Ace is valued at 1 or 11. The goal, of course, is to beat the dealer's hand without exceeding a total hand value of 21. When a deck is 'hot', it simply...
Why does is feel way colder or way hotter when the humidity is very high?	[ "I was going to suggest just searching for this, but I was surprised at how unclear a lot of search results are. Best I could find was that in cold weather, the extra moisture in the air in a humid environment will actually land on your skin and then evaporate and fee cooler, but that doesn't really explain why ev...	[ "It's a combination of factors, but the biggest was found in a study by a microbiologist named Peter Palese in 2007: the virus thrives in dry air. When you exhale, your expel a little bit of moisture; just tiny droplets too small to be seen. As the droplets fall to the ground, they start to evaporate. The virus in...
Why are TVs seasons so short these days?	[ "In the US we have two formats for TV series. The Short format used for summer programming that is 10-14 episodes and the long format for fall-spring series that are 20-26 episodes. You also have the fact that expected production quality of TV shows is higher than it used to be so fewer episodes can be made in a g...	[ "It's basically an accounting trick, to get more favorable nutrition stats. The numbers listed for calories/fat/sugar...etc are all measured per \"serving\". So, if they make 1 \"serving\" smaller, then they get to claim fewer calories/fat/sugar...etc on the label." ]
If our immune system refused to fight off the common cold virus, what symptoms would we experience?	[ "Death. Without any immune response whatsoever, the cold virus would eventually kill you. Now, if your innate immune system didn't mount a defense, but your adaptive system continued to function normally, you'd experience no symptoms. Unlike more destructive viruses like influenza, when you get a cold, virtuall...	[ "> what happens to the computer Nothing at all will happen to the computer, your installation of windows may stop working though and you'll need to either repair or reinstall it." ]
What's the origin of "break a leg"?	[ "It's a theatrical term from a long time ago. It refers to an actor's reaction to the crowd's applause for him for his performance at the end of the play. In acknowledging the audience's appreciation he would bow and genuflect to them; bending or \"breaking\" a leg. Hence before a performance an actor would be told...	[ "This happened to me this morning, lol Basically it's how our brain deals with superstition. The first humans needed to be careful during the night in order to detect possible predators or potential danger, this ability has prevailed, but now there's very little chance of a cougar jumping on us while we sleep. When...
Do most North Koreans truely believe that their leader is a deity?	[ "Obviously some do, likely out in the boonies but North Korea isn't nearly as tightly controlled as the North Koreans or the media would have you believe. It's certainly quite bad but Vice is know to \"hype\" their stories up a bit to make them a bit more entertaining. The black market in North Korea is fairly lar...	[ "While not a scientific answer to your question at all, I want to suggest the excellent movie [Before the Fall](_URL_5_) (German Titel: Napola – Elite für den Führer) to anyone interested in this topic, which is a story about pupils in an elite high school in the German Reich." ]
Does the Pineal Gland release DMT? Is DMT released in a large quantity upon death?	[ "This probably needs to be a FAQ it gets asked so often. DMT has been found in all over the body in trace amounts. There's no conclusive evidence the pineal gland manufactures it. The amounts of DMT found in the body are so minuscule as to make it equally plausible it's just metabolic waste vs serving some function...	[ "I love this question. There is a movie called Waking Life that addresses this idea. The whole movie is on YouTube right now for free and is awesome. Check it out. But at the minute 40:35 is when your question gets talked about. _URL_8_" ]
Why are all the place-holder names of the incoming elements to the Periodic table all Unun-something?	[ "They just refer to the latin names of the numbers. For example, Ununoctium (118) might be converted to english as one-one-eightium. Linguists are welcome to correct me on the details, but the main point is that they're placeholders that refer literally to the number of the element." ]	[ "The short of it is those states historically set their dates to be first. And due to the fact of Iowa and New Hampshire being smaller states, and thus less expensive to be able to compete, it was advantageous to the parties to keep them as such. The DNC and RNC have since enforced that no other states go before th...
How fat was "fat" in Ancient Rome?	[ "The Ancient Romans certainly recognised being extremely overweight as unhealthy. As an example let's look at the Roman physican and philospher Galen; who was actually one of the earlist to record and treat clinical cases of morbid obesity. He classified overweight individuals as being either pachis (fat), efsar...	[ "In addition to [Pompeiian graffiti](_URL_1_) and other [epigraphy](_URL_3_), much of which was quite crude, we also have the books for a number of comedic plays by [Plautus](_URL_4_) and [Terence](_URL_0_) and satirical poems by [Horace](_URL_5_) and [Juvenal](_URL_2_). And what were they like? Much like humor in ...
Is it possible to store milk in a freezer past? Will it be good to drink past the expiration date?	[ "> Is it possible to store milk in a freezer past? Only if said freezer is still around in freezer present." ]	[ "Every time you make a copy of a cell, there is a chance for errors. For example when you photocopy a first print, it is pretty crisp and close to the original, but there are a few minor discrepencies. Now if you photocopy the copy, it gets more distorted, and so on until some letters get hard to read, it gets diff...
what happens if I fire a gun in space?	[ "The bullet will leave the barrel at high speed, but a slower speed than it would on Earth. You will begin traveling backwards since you absorb momentum to cancel the momentum of the bullet The bullet will continue to move at the speed it left the barrel for a long time. It will slow slightly due to particles it en...	[ "I mean, you can work out and gain mass, but the statement about muscle is taking into account that you follow the same routine as in earth and were stabilized on not gainong/losing muscle. What it means is that since you don't make work against gravity to walk, move things, etc. Doing the same workout with the sa...
Why do flames "bend" up the side of a building/roof? [image inside]	[ "Layman here, but I think I can explain this. Take a look at this [illustration of how air flows around a cube in a wind tunnel](_URL_0_). Now, mentally replace that cube with the roof of a building. It's the same effect. Imagine instead of a building on the ground that's on fire, you have a building with no floor ...	[ "Point a flashlight at a wall. You know the flashlight is delivering 'x' energy to that circle. Tilt the flash light at an angle. Now the circle stretches out into a bigger oval right? But it's still just delivering x energy, so there's less energy per unit of 'area.' The sun hitting the earth impacts things the sa...
Why are NCAA basketball rules so different from NBA rules?	[ "The NCAA wants to differentiate itself from the NBA to minimize the perception that the players in one billion dollar league are very well compensated while the players in the other are lucky to get a scholarship." ]	[ "Oscars take themselves more seriously. Grammys exist to make money off of the TV viewership. Oscars actually matter to the people receiving and the \"academy\" of people voting. Most musical artists truly don't give a shit about the Grammys, Hell, Views by drake was nominated and it is said to be he worst drake al...
Why does a black shiny surface reflect clearer more accurate colours than a white shiny surface?	[ "White is a component colour made of all the colours reflecting back at you. So with a white surface + an image, you see both the white light and the image. The white surface helps mask the image in this case. Black absorbs light, so there is no surface reflecting back at you and interfering with the reflected ima...	[ "Looking at an object in a mirror is the same as looking at the object at a distance of (distance from you to mirror) + (distance from object to mirror). To see something, light travels off of an object, through the pupil and to the retina. The pupil focuses this light so that lands correctly on the retina. Blurry ...
How does heat transfer through a vacuum if there is no atmosphere for conduction?	[ "Radiation. It is generally in the form of photons/light, but heat transfer in vacuum can also occur from the transfer of matter radiation too." ]	[ "Nice idea, but it won't work. There are a few reasons: (1) We know dark matter does not feel the electromagnetic force. If the dark matter were Dyson spheres, from absorbing the energy of the stars they surround, they would radiate in the infrared, and so we'd detect this. In fact, people have looked, and [no Dyso...
How to find details of a specific USN aircraft casualty from Okinawa	[ "I found this detail from Douglas E Campbell's book U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard aircraft lost during World War II: > On 16 June, [West Virginia] was firing an assignment for the 1st Marines off southwestern Okinawa when her spotting plane, a Vought OS2U Kingfisher, took hits from Japanese...	[ "I'm trying to better understand the historiographical genealogy of John Dower's War Without Mercy. Was a racial understanding of the Pacific War's brutality unprecedented? What are the other main scholarly explanations for the fighting's horrific character?" ]
Why is Arkansas pronounced "Arkansaw"?	[ "It was named by the French, who don't generally pronounce the last consonant of words. It's the same reason that Illinois isn't pronounced Ill-in-noise." ]	[ "People mostly just don't care. It seems to me that people that learn English as a second language learn more of the correct way to spell things, where (at least in my schools) we were taught more about the structure of sentences and such. Also, unless you're part of this Internet generation or particularly literat...
On a molecular level, what is it that makes some substances 'sticky'?	[ "I don't think \"sticky\" is something that has a precise meaning in chemistry. I think what it comes down to is the relative strength and balance of many types of [intermolecular forces](_URL_1_) that are at play. Take honey for example. It has lots of carbohydrate molecules like [fructose](_URL_0_). This molecule...	[ "The printers head almost touches the bed and the hot filament extruded by the printer sticks to the printers bed, it's not simply laying over it. The final piece usually needs to be pried from the bed. It's also common practice to spread glue on the bed to increase adhesion. ELI5: It's kinda like putting toothpas...
What exactly do people mean when they say, "I want to talk to my lawyer" or "you can speak to my lawyer"? Do people just have lawyers on stand-by when and if they do something wrong? If so, is there a monthly or yearly cost for this?	[ "\"my lawyer\" is like \"my doctor\" it's your go to lawyer for legal aid. You only pay them for when you use them" ]	[ "> What am I missing here? Risk pools and terms. The life insurance company is offering you $100k in coverage for $20/month for some fixed amount if time (let's say 20 years). Their also offering it to thousands of other people too. Let's say they think there's a 4% chance you'll die over the 20 years. On the surfa...
How can some men grow a full beard but other men can't?	[ "Every person is a special little snowflake. While we maybe very similar, we are also different. The way our bodies work differs a little person to person." ]	[ "They make an agreement with a salesman for the local distributor. Usually they pick whoever will make them the better deal." ]
How do computers handle numbers larger than what it can compute?	[ "You can do it in chunks. For example have to 64-bit numbers; when the low bits reach their max, the next increment resets the low bit to 0 and the high bit to 1. Rinse and repeat. You do the same with digits. One digit is 0-9. If you want more, and another digit. Except instead of digits, you're using 64-bit numbe...	[ "It's not unmanageable. The NSA doesn't always know what individuals to target. By collecting everything they can, they can look for patterns between people they do know about and connect that to people they don't. Then they can go back in the data and see what those new people did in the past." ]
Why do my dick and balls get a shocking sensation when I land on my feet after jumping from a higher point?	[ "When you are falling from a height, your dick and balls are suspended, weightless, floating free in the air. When you land on the ground, and suddenly your dick and balls are affected by gravity again, they are probably going to be jolted and whack into each other/your legs/the zipper on your jeans, and cause a se...	[ "The skin on your genitals is much thinner than anywhere else on your body. Blood vessels are also very dense in this region of the body (for which purpose I'm sure you are aware) (Temperature regulation, obviously). So the combination of thin skin and multitudinous blood vessels means that light which shines where...
why do humans need to be taught how sex works, while animals just know?	[ "Humans also know instinctively. We just do sex education to ensure that it is done safely and responsibly. How do you think kids without sex ed are getting pregnant?" ]	[ "Hi OP, this is a cultural question, so it would greatly assist anyone considering answering if you could specify which culture you're asking about. For example, the name of a cultural group / country / geographic region, plus a rough time period. Otherwise, this question is simply too broad, as it encompasses almo...
Did the Trojan War happen?	[ "Do you mind if I link you to some old threads? [Here's the section in the FAQ](_URL_0_) on the subject, and here are what I think are the best of the posts that I've written: [number one](_URL_2_), [number two](_URL_1_). The upshot is: \"it's not impossible that there was a Trojan War, but the available Bronze Age...	[ "[Yes.](_URL_0_) A bunch of adults from an adult school in Georgetown got together and figured it out. Click on the link above to learn more." ]
Why are MLMs still as big as they are even though pyramid schemes are illegal in many countries?	[ "The difference between a \"pyramid scheme\" and an \"MLM\" is that in a pyramid scheme, there is no product - the only thing you're \"selling\" is entry into the pyramid scheme, which does absolutely nothing at all other than move more money to the top. In an MLM, the money still moves to the top, but when you ...	[ "The people don't make money off the adds themselves. They make money when say your typical 70 year old grandma or 5 year old kid click on the ad and download (and install) the program. Once installed these programs take all kinds of personal information (including credit card numbers) and can actually take control...
Who gets the royalties for Mein Kampf?	[ "Nobody. The rights to the book are owned by the Bavarian government, and the German government prohibits the production or sale of the book. In 2016, the rights to the book will enter the public domain. In other countries, it varies a little bit. In the US, for example, the publisher Houghton Mifflin owns the copy...	[ "I'm not really sure, but from this website: _URL_0_ the caption to the picture says > Above: Nikola Tesla, with Roger Boskovich's book \"Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis\", in front of the spiral coil of his high-frequency transformer at East Houston St., New York" ]
Why are objects smaller than they appear in rear-view mirrors?	[ "Passenger-Side mirrors are often convex, in order to provide a larger field of view. The convexity also, however, shrinks the objects seen in it. Basically, if you are bending a mirror such that it shows more real-estate, then anything in that real-estate is going to become a smaller part of the whole." ]	[ "If you threw it straight down at 50 mph relative to you, it would be going up at 50 mph relative to the Earth when you threw it. Of course, the gravity of the Earth would cause it to turn around and fall back down after a little time. You can see the equivalent phenomenon on an airplane. If the flight attendant to...
Why is my computer slow and when I check performance in task manager my CPU usage is only ever about 5%-10%?	[ "There are three main resources that your computer uses: CPU, Memory, and Disk. It isn't just CPU that can slow you down. If you are using all your memory, or if you have so much disk access that the computer is constantly waiting on the disk, it can drag your system to a crawl." ]	[ "Imagine you're trying to find a coffee shop in a city. If you've been there recently, it should be pretty easy to find. If it's been 10 years since you've been to the coffee shop or the city, it might take you a LONG time to find. It also might take long to find if you've been to other, similar coffee shops in the...
Why can't the pixels on a screen used to make the color black be turned off until they are needed?	[ "They are, but in an LCD screen, they're not perfect light blockers. When energized, the pixels change their polarization. Combined with an oppositely polarized layer, a very large percentage of the backlighting is blocked, but not 100%, which results in the gray-black \"glow\" you see. Many newer TVs use array...	[ "The most intense light is in the red orange part of the spectrum, look at the solar spectrum. Since a plant isn't likely to expend energy to produce a whole range of different molecules for energy production it is more expedient to use one that absorbs what the sun is putting out more of, I.e. red ight. Every ener...
; If an insanely loud sound lasted 1 billionth of a second, would we be able to hear it?	[ "No, you wouldn't be able to hear it. Sound is fast change in air pressure from positive to negative. Most humans can hear in a range of 20 to 20,000 Hz, or changes in air pressure per second. So if you were to hear a loud sound that lasted only 1 billionth of a second that wouldn't be long enough for the air pres...	[ "You could have [tinnitus](_URL_0_). You should see a doctor if you want any further information, since asking for medical advice is not allowed in this forum." ]
If they really are the same thing, how can generic pharmaceuticals cost so much less than their name brand counterparts?	[ "Name brand company will spend millions developing, testing, and approving a drug. Once they spend all of that time and money inventing the drug they start mass producing it. Actually making the drug is cheap, usually just a few cents to a couple bucks per pill. So the company has to charge enough to cover the cost...	[ "Because they use a separate company to provide ads, which come from different web servers. Imagine they're people. Dave works for the pizza company, he delivers your pizza. Sarah works for marketing company, she delivers the ads. Now, you could put a camera on your porch. Then you only open the door for Dave, but ...
Besides WiFi how does internet connect or use the same servers on opposite sides of the world, Are there like thousands of kilometers of internet lines that run through the ocean connecting different continents?	[ "Actually, yes, there are. Going back to the early days of the telephone/telegraph, undersea cables have been laid across the Atlantic and Pacific to carry data between continents. You can find more about them here: [_URL_0_](_URL_0_)" ]	[ "Ocean currents and distance from the ocean. Basically its all dependent on the ocean. The ocean temperature changes very little by the season, and it heats the air in the winter and cools the air in the summer, making coastal areas have less dramatic temperature fluctuations. Inland winter and summer are magnified...
How do big companies like Apple and Google avoid paying tax in so many different countries?	[ "It's easy if you're an international company. Let's say you do business in two countries: Country A (60% tax) - Sales: $1 billion - Manufacturing costs: $0.5 billion - Research and Development: $0.5 billion - Net profit: $0 - Tax Owed: $0 Country B (0% Tax) - Sales: $1 billion - Manufacturing costs: $0 (all your i...	[ "Pure hardware specs are not what sells phones. You might say that \"performance\" (speed) is a selling point, but no one really cares how much RAM is being used to get to that point. iPhones are produced in a vertically integrated fashion, meaning the software and hardware are developed to be used specifically wit...
How do black holes combine?	[ "A black hole is a high consentration of energy so that it bends space-time in such a way that nothing can escape - not even light. This energy can be manipulated, i.e. you can find black holes orbiting each other as illustrated by SXS (Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes) [here](_URL_0_). They orbit a point of common gr...	[ "Spectrography. Every element has a unique emission and absorption spectrum - a set of frequencies at which it can absorb or emit light. This allows us to perform chemical analysis of many astronomical features - stars, nebulae, supernovae, and now neutron star mergers. The material we see is the material that was ...
If a Triangle (180 degrees), a Square (360 degrees), etc all have definite sides with increasing angles per added side, then why is a Circle, which has infinitely many sides, have 360 degrees and not infinity degrees?	[ "The formula for the sum of the interor angles of a polygon is 180 * (n - 2) where n is the number of sides. For a circle with n very large, this gives a very large number of degrees. The \"circle has 360˚\" quote isn't talking about the sum of the interior angles. It's the sum of the central angles. That's 360˚ f...	[ "Let's say you're a game developer, and you wanted to give out codes for people to get into the beta of your game. You decide to do this by giving access to one person to start, and then every Friday everyone in the program can invite 4 friends. So on the initial day, you only have 1 person playing. But after the 1...
Why do school buses not have seat belts? Can people sue the school district when collisions happen?	[ "School buses don't have seat belts because of something called compartmentalization. If you'll notice all school buses (that I've seen) have high padded seats that are relatively close together. This way in the event of an accident, whoever is sitting in the seat gets thrown a short distance forward into a padded ...	[ "[This site](_URL_0_) pretty much sums it up: \"In 1848, as a result of the Mexican-American War, citizenship was granted to those living in territories gained from Mexico, and while the new citizens gained voting rights, they were aggressively and violently intimidated and the English language was used as a tool t...
Why do dead batteries come back to life?	[ "Heat makes a battery have higher internal resistance, so it can output less power. If you let it cool down a bit (or put it in the freezer), you can squeeze a little more from it. Note that repeating will greatly lower the power you get each time, and you will gain less from it each time until it's ineffective. Pr...	[ "I learned about this researching how to help my kid be a better sleeper. Essentially, you are over-tired. There is a \"sweet spot\" for everyone regarding the time they should go to bed (just the right level of drowsy). Once you get past that, your brain thinks there must be an important reason for you to continue...
How time travel could possibly work?	[ "When you get closer to the speed of light time passes faster for you but for everybody not traveling that fast it would not. You could go on a journey 1 lightyear away at the speed of light and come back to find it nothing like you had left it." ]	[ "It can and does. Check out the double-slit experiment. _URL_0_" ]
If gravity is caused by massive objects warping spacetime, then when I hold my pen above the ground, is the force I'm applying with my hand un-warping the pen's spacetime, and that's why it doesn't move?	[ "An object with no forces on it follows a straight line through spacetime; this is the cause of gravitational attraction, as you point out. But once another, non-gravitational force acts on the object, it follows a curved path through curved spacetime (just like in Newtonian mechanics, an external force causes an...	[ "> So my question is, if I am able to observe the Pleiades as I travel towards them at 77% of the speed of light, does it seem like time there is rapidly accelerated? i.e., will I observe planets orbiting their stars at 40 times the regular speed? And if so, why? And if not, why not? No, in fact, you will see their...
Competitive eating. How can people eat so much in one sitting? What happens to their stomachs and bodies after eating so much? And why does it seem that so many competitive eaters are very skinny?	[ "They are able to eat so much because they prepare. They stretch their stomachs, they practice techniques for speed, etc. After a competition, it's not unlike how you feel after Thanksgiving. Full, sluggish, tired, maybe even a little nauseous. Just to a greater degree. Most of these people don't vomit after compe...	[ "ELI5: have you been browsing my web history?!? There are certain people who enjoy pie. They form an online community of pie lovers and pie makers. The pie makers get rated on their pies, from appearance to quality. If a pie maker hers a bad reputation, pie lovers will avoid in the future. Sometimes, a new pie make...
Is there any explanation for similarities in stories from different cultures?	[ "There are three explanations. 1) The Jungian theory of archetypes, which states that there are images and metaphors preprogrammed in the human mind. 2) The historical school. If you look at, say, Joseph Campbell's Historical Atlas of World Mythology, you'll see attempts to trace all legends to a point of origin. ...	[ "This is a pretty common question here; here's some links from the FAQ: _URL_2_ _URL_4_ and a few others that have been posted over the years: _URL_3_ _URL_1_ _URL_0_ Most posts agree that it is largely a post-war pop phenomenon with fairly little evidence to support it." ]
Why is it that plants comparatively much less diverse (only ~250,000 species) than other clades of life?	[ "I don't know for certain, but think about it: Plants are sedentary. They find a particular kind of environment that suits them well and, for the most part, stay in one place for their whole lives. They don't need to develop systems that allow for locomotion. They don't need to develop complex tissues and organs th...	[ "Consider a 1cm by 1cm area. Now, consider each square millimeter to be a binary on/off bit. That's 100 bits, or 2^100, or 1267650600228229401496703205376 different combinations. Now, fingerprints aren't binary like that, but generally a ridge in your fingerprint can split, stop, or continue at a given point. Even ...
How does the Scottish central banking system work and how is it connected to the British central bank?	[ "There is no Scottish central bank. Its central bank is the Bank of England, which despite the name is the central bank of the entire UK. Some commercial banks have the right to issue banknotes in Scotland, but these are still British pounds, the same currency used in the rest of the UK." ]	[ "Ask yourself this. How would you say current economics functions? Is this a valid question? Is their only one way? North Korea and Hong Kong have radically different economies, but the are both around today and stable in their way. Ancient times has lots on lots of different empires, nations, tribes and so on. So...
Question about undergraduate history dissertations	[ "\"For starters, how 'original' does it have to be?\" Doesn't have to be original at all I don't think. I once had it described to me that undergrads cover existing work, a masters takes you to the border of current knowledge and doctorates are supposed to cover new ground. I personally did my dissertation on a sub...	[ "Do historians Play Europa IV? What is your opinion on it, what do they get right and eyescratchingly wrong? Does your knowledge of history make you a better player?" ]
What does the yellow part in the ink tube of a ball point pen do?	[ "I'm not sure, but I've always though it was there as a kind of airtight seal to prevent the ink from drying at the open end while also allowing the ink to be pulled out and onto the paper by the motion of the ball. I used to take these things apart when I was a kid and investigate the yellow stuff, it was always a...	[ "A newcomer pays for the opportunity to acquire what amounts to a premade \"business kit\" and shoulders the responsibility for making it profitable. Most of the time, the money doesn't come to them from outside customers, but to the joiner's \"upline.\" That is, the person who sold them the starter kit and their s...
What is the difference between Integer Programming and Constraint Programming	[ "Do you mean these both as examples of [linear programming optimizations](_URL_0_)? If so, integer programming = the optimum solutions must be integers. (Example: find which allotment of 20 movie tickets among three friends maximizes their total happiness. You can't rip a ticket in half, so the constraint x+y+z=20 ...	[ "Fed here. The Income Contingent Plan is going to adjust with your income from year to year. You'll need to re-certify. So if your plan is to never have an increase in pay, go for the Income Based Plan or ICR. However, if you start making more money in the next 20 years, your payment will go up and you'll most like...
Why does socially conservative Japanese culture tolerate weird trends and sexual fetishes?	[ "It doesn't have the same Christian puritanism that you find in the US, because Christianity is not pervasive there." ]	[ "Hi OP, this is a cultural question, so it would greatly assist anyone considering answering if you could specify which culture you're asking about. For example, the name of a cultural group / country / geographic region, plus a rough time period. Otherwise, this question is simply too broad, as it encompasses almo...
If an overweight person and a thin person were both in a car accident which would sustain more bodily damage?	[ "The amount of energy required to stop each body is linearly proportional to their mass. So the fat person will take greater energy to stop. If this is applied through the use of a seatbelt, the force applied to stop them will be applied over a similar area, regardless of their girth. That is, the seat belt will be...	[ "The easiest way to answer your question is to buy a double hook scale like [THIS](_URL_0_) ($20) and tow the truck with it. Do the same with various masses on the sled and you will have your answer. The amount of force to get the sled moving will probably be higher than to get the truck moving because it will lik...
Why are beef burgers called hamburgers if they don't contain pork.	[ "For the exact same reason a Frankfurter isn't made of someone named Frank. They're both named after German cities." ]	[ "The film \"A Knight's Tale\" is surprisingly accurate to the spirit of the times, apparently. Also, Jurgen Habermas states that during pre-Renaissance (or Enlightenment) times, there was a marked divide between 'private' and 'public.' To Habermas, things and people that were public mattered, and thus, a celebrity ...
Why does exerting force during pain help to alleviate it?	[ "It seems like the pain looks like its being alleviated because you are somehow distracted than the actual trauma itself(biting on a cloth, squeezing someone's hand). It also helps not looking at the trauma. One thing though when waking up with a muscle cramp, streaching that part of the body seems to fix it, by p...	[ "eskimobrother, In my undergraduate studies I do recall one of my professors talking about some recent (recent as in 2007-ish) studies indicating that subjects who exercised on a treadmill while listening to music felt that time passed by more quickly than subjects who ran with no stimulus at all. Let me try and ...
if Coke is more popular, why do some restaurants only serve Pepsi?	[ "Pepsi offered their product at a better price so they signed a contract. And if somebody asks for coke, they'll just say: oh we don't have, what about Pepsi? and nobody says NOOOOOOOOOOOO THERE'S SUCH A BIG DIFFERENCE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!" ]	[ "[The Straight Dope covered this](_URL_0_). Basically, they started out as being made by two different production teams, but after a certain point, they became essentially interchangeable, but they kept both names going." ]
What if the Earth stopped rotating but continued to revolve?	[ "Like instantly? We'd all keep moving at thousand miles per hour. We would all die pretty much instantly. The only people who might make it would be in the air. I'd imagine the oceans would fuck shit up too. Imagine the Pacific Ocean, all of the Pacific Ocean, all at once, rushing into California at a thousand mile...	[ "If you have Netflix there's a very good documentary titled \"the world without US\" It explains your exact question." ]
Why do most shows use twins for their young, young characters?	[ "Child labor laws - time restrictions on working hours for child actors. 2 kids in one part gets around this" ]	[ "Dates back to ancient Rome. In a lot of old languages, they hadn't invented the space or the period yet. Like just long unbroken strings of letters. So they started making the first letter of a word huge to indicate new paragraph. The tradition kept, and in the middle ages, they'd hand write/paint a huge fancy let...

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