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AskReddit/davyzqv | 5gy1io | What was the one thing you worried the most about in high school? | How many extracurriculars I was involved in so that colleges would accept me. Dream college did not care and people who were way less involved than me wound up at the same school I'm at. Take a breather, current high schoolers. | 2 |
AskReddit/c9hgwco | 1ckwo6 | What are some ways to pass the time in a jail cell? | I spent 2 months in county jail. I had a cell mate to talk to. Read a lot of books. Never been in prison, so couldn't tell you on that. | 3 |
AskReddit/d4nml1q | 4pt2nu | What video game do you not like? | The Walking dead, I understand some people liking it but 99% of the things that make it good is story and narrative and i simply cannot enjoy a video game with barely any gameplay. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/coucp8u | 2wutpr | What exactly is scientology? | 75 million years ago, an intergalactic dictator (Xenu) flew billions of his people to earth, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their spirits floated around the atmosphere for millennia until the emergence of humans, when the spirits (Thetens) finally found a species they could latch on... | 4 |
AskReddit/epvnx0c | bw7b49 | What's an unexpectedly low-paid job? | You’d think EMTs get paid more. Also, I’m throwing some doctors who work insane amount of hours saving lives and get paid relatively high but for their work it’s still sometimes not THAT much. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d0fbego | 47smxp | How is helium made / captured in large amounts? | It's extracted from natural gas wells along with the natural gas. Helium is formed through radioactive decay deep in the earth. It collects under the same rock formations that allow oil and natural gas to collect. Today because the US captured a strategic reserve of helium (from when blimps were strategic) and is selli... | 3 |
AskReddit/c0kdxdt | b0nc2 | Which band you didn't like at first, then eventually acquired the taste and now you definitely love? | Explosions in the Sky At first, I wrote them off as just another ambient/floaty/abstract band (nothing wrong with that, just not my thing), but then I was on my way to the main stage at Coachella 2007 and their sound cut through the valley like a knife. Something (I still can't really describe what) resonated that day ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ekdjmy2 | barcm8 | How is the water in our water supply kept from freezing during winter? | The main supply lines are underground below what is known as the frost line, below which, temperatures don't go below freezing even in the thick of winter. you can look up a map of frost lines. (additional fact: while underground, it also doesn't heat up as much as at surface level during summer. look up ground coupled... | 11 |
AskReddit/cy20wz2 | 3x6ras | Where do you draw the line between appearing conceited and appearing confident? | When you feel the need to profess your self-confidence to others. Only you need to know how confident you are. Unless someone asks you how confident you are, and you talk about it, it's conceited. There may be some people who feel the need to say it aloud in order to strengthen their confidence, but if you needed to do... | 2 |
askscience/d6vbycb | 4zev99 | How old is Cancer? | Cancer is, in simple terms, cell division gone really wrong. New cells are not perfect replicas and their differences don't matter in the short run, but very rarely some change in hamrful ways: they end up dealing damage to the organism by keeping surrounding tissue from functioning properly as the mutated cells keep g... | 22 |
AskReddit/e7dr5fw | 9mczgt | Why do you choose not to use a turn signal when driving? | So as a commercial driver I see a lot of people either make a turn in front of me, or merge, without using a turn signal. Why is that? Is it laziness? Do you expect people to read your mind? What is it? | 3 |
askscience/cexw61n | 1w14sp | Can we say which molecules are more likely to occur in a soup of elements? | Using thermodynamics, it is possible to estimate, to some extent at least, which molecules will predominate at equilibrium. One would need to know the entropy and enthalpy of formation for every possible compound. However, since it can take an exceedingly long time to reach equilibrium, this approach is limited in it's... | 4 |
AskReddit/c7x7mqt | 16ll5h | What is the saddest line from a movie or TV show? | Not really the saddest line, but, the scene from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 when Snape is clutching Lily's lifeless body. I never fail to turn in to a little baby when I see this scene. | 14 |
AskReddit/c2v63yo | ls7gf | How important is it that your friends be good people? | They need to be not cruel people, certainly. If they systematically and intentionally hurt the feelings, wallets, what have you of others, then I don't want to be their friend. But I just wouldn't get along with someone who had that personality in the first places. But I wouldn't expect them to be a better person than ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c632cci | zb8s9 | Is there a special reason why companies choose to pay employees weekly versus bi-weekly? | It's in the company's interest to pay as infrequently as possible. That's why salaried employees are usually biweekly or monthly. Very few hourly employees would put up with floating cash more than two weeks, and the mere fact of paying weekly can be seen as a result bonus. | 3 |
AskReddit/e10mb8k | 8smmvu | If you were going to catch up with all the sleep you missed throughout your life, how long would you be asleep? | Do we lose time for all the times we have slept for longer than suggested? Like if you're suppose to sleep 8 hours and sleep 10 does that take 2 hours off the time? | 3 |
AskReddit/dbm8guc | 5k89tt | What happened to you this year that put life into perspective? | Moved to Florida to go to law school. Also happened to move in with a man I've liked for some time who turned out to be a sociopath. My family always wanted me to be an attorney so after moving halfway across the country and going to classes for a few weeks I decided it wasn't for me and dropped out. The man who I thou... | 4 |
AskReddit/dwqzoza | 89hiri | What silly lie/myth were you convinced of as a child, and how long did it take you to catch on to the trick? | My parents convinced me that a monorail in the nearby big city actually flew. You couldn't see the rails from the railcar, so it was an easy sell. I guess I never thought about what the giant concrete pillars all around town were for. I believed it for several years too many. | 3 |
AskReddit/d1nn7jb | 4d4ejw | What makes the drivers from your hometown the worst drivers in the world? | Nashville has the worst drivers of any place I've ever lived. It is common practice for people to pull out in front of you, and expect you to slow down or completely stop all together. SO COMMON. I blame it on the high percentage of prescription drug abuse in this state. | 2 |
AskReddit/dbsvu14 | 5l4pov | What foods get better the longer you cook them? | Roast. Some chemical reaction changes the collagen (or something) into something else much tastier over the course of a few hours. Meat typically goes from tender to tough to super-tender the longer you cook it at appropriate temperatures. So roasts have some of the longest times. But still, at some point it stops gett... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/diekm94 | 6f1309 | What would happen to light inside of a box with a mirror-wall interior? | Assuming that the hypothetical box is completely and perfectly enclosed with no way for the light to escape, the light would infinitely reflect within the box while gradually losing energy until it dissipates. Meanwhile the box will become warm (hot, maybe?) because the light energy is converted into heat energy every ... | 5 |
AskReddit/ea1ebuv | 9yht0e | What's the most inappropriate song you could play at the worst time? | My friend had an Ipod hooked up to the sound system, playing mellow music, as guests came in, at a mutual friends funeral. Somehow (her big trolled us?) Aquas Barbie Girl came on, at a funeral home hosting the funeral of my friend Torrian. Good times. | 2 |
AskReddit/cat0v9m | 1hchx7 | What movie or television show should everyone watch at least once in their lives? | Top Gear. Half this site gets a chub from that show. Girls included. You should watch, and you will as well. Watch the latest season, then go back and catch the entire 19 series/seasons. Only 6-8 episodes each. Worth every second, especially the challenges and Top Gear Specials like Vietnam and Africa. "OLIVER!" | 3 |
AskReddit/dzv60ue | 8nfh1r | What's your brilliant idea for a reality TV show? | i think just let cameras in the white house, get interviews with various political people, edit for dramatic punchlines and reveals. i actually feel like this might be the biggest hit in history, people would watch it from every part of the political spectrum. and the president is literally a reality tv star already. i... | 3 |
AskReddit/chv4zlq | 26w5a7 | What is the scariest thing that has ever happened to you on a flight? | I've flown through nasty thunderstorms, had the plane skid on landing, and was once at the right window to see it was a "near miss" that caused a go-round/aborted landing. Scariest thing, though? After departing the gate, the turboprop I'm on taxis a bit, then stops. Captain comes on, announces that there is a problem ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0yrm5x | dak86 | How to tell my Boss this? | Presumably you justify to yourself why you take time to plan. List those reasons. Tell him - respectfully. You haven't explained yourself very well here, so you need to make sure that you try harder with your boss. No one is going to take you seriously if you don't use a good standard of grammar and spelling etc. It su... | 6 |
AskReddit/ekd06a2 | bao4or | What’s something simple you can do for your significant other that truly shows your love for them? | Learn their language of love, and yours. It's this simple but profound thing. You can ask your partner these questions or have them do it. It'll basically show you if they respond better to words, touch, actions, or gifts. That's how my wife learned that her gently touching my back/shoulder/wrist as she walks by gives ... | 3 |
AskHistorians/cl3z2d2 | 2ikvhi | When did the Explorers realize that the "New World" was not India? | With exploration, oddly enough, it usually isn't a single "someone" who makes such a critical realization. Especially in this instance, the chances of there being a person with Columbus who had actually visited the eastern edge of Asia (where Columbus thought he had arrived) were very slim. Trade for Asian goods was la... | 5 |
AskReddit/dretmg4 | 7kjav7 | Why is your best friend your best friend? | I've always got along with females more than guys - but E is something special. She's like an exact copy of me but in female form. We both have / had relationship problems that the other could offer really solid advice to, it's easy to open up with deeply personal things because we have both been through some rough stu... | 2 |
AskReddit/ec8axk6 | a86a20 | What’s the most obvious lie you’ve heard someone tell? | I worked in a warehouse for a brief time that made us work mandatory 14 hour days 6 days a week with a mandatory 7th day for 8 hours. Obviously we were all pretty unhappy. One coworker claimed that he was making enough money with his “side business” that he never has to work at this job again. Yet came and bitched with... | 2 |
AskReddit/dmmm8yi | 6ydnwj | What's that one movie you remember watching over and over again while growing up? | Back when I was about fifteen, my parents started finalizing their divorce. My father "officially" moved out, and his new place wound up being a fairly small rental house on the outskirts of town. This was before high-speed Internet was a common utility, which meant that whenever my brother and I would stay there, our ... | 3 |
AskReddit/dkipzfr | 6onobz | What's the most number of times you've ever read a single book? | I've read The Stand by Stephen King 7 or 8 times. It's like comfort food. I can just pick it up and I know I'll finish every time. The book is so worn from travel and use that the cover mostly ripped off and is now bound by duct tape. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/cs74ly8 | 39wjdn | Why are black people traditionally or racially associated with eating watermelon? | I've been told that it started because after the end of slavery, free black landowners would often grow watermelons. Watermelons would then be incorporated into minstrel shows. A lot of old racist tropes became popular through minstrel shows. Watermelons, blackface, etc | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/d982qeu | 59ffz8 | Why do people buy/ live in "tiny houses"? | Land in big cities is cheap and accounts for most of the cost of buying a house. Smaller buildings use less land, assuming you can get a lot drawn up & zoned for them. A lot of what people are labeling "tiny houses" are really just "trailer homes" that are distanced from the poor white trash connotations of it. | 5 |
AskReddit/ew8pwpm | cnbwsv | What are the reasons for billionaires to keep all their money and not donate most of it away? | What are the reasons for Joe Public to keep all his money and not donate a bit of it? Most people don’t donate anything. Why should billionaires do? (btw: I’m sure most billionaires do donate a lot of money) | 2 |
AskReddit/c0y34w2 | d7bq4 | What system determines the UPS delivery driver route? | It's extremely complicated. UPS uses some of the most complex logistics software ever devised, so while you saw a truck pull up next door, it could have been business-only deliveries (which need to be in by a certain time, as stated elsewhere), or it could have been a truck from a different location, and your package's... | 3 |
AskReddit/d4xe9eo | 4r06dn | What word have you read and never heard verbally pronounced until you realize you've been mentally saying it wrong your entire life? | As a kid I read a lot of Greek mythology, so I saw the word "chaos" a lot (because according to myths, in the beginning there was only Chaos), and I always read that as "cha-hoze". But I knew there was a word pronounced "kay-oss", it was just several years before I realized the word I pronounced "cha-hoze" was actually... | 12 |
AskReddit/dywg741 | 8j2jp1 | If everything magically works out, Which city would you want to live in? | Chernobyl no really : No busy people , cool views and and a unique ex human land scape. Magically working out covers me not getting radiation poisoning which certainly isn't as bad as it used to be. It might get boring one day but hey I'm sure it'll be a cool story | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cvtcue7 | 3o2619 | How does a computer editing program "sharpen" an image to make it clearer? | Usually the algorithm goes like this: Every pixel in an image has neighboring pixels. If a pixel is darker than its neighboring pixels, darken that pixel even more. If a pixel is lighter than its neighboring pixels, lighten that pixel even more. If you run this process on dark-gray text against a light-gray background,... | 3 |
AskReddit/cheecei | 257bu2 | What was really weird about your childhood that you thought was normal? | Being sexually abused, I thought it was a normal thing that was done, the payoff was false attention and gifts of food, candies and the full none judgmental attention of that person. Every thing was normal, until latter that is. | 2 |
AskReddit/d274s5k | 4f9sj4 | What did you think certain "sexual phrases" meant as a kid? | So this is weird. Until i was maybe 10, i thought "gay" meant "mentally retarded." My friends used them interchangeably (i wasnt allowed to say either of them haha) and it was very awkward when my parents had to explain to me that my uncle was in fact not handicapped. | 7 |
AskReddit/cehlyd7 | 1ufqla | What is something easy to memorize that can impress friends? | The Gettysburg Address. I had to do it in 8th grade and hated memorizing it, so I decided to whip it out at every single social event I go to, without any prompt whatsoever. I just start in the middle of somebody else's sentence. Gotta make use of the stuff you learn in school. I don't have any friends. | 6 |
AskReddit/c0k5xi1 | azaba | How can I stop cell phone interference noise from coming through all of my speakers? | Shielded cables. It must be from a close-by phone running on an Edge network as I've never had problems with interference from 3G devices. I have had plenty of trouble with Edge devices causing interference in the past. | 2 |
AskReddit/dseglq9 | 7p4i25 | If you could erase your memory of a T.V show just so you could enjoy it all over again, which show would you choose? | Dexter and Burn Notice. If I had to choose ONE, I would go Burn Notice. I loved Dexter, and it would be awesome to rewatch it all at once. I heard about the ending long before I saw it (because I didn't have the premium channel at the time) so I went into it expecting to be let down. Burn Notice though is one of my fav... | 3 |
Ask_Politics/cslvqr9 | 3bg41r | What would happen if a developed country decided to leave the UN? | That'd heavily depend on the state in question and the reason for withdrawal. More importantly, what kind of alliances does state X have? If state X is relatively isolationist, they could be "rouge" (there's no real internationally accepted criteria exist for designating a state like this, and no current countries woul... | 5 |
AskHistorians/c7scks5 | 163dj3 | When did the Qing Empire cease to be a world power? | For much of the 19th century the Qing Dynasty was unable to defy Western powers. The visible decline started with the first Opium War against Britain in 1839-42, and the watershed moment was the victory of Japan over China in 1894-95. At that point it was clear that the Qing Dynasty's attempts to modernize had few last... | 5 |
AskReddit/duq8rw6 | 7zqndl | Why does the USA seem to have more cults or people who can completely dismiss facts for their own reality compared to other countries? | Because you get to see more of it on the news. Trust me the globe is covered in crazy. There's a Russian cult that worships Gadget from Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers. The South Korean PM was taking orders from a cult. The Japanese have.I'll let you deal with Googling that hot mess. There are Arabs that truly believe t... | 2 |
AskReddit/e2ne3oe | 9033we | What free software is so good you can't believe it's available for free? | Unreal Engine 4, it's ridiculous how much you can get out of it. Games, short films, architecture demos, it's crazy. Also OBS Studio, amazing streaming software on-par with Xsplit but free. (I prefer OBS honestly) | 3 |
AskReddit/dia4mdx | 6egph6 | What are some of the ways you ditched class in school? | First I quit my frat, not that it was classy to begin with. Then I cut holes in all of my clothing so people couldn't even confuse me for lower-middle class. Then finally, I quit school to hold a sign that said "Not quite homeless, but lazy af and want your cupholder money for nothing". Really sealed the deal on being ... | 3 |
AskReddit/er5frnj | c0k81c | What class did you start to hate because the teacher was garbage? | I hated Spanish once it was added to my school in grade 6 since it removed science for some reason but the teacher didn't really help, instead of actually learning Spanish as the year progressed we just looked at meaningless things that the teacher insisted that we would need to understand spanish | 2 |
AskReddit/dnb2bhp | 71j3ul | What worries you the most about climate change? | That making government more wealthy (carbon tax) or making government more powerful (carbon exchange) will not solve any problem. These "solutions" still allow the wealthy and the the corporate to pollute while the energy prices for the poor and middle class skyrocket. If you are serious about climate change you will b... | 3 |
AskReddit/dqfq5sm | 7fxuw4 | What is a funny word or random phrase that you find yourself always saying? | It changes actually. I mess words up when talking to my bro and sometimes he finds it funny and others he's like "dude, what's your problem?" The other day we were fixing something in the house and for whatever reason I starting saying subastance instead of substance. It's so minor but he would make this I'm so done fa... | 2 |
AskReddit/ctlijtl | 3f5rse | What's the most interesting fact you know about your grandparents? | During prohibition my great grandparents used to drive into Canada and bring liquor back into the US. They got busted and each were sentenced to a weekend in jail. Great grandpa refused to let his wife go to jail so he did two weekends instead of one allowing great grandma to skip her sentence. Cheers! | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d1ngady | 4d3mnb | Why does chewing sound so loud while wearing head phones? | Your headphones block the environment sounds. However, your mouth is connected to your ear channels internally, so the chewing sound is not impacted. It then sounds louder compared to other sounds. | 17 |
AskReddit/ellhfg2 | bgk7ob | What services do you expect to tip for, and why? | Tipping for food service at a restaurant (not fast food), getting a hair cut, getting food delivered to my door, and tattoos. I haven't really experienced or seen anything else that I have tipped for or seen anyone else tip for | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/eiwrxhz | b30q5s | Why is chickenpox more dangerous to adults than it is to children? | Two words. Cytokine Storm. This is an emergency response of the body to fight an infection by releasing everything the body has for infections to fight it. Cytokine storms in children are not as dangerous in adults as children have less powerful immune systems. The best analogy I can think of is compare buying a bunch ... | 16 |
AskReddit/dlrg7sp | 6ubtsq | What's the most money you've lost on something stupid? | Depends on your definition of stupid, but only about $200 gambling in Vegas. Although it's easy to justify it as not losing $200, but paying $200 for the fun of gambling in Vegas. | 3 |
AskReddit/d5dre39 | 4t0yfb | What's a popular trend that will prove to be very unhealthy in 20 years? | It's ok. Once it is proven to be unhealthy, there will be many reports a few years away that say it is healthy. Ex. Salt, fat, sugar, carbs, gluten, red meat, wine, beer, etc. | 5 |
AskReddit/c2rn9xz | lcw0r | What is the biggest misconception movies/tv shows gave you as a child? | Two big ones come to mind, first guns with suppressors (silencers in the movies) were actually needle guns that shot needles and were quieter than a regular gun. Secondly that if you kissed a girl long enough she would eventually stop fighting and enjoy it (don't ask why I was watching Mom's soaps) luckily I never put ... | 3 |
askscience/cr6xo5c | 35qc2s | Is there any way a planet can rotate so that the sun would rise and set on the same point at the horizon? | Yes, there is. The Earth rotates in such a way. At 66.56 degrees north and south of the equator (the polar circles), the sun rises and sets on the same point at the horizon (due north) once a year, at summer solstice. | 17 |
AskReddit/d0nvajn | 48zhjc | What's the most minor thing you've ever cried about? | ohhhhhhhh man do I ever have some beauties for this thread. My girlfriend cries over pretty much everything. The best example of this recently was when we were laying in bed and imagining what it would be like if the entire half of my bedroom were one giant bed. So we're taking some measurements, looking some things up... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d60cq48 | 4vpjbh | Why are electrons "locked in" to certain energy levels? | It's hard to explain without getting into the math. But when you solve for the state of an electron bound in an atom with a definite energy, you find that only certain energies are possible. As for the different shapes, you also find that the electron states can be characterized not only by energy, but by angular momen... | 10 |
AskReddit/e21ysgx | 8xal2b | What does your most public display of "nerd culture" look like? | I still play Pokemon Go and yesterday was Community Day - a bunch of people walking around in circles in a park and sometimes yelling out, "SHINY!" That's us being big nerds out in public. | 3,173 |
AskReddit/cn66qwa | 2qhgfq | Which video games didn't get enough hype as it should have gotten? | The Soul Reaver/Legacy of Kain series flopped and died, which is a shame. I always enjoyed the atmosphere and soundtrack of most of the games. Also decent vampire characters. | 8 |
explainlikeimfive/d8crgps | 55pfzl | What is IIS Manager (Internet Information Service Manager) used for? | Its actually pretty simple. IIS is Internet Information Services. Its the service used in Windows for hosting websites and FTP sites. Its normally used on servers, but you can install and run it on your home computer if you wanted to. Its a free feature of Windows. The Manager is the graphical portion of IIS, where you... | 3 |
AskReddit/cj2kyzv | 2b7n4v | What is the most memorable dream you've had? | Had a nightmare that I lived next door to a lake. I forgot who wanted to go but I decided to take them. I wasn't planning on jumping in but I did anyways due to whoever was with me convincing me. I jumped in, and swam towards the center of the lake with my companion. My company was a better swimmer then me and made it ... | 2 |
AskReddit/d559fwr | 4rz0ou | Which movie/TV show made you cry the most? | I marathoned Six Feet Under one summer when I was super depressed. Cut myself off from my own family and stayed inside watching a few hours each day. I felt such a connection with everybody on that show and the end destroyed me. I have never cried that hard at anything before or since. | 3 |
askscience/cbg2gs8 | 1jlxak | What is the heaviest element that is safe to handle or carry around all of the time? | As Fabien said, iridium is the heaviest thing you could carry around fairly safely. However, it's reasonably expensive and hard to find as jewelery (I extrapolated you asking about carrying around all the time to being a piece of jewelery). If you're after something you could get a ring or chain made of fairly easily, ... | 4 |
AskReddit/dgpqtun | 67e1s8 | What's really unhealthy that most people don't know about? | I don't know if this meets the criteria of not many people knowing about it, but I don't think people actually follow up or support each other the way they should. Not reaching out for help when you're down is really unhealthy. Depression, anxiety, you name it, don't let it spiral. On the other side of the coin, don't ... | 155 |
AskReddit/cl5kt9f | 2iuhut | Does 'raising awareness' usually make any actual difference to an issue; is it usually attached to any real actions? | I think it does. That's also how advertising works. The Coca-Cola advertisements are not to convince you that it tastes better than Pepsi. They just raise the awareness of the brand so you'll think first about Coca-Cola instead of Pepsi when you're thirsty. Same goes for fundraisers. | 3 |
AskReddit/e570a9k | 9bztcm | What are some uncharacteristically light hearted episodes of generally dark shows? | Supernatural is by no means a comedy, but it's had some of the funniest, most self aware TV episodes I've ever seen. In their world, the events of the show happen to be a series of published novels, and in the episode "Fan Fiction" the main characters find out that a teenage girl is producing a play based on these book... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dag6x36 | 5ez1a1 | Is there a reason product prices are published without tax in the US? | More importantly than the fact that sales tax isn't uniform across the US, there's also the simple fact that unlike in Europe, the law in the US doesn't require displaying prices inclusive of taxes. Lower prices look better, so given the choice, retailers are going to choose to display the price without tax even in cas... | 57 |
AskReddit/dx8dpnx | 8boge1 | What traits make a good father? | Discipline. Both self-discipline, and disciplinary skills for their kids. A father should be disciplined to be successful and be able to support his family and children, and to lead his children to being good people by example. And being skilled in disciplining his children is valuable in teach life lessons. | 2 |
AskReddit/e20cs0m | 8x2non | What is your greatest gaming moment ? | I remember getting a hole-in-one on Wii Sports when I was younger. It took me solid 15 seconds to understand what had just happened. A year ago I also got two shinies in a row in Pokemon Sun. That was just very good luck. But I still remember how hyped I was. And about something more serious, playing through Super Mari... | 2 |
AskReddit/e46uoa7 | 97b82v | What dream were you disappointed of not being real life when waking up ? | I had a very wholesome win the lottery dream. It was "only" a million dollars but it was enough to pay off my in laws house, my wife and I to start our business, and go on a real honeymoon right away. But it's all good, we are working towards those things anyways. | 3 |
AskReddit/cepicqx | 1v7pdb | What is the best name for a pet? | not something bullshit like 'rose' or recently posted 'sapphire'. when i name pets i like to think about what i would be screaming when i need them to save my life from lake of quicksand. or when they don't come when i call and the whole dog park is looking at me like a peasant. | 2 |
AskReddit/cnpvmtc | 2sinjo | What is something you've spent an unreasonable amount of money on and turned out to be a complete waste? | My aquarium. All of my fish inevitably die in some huge disaster (disease outbreak, too much ammonia, etc) except for this single survivor. I've been waiting for it to die so I can just put the tank away, but that was a year ago and it's still alive. | 897 |
AskReddit/dj5n2ga | 6id5zc | Which word were you surprised to learn was used only in your country / region? | This isn't region so much as it's religion but my family is Jewish and like 10% of the words I say are apparently Jewish and I never knew it. Schvitzing*, schmutz, schlep, there's obviously a common theme with the words but I seriously thought that those were regular day to day words that other people used too. Also I'... | 7 |
AskReddit/clemxea | 2js7mb | To those who have, how did you overcome social anxiety? | My social anxiety wasn't too bad, so it wasn't too hard to overcome. My issues were calling people or stores (it was so much easier to have them call me or just use text or email) and talking to people I didn't know (like approaching randoms on the street). To get over it, I started pretending like it wasn't an issue i... | 2 |
AskReddit/dolsg6z | 77h2yd | What's the funniest thing you have ever argued about with someone? | I once argued for hours with a friend about whether or not, if you poured a bottle of Mountain Dew into the ocean, trace elements could still be called Mountain Dew after being diluted by all that water. | 2 |
AskReddit/db7zcwh | 5igfky | What should you do if you can't sleep in the middle of the night? | Tips from the NHS. I'd like to add: GET OFF REDDIT, and don't use computers in the bedroom. 1. Keep regular sleep hours Going to bed and getting up at roughly the same time every day will programme your body to sleep better. Choose a time when you're likely to feel tired and sleepy. 2. Create a restful sleeping environ... | 2 |
askscience/ex8rkbk | crbxgz | When an atom gains a negative charge, where did the electron come from? | They do actually have that surplus electron. to know where it came from, you would have to look at the biochemical pathway that creates that molecule, and then at the biochemical pathway that created that electron donor and so on and so on. In the end, if you look at it at a "cosmic scale", the surplus electrons come m... | 2 |
AskReddit/ekegi7p | bawcvj | What are the differences between CULTURE and RACE and why is it important to be aware of the differences? | Not being aware of the difference can lead to bad things. For example, It is why some people label Trump a white nationalist. In reality, Trump supporters are referring to a kind of cultural nationalism, rather than one based on race. It just so happens that the originators of that culture were white, but that doesn’t ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cs2nivy | 39bnbp | What is a popular belief you feel is wrong? | That the parents rights over their child's health is supreme. Innocent kids die everyday because their parents did not get them vaccinated or a life saving treatment due to beliefs or plain ignorance. I strongly feel that the child's right to proper healthcare is more important than the parents rights to any beliefs. | 3 |
AskReddit/c12cncr | drha1 | Can anyone give me the TL;DR on Israel/Palestine? | It's complicated. But as far as what the territory was: The area was part of the Muslim Ottoman Empire (which spanned across Northern Africa & the Middle East) from the Middle Ages until WW1. Once the wealthiest and most powerful empire, it slowly declined as Europe rose. The Ottoman Empire joined the Central powers in... | 5 |
AskReddit/eat0noz | a1up9f | What is the biggest contradiction you've seen between someone's life and their political views? | My sister. The very definiton of an irrational liberal. She openly speaks of "tearing down all borders!" like its a world-wide movement or something. Yet she lives in a 1 million dollar house, in the whitest gated community I've ever seen. When I asked about the neighbors, "Oh there's one kinda brown family, but I thin... | 3 |
AskReddit/ev26so9 | ci7n6l | How can a daughter with career ambitions reconcile with a mother who firmly believes that a happiest woman is a housewife to a rich/successful man? | Agree with her, but tell her in todays world the richest most successful men dont hunt in the shallow end of the pool. If you dont get out there and swim with the sharks youll end up chained to a guppy for the rest of your life. That will buy you some time and give her the impression that you arent intent on being a sp... | 3 |
AskReddit/cp2wbck | 2xs9qj | What is the least significant day of the year? | In the (North American) sports world it's the day after the MLB All-Star Game. I believe it's the only day of the year none of the major North American professional sports or college sports have anything of interest scheduled. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cvxtibc | 3ojluo | What's the difference between top load and front load washing machine detergent? | There's no such thing as "top load" vs "front load" detergent. There's just normal detergent and high-efficiency detergent. Most front-load machines are high efficiency and most top load machines are not, but you can get top-loading high efficiency machines these days. The high efficiency machines use less water, so th... | 16 |
explainlikeimfive/dxac4yw | 8bwxwf | If people with perfect (eidetic) memories don't forget anything, how do their brains not run out of storage? | It's hyperthymesia and it's something like pathology. People with this deviation have enlarged temporal lobe and caudate nucleus of the brain. There is no accurate information. Perhaps, such people's brain functions differently | 3 |
AskHistorians/cqyxfq1 | 34wiyt | How do historians approach the historiography of communism? | So First of all, someone can give you a much better answer than me since you are asking about Marxism and historiography which is really not my forte. But Marxist was actually pretty popular in western history departments in the west just a few decades ago. If you want to look at Marxist historian's reading of history ... | 5 |
AskReddit/cdjcmdi | 1r3w4e | What TV show finale made you cry the most? | The Office. It really was such a great finale. Erin finally meeting her parents, everyone finding happiness, and of course Michael coming back. I remember when Mr. Scott came on the screen if I didn't know if were going to jump with joy or cry. As someone said earlier here, it really did feel like I was losing a part m... | 12 |
AskReddit/coctajh | 2uyeoi | What's the highest paying job for an english major? | An English major, assuming you're not going to become a teacher or something like that, means that you're going to do something not specifically related to your major. As with most jobs and most majors, your job is not directly related. You could do sales and move up in the business world, you could get into politics, ... | 2 |
AskReddit/d4a385q | 4o6wwy | What was the craziest thing you woke up to in the middle of the night? | Not Earth-shattering, but. When I was about 20 I was living in a "party house". Plenty of long loud nights and headache mornings. Lots of strangers crashing. No big deal. But one morning I woke up and headed into the living room and noticed one of my roomies asleep on the couch in a sitting position. In one hand he had... | 6 |
AskHistorians/cjytb5e | 2ed7dg | What is the opinion of historians on the historicity of the inscriptions found near medina, supposedly written by Umar and dating to 625AD? | It is probably not in fact the oldest Islamic inscription nor likely written by Umar; that honor goes to the inscription of Zubayr, dated 24 A.H. on the basis of it naming the year Omar died. Reading the reference you provided, it seems like the inscription it talks about is an authentic early inscription but misdated;... | 2 |
AskReddit/de5n2k8 | 5vxb2a | What is that one keyboard shortcut that makes life better? | General Windows Shortcuts I used to scoff at the Windows key but it has a few nice shortcuts. Use Windows+1 to open the first thing on your Quick Launch (programs pinned to the start bar). Use the corresponding number for whichever program on Quick Launch you want. Windows+R opens the Run dialog box Windows+X used in W... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cmbxh1t | 2nattc | What exactly is turbulence, and what causes it? | Are you looking for the scientific definition, or the layman's definition as it applies to airplane flight? I'm going to assume the latter. Turbulence in an aircraft is basically due to atmospheric circulation - hot air rises, cool air sinks. When you have masses of air near each other with drastically different speeds... | 4 |
AskReddit/dkhy93z | 6ojzpv | What stories did your older relatives tell you about their experiences in WWII? | My Great Grandfather was in the war. He told us 4 stories that always stood out. The first is that he was part of the liberation of a concentration camp and the sight of what was going on haunted his dreams for years. Second was he was out patrolling with his squad and they saw a plane dive fly by. They had no idea who... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/e3u5fcx | 95o8lc | Are humans supposed to eat meat? | Yes, we are omnivores, we can and do eat meat. We very very recently have developed a sufficient logistical food transportation system to allow us to not eat meat. But we needed to eat meat to survive * up until globalization. Not be severely malnutrition-ed | 30 |
AskReddit/dmxfg01 | 6zr860 | What's the best way to get back at a narcissistic brother who has been a general douche canoe for years (without getting caught, of course)? | As a narcissistic brother, this concerns me greatly. Why are you trying to rain on his parade? What wrongs has he caused you worthy of this revenge? Not saying he isn't a jerk, but I must know if your efforts are similarly worthy and not just purely for amusement. | 2 |
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