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AskReddit/epphtoj | bviuhl | What are the most stupid ways comic book characters have been brought back from the death? | Not exactly in a comic but in a comic book show, in Legends of Tomorrow, a show I normally love, they brought back a character by holding hands, singing and filling a staff with positive energy to bring him back from the death. | 2 |
AskReddit/c6ojwe0 | 11puh6 | Why are so many weddings made to be all about the bride? | I think it really depends on the couple. Also, it is a self perpetuating myth; gals feel they have to be in control because society portrays weddings as bride-cyntric. My man is super organized and new the area we were getting married in better than i did so he planned most of our wedding. I just showed up. 15 minutes ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dh8d1hg | 69pdzx | What is your best advise for a 17 year old male about to graduate high school and moving on to college? | Have as much fun as possible but don't jeopardize your classes because prerequisites can screw you over quickly. Also don't be afraid to switch majors even if it adds a year to your college career. One year is nothing in the big picture. Nonetheless you wouldn't want a degree in something you hate doing in order to gra... | 2 |
AskReddit/cdsn1hi | 1s09rn | What country seems like a great place to grow up in, but not to be an adult in? | The Scandinavian countries. You can live there growing up and receive a good education, quality healthcare, and other social benefits. But once you're an adult you actually have to start paying taxes, and a lot of them. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cysfqt8 | 408buy | Why do people get random, short pains in different parts of the body? | I think it's one of those things where there's no single answer. Could be nerve endings, ligaments getting caught, muscles knotting, the way your hair (anywhere on the body) is growing, or getting trapped in fabric. Veins and arteries getting small blockages or being constricted by swelling in muscles and glands. Is it... | 71 |
AskReddit/cb7z8zh | 1itvvx | What is the best thing you have purchased for 1 dollar? | My best friend is from El Salvador and always keeps a bottle of hot sauce called 100% Pain. I have no tolerance for spicy things, but I can definitely say it is the hottest stuff I've ever eaten. I paid one of my "tough-guy" friends a dollar to take a spoon-full of it. He shrugged off the task as easy money, because he... | 2 |
AskReddit/dpax3jc | 7ajldw | What if Bernie Sanders became the President of the United States instead of Donald Trump, how would USA be different? | The most important and immediate impact that presidents have are on foreign policy. Bernie Sanders would not have started a juvenile flame war with Kim Jong Un or decertify the Iran nuclear agreement, therefore our threat of nuclear war would be significantly less. (Of course this would be true of a president Hillary C... | 3 |
AskReddit/eydgfvv | cworuf | What's one of those little things, that in the moment, makes you realize life is pretty good? | I was watching these small planes take off at Cambridge Airport today. If you search it in Wikipedia, the imagine used is a good example of my view. Sun was out, working in an unfinished plot so could hear the propellers. The grass was well maintained, I could see an old building and an old hanger with some storage con... | 2 |
AskReddit/e2pzng0 | 90flid | What is the most terrifying moment throughout your life that you actually thought you were gonna die? | I was cranking an anchor beneath a mobile home with an electric auger. Had my right side braced against a pillar of cinder blocks and the handle of the auger in my hand braced on my left side. The anchor got caught on something in the hole and shoved my hand into my left side, pinning the trigger in the process. With m... | 4 |
AskReddit/ci8dbmy | 2888ud | What non-sad thing has reduced you to tears? | I thought I killed a frog with a strimmer in my sisters back garden. I couldn't remember the last time I cried but I ran into my sisters kitchen in floods of tears looking for consolation. No one was there. I steeled myself to go and clean up and carry on but when I returned there was no frog. I needed that water. | 2 |
AskReddit/e7jxm01 | 9n651f | What true historical story do you think should be made into a movie? | A movie about sheikh Zayed, the founder of the United Arab Emirates. For all u American people that’s where Dubai is. So basically it’s really cool he was a pearl diver and then a pirate and he was also a really good negotiator so he avoided any war with the British and the Iranians by making deals with them. He was es... | 4 |
AskReddit/c93rd6c | 1b5fc0 | Is there some sort of rule with talking to other peoples kids? | First, what do you do. There's a big difference from you working at a daycare, wal-mart, and in an orange suit next to a black trash bag. Second, as a parent, I generally don't discourage my child from talking to people. Stranger-danger comes in all forms and it doesn't matter who a person talks to; we're all potential... | 2 |
askscience/c99pyks | 1bs8bg | Why do quantum fields have finite wave propagation velocities? | It's difficult to answer this question. Naturally, the ultimate answer is "we don't know. We build QFTs under the assumption that they are causal since every QFT that we know to be realized in nature turns out to be causal." If these are force fields, then consistency automatically forces the propagation speed to be 1,... | 5 |
AskReddit/e57a6zg | 9c19f2 | What's the worst thing you've ever smelled? | When I was younger and working at a Walmart Neighborhood Market, I was tasked with throwing out the spoiled meat. The worst of the worst was spoiled beef tongue. I almost puked in the meat freezer and had to run out. It left a terrible stench for a few days; air fresheners and air disinfectants did nothing. | 2 |
AskReddit/et47m6l | c9yazg | How to get cheap dental work done in the US ? | Not exactly “cheaper” as much as less expensive is to find a dental college and get most of your work done there. The dentists of the future get practice and you save some money. I have a friend that does this and he hasn’t had a bad experience, yet. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ddymahn | 5v1vk4 | Why do some liquids sting when applied to a cut, but others don't? | Nerves work via electric potentials. These are shifted by ion concentrations. Some liquids affect these ion concentration gradients. If something is strongly acidic, basic, or salty, it will activate the pain neurons that are exposed in a cut. | 20 |
explainlikeimfive/d3nhen8 | 4lhx3m | What are the difficulties in inflating an object in space? | It's a habitation pod - a lot more complex than just blowing up a balloon with a lot more things that can go wrong. It isn't more difficult to inflate something in a vacuum but NASA take as few chances as possible. It wasn't inflating properly so they aborted to work out why instead of just carrying on and risking brea... | 9 |
AskReddit/c4k55am | t7a0t | What's the most ridiculous thing you have ever believed? | My parents used to joke with me up until I was 12 years old that I was raised by foxes until I was 3. I believed it, and told my gifted class in seventh grade. I insisted that it was true, and went so far as to ask my mom to tell my teacher. My heart was crushed. TL;DR: I was told that I was raised by foxes and believe... | 3 |
AskReddit/c9zqvc7 | 1efn34 | What would people do if they didn't have to work for there livelihood? | People would do the same thing that they do in America now. Whatever makes them happy. You can live for free if you please, but you can live "better" if you choose to. You don't have to work or go to school, however people do to better themselves. I don't think much would change. Rich people would still work hard and b... | 3 |
AskReddit/d0gonur | 480hkp | What video game puts you in a tranquil place? | This will sound weird, but Mario Kart. If I need to think for a while, I'll put the game on (any of them, but I have MK Wii and MK8) and mute the TV. I'll usually just put in my headphones and listen to music while I do a 50 or 100cc grand prix. Once you've played enough times to know how to time your shells, bananas, ... | 2 |
AskReddit/ciu5sir | 2ae7nm | Do you think an immigrant in the United States should have to learn English, even if their job didn't require them to? | I think so. I think you should no matter what country you go to. You wouldn't move to Spain and only speak english. You wouldn't move to china and only speak spanish. You wouldn't move to australia and only speak chinese. OH WAIT. YES YOU WOULD. Seriously though. Learn the language of the country you move to. | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/dzuqizc | 8ndkwp | How can documentaries like "Dope" on Netflix find and interview people doing clearly illegal things? | I’m currently doing a doco on what some people have described as a “weed cult”. The way we found them was after doing a doco on hypnotherapy a buddy of mine was talking to a client of the therapist. They told him about the cult and then blew him off for months he got the info. I don’t know how they get away with it. La... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/e1ipvn9 | 8uvn8j | Why do people get a sunburn much easier when they are taking an antibiotic? | Some antibiotics are photoactive: meaning their molecules break down into toxic compounds when exposed to sunlight. When you ingest an antibiotic it dissolves in your stomach, the molecules get absorbed into your bloodstream, and get carried off to all the far corners of your body by your circulatory system. Everywhere... | 8 |
AskReddit/dzfzqp9 | 8lj6y1 | What is your real-life superpower - the thing that truly sets you apart? | I'm naturally prone to the flow state of mind, so I can quite literally succeed at whatever I set my mind to because I'll sit down and work at it for 16 hours if nobody forces me to stop (wife getting mad that I've been home all day without doing any chores lol). Downside: I'll get so wrapped up in working on things th... | 40 |
AskReddit/c0w8tzb | cynio | What should I do after college Psychology major/business minor (graduating soon, lost)? | Intern somewhere in Finance, Accounting, etc. and finish your business major. Impress them, get offered a permanent position. Then make them pay for your grad psych degree/techy undergrad while you do businessey things for them. | 4 |
AskReddit/ef91evb | akyodm | What's the moment you realized you fell out of love? | When he left me with a 2 and a 5 year old and $12 in the bank for a 19 year old living on Daddys money and proceeded to take the kids off his dental plan. Safe to say I fell out of love that day. | 9 |
explainlikeimfive/cvnrnh6 | 3ng4ot | Why do people get a euphoric sensation after a good workout? | Endorphins. It is a hormone that your body can produce and release in situations like this. The substance is actually related to some drugs that will give you a euphoric high. This means it has a similar chemical structure and triggers the same responses in the body, but just very mildly. You can even get addicted to t... | 2 |
AskReddit/ex1v2o8 | cr5ave | What's something you're thankful your parents did for you as a child? | Always there for me. I have friends whose parents weren't there. They didn't come to events or care how they got to and from places. One friend walked to her summer job everyday and her parents just didn't care. She didn't live in a walking society so this really wasn't safe. | 3 |
AskReddit/e6em2fc | 9htzrf | What does the creepiest person you know do that makes them creepy? | Whenever they speak to someone, they angle their heads down a bit so that in order to make eye contact they have to peer out of the tops of their sockets. I'm not explaining it very well, but I've met several people that always do this and it is super creepy. ​ Oh.also, people that don't swing their arms when th... | 8 |
AskReddit/d9rpcrd | 5bvpss | What's the first thing you do when you come home from work? | Make a cup of tea and watch TV/play games for an hour. I work nights so it's bedtime when I get home, but if I go straight to bed I just dream about being at work, which sucks since they're always stressful dreams, so I need my hour of relaxing time to get my mind off work. Feet up, cup of tea, Netflix, ohhh yeahh. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/euu72jw | chkaep | How does helium change your voice? | When you speak normally your vocal cords vibrate at a certain speed or frequency this is usually the same when you are breathing air. Helium is a much lighter gas than air, which is why balloons filled with it float so well. When it passes over your vocal cords they vibrate faster which makes the voice sound squeaky be... | 20 |
AskReddit/c42j94c | r36rd | Has anybody ever interrupted a wedding, either because of feelings for the bride/groom or any other reasons? | Went to a wedding where the best man was a girl. She was the groom's longtime friend, and it was all sweet, quirky, whatever. Anyway, everything went according to the usual. Until the speeches. The best man/girl got crazy, messy drunk and slurred her way through a long story about finally letting the 'love of her life'... | 3 |
AskReddit/cmtfmmn | 2p510r | What is your countries version of the American hillbilly accent? | While I was living in Germany (central Bavaria area) I went to a party where there were people from Munich (southern Germany) and Berlin (northern Germany). I thought it was kind of amazing how slow the southerners talked and how fast the northerners talked because how it reminded me of the similarities in the US with ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dah61dd | 5f3f5u | What do you consider better, being good at several skills or mastering one skill completely? | Depends on the one skill. If it's something like coding, or surgery, then by all means, focus completely on it. If it's something with seriously diminishing returns as you get better and better at it, such as fence building, or juggling (not to say that there aren't some amazing fence builders or jugglers in the world,... | 2 |
Ask_Politics/cdswho1 | 1s0ybd | What is the reasoning behind abolishing the Department of Education? | Actually the question should be more along the lines of why do we have one in the first place? I'm a former high school teacher and principal and (I am also a firm supporter of unions so an anti union view is not where I come from). The creation of the Department of Education by Jimmy Carter and the Democratic congress... | 11 |
AskReddit/eylqep0 | cxhjrz | Who in your opinion is the most underrated rock band of all time? | Has to be Jethro Tull. For 50 years now Ian Anderson has released new albums (solo and with Tull) and toured the world like a madman. And yet when I tell people that Jethro Tull is my all time favorite band most people will just stare blankly and say “Yeah, I’ve heard of him”. And I die a little inside. | 3 |
AskReddit/e0x0zos | 8s6ycb | What would your close ones think of you if they found you dead doing exactly what you were doing 15 minutes ago? | I have high blood pressure. I'm 25 I jog daily and eat nothing processed or premade. I was masturbating 15 minutes ago. I died getting my jollys. | 3 |
AskReddit/crx393q | 38ql9b | Have you ever forced yourself out of your comfort zone and, instead of growing or accomplishing something, ended up seriously regretting it? | Yeah. Went to one of those high school parties, yaknow the ones with the booze n stuff. Got there after my shift ended at work, lots of people were half-drunk and smoking various smoke-able things and I felt extraordinarily uncomfortable. Left after 5 minutes or so. Good times. | 3 |
AskReddit/d2ofmco | 4h8zag | What is a book everyone must read? | Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. I have never read a book that was so deeply emotional bout a serious topic and yet so lighthearted and really funny. Only Vonnegut can do that sort of thing. His other famous work, Cats Cradle, is one of my favorite books of all time, but I think slaughterhouse 5 is a bit more univ... | 402 |
askscience/c2bc55q | je241 | Is there any reason to believe that alien life would make use of and/or have something like DNA? | I am no geneticist but I am pretty confident that life hinges on what DNA does. So I would say something that serves this same purpose would be required. By that, I mean life is a series of states which make up a living entity. DNA is just the biological representation of this pattern that we have uncovered. For a seri... | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/cglb655 | 22bxr5 | If the US Military were to capture a child soldier, what would happen to the child? | "Child" is tricky to define. The US put a 15 year old in Guantanamo and left him there for a decade. These sorts of things are entirely political. If he's 8, and if it became a news story, they'd probably decide he was brainwashed and innocent and send him somewhere nice to be adopted. Without the news story, anything ... | 8 |
AskReddit/c3577eo | mzy0x | What are your weirdest/funniest airport stories? | I've posted this before. I worked at an airport for 15 years. I was supervising the departure of a flight to Paris but we had a mechanical problem: engine change required = 24 hours of delay. It was a Sunday night and we sent all the passengers to the airport Hilton. The following day, the aircraft was ready to go and ... | 17 |
AskReddit/dwy7h46 | 8af0xb | What kid friendly movie would be a lot better if it were rated R? | Let's remake Avatar The Last Airbender TV series, but rated R. Look, you have waterbenders that can literally control people's blood and bodies. Let me see someone bend all the fluids out of a person's body. | 11 |
AskReddit/cuzhr4g | 3kpcv1 | What good stories do you or your family have about their run-ins with gangsters or the Mafia? | My best friend comes from a large Italian family. A few years ago they had a huge family reunion at a local park, and the cops showed up and arrested several of the family members for mafia reasons. The following year she said they got the invitation to the reunion and it had specific instructions to go to a certain lo... | 2 |
AskReddit/cjrz66j | 2dqa8e | Did you ever punch somebody in the face, and why? | Oh lots of times. Reasons vary. Sometimes I got punched in the face first (my nose is really crooked since it's been broken 9 times, 8 of which were from someone's punch and one was I turned in to a door two days after a punch broke it and I re-broke it). Sometimes I'm just drunk and in a fightin' mood. This is pipelin... | 2 |
AskReddit/d08t5mf | 46ym0n | If it boils down to Hillary v. Trump, would you consider a third party vote or just abstain altogether? | I don't understand Bernie supporters who refuse to vote for Hillary if their preferred candidate loses. This isn't just about who will be President for the next 4-8 years. It's potentially about the make up of the Supreme Court for the next 40 years. Do you want more rulings like Citizens United? Because President Trum... | 45 |
explainlikeimfive/cevpeyr | 1vtk4p | Where does the electricity go if I unplug my phone from my charger but leave the charger plugged into the electrical outlet? | New chargers have a switching mode circuit that turns off the charger to almost zero current when its not plugged into a phone. Older chargers have a transformer that draws a very small current when there is no load. Neither old or new chargers are significant draws of current or sources of power waste. If everyone in ... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/d1pp6gp | 4dclvm | Why was there so much hatred towards Armenians in the late 1800's/early 1900's? | Sort of like the Jews, they were the trader and merchant class in the Ottoman empire. So they were everywhere in small numbers, dealt in money, and were involved in a lot of other transactions. Poor peasants resent the more urban merchants (a classic trope), plus they were Christians in a Muslim empire. Armenia also us... | 280 |
AskReddit/ddxxvwp | 5uyx7o | What is the hardest you've ever laughed? | Definitely mushrooms. About 2 hours into our trip my boyfriend and I decided we were hungry and hit up a drivethru. I was driving. Everything was fine, lighted signs looked cool but other than that I was not 'impaired'. Pulled up to the intercom and the sweet girl asked for my order and I inexplicably exploded into a r... | 2 |
AskReddit/eln93uc | bgstd9 | Why does a person have to be full white to be called white, but only half black to be called black? | It's a remaining influence of the "one drop" rule, which is an old American law classifying a person as "negro" if they have even one black ancestor. The reason they needed a rule like that in the first place was to determine which side of the racial segregation a person belonged on. So if you were half black, you had ... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ctxid9q | 3getm6 | Why the Black Lives Matter protesters are targeting Bernie Sanders? | Bernie Sanders participated in one of the earliest sit-in protests against segregation, and helped to desegregate schools. He attended the 1963 March on Washington and saw the "I have a dream" speech in person. He endorsed Jesse Jackson for president, twice. BUT, a few weeks ago he was at an event with Martin O'Malley ... | 132 |
AskReddit/dsawu1q | 7onw7z | How come nobody was outraged when the Jackass crew pulled similar stunts in Japan for their Jackass movie? | Because Jackass didn’t film themselves with a dead corpse. They were a licensed, branded tv show on what was at the time a major media outlet. They had film crews, not cellphones. | 5 |
AskReddit/ccrkmi7 | 1ofuo6 | What would a world without copyrights and patents be like? | Well China seem to be living in such a world. To paraphrase Clarkson "It would appear that the term 'Copyright Infringement' does not translate terribly well into Chinese". Part of how that country is becoming a superpower is that they are manufacturing copies for significantly less than the originals and able to under... | 3 |
AskReddit/d47twfx | 4nxrzg | How powerful of a weapon does the 2nd Amendment cover? | Welcome to the debate that has been going on for 25 years. I think the 2nd Amendment is moot this day in age. It was put in the constitution so that we can overthrow the government if we need.but it is pretty much impossible for us to defend ourselves today. The logical hole to that is we can not have automatic weapons... | 3 |
AskReddit/cdyj9qv | 1sjun6 | What is your rags to riches story? | This isn't really a rags to riches story, but I'm proud of it enough to share. Three years ago, I was admitted to a mental hospital for bipolar disorder following a suicide attempt. I was unemployed and homeless. Three years later, I have successfully kept a job. I have a fiancé and a little dog, a house of my own, and... | 2 |
AskHistorians/d47jayp | 4nvm5g | What Happened to Alexander's Empire After His Death? | This is a long and very convoluted story with seemingly no end. The new world order of the Hellenistic successor kingdoms did not completely fall into place until the mid 270s, more than forty years after Alexander died. When the conquering hero died in 323 he had left no feasible plans for how the empire would be gove... | 8 |
explainlikeimfive/ec7hd1s | a80hp8 | How come if I freeze something, it doesn't thaw into the same taste? | The taste buds in your mouth are receptors to which specific molecules can bind. When these molecules (salts, sugars, and other stuff that is found in foods) bind to your taste buds, the taste bud send a signal to your brain that indicates "hey I found something that tastes salty", for example. The main characteristic ... | 5 |
AskHistorians/eepsbbu | ain6yn | What was the driving force behind ancient mass migrations in Europe? | I concur with all the points Goiyon is so expertly and clearly making. I'd add that Peter Heather's 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' chronicles these migrations and the underlying push and pull forces well. ​ One other book somewhat against the grain is called Against the Grain, ha, sorry, by James Scott offers a ... | 3 |
AskReddit/dzdj8ul | 8l812c | How old are you when you start to feel old? | I lost my virginity at 16. At 34, I got with an 18 year old. I was all proud and feeling cocky about it.then it occurred to me, that at 18, she could have literally been my daughter. Kinda made me start thinking. | 11 |
AskReddit/dc5a1oa | 5mp2b7 | What spelling error will you always correct? | The "would of" thing is just very weird to me. I'm not a native speaker and when I saw it the first time it just looked completely out of place. I actually had to google it and I found out it's a misspelling. I read that "would of" and "would've" apparently sound the same at least with some accents but I'm still having... | 5 |
AskReddit/d4qk4of | 4q6fhq | What happens to the feet from the whole chickens I buy at the supermarket? | As much as it is considered 'waste', it is a great money making opportunity to collect all the feet and sell them mainly to Chinese consumers (mostly by shipping containers to China) where they are actually considered a normal kind of food as well as they are used for 'magic' and 'healing' potions/soups by certain loca... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cl6s69w | 2iz1k6 | Why some leaves on trees turn certain colours in fall? | The chlorophyll (the stuff that makes the plant green) in the leaves breaks down and is reabsorbed by the tree for the winter, since it's more difficult for the plant to maintain and thus more costly to do it in the winter. When the chlorophyll is reabsorbed, other colors, like orange and yellow, become visible. There ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cmdm1ce | 2nhgab | Why does smoking weed not hinder your breathing abilities? | It's because generally you don't breathe in as much smoke as someone who smokes cigarettes does. You might only smoke one or two joints, whilst someone who smokes might smoke a couple of packets. There's a huge difference in the amount you breathe in. If you breathed in as much smoke as they did (since they tend to smo... | 2 |
AskReddit/e8er9tw | 9r74fh | If a machine existed that erased memories, how would you use it? | I would erase the memories of my 1st wife, her best friend of her entire life was murdered by her estranged husband, my wife became so depressed and the more I tried to help her the more she pushed me away. after 6 months I started pushing for answers and ended up separated. We divorced a year later. it's been years an... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ci0c1zr | 27fmaq | Is ANYTHING in the universe truly random? | As far as we can tell, things that happen on the quantum scale are probabilistic, meaning they are truly random. We don't know if that's the case for sure, but we have yet to conclusively disprove it. Since quantum mechanics forms the basis of everything in the universe, it's safe to say that if it truly is probabilist... | 4 |
AskHistorians/ctwdw35 | 3gab3f | Why did Pompey flee to Egypt after the Battle of Pharsalus? | Egypt was a client state of Pompey's. During his proconsulship of Syria Gabinius, one of Pompey's most important partisans who had sat as consul with Caesar's partisan and father-in-law Piso, was sent by Pompey illegally into Egypt to restore Ptolemy XII to the throne. Gabinius was prosecuted for leaving his province a... | 3 |
AskReddit/cui172t | 3inknz | What product got worse over time? | Cadbury Cream Eggs Anyone who remembers these from 20 years ago will know what I'm talking about. The eggs of today are small and chalky, with insides that are sometimes separated into their chemical components. The eggs of 20 years ago were huge, with great mouth-feel and an inside that was always very consistent (-ly... | 225 |
AskReddit/cw5ek6s | 3pdoee | What irrational things are you afraid of because of movies? | Ouija boards. I know they are probably total bs, but I have a beautiful one that a friend made, and I am afraid to leave the pointer thing sitting on it. So the board hangs on the wall looking gorgeous and the pointer lives behind it tucked inside the frame. | 10 |
Ask_Politics/drzk6pa | 7n5cdw | How would jailing a Former US president work? | That would be unprecedented in American history. Anyone who claims they know how it would work is either lying or just wrong. The general example might not be the nest analogue. I do not believe that any mandatory secret service protectee has ever found themselves in jail. | 5 |
AskReddit/equnzi1 | bzp4pu | If you could go back in time and start learning and practicing a skill/sport at a younger age, what would it be? | I would definitely start learning guitar much earlier and stop myself learning piano once I stopped enjoying it. That way I'd know the theory I got from piano and still be able to play most songs, but end up playing the instrument I'm actually interested in. I'd also start riding my bike more often. | 2 |
AskReddit/efqr6jl | an50sb | What's your most interesting science and/or history fact? | You can’t fold a piece of paper in half more than 7 times. It’s not my most interesting science fact, but it’s won me some free drinks and a little money at the bars. | 2 |
AskReddit/emjgsgl | bktg0s | What is the best method to kill and prevent ticks on dogs? | I love Seresto collars. I occasionally see a tick on my dog if we have gone hiking for a long time, but I remove it with tweezers and promptly put it in a glass full of isopropyl alcohol. I keep it for a day or two somewhere so that if my dog is sick I can take the tick to the vet for analysis. My dog hasn’t ever gotte... | 2 |
AskReddit/ex0m866 | cqyuxq | As a kid, where did you assume the Black Market was located? | I always thought it was like a secret place that was only open past my bedtime. Like the normal market would be open on the weekend Friday - Sunday 6AM - 5 PM and then when it hit 9PM that’s when all the black market stuff happens. But when I wake up and head to the market for 5:30AM there’s nothing new. Or sinister. I... | 4 |
AskHistorians/cm90thb | 2mzbji | Was the Christian world, particularly around the Crusades, aware of the schism between Sunni and Shia Islam? | While it's widely imagined to go back to the earliest days of Islam, the division between is much later. Shi'a means "faction, party, tendency" and of course is Shi'at 'Ali--the faction of Ali--after Ali ibn Abi Talib, Mohammed's cousin and son-in-law, who died in 661 CE. However, the real "schism" wasn't until the ris... | 319 |
askscience/dnhgxns | 72adaf | What would a circle look like if the ratio of its circumference to diameter was 3 instead of pi? | As people have stated to have a sphere at all you need to have all points equidistant from the centre. Pi is a constant that relates radius^n to circumference, surface area and volume (with an extra factor of 2, 4 and 4/3). If you decide to fix one of these you can change the metric of distance. If you use the a metric... | 3 |
AskReddit/c8v17db | 1a7x2r | What video game series will never get old, no matter how many sequels are made? | With the new release, I say Tomb Raider. I played the first Tomb Raider when I was a kid and I loved it. The new one is different, but still an awesome game. Sure, a couple games in the middle there were a bit lackluster, but if they continue the series in the same style as the new one I will be a happy gamer. | 2 |
AskReddit/ciatzky | 28gslj | What's the biggest thing that turned out to be a lie that you thought was true? | Life rewards you for hard work. - A lie and a half Good thing happen to good people. - I've seen way too many people get shafted by life | 2 |
AskReddit/cjkt16d | 2czx7z | What Movie/Tv Show Had the Best Theme Song? | Each season of the wire has a different version of the same song. I am currently in season 3 so this is how the quality of the theme song declined Season 1- an actual good sounding song Season 2- the same song but with some fat man singing. Sort of obnoxious Season 3- wtf? I can only hope it gets better in the next 2 s... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ciwv9xw | 2an83u | Why do crustaceans grow in size their whole life, while most mammals stop growing after reaching maturity? | I'm only wagering a guess, but underwater creatures are more or less neutrally buoyant, so there isn't much stress on their body from their own weight. As such, they can scale up in size without any major consequences. Humans on the other hand must deal with gravity. There's one thing to remember: strength is measured ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dxdn4tf | 8cbcw7 | What can you do to your house before selling it that will give you the best return on your investment? | If you decide to "flip" it and decide that the counter tops need to be replaced, don't go with granite. They will increase the selling price but you'll need to consider the price of putting in granite first. Other counter top materials are much more cost effective. Easier things to do to increase sale price are: New pa... | 2 |
AskReddit/c72n7cy | 13c4s0 | What is your first kiss story? | I used to do drama classes after school when I was about 15. There was a guy there who was a super babe who was 17. One year we were performing A Midsummer Night's Dream and I was cast as Titania, he was Oberon; our scenes were pretty separate from all the others so we often had to go off and practice on our own with t... | 13 |
explainlikeimfive/dvemhto | 832hnn | How does the brain and heart keep each other running? | The heart is necessary because it keeps the brain supplied with oxygen and nutrients. The brain needs those things in constant supply. If the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing. The brain will use up the small amount of oxygen it has on hand very quickly, and then begin to shut down for lack of oxygen, just l... | 3 |
AskHistorians/etf1o2o | cbf0o0 | Were oral traditions embellished over time? | The subject you raise is at the heart of classic studies of folklore, which considered how folk narratives diffused and changed over space and time. Volumes have been written on this, so I offer only a brief synthesis of what has been observed and discussed. There is a duel process of deletion and augmentation that aff... | 12 |
AskReddit/cc2nkav | 1ltkq7 | What happens if you put a bat in a sound proof room? | You won't be able to hear the bat outside of the room. The bat will be able to navigate perfectly inside. The answer would be different if you were referring to an acoustically "dead" room in a laboratory - in which case the bat would be blind as there would be little to no reflections. | 10 |
AskReddit/d035byv | 468eur | What are some great books that expand your mind ? | I read a lot. I studied medieval poetry for fun in high school, the classics in community college then majored in English with a creative writing emphasis for my undergrad, and now I'm in grad school (done this June). I also used to work as an editor and reporter for a daily newspaper so I was reading and writing liter... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dtzupdh | 7wf8d8 | Why do vehicles that have Diesel engines cover their front grills in the winter? | Diesel engines are very temperature sensitive; diesel fuel gets too thick to run an engine if it gets too cold. As an engine runs, it gets warm, which helps the diesel fuel. However, if it's warm outside, you don't want the engine to overheat, so you want a lot of air blowing over the engine and radiator to balance it ... | 4 |
AskReddit/cfdlml8 | 1xptjx | What is the craziest thing you have ever woken up to from a night of partying? | This hot girl I was friends with threw a small party with a dozen or so friends since her parents were out of town and everyone got exceptionally shitfaced. The parents were coming home early in the morning so she asked everyone to leave at about 2am. It was thought I had caught a ride with another friend, but no, I wa... | 2,875 |
AskReddit/c6ug8a0 | 12el5r | What percentage of people do you think would return a wallet or purse found with $5000.00? | I probably would have taken the money and left the purse. But I'm a greedy, self-serving scumbag. I would guess that most people would give the purse to the cab driver - who would have most likely taken the money and thrown the purse into a dumpster. | 2 |
AskReddit/d1oy4tt | 4d9dpi | What are you currently overly obsessed with and what caused this newfound obsession? | Howl's Moving Castle. I watched it a few times, it's amazing, but now I've found it's truly significant and I get overly emotional whenever I listen to the soundtrack. I guess what caused it is that I'm doing some changing and it has a theme of change. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ddxmsd1 | 5uxhd1 | Is it possible to workout so much in space that you lose neither muscle mass or bone density? | The current recommended training regime of astronauts on ISS will keep most of their muscle mass and bone density or even increase them in places. There is still some refinements needed to make it perfect as there is some issues with bone density in the pelvic region as the astronauts do not balance enough when they wo... | 5 |
AskReddit/cxcffuy | 3u72is | What would you do if you found out your new SO hasn't watched Star Wars? | Make an awesome cuddle with popcorn date night out of it! And don't judge if it's not their thing. Really no shame in that. Huge Star Wars fan here just to avoid confusion lol | 5 |
AskReddit/e0zl9to | 8sia1y | When did you realize that YOU were the bad guy? | I was at an intersection and the lane shifted once you crossed it. I honked at a guy because he got into my lane. I asked him: "Are you trying to have an accident?" He told me "Your lane shifts you idiot!" 99% of the time I am a good driver and the other person is an absolute moron. A few days later I realized the guy ... | 4,598 |
explainlikeimfive/crm71zv | 37f7os | Why are there dark, almost black, spots in fire? | >Is it an optical illusion because the bright spots are so bright? Yes, in part. But it's also because fires aren't uniform, they aren't the same temperature everywhere. A fire is a process of combustion between the fuel and the oxygen, so different parts of the flame are at different stages of the process. Some parts ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dz4lkj7 | 8k3zph | How might humanity have progressed if we never discovered fossil fuels? | Before fossil fuel we still had power. wind mills water wheels wood burning kilns As late as the 1920's some automakers were still experimenting with steam powered cars thinking that if a rural farmer could not get gas, he could still fuel his car using only water and something to burn. | 3 |
AskReddit/edn5a9q | ae80nf | What is the craziest thing you have done to lose weight? | Starved myself for about two months. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS. Would literally only eat cereal for breakfast, have a small lunch at school then have dinner later on that night. Nothing really happened the first month, then my body realised I was trying to lose weight then I dropped from 11st to 9st 10lb in the second mo... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c9g59lg | 1cfuap | Why was George W. Bush considered such a bad president? | He was the president over a handful of rough events. He drove the left absolutely bonkers almost his entire presidency. But the difference is what drove independents and some Republicans away from him. The dot com bubble burst as he became president. It took years for job losses to recover. (He wasn't really blamed for... | 19 |
AskReddit/dk4dgyx | 6mu0n3 | What do you like to do when you're high? | Usually when I get high it's when I get home from work. There's nothing better than just smoking a bowl right after work, it's so relaxing. I usually hang out with my SO and we eat junk food and watch old cartoons or animal documentaries. It's pretty simple but it's a really great time. When I get high alone though I r... | 29 |
AskReddit/db3mwob | 5hug1a | What are common traits of stupid people? | In my personal opinion, they tend to outwardly claim themselves to be better than others, or claiming that they are at a higher level than someone, and would always judge others. Most of the "stupid" people I come across (whether Low IQ or Low EQ) don't realise that they are like that, though. | 2 |
AskReddit/cdow04o | 1rn573 | What are some historical/fictional characters that you're pretty convinced were gay, but it's not official? | Well, I certainly wouldn't stand by a claim that they were gay, but I remember giggling a while back while reading the letters between George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette. The two got pretty lovey-dovey, though that was the way of it in those times. But seriously, the Marquis got hilariously possessive of ol... | 87 |
explainlikeimfive/d7hlwzc | 52635v | Why does Saudi Arabia have a king and not a Sultan? | While some Islamic kings assumes the title of Sultan, it has also been used to refer to governors or other nobles. It doesn't mean king. Caliph has also been used to refer to kings and might be considered a greater term than Sultan. Padishah was used in the Ottoman world and Persian World, it translates to Master King. | 9 |
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