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AskReddit/eq53gme | bxbfc0 | What was your worst pee desperation story? | Finally, a place to tell this story. So, about three years ago, I was going to see a large concert at a very big venue, amphitheater style. It was about a 2 hour drive from where I live, and I was with 3 friends. We got stuck in traffic, standstill, right before the exit. I had to pee SO BAD I wanted to cry. Like, swea... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d6dtkdp | 4xah2u | Why do some people (especially children) suffer from malnutrition on a vegan diet? | This has nothing to do with veganism and everything to do with pure stupidity and carelessness. It's perfectly possible to hit all your nutritional goals on a vegan diet, especially with supplementation. It just takes a little extra thought and a little extra money in most cases. | 2 |
AskReddit/cjuwd7q | 2e0mg7 | If you could add one more physical law to the universe, what would it be? | You should add that you can't break or conflict any current laws of physics. My law of Physics: Any person in a position of power loses the ability to lie in regards to what they hold power over. i.e. A politician can't lie about his policy making, the money he takes, or his motives. However, he can lie about his perso... | 20 |
AskReddit/eha7be5 | aus6ox | What's something you always believed was true but found out you were wrong? | I have been using the word "vapid" wrong for decades. I thought it meant vain or self centered. I found out the truth last year. I felt so dumb. | 3 |
askscience/c2g88zk | jynt2 | Is it truly possible to be born without gender? | As to genetics: What gender would you assign to a person with two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome? Or to a person with only one X chromosome? Do you think in that person one X went missing so it is an XX minus an X, or was it perhaps an Y that went missing so it's an XY minus an Y? And is a person with XY but insens... | 5 |
AskReddit/ea5zwhg | 9z3j01 | What's the most middle school thing you remember? | At my middle school, it was a fad to get these dog tag shaped plastic bread bag clips, which when snapped in half longways could be attached to your finger and flicked at people. The school eventually banned them as weapons, because people were doing it so much. | 2 |
AskReddit/e897fh8 | 9qhfca | Which video game has the best community? | I'd say any of the soulsborne games to be honest. You may get an occasional jackass in PVP, but the online community is generally very welcoming and always willing to help out, so long as you're not pitching a fit about dying all the time. | 2 |
askscience/dtzlnq1 | 7wc66i | Why does the falcon 9 heaven rocket have a mist coming over it at launch? | Since in space there is no oxygen you need to bring your own. Storing it in a big gas tank is not very light so the oxygen is cooled down until it becomes liquid and then the rocket is launched before too much of it boils of. The mist you see is cold oxygen gas that has evaporated getting vented out and forming ice cri... | 9 |
AskHistorians/cbhl49n | 1jrcxq | Why did Japan attack the United States in the Second World War? | Although the US was technically neutral, it clearly preferred the Allies winning as evidenced by its economic arrangements. It sold weapons, ships, armaments etc. to the Allies while cutting off trade of scarp metal and oil to Japan. The neutrality of America kept their ships relatively safe (German U-boats were wary o... | 6 |
AskHistorians/dtzbctc | 7w8zck | Were the Normans responsible for introducing dance forms to England and eventually Ireland and Scotland? | >We know that the Carole originally came from Crete up the Mediterranean and largely ended up in Normandy where dance was already an important part of the culture. We also know that the Normans are responsible for introducing dance technology, such as thick leather soles, wooden floors and better acoustics, as well as ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c9u2c0d | 1duwzx | What is the most valuable book you've ever read? | "Steal This Book" by Abbie Hoffman. A little out-dated I know, but it is literally the most valuable book I own. It's like a city survival guide as far as finding food, money, clothes, a place to sleep, etc. | 2 |
AskReddit/c92wfu9 | 1b299c | Why do I look better in the mirror and not in a picture? | Because in a picture you see yourself as everybody else does. But you're not used to it. You're used to seeing the mirror-image version of yourself. Because that's what you look at most often. Imagine your girlfriend just cut her hair. You wouldn't like it at first. Because you weren't used to it. Same with seeing the ... | 5 |
Ask_Politics/cn45prc | 2q9j6w | Why have Saudis only recently stopped caring about curbing oil supply? | What is new is the Saudis have stopped trying to push the price up by cutting production. They obviously think they have more to gain from this approach than they stand to loose. My guess is they hope to squeeze out some of the new competition that has production costs near the current selling price. As the article sta... | 9 |
AskReddit/dssffy3 | 7qw1ua | What's one thing that will always make you genuinely laugh? | Startle humor. Some good examples are things that shouldn’t explode but do, such as a cartoon character falling down a cliff and exploding at the bottom, or a person getting suddenly taken down while doing something normal and boring. I recently watched a reaction video for a Metal music video, and there was a serious ... | 3 |
AskReddit/esoslga | c8qiwo | What are things that movies and TV shows get wrong? | Zombie TV shows and movies never seem to exist within the zombie TV shows or movies. Maybe this doesnt count but it's always bothered me that so many characters in every piece of zombie media, have no prior knowledge of what a zombie is. I mean, most take place in modern times, and we have zombies littering our enterta... | 2 |
AskReddit/djaecoo | 6iznbc | As Canada approaches its 150th birthday, what are some things you like/don't like about my great nation? | I can't think of anything bad to say about Canada. However, there are two things that I can say that I absolutely LOVE about you guys: Hockey and the assistance you gave during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. US and Canada - Bros for life! | 7 |
AskReddit/e1vmx61 | 8whvsy | What makes people want to be evil? | I believe most people become evil rather than want to be evil. Survival can really make people do some things they could never imagine themselves doing. 3rd world countries just shouldn't have to be where they are. People so poor they can't eat unless they steal food, then the business owner of the food stall doesn't m... | 3 |
AskReddit/ctyly9y | 3gj2qq | What isn't racist, but seems racist? | The assumption that black people love fried chicken. It's not racist, everyone loves fried chicken. The frying of chicken is the one thing every ethnicity can unite over. | 139 |
AskReddit/cgr1056 | 22w9zp | What's the weirdest thing you've seen at somebody's house that they thought was completely normal? | Not completely crazy but I've always found it strange when parents kiss their older children on the lips. I grew up in a household where we barely hugged each other, so see my friend kiss her Dad goodbye on the mouth was baffling. Lips are for lovers, with me anyways. | 29 |
explainlikeimfive/cs7nhpl | 39yo62 | Why does lightning appear to flash multiple times when it strikes? | Because it does flash multiple times. Lightning strikes have several distinct phases: a charge leader that travels slowly from cloud to ground and ionizes the air, followed by the main surge of current. This process can repeat a few times in a matter of milliseconds, for reasons not fully understood. | 3 |
AskReddit/dsyjzja | 7roy27 | What is more important to you than logic? | Balancing your logic with humility. Logic and humility are both really important for a healthy existence. Too much of either and you end up in a state of chaos. People who are overly logical might seem like psychopaths in certain instances. A person who only uses logic and doesn't address the human element is as good a... | 3 |
AskReddit/d07bjdn | 46ri7p | What is something a company has done that earned them your 100% lifetime loyalty? | In October my Step mother suddenly passed away. My sister had a plane ticket booked with Air Canada to come home a few weeks later for Thanksgiving (Canada). Air Canada would not reimburse her or give her a discounted rate to fly home early. A friend of the family works with West Jet, heard about this, calls were made ... | 7 |
AskReddit/c3pgq3i | phnvf | If you die today, how do you imagine your funeral to be like? | I don't have to imagine it, I practically lived through it 6 months ago when my wife died. I'd expect the same people would be there pretty much saying the same things. "Too young.what a shock.wonderful person.so sad.etc". | 2 |
AskReddit/eaz9clv | a2ks6a | What are the chances that my son got rabies from a PetSmart hamster that drew blood yesterday, and he got a sore throat and 99 fever last night? | In the off chance that this isn’t ironic, rabies usually takes about 3 to 8 weeks to incubate, and the hamster probably would’ve shown rabies symptoms. But still, the fever and sore throat kinda sounds like the flu, you might wanna take him to a minute clinic. | 2 |
AskReddit/efrniqa | an98g0 | What problem in your life would you give almost everything you have to be solved instantly? | I ask this because personally, if someone could fix my sleep, a problem I've had since (according to my mother) the womb, I'd honestly give pretty much everything I own and be happy to build it all up again. Some people hit the pillow and fall asleep. I want that badly. | 2 |
AskReddit/ej2vsv3 | b3xhe7 | How many geese do you think you could fight in a single round to the death? | A professor once told me you don’t have to fight them if they think you are another territorial goose. So what you do it hold your arms up to look like a goose (think of the sprinkling spice guy, in that shape), and then stand up y’all and proud and hiss with all your might. The key is though, you can’t hesitate and yo... | 2 |
AskReddit/esfvl8a | c7kx5s | What’s a toy you’ll never forget playing with? | My first ever DS as a kid. I was born 2001 so that'd make sense to you guys now. I had a crazy obsession with super mario bros and nintendogs. And also my bike, if that counts as a toy, I think I was part of the generation that grew up with mobile phones and playing on consoles like the Wii, but also going out around t... | 8 |
explainlikeimfive/cllo364 | 2kioq6 | Why are non-vaccinated kids a threat to kids who are ? | Vaccines don't completely eliminate the risk of catching a virus so if an unvaccinated kid comes to school sick, even if the other kids have been vaccinated they can still get sick. Now you have a virus that's potentially immune to the vaccine in a group of vaccinated children where it can spread. | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/dbq9g53 | 5kshcq | In a series circuit, why does the position of the resistor not matter? | The current is the same everywhere in a series circuit. The purpose of the resistor in that circuit is to limit the current which flows through the LED. For this purpose, it doesn't matter if the resistor comes before or after the LED, since the current drawn from the battery depends on the equivalent impedance of the ... | 7 |
AskHistorians/c9gzyhp | 1civyn | What were the reasons for the Rise of Rome? | As kingarto said, they adapted, but not only that, they also incorporated people into their system, something not many places did. If you were a Thracian living in Greece, you'd forever be known as a Thracian. While the same is true in Rome, you weren't as restricted. You didn't have to be a Roman (from Rome/Italy) to ... | 10 |
AskReddit/d1j4101 | 4cl37z | What is always a good choice? | Hey, I'm going to pre-pre-pre-pre purchase Defense of the Grand Theft Fallouts! Never a good choice, people. Don't pre-purchase games. In my experience, you're buying bugs and game crashes. Wait for the goodamn, actually-working thing to be released. | 2 |
Ask_Politics/dpf5v3m | 7b408k | When does the Senate vote on the Republican tax plan? | Neither the House nor the Senate have voted on the tax plan. The House passed a non-binding budget resolution which includes reconciliation rules that let the Senate pass a tax plan with only a simple majority (bypassing the filibuster/cloture rules which effectively require 60 votes for every bill). Last week the Hous... | 2 |
AskHistorians/cltep0q | 2lasno | Why did Alexander the Great manage to conquer most of the Persian Empire so swiftly? | Alexander the Great happened to inherit the Macedonian Throne from his late father, Philip II, who had spent the better part of his life training one of the most professional militaries in the Greek World, as well as consolidating the political hegemony of Macedon in the Greek World. This gave him both the diplomatic, ... | 8 |
askscience/dowl7yb | 78s0k2 | Does the concept of a photon ever break down? | As particles photons can be absorbed and emmitted by matter. From my knowledge this doesnt break down. The wave particle duality applies to all photons at all frequencies, the higher frequency photons behave the same way in a vacuum as lower ones. Photons that oscillate at the microwave frequency just have less energy ... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cn7cneq | 2qm6i2 | Why can't more distressed planes just crash land on water? | The Hudson case was really lucky because well, if I have to break it down, other than the fact that you had an extremely experienced pilot who had military experience (suggesting some mad skillz when it comes to flying under pressure), the altitude and crash site were favourable to survival; this is not often shared wi... | 11 |
AskReddit/cs7424v | 39wmv7 | What was the worst road trip you've ever been on? | I had flown out to Colorado to be a nanny. While I was there, the kids' father died. They were from Tennessee, so we road-tripped it back there. The mother drove her vehicle, I drove the deceased father's truck. (While it's a trivial detail in the scheme of things, the CD player was broken in the truck and I didn't hav... | 2 |
AskReddit/c1xu95s | hrwym | Does moving to a city make it easier to find a job there? | I have a lot of experience applying to jobs that are far away from me. A lot of them ask that you already live in the city before you even apply. Some even ask that you know it well. In general, you're more likely by a good amount to get considered by a job that's local to your residence. | 2 |
AskReddit/e4494vi | 96z7dg | How do you prevent an oily T-zone on the face? | If you want a natural method, I recommend aloe vera. I use it on my face every single night and it works wonders! I have an oily face too so it helps a lot. �� Just be careful if you'll use aloe vera after picking it on your garden! It has a sap that can cause itchiness to your skin so watch out for that. My skin isn't... | 2 |
AskReddit/e55qrf0 | 9buaow | What movie changed your view on life? | Farenheit 9/11 changed my view on life twice. First it turned me into a 9/11 truther when I was young and dumb, then when I was older and wiser I learned how deliberately manipulative bullshit can make you believe stupid things. Now I go to Alex Jones for all my news. Edit: spelling | 2 |
AskReddit/dkbvgx8 | 6nrily | What is a subtle giveaway of somebody's kink/sexual preference? | A colleague once told me he loved opera, it was his way to tell me he was gay. Short story, he used to be a journalist in Russia and had to leave because of his sexual preferences. In the same company, our marketing director was a lesbian and our new project director was gay too. (he was previously in a big corp from w... | 136 |
AskReddit/djx2vcx | 6lwci4 | Why are Americans concerned with teeth more than others? | I read an interesting article on why Americans smile more than other nationalities. It has something to do with the fact that as a country that welcomed (welcomes?) a lot of immigrants, they are used to communicate with people of other cultures and languages, thus forcing them to be more expressive with their faces. So... | 3 |
AskReddit/dp1gio8 | 79ezam | What is the worst thing the United States Government has ever done? | If the US had lost WWII, they'd have been - rightly - branded as war criminals for what they did to win. Hundreds of thousands of civilians bombed to death. Incendiaries and atomic weapons. And afterwards the imposition of what were essentially military dictatorships. And sure, the things the US did to defeat the Nazis... | 3 |
AskReddit/dqujldy | 7hx84x | What is the easiest way to make life less boring? | Easiest is to find an activity. Pick up an old hobby. Find a new show to binge. Finally invite that friend over who you keep meaning to see. The more long-term solution is to make a goal. A big goal for me was to buy a house, so I saved up money for repairs, applied for a loan, did said repairs, and am about to sign fo... | 2 |
AskReddit/c5gvgqx | wvk9m | What reasons did the GOP have for blocking the "Bring Jobs Home" bill? | Two reasons VERY large campaign donors like that they can take advantage of outsourcing. Somewhat legitimate concern that if you force companies to bring jobs back, they will have to downsize, and fire workers since they now have to pay that much more for labor. Not to mention relocation costs, tax changes, etc. | 2 |
AskReddit/cmkv5l5 | 2o93lw | For people who are for strict gun control, what are some your points for your argument? | In my country you're generally not allowed to own a gun. Only hunting weapons but you need a lot of licenses for that, tests and stuff. It seems way safer, I don't know. I can't really say a lot because guns don't come up in our daily lives here. Nobody really talks or thinks about it because guns are not the norm. Got... | 3 |
AskHistorians/d0d2of1 | 47hqlu | Were criminal records kept during the Middle Ages? | The short answer is no, there were no criminal records or death certificates in the Middle Ages and no one really had any interest in keeping track of criminals, at least not in any of the sources I've come across. The main reason for this is that the medieval concept of criminal justice was quite different to ours. Th... | 7 |
AskReddit/ew38dyw | cmkrn7 | What movie scene made you laugh so much that you were physically hurting? | I know the general consensus is that this movie sucks, but Guardians of the Galaxy 2 was exactly my kind of humor. I laughed so hard at the baby Groot prison break scene when he was supposed to help his friends escape. Also the scene when they were going so fast that they were going through dimensions or something. The... | 3 |
AskReddit/cr9zuiu | 3627p5 | Do vegans feed their children breast milk? | No. Vegans cannot breed like normal humans. Instead, the father impregnates the mother and she lays an egg. For the first 15 years the child incubates until it hatches as a larvae vegan. Once it matures, the larvae goes into a cocoon state. After that, the vegan arises and feeds off its parents. Their diet has turned t... | 8 |
AskReddit/c0o2sjr | bqiwq | Do you use your local library? | Yes. I was unemployed for a few months and decided that TV was 90% stupid and buying a ton of books wasn't prudent so I went to my local library. After I started working again, I didn't stop going. It is just ridiculous how awesome libraries are. They also have DVDs, audio books, periodicals, computer access, etc. You ... | 202 |
AskReddit/cnkkfdu | 2ryvuz | What is easier done than said? | It's a variation of a common english phrase: "That's easier said than done" Here is Urban Dictionary on the phrase: > easier said than done >Cliché said of a task that is easier to talk about than to do. Yes, we must find a cure for cancer, but it's easier said than done. Finding a good job is easier said than done. >e... | 2 |
AskReddit/c5ak3og | w5xzi | What genetic conditions do you have that you're upset about? | Anxiety. Not like "Oh, you're just stressed and can't take the heat" but like, If not for my medications, I start thinking up every possible horrible situation that could happen, say. My boyfriend doesn't reply to a text within ten minutes, I start thinking, was he driving? should he be home? was he in an accident, or ... | 27 |
AskReddit/ckwfpz1 | 2hvq4q | What was the dumbest thing your ex wanted to take when you got divorced? | We had a huge collection of books and fought over many of them (who was going to get what). The thing I was most annoyed about was that he wanted the Millennium Trilogy (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books), even though he had never read them, didn't plan on reading them, and had thought the movie was boring. | 5 |
AskReddit/ce8lfoh | 1tjemi | What are you known as around your friends and family? | Friends: The eccentric and slightly flamboyant guy who ^might ^be ^gay ^I'm ^not ^you ^jerks Family: The unreliable and unpredictable kid. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c8537fy | 17flp6 | Why are blueprints always that colour? | It's a method called a Cyanotype. You coat paper in ammonium iron citrate and potassium ferricyanide. This makes the paper light sensitive and you can make copies of the same image (or drawing for architectural blueprints) over and over again using UV light onto the paper, or the sun. Basically just the cheapest and ea... | 81 |
AskReddit/e1vglpw | 8wh2jf | When does a person cross the line to crazy? | There are many lines. One is the point where they externalize all their problems and can't be persuaded that they are at least part of the problem. They are unable to recognize their own issues, keep trying the same approaches that don't work, and come up with crazier and crazier reasons why they're failing (because of... | 2 |
askscience/cbjiazo | 1jyh6b | What I don't understand, is how we can continuously see light from billions of years ago, when light travels faster than the expansion of the Universe? | Because the Universe is big - really, really huge. Light that a nearby galaxy emitted billions of years ago will have long since passed us by, but light from galaxies billions of light years away would just be reaching us now for the first time. | 3 |
askscience/crrzqlv | 37oaty | Why does hypertension cause ocular blood vessels to narrow? | Baroreceptors, in this instance, likely have nothing to do with it.That's part of a autonomic circuit used to regulate heart rate and cardiac output relative to changes is BP. To my knowledge, there aren't any baroreceptors in the ocular arterioles. Ocular vessels narrow due to something called "myogenic tone", or "pre... | 3 |
AskReddit/duionay | 7yrpla | Why or why not is it "blackface" for a non-black person to dress as the Black Panther? | So if someone is dressed up in blackface as an insult then absolutely its offensive but if a white man dresses up as the black panther and paints their face black it shouldn't be. That would be like someone dressing up like one of the Avatar characters but keeping their skin color original instead of blue. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/e2d1ku6 | 8ylqac | Why do gas prices change daily but other goods remain almost constant? | Most goods have a substantial markup. Say something costs the consumer $10, the store bought it for only $1. Fuel's hardly marked up at all, by contrast. Moat gas stations barely make any profit off of fuel sales. As such, the price for a galon of gas is a lot more volatile than the price for a gallon of milk. | 2 |
AskReddit/clao3kx | 2jdh0e | What is something that your parents told you or are currently telling you that is obviously a lie? | When I was little my parents told me the ice cream truck was" the music truck," so when it came by we would go out and dance, and not bug them for money. My brothers and I were really surprised when we found out there was ice cream on it. | 3 |
AskReddit/dl5htsf | 6rjnh6 | What is the creepiest and most unexplainable paranormal or bizarre experience you've ever had? | I was part of a vague and somewhat inconclusive round with an Ouija board at my friend's new house about a year ago when, out of nowhere, we hear the distinct chime of a grandfather clock. This spooked us because there were no clocks like that in the house, and all the windows and doors were closed. We asked a few more... | 3 |
AskReddit/djmoypr | 6kk8fs | How do you cheer yourself up? | For a quick cheer up "Everyday Sunshine" by Fishbone usually does the trick. If I need to really turn my mood around lately I've found the best way is a glass of scotch followed by a good night's sleep. | 2 |
AskReddit/czgyh7z | 439n1b | What is the most uncomfortable sensation that is not pain? | I'm gonna have to go with claustrophobia. If you've never experienced it, consider yourself lucky. It's a psychological thing. It's a perception that quickly escalates to an uncontrollable fear for me. Personally, I can stand small spaces, but I cannot stand being contstrained/restrained. One leg, or one arm at a time ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cnrz4dt | 2sq2vh | Why has it taken so long for housing developers to start installing CAT5 in new houses? | Appraiser here. Good answers but you can boil it down to this: Developers are selling to "the lady of the house" who is way more likely to pay for kitchen and bath upgrades than some wires that are not even seen. This has been an option in most new housing markets for well over 10 years, and every now and then I'd find... | 16 |
AskReddit/d0gxiij | 482vmf | What makes a kid "sheltered"? | Parents who won't let their child learn anything for themselves in order to "protect" them. Who won't let their children venture out into the world either physically or mentally or both. The kind of parents that don't give logical or rational answers to the question, "Why?" or "Why not?" A "sheltered" kid is not caught... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/clf9atu | 2jur7h | Why can we not get rid of the smog in places like China? | The smog would eventually disapate and leave on its own (meaning it would be in the atmosphere, but not concentrated around the city), but because the dense cities in China are constantly belching smoke from factories, the smog piles up faster than it can leave into the atmosphere. Plus many Chinese cities are build in... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/d3qrnpk | 4lwzlq | How perfect are CPUs and GPUs? | In the semiconductor industry, this is called "yield percentage". Some chips, like RAM chips, can have additional transistors so that if some transistors are bad they can be "mapped out". The work to test, find this, and activate the "backup" adds cost, so it's not for every situation. Sometimes, one bad transistor scr... | 74 |
AskReddit/dvdnoos | 82ybd9 | Why are you able to speak a foreign language? | Don’t know if it counts as a “foreign” language but I am fluent in Australian Sign Language. I’ve studied a lot of languages but never used them conversationally so I can’t really speak them at all (most of them are dead languages though). But with Auslan I made friends with some deaf people and they taught me. When I ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cl7a7hl | 2j0u07 | What advice would you give to someone who will be living on their own for the first time? | Learn to cook cheaply. If you are living alone cook in large portions anyway and freeze and/or store the food to use in the long term. Also, love your crock pot. My favorite is to make some simple pulled chicken and use it all through the week in different things. Throw it on a salad, make chicken salad, pulled chicken... | 3 |
AskReddit/e4arl0w | 97tgov | What is the worst dream you ever had and why was it so bad? | The one I had last night was pretty bad. I dreamt I lost one of my fetuses. She was obviously very dead (way, way too small to survive, couldn't hear her heart or feel her pulse) but I refused to believe it until a doctor examined her corpse and told me she was dead. Then I cried hysterically in the dream and woke up a... | 3 |
AskReddit/cosog5s | 2wog64 | If you were given the choice of having one wish granted today or 3 wishes granted ten years from now, which would you choose? | One wish today: I want $20 billion dollars (obtained through safe, legal methods and in modern US currency printed in the last 10 years and unmarked with no negative consequences or associations of any kind, in any way). | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/cffb369 | 1xwkaq | Why would a British Candy bar have different nutrition facts when sold in the USA on the exact same bar? | Almost everything sold in America with sugar in it actually uses high fructose corn syrup instead of real sugar, since we grow metric fucktons of corn. Sugared products elsewhere are more likely to contain actual sugar. | 2 |
AskReddit/ejwvlx9 | b8blni | What’s something you wished you knew more about but don’t really have any motivation to learn? | I’d like to learn puppet building and puppetry. It’s a passion of mine, which is buried beneath a full-time job and lack of motivation. I’ve dreamt about working on Sesame Street since I was 18. I’m 24 now, working a job in healthcare that I love, but still I wonder what the life of a puppeteer would bring me. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d2owbne | 4hbxq5 | In movies and TV shows, why are streets at night always wet, like it just rained? | Because it looks cooler. TV and Film are a visual medium, and the realism of "how could it always have been raining?" is ignored over "Man, this makes the colors and light in this shot so much prettier!" There are a lot of things that films do which don't happen in reality because it looks nice. | 5 |
AskReddit/eptrovh | bvzn94 | What foods or objects have you chipped a tooth on, and how bad was the damage? | I chipped my front tooth during a roller coaster ride. Bumped it on a railing when the roller coaster was taking a sharp turn going downwards. �� | 2 |
askscience/d55dayx | 4rywr0 | How much hotter would the Earth get during daytime if the days were longer? | You must not forget that the oceans also play a role in maintaining the temperature on earth. Which is one of the reasons that coastal areas are also to some point warm at night while areas further inland, while possibly getting a lot hotter during the day, also get a lot colder during night. | 8 |
AskReddit/c0tluw4 | cmdyt | How do we get the government to stop spending so much money on the military and put it into things that will make the US #1 in important things like education and the environment? | >everything seemed normal until I read that the largest expenditure of the US budget is on the military. In other words, you were totally ignorant about what is really happening. I wonder what percentage of the USA public know this simple little fact, not to mention why it's the largest expenditure. If I had to guess I... | 2 |
AskReddit/c9z2z1i | 1ed26i | How does a person's personality or character weigh on your physical attraction to him/her? | Personality greatly comes into play however, physically if you are either morbidly obese, stink, wear crappy stained clothing, or bad hair could deter attraction. | 2 |
AskReddit/e99pndx | 9v697c | What television shows , movies or music were you not allowed to see or hear because of a parent’s religion or rules? | As a little kid I remember Dragon Tales was a no for some reason or another. As a teenager movies with excessive swearing and rock music in general were a big no. Now? Love me some good rock'n'roll and violent movies. | 2 |
AskReddit/dx5gthg | 8b9fib | Who's your favorite superhero? | As you know, l’m quite keen on comic books. Especially the ones about superheroes. I find the whole mythology surrounding superheroes fascinating. Take my favorite superhero, Superman. Not a great comic book, not particularly well-drawn, but the mythology. The mythology is not only great, it’s unique…. Now, a staple of... | 2 |
askscience/c4are28 | s383a | Where does the sand in deserts come from? | I'm studying for my finals, so I think I can answer this roughly. Apologies for occasional grammar mistakes, German here. When we are talking about 'hot', 'dry' deserts, like the Sahara, Gobi or Atacama, about 80% of the desert are made of rocks, stones and other bigger grains. (Those kind of deserts are called Hamada,... | 36 |
AskHistorians/cxw2z9a | 3wg2o8 | Do British citizens still have open access to the Mississippi River? | The Mississippi River was an international border at the signing of the ToP and the US had no control over the river south of the 31st parallel under that treaty as that portion of the river was entirely outside the borders of the US. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Adams treaty in 1819 the river without q... | 1,699 |
AskReddit/ejkm7xe | b6hq2d | What is this Brexit issue? | I'll give it a crack. The European Union (EU) is a club of 28 countries that all trade with the world as one big group, have laws and standards in common, and some other stuff. Its headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium. Decisions of the EU are made by representatives elected within each country. Even though the EU has ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c3br7wx | nta60 | Why do people get married anymore? | I see a lot of reasons listed here. Taxes, religion, health insurance, etc. And while they're all benefits of marrying someone, they ignore the core reason. You don't get down on one knee and ask someone if they'll have lower taxes with you. You ask them to marry you because you (presumably) love them, and that's what ... | 4 |
AskReddit/eri8clq | c27sgz | What certain incident in your life, changed you as a person? | Top 5: Joining military Mother dying Having special needs daughter Getting Zoloft Ok i thought I had 5 but I guess the last one is probably dying, which will for sure change me as a person. | 2 |
AskReddit/ecyxxtb | abb0qq | What do you think about your boss? | My bosses are awesome, I was having financial problems earlier this year and then my car died. So, they gave me an extra months salary as a gift to help me out. I was so shocked and overwhelmed I basically started crying in her office. Really great people | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d75cx4c | 50mmt5 | How does the top layer of the Earth's crust become buried? | Rocks are continually getting eroded in one place and deposited in another. It's deposited in the form of sediment from rivers and dust in the air. Over many years this can build up into a thick deposit burying the older surface. Additionally the Earth's surface is continually on the move, so what may have been a lake ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ed3f2kl | abvd4s | How does a banker’s scale give the exact value of a bag that has mixed coins? | This sounds more like a problem for math class than a practical reality. However, it is possible to do if you have precise control over the weights of the coins and can precisely measure the total weight. For any given set of coins, choose some baseline weight as your unit. Then choose a different prime number multiple... | 3 |
AskReddit/e1xvyqv | 8wrpfe | What would happen if I dumped 1 million gallons of water in the middle of the desert? | A flash flood as the water would not absorb into the ground. It would all run down hill to the lowest point where there it would create quick sand until it was eventually evaporated into the air. While in the air it would do the most good as most desert plants get moisture from the air, and then the insects and animals... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/ex13oug | cqziwf | Do radio stations have to pay record companies each time they play a particular song? | Whenever you hear your favourite song playing on FM radio, there are actually two distinct copyrights being represented: The musical composition - this is the arrangement of music itself including both the lyrics and melody The sound recording - this is the representation of the music in a physical medium like CD or mp... | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/d8mwwt2 | 56vk66 | What resolution is 20/20 human vision (like what's the comparable number of pixels) and how is this determined? | 20/20 vision isn't about resolution, it's about how well you can focus. People with poor vision have the same resolution, they just can't focus the light properly & things appear blurry & indistinct. | 3 |
AskReddit/c7cuu80 | 14gac8 | What would you like to see before you die? | The abolishment of slavery. I don't mean traditional slavery, but the slavery every person is born into. You're born to learn stuff you don't care about in order to get a job you dislike and earn money to buy food from the earth we're all born equal on. Monetary slavery. If I could see a world, or even a city/state tha... | 8 |
AskReddit/cvpsu33 | 3no41z | What embarrassing memory still makes you cringe years later? | One time I was running up the stairs and I tripped on these fake poinsettias and yelled "Dammit mom why did you put these placentas here!" Everyone laughed eek it still makes me shiver! | 2 |
AskHistorians/cj7tzt7 | 2bq6ok | What is the oldest 'realistic' depiction in art of someone? | There are many examples of realistic late Greek and Roman art. For example Tomb of the Diver murals is probably where Greek Art starts to get intricate and realistic. Pompeii murals are also very well done. In addition look up Fayum mummy portraits, those are highly realistic portraits painted in colored wax. | 4 |
AskReddit/eh4hto2 | atzkl3 | What is your vacation nightmare story that you can now, some time later, laugh about? | I lost my passport in Spain. Had to go to the authorities, where I filled out a missing passport thingy, was told I'd have to travel to Barcelona to get to an embassy that can issue a temporary passport, but couldn't get on the boat to mainland Spain without a passport. go figure (I was in Mallorca), but lucky a few da... | 3 |
AskReddit/c3lntvn | p16bf | What made you shed manly tears? | Finally saw the final episode of Monk last night. The show had it's ups and downs, but the finale was pretty good. Anyway, when Monk sees his wife's daughter for the first time and tears just start running down his face I got pretty close. Tony Shalhaub is an amazing actor. | 2 |
AskReddit/ehcuv4n | av659n | What’s that one place in your hometown that everyone says is haunted? | An old school that caught fire. Supposedly the principal was in debt or something so he locked the school doors and set it on fire with some kids still in it. His trailer home is right down the street where he supposed hung himself after the act. The school had no room and was insanely spooky to explore. I took all my ... | 2 |
AskReddit/edrl876 | aeq9zw | What are some really worthwhile mobile games? | The Room series is easily the best thing I've ever played on mobile. Also board games are good on mobile such as: Pandemic Santorini Ticket to Ride | 2 |
AskReddit/d66cqfn | 4wefkr | What is the cutest thing you've seen a manly-man do? | My brother in law is like the manliest man of all time and whenever he's around my daughters he will have tea parties, dress up and pretend to be a princess. It's adorable, he'll be a great dad when he finally finds the right woman. | 3 |
AskReddit/cywiqud | 40rp3a | Is it possible to have a happy family life AND a successful career? | yeah , but it depends on how happy and successful you want to be. Like when are you satisfied ? you have to accept that attempting to be the riches person in the world probably wont lead to a happy family life. There is a balance, I mean if you are willing to settle for pleasantly content instead of euphoric you will h... | 2 |
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