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AskReddit/cqc63ba | 32ku8v | Does using a hair conditioner product really improve one's hair condition? | Basically, Hair conditioner is used to close and smooth the hair cuticle after shampooing. Shampoo is used to open the cuticle to get all the muck out from under the scales. (I studied hairdressing science). | 3 |
AskReddit/cqrqm56 | 346js8 | What would be the worst way to die? | Call it a copout, but there's something to be said for the utter misery of dying in a plane crash. Like a lot of the worst ways to die, it's not necessarily the death part that's going to be so awful. It's the utter inevitability that accompanies the long moments before it all ends. Let's just get the awful facts strai... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dwowa4y | 89470i | If you spin in an office chair, why do you spin faster if you move your legs in? | If you throw a ball, doesn't a lighter ball move faster than a heavier ball if you use the same amount of force? There's a similar concept to mass in the angular world, angular momentum. But angular momentum is a big more complicated--distance away from the axis of rotation increases it. So when you tuck in your legs, ... | 2 |
AskHistorians/cleq3pn | 2jsbj6 | What were working conditions in the US like during the late 1800s? | Terrible; there was no legislation in the government at that time that protected workers. Children worked in factories without protection, men worked in mines for 13 hours a day, and women worked in sweat shops making fabric. Now obviously this is a generalization in the sense that women didn't JUST work in sweat shops... | 5 |
AskReddit/cj75yo5 | 2bnvq4 | What is the oldest piece of clothing you have that you still wear now? | I started highschool the year we updated our sports uniforms and my sister handed me down her older jersey from the 80s. We were still allowed to wear the old ones but I was the only one in my grade who had the old style. I still wear it sometimes, its really comfortable and durable and doesn't have our school name any... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d2l09ct | 4gvc98 | Why is mileage better on highways? | Two big reasons: Starting and stopping at lights and intersections hurts mileage. Cars tend to get better mileage at the speeds you travel at on highways relative to speeds you go at on city streets. | 7 |
AskReddit/c1xax64 | hpl92 | What is your biggest fear about the state of the world as it relates to children you have presently or are planning to have? | I have a lot of nightmares about nuclear weapons. At this point I feel like everyone is just concentrating on creating weapons that can destroy each other. I don't want my children to grow up in a world where the only defense against international terrorism is retaliatory murder. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dxayz87 | 8bzvlt | How are electronics "grounded" on spacecraft? | "Grounding" in electrical circuits just means a reference point, to which everything else can be connected. For example, in a car, one side of the battery is connected to the car's body/chassis. This provides a convenient way to complete an electrical circuit. So, if you want to connect a headlight. You don't need to c... | 84 |
AskReddit/dimsna3 | 6g1t4p | If it wasn't frowned upon to give your child a name outside the social norm, what name would you give them? | We are naming my kid after his grandfather. very traditional name. People reactions tell me that it is now the Social Norm to do this. you are somehow warping the kid for like if you give them a name like Douglas or Jonathan. but Blaze is going to look great on a resume when they're 30. | 3 |
AskReddit/ewpyd24 | cpjtwe | Why is Jeffrey Epstein’s death drawing so much attention from the media? | It's really one of the only times conspiracy theories have been entertained by serious media outlets like this. Because there's a good reason for it. This is a dude who's spent decades hanging around rich and powerful people in this country, including our current president and an ex-president, as well as many sitting m... | 2 |
AskReddit/e2ifaj8 | 8zfzv6 | Why do good hotel rooms feel better than my bedroom at house? | Because a hotel has to be sanitary and clean for its guests, typically cleaner than your average house/room. If you were to clean your room and wash your sheets as often as hotels do, your room would feel the same. | 5 |
AskReddit/cmn6iuh | 2ogwfk | Why are September, October, November, and December our 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th months, when their names seem to imply 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th (sept-, octo-, nov-, dec)? | March used to be the tenth month. Unlike what some commenters said, July and August weren't created as new months by Julius and Augustus Ceasars, but actually renamed. As March was the first month, February was the last month (also explaining why its the shortest), January was the eleventh month, December was the tenth... | 2 |
AskHistorians/clzjs7m | 2lz9ds | How large was the Jewish diaspora in the 1st century AD? | I'll edit and answer the first part when I'm back home with my books (I'm away from home on a business trip). Until then, I'll just answer the second bit. But note on the first part that there was also a large jewish community in Mesopotamia. >How many of them were converts (or were most descendants of Judeans/Israelit... | 5 |
AskReddit/d0g8mvs | 47y4b2 | What things did you find stashed in the woods while playing as a kid? | Not kidding, a box that had hair, a tattered shirt and was placed far far far back in some woods in SC. I believe there was an investigation that followed and a newspaper article or two about it. It was in Summerville, SC where I grew up and my friends and I stumbled across it while playing in a river that ran through ... | 2 |
AskReddit/coojb4y | 2w8kuj | Are there good GMOs and bad GMOs? | No, there are just GMOs and they're fine. There are luddites who would have you believe all sorts of bullshit they have no evidence of, however. They are bad. Selective breeding is just picking the "parents" and letting nature take it's course. Genetic modification is actually changing the DNA at a molecular level and ... | 7 |
AskReddit/dbuq4ia | 5lclhw | What's the weirdest name you've heard parents name their kid(s)? | Not my story, but a former colleague worked in the maternity unit of the local hospital. A boy called Female. Pronounced "fey-mah-lee". The worst thing is the parents said they saw it on a door in the hospital. The mind boggles. | 2 |
AskReddit/ceecp2y | 1u499j | What is the weirdest thing you have done to a best friend? | I've moved around a lot. SO lots of best friends. One friend that really sticks out was a Mormon girl that I was always hanging out with. One week, I was asked to house-sit for a family-friend. My mormon friend cam over with me, and whilst half-awake/half-asleep, we ended up making out, humping each other's legs, finge... | 2 |
AskReddit/d9dbfpn | 5a2sr7 | What is the most obscure word you use on a regular basis? | I like to throw "Forfend" around from time-to-time. But not every day, heaven forfend. (Must be pretty obscure: spellcheck wants me to hyphenate it or split it into two words. But the way I typed it is correct for once. Score: Me-1 Spellcheck-6,753,241). | 2 |
askscience/cfhhumx | 1y5ash | Why can we see infrared light when pointed to a camera? | I'm assuming you're referring to the phenomenon of pointing an IR source into a regular digital camera, and not an actual FLIR or heat camera specifically meant to show infrared. Simply, the frequencies of IR light used by remote controls and similar devices are close to the visible spectrum that your camera can pick u... | 11 |
AskReddit/ctvm2ag | 3g7ifm | Could a shotgun shell filled with raw rice, fired at close range, kill a person? | Define close range. Barrel to skin, very possible. One foot, maybe. Three feet, probably not. Edit: It's also going to depend on where you aim it, buttock probably safe, eye socket, probably not. | 2 |
AskReddit/ck9anjl | 2fhjcq | If Justin Bieber died tomorrow, would the media present it as overwhelmingly positive or negative? | Positive. The media is mean to people who are alive, but respectful to the same person after they die. Apparently it's okay to be heartless when the person is alive but disrespectful to be the same way once they're dead. Joan Rivers' death today reminded me of this. The articles said she was loudmouthed but mostly desc... | 2 |
AskReddit/c86p1si | 17leqj | What is the best band or artist you've seen live? | The Flaming Lips are hands down the greatest band I've seen live. They put on a crazy show, the only downside is that they play a similar show every time. So seeing them the second time just isn't as good. | 4 |
askscience/c5xn4iw | ypepq | Would a 30 rack of beer sink or float in a lake? | I can speculate all day but why not try it? Experiment! I think as long as the rack holding the cans together isn't too heavy the rack should still float like one can does. If one can can support the weight of itself, then it follows that 30 cans should be able to support the weight of 30 cans. | 2 |
AskReddit/cepgy04 | 1v7jkg | What makes your SO so special? | He makes me a better person. I have BPD and have struggled with it my whole life. He always encourages me to do better and he is understanding when I am struggling. He is proud of me when I achieve something that I've fought for. He cares about me and he wants others to care about me. He cleans up after himself. He's f... | 8 |
AskReddit/c2a7j7m | j9c7p | Why do some words have silent letters? | Originally, English was a phonemic language meaning that words sound the same as they look. Cultural diffusion brought borrowed words into the language earlier in history; grammar and usage rules vary from language to language which were then adopted into English just like any other diffusion of language. Some of the a... | 2 |
AskReddit/cxc07ay | 3u52p6 | What's the most quotable movie you've ever seen and quote from it? | Airplane! Rumack: "You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital." Elaine Dickinson: "A hospital? What is it?" Rumack: "It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now." | 13 |
explainlikeimfive/cxshbfi | 3w0xr4 | Why are there so many different colors in the sky during sunset? | When light is shining more or less perpendicularly through the atmosphere it's passing through a minimal amount of it the light is being refracted evenly. When the sunlight glancing across the atmosphere at sharp angle it's passing through more atmosphere and there's more opportunity for the light to get shifted. Imagi... | 2 |
AskReddit/dg7reln | 656cfu | What's a surprising fact you've found out about someone after they've died? | After my dad passed all sorts of surprising things came out of the woodwork, his sisters were staying with us and told us things that blew our minds. First our grandparents who had 7 children never actually got married, they just hooked up back in the 1920's and grandma just used his last name. He also had a wife in No... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/eku92wi | bcwpc8 | Why are far away objects blurry for people with bad vision, and why do glasses help? | So the eye is a lens that focuses light onto a spot in the back of the eye, much like how camera lenses focus light onto a small sensor. Similar to cameras, if that lens moves to close or too far away from its focal point, things get blurry (at different distances). People that are near/far sighted have misshapen eyeba... | 3 |
AskReddit/dfhr08l | 61w1s7 | If we had to send someone back in time with modern made medieval war gear, what would it be made of and what techniques would they use? | L6 tool steel for the swords, not sure if you could make full plate with it but full plate with modern metal working with really decent padding would work | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cvlgrij | 3n7arh | What are the key differences between endangered native New Zealand birds and birds from basically every other country that makes them so vulnerable to mammalian predators? | The kakapo is flightless, ground dwelling and ground-nesting, unlike (almost?) all other parrots. Ground welling/nesting, flightless birds are very vulnerable, especially to introduced predators. eg dodo. They are also nocturnal, which is unusual for parrots, but I don't think that'd make them more vulnerable. Kakapos ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cdk54eh | 1r6q69 | Is a significant IQ difference a problem for a romantic relationship? | >I was just always interested in new things, going places, learning, etc. She was always bothered by the idea of doing much of anything This seems more like a difference in personality traits and not IQ. It sounds like you score more highly on openness to experience than she does. But I don't see why IQ would be any di... | 2 |
AskReddit/dwwu6j5 | 8a9jig | What are some examples of great scenes in not so great movies? | Personally, it's the scene in Napoleon Dynamite where Napoleon's brother tries to prove how sturdy the "Tupperware" was by running it over with his van. The way he immediately drives away when it breaks, and the lady's nonchalant expression, are the only parts of that movie where I actually laughed. | 3 |
AskReddit/drnj6ar | 7lme6j | What overlooked problem that is never shown in apocalypse movies or shows would be the reason you die during it? | What happens to people who are already sick or badly injured when the apocalypse hits (that are not Rick Grimes)? Even something as mundane as a broken arm or leg could become a huge liability. Dentistry: we'd have to resort to pulling out rotten or aching teeth like Tom Hanks in Castaway. What to do about wisdom teeth... | 2 |
askscience/cf4ryps | 1wridt | Why do some species have very long lifespans and others very short ones? | Some species have had sufficient evolutionary pressure that allow them to live much longer lives than other species. That's not very specific, but there are many factors involved in aging. Metabolic rate appears to be one, but it's not a hard-and-fast rule. Small animals tend to have faster metabolisms and live shorter... | 2 |
AskReddit/c43549h | r5v7v | Does pointing a fan out the window/door make a room cooler on a hot day? | depends on the circulation of the room and where the fan is located. heat rises. so you want to take cooler air into a room at a lower level or push warmer air out of a room at a higher level. | 5 |
AskReddit/cwcc5rp | 3q61px | What was the worst time you couldn't stop laughing? | I grew up in a very small town. There was a girl in the community that had been diagnosed with brain cancer at a very young age, and there were donation boxes to help with her medical bills in literally every store. You saw her picture every day, everyone knew her name, and everyone gave their change. 3 weeks into my f... | 3 |
AskReddit/e6x20z8 | 9k6m7b | What’s the weirdest / creepiest thing you’ve seen in someone else’s home? | Was friends with a guy in highschool, let's call him C. We were hanging out, being teenagers in the streets, and we just had to stop at his place for something. He was taking forever so I decided to head inside and see what was keeping him so long. I went into his house for the first time, it was in the middle of the n... | 2 |
AskReddit/e2c7kj4 | 8yn8oy | Is there any platform where you can find Japanese or Korean people to chat with? | Hellotalk is a great way to find people like that. When I was learning Japanese in high school, I used it a lot to practice. Really nice people. A lot of them are genuine and really like making foreign friends. I hope you enjoy it! | 2 |
AskReddit/d3hlq0i | 4ktexj | What was the worst time you decided to get the least amount of sleep? | The night before our first kid was born. My wife and I decided to stay up late with a movie and Chinese food. We went to bed at 1am only to wake up at 5am to her screaming in pain. 18 hours of labor on 4 hours of sleep sucked so bad. 0/10 would not recommend | 2 |
AskReddit/cimkm3x | 29n9kb | What is the best thing your parents have done for you? | My parents paid for me to go on a European tour my senior year of high school. It was absolutely amazing! I went to London, Paris, Rome, Pisa, and Florence with my model U.N. group. It was a wonderful experience that I will carry with me the rest of my life. Not every American gets to go to Europe. Most never even leav... | 2 |
AskReddit/cqsc5tj | 3481ob | What still can't you believe actually happened? | My grandma died 3 and a half months ago and there hasn't been even one morning since then when I haven't woken up and thought "Grandma died? Yes. She did." She was like my 2nd mom. My brain just can't comprehend it. I can't believe a world exists without her in it. | 18 |
AskReddit/e2qx5zl | 90jrrz | What do you like more?A shower in the morning or a shower before you go to bed? | A shower in the morning. I like to feel fresh for the day. I'd shower at night only if I needed a warm shower to help me sleep in cool weather, or a cold shower to help me sleep in hot weather. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/drnupkc | 7logk8 | Why does staring at a blue screen in the night mess with our natural body clock? | Your body is programmed to produce more serotonin, the chemical that makes you stay awake, when it sees blue because our body's have learned that blue means blue sky, so day. When you look at orange or warmer colors, your body starts producing more melatonin, which is the sleep chemical, because your body thinks it's a... | 2 |
AskReddit/e4oxqad | 99lrnz | What's the dumbest thing you've done out of pure horniness? | Jacked off in school. ISS (in school suspension) so the desks were walled but anybody could've walked up or looked at me from the other side of the room. Used an arm floaty as a flesh light with some coconut body oil. Actually feels nice but not like the real thing. Edit: just realized it looks like I did the arm float... | 60 |
AskReddit/cxx8ctj | 3wjxxl | What "Next Big Thing" never became the next big thing? | TiVo. I remember when it first came out, I thought for sure it was going to be the next big thing and completely revolutionize TV. I've never seen one in anyone's house in real life. Now all of the cable companies have their own boxes that do a lot of what TiVo did and now with Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Prime Video no one re... | 2 |
AskReddit/eottfce | bt4akg | What’s happened in your life that only happens on TV or in movies? | Well, I’m an escort. So pretty much that whole experience for me is “something that only happens on TV or in movies” save for a couple internet friends who share a lot of experiences with me. Usually TV narratives are really far off from the ‘real’ escort experience, but some depictions are decent. I’ve never just met ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dd0dfrx | 5qm8co | How does tire size affect the speedometer reading and gas mileage of a vehicle? | A bigger tire has further to spin to make a full rotation. This affects the speedometer because it measures how many times the wheel rotates. It can affect gas mileage because a bigger tire is heavier and will probably have more drag. There is probably more factors but that is all I got. | 3 |
AskReddit/ewxqp9y | cqnwm5 | What are the pros and cons of being short/tall? | i'm 6'5 so i'll give all the cons clothes shopping sucks, small cars suck, most car sucks, shoe shopping sucks, low hanging ceiling fans are you natural predator, you will get minor concussions on a regular basis, you will always have people mention how tall you are, i could go on | 2 |
AskReddit/dfzstzh | 646p74 | What fact did you learn at an embarrassingly late age? | I always though when TV programmes say 'viewer discretion is advised' it meant that you shouldn't tell your friends about it because it was a naughty show and they didn't want the police to find out. I figured out it meant discretion on whether or not to watch it embarrassingly late. | 17 |
askscience/c6fboo0 | 10ondp | Does reverse altitude-sickness exist? | The problem with altitude sickness is that your body doesn't notice directly that oxygen is missing. Breathing is controlled by CO2 concentrations in your blood, and that doesn't increase in higher altitudes. If you go down to lower altitude, nothing happens right there. The air pressure has to increase much more to af... | 2 |
AskReddit/djccoyu | 6j7g18 | What do you have an extremely strong opinion on that is ultimately unimportant? | Many, many things. All individual opinions are ultimately unimportant. We exist as part of a wave of humanity, progressing toward the future, following an exponential curve of improvements in information organisation. Together, our opinions form the direction we progress, but our mass opinion is driven by physical forc... | 4 |
AskReddit/d46mk5t | 4nsv1k | If you only have 3 hours to live, what would you do? | Three hours? First Hour, Id make a long video of my opinions and honest thanks to my loved ones for after I go. Then I'd probably have my last fap, eyes washed in tears, an air of deep sadness as I relieve myself to Riley Reid one last time. Hour two I'd get as many of my friends together as possible and say my final p... | 7 |
AskReddit/ci3u73r | 27s3jh | What is "the thing you don't talk about" in your family? | My family got in a huge fight. Biggest we'd ever had, and I don't even remember what it was about. My Mum was talking about leaving my dad and everything. Anyway, a week later we find out my dad has cancer. A week after that He's dead. We never talk about the argument, and if anyone ever talks about my dad, he was the ... | 1,793 |
explainlikeimfive/dgoy4kk | 67aapb | Why did we switch from breathing into someone's mouth during CPR to just compressions? | A couple of reasons. First, compressions are far more important. The main goal is to keep blood flowing to the brain. Chest compressions are supposed to do the heart-stuff when the heart decides it wants to take a day off. Of course, this blood requires oxygen or else bad things will happen, which is where ventilations... | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/cjy2myi | 2ebuzn | Why do we use capital punishment but not corporal punishment? | Theoretically punishment is supposed to be about rehabilitation. Keep that in mind. The death penalty is reserved for those that cannot be rehabilitated. Corporal punishment is an ineffective means of rehabilitative punishment for adults. It is generally not a good one for children either. Hence the cruel and unusual b... | 8 |
AskReddit/dz3buvs | 8jxyxn | Who is or was your most embarrassing crush? | It was Traci. What embarrassed me was that up until she found out I was crushing on her, she used to want to hang out with me all the time. She called or texted me every day. But then when she found out I was crushing on her, she treated me like I had leprosy. I never so much as suggested we ever date, yet she acted li... | 2 |
AskReddit/dwnn0f6 | 88vtdj | What is the strangest dream you've ever had (that you can remember)? | I have strange dreams every night. Last night I was living in a house that was open to the elements, no doors or windows. I was told to bring the cats in but when I stepped out to do it there was a parade of tiny possums trying to come in. “You’re not cats,” I said, “You’re possums.” They agreed. | 2 |
AskReddit/ewago43 | cnh7gw | For those who don't believe in gun control, how do we stop mass shootings in America? | Step 1: stop telling me about the killers life, do stories on the victims lives, make people realize they weren't just a statistic, and make us weep that they are gone Step 2: if someone has proven themselves to be fit to carry a gun, let them carry. Every where, gun free zones are just massive targets Step 3: if a pla... | 19 |
AskReddit/dwsanho | 89oa5e | How would you describe your hand writing? | Really bad. And have a job that requires a lot of writing for other people to read. They have learned to interpret my chicken scratch. Something was said to me once about my handwriting. Told them I was 50+ and at this point it isn’t going to change. | 3 |
askscience/den7o65 | 5y2xyl | Why is water densest at 4 degrees Celsius? | Water molecules interact with each other by forming hydrogen bonds between the hydrogen on one water molecules and a lone pair of electrons on the oxygen atom of another water molecule. In liquid water, there are 1-4 bonds being formed per molecule, and they aren't in any particular order. This lack of ordering forces ... | 10 |
AskHistorians/cm6b05p | 2mozz9 | Why did the Union not let the Confederacy secede? | It's a very complicated topic and you could easily have several different answers, economics, tradition, power projection etc. Essentially, the South served as a buffer to the expansion of European Powers on the North American Continent. The British and French had been attempting to improve their strategic position in ... | 2 |
AskReddit/enzd6el | bpzphr | What is something people don’t understand about you? | I've struggled in dealing with communicating my anger for years, but the worst part is that my size and stature make it worse. I'm a very tall and largely-built dude, and my expression of anger comes to be very intimidating for most people. I've never struck anyone or acted out physically, and I rarely raise my voice, ... | 2 |
AskReddit/emxae9i | bmkbg6 | Who is fasting today? | I started fasting every other day as of Friday last week. Lost 10 lbs so far and psoriasis is clearing up. I was 309lbs to start so I have a long way to go. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cof29bn | 2v7brg | How can computer games nearly instantly simulate and display realistic graphics while it takes me 5 minutes to render a frame of equal or less complexity in something like c4d? | The images shown are just pre-captured images of real buildings pasted onto the very simple models of the buildings in game. They aren't calculating most of the shadows or the detail of the subtle shape of the structures. It is similar to opening a photo on your computer and marveling at how quickly it managed to do th... | 10 |
AskReddit/da0zmfp | 5d0vt0 | How can we fix the media? | Read only print media and local print media. Force cable news to include journalism school graduates and disclose political affiliation PLUS include special chyron to indicate OPINION programming | 2 |
AskReddit/cppkas7 | 306hu6 | How do you feel about snakes n' spiders? | A non venomous-domesticated?- snake in a cage makes a great pet. Any snake in the wild is off limits though. I'm firmly convinced that spider's were invented in a nuclear powered nightmare factory. | 2 |
AskReddit/ca00lmh | 1egb2e | Who is your favourite supporting character in any TV show? | Boyd Crowder from Justified. The character is SO good. His start as a skin-head, to what they have developed him into. The character is like crack, and it is played by, in my opinion, the best actor on TV. Walton Goggins. | 51 |
AskReddit/cziaz63 | 43hqkj | What's the dumbest thing that we celebrate? | In Australia, we celebrate Australia day, which is stupid for a huge number of reasons. Firstly, we celebrate it on January 26, the day Australia was first settled in 1788 if you ignore the fifty thousand years that people lived here beforehand. Also it was originally a penal colony, meaning that it was literally just ... | 4 |
AskReddit/ejwi4c6 | b84w8g | What movie has scarred you as a child and why? | The movie IT. My sister was watching it while she was watching me for the day. Being dumb and naive child I watched it to. Since then I have been horrified of clowns, refused to go to the circus, would walk on the other side of the road to avoid a clown. Also for about a couple years afterwards I would be horrified of ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/endd8lo | bo31ni | Why is it when you hang clothes over a rack to dry or use the dryer, they dry soft, but if they're dried in a ball they become stiff? | One if the biggest issues is simply movement during drying. The stiff clothes will soften up if you tumble them around a bit. The dryer clothes and clothes in the wind already got this. The other factor will be speed of drying. The stiffness is caused by various chemicals either forming large crystals or long polymer c... | 22 |
AskReddit/e5fccuo | 9d4urb | Why is it $number and not number$? | In some European countries they put the number at the end. Here in Portugal it varies but they used to use the $ sign for the escudo (currency prior to joining the Euro) and write it in the middle, so if something was three and a half escudo you’d have seen 3$50 (although that would be back in the 1930s or 40s, inflati... | 2 |
AskHistorians/c7ovts0 | 15qbxv | Why is the Earth called Earth? | Well in Icelandic (and in old Norse) the earth is called Jörðin which is pronounced very similarly to earth (the 'in' is the equivalent of 'the' for feminine words) and a sun is called Sól while THE sun is Sólin so it probably originated from Germanic languages and vikings. | 2 |
AskReddit/e1fv9pn | 8ujz05 | What’s your opinion on opinions? | people don't have opinions - opinions have people. opinions are alive and desperate to be turned into something. facts are settled and dead. opinions find hosts in people and they make them do all sorts of crazy things, sometimes even causing their own death, so that the opinion can manifest itself as a fact, e.g. scie... | 2 |
AskReddit/e46j2rn | 979ms0 | What monologue from a movie or TV show will you never forget? | Came across this monologue from S3E6 of Game of Thrones which inspired the post: Varys: I did what I did for the good of the realm. Littlefinger: The realm? Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies. A story we tell each other over and over till we forget that it's a lie. Varys: But wha... | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/dxjnt8f | 8d1yd7 | How do pilots perform emergency/forced landings? | If the aircraft is still controllable, it's landed as a glider (assuming engine failure). Emergency procedures are drilled over and over and over again. Emergency runways can include anything from highways to rivers to dirt roads depending on speed, maneuverability, type of aircraft, and type of emergency. If the aircr... | 5 |
AskReddit/ehe6ahm | avdj2p | What's the most fun you can have during a power outage? | A power outage is the reason I read the first Harry Potter book. This was before web browsing on smart phones, so I really had no other choice haha but reading is always a good choice! | 7 |
AskReddit/d86m4gi | 550o8p | What was your "rock bottom" and how did you turn things around? | Started a downward spiral when I lost my best friend and first love. Over the next year, I started getting more and more withdrawn. I stopped talking to my family, stopped seeing friends and just stopped living life for the most part. I really hit rock bottom when I realised that I was starting to need alcohol in order... | 2 |
AskReddit/d4yn21e | 4r6fl7 | What was your high school's most controversial drama? | I kept vandalizing the Wikipedia page on my school with alot of nasty stuff, and everyone kept talking about it for weeks. I did some things like put the names of high ranking nazis as the administration, put up a picture of Auscwitz as the main picture of the school, referred to it in the article as a "detention facil... | 5 |
AskReddit/cyafgvx | 3y49tx | What's the most most karma whoring post physically possible on Reddit? | Rewording a gender-specific question on the front page to ask the opposite gender. I.e. "Women of Reddit, what's the most awkward thing a man has said to you?" 2 hour later "Men of Reddit, what's the most awkward thing a woman has said to you?" *edit: So it seems I karma-whored my way into this thread with false inform... | 2,076 |
askscience/c21yil5 | i9f8q | Why does one confuse left/right, but never up/down? | You can't walk without understanding up-down. You can do everything but read without understanding left and right. Because of infant amnesia, your don't have episodic memories of your first steps. So, back when you didn't understand up-down, you also didn't form new 'memories', in the adult sense of the term. | 4 |
askscience/c6e3ke9 | 10iw9r | Why shouldn't I eat left overs that've been in the fridge for more than 3 days? | It is completely dependent upon what kind of leftovers, and also how the leftovers have been handled. If it is leftovers off of a plate you were eating from, you probably seeded those leftovers with bacteria. However I routinely make sour cream dill dip for veggies, which will remain good in the fridge for 2 weeks or m... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dgtl2rj | 67vmyz | Why is it so hard for large amounts of Tylenol to pass through the liver? | Tylenol is paracetamol/acetaminophen. Medications within the body are broken down and produce metabolites. In the case of Paracetamol (acetaminophen) it is metabolised within the liver (via 3 pathways - the 3rd pathway produces the problem metabolite). Specifically, NAPQI is the metabolite responsible for the liver dam... | 3 |
AskReddit/em2vxg3 | bisrao | What's one profession robots can't replace? | I believe robots can replace everyone. We aren't magic or special, we can be replicated. Actors? CGI Musicians? LSTM networks (look up Emily howell) Vocalists? AI can already mimic voices. Just use the vocals from your favourite vocalist to make new music. Construction? Giant 3D printers can already create structures. ... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cl2gwh7 | 2igi2o | What happens when our muscles get tense and knotted? | I can explain knotted muscles: Our muscles tense and know up following muscle spasms, or a lot of quick muscle contractions. Muscle spasms usually follow an injury. There are four general contributors to muscle knots and cramps: acute trauma, predisposing activities, myofascial pain syndrome, and fibromyalgia. Acute tr... | 2 |
AskReddit/dui9j6q | 7ypri5 | What do you think is an under rated spinoff game or game series? | The Elder Scrolls: Redguard It was a great-for-its-time third person action adventure game with a named protagonist (rather than the player created ones from the main series). It takes place ~400 years before Arena, and is a worthwhile game to play for fans of the main series (Although the version available on Good Old... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0th1md | clr9r | How long are humans estimated to survive on Earth? | It's kind of not really something you can put a definitive answer on. You can think about hypothetical situations of humans going extinct (eg. the sun dies) and try to estimate when that is likely to happen. But you are going to have a whole array of possible events that could cause human extinction, each with varying ... | 3 |
AskHistorians/cgnoteo | 22jl3f | How did the Second Boer War change British attitudes towards Empire and Imperialism? | I can't say much for the attitude of the everyday man in the street, though I have just completed a dissertation on Lord Lansdowne's foreign policy so can say something for the change in foreign policy attitudes. Prior to Lansdowne and the Boer War, Britain had relied on keeping her Empire and global interests in tact ... | 5 |
AskReddit/deuwllh | 5z1e4x | What TV shows do you watch when you want to laugh? | Old timer here. There are a few old comedy shows I love re watching from time to time for a good laugh. My favorite comedies are All in the Family, Cheers, Frasier, and Family Ties. I watched them all when they were originally on and none of them fail to make me laugh decades later (especially all in the family). And j... | 5 |
AskReddit/eoc8kcc | brc5va | What was the worst birthday you ever had, and why? | My 16th. I was dating an abusive guy (19) I was only allowed to invite people he approved of and then later in the night he raped me. Worst birthday ever. PS an investigation is ongoing as I didnt report for 14 years (wasnt his first time doing it to me but was the last) | 72 |
askscience/c2yp0nv | m7d7l | Can we reverse the cathode and anode of a battery ? | There is no reason a battery couldn't be designed with a flat cathode and protruding anode. The typical design allows enclosures to be designed that prevent batteries from being inserted backwards (or ensure they don't make contact if they are). | 5 |
AskReddit/cbio4rg | 1jvd27 | What are three things every parent should know? | If you're the parent of a teenage boy, knock before entering. don't do the whole "knock and open the door without waiting for a reply" thing, wait for him to say "come in" Don't feed them dog food make sure they read a lot of books. | 2 |
AskHistorians/c8jx84c | 190nxe | When and why did the stocks/pillory stop being a punishment? | In London, it began to decline in popularity as a form of punishment because the spectacle often caused riots or other public disorder and sometimes resulted in the unintended injury or death of the convict due to thrown projectiles. Historian Emma Griffin writes: "Historians have drawn attention to a cluster of belief... | 3 |
AskReddit/c4lg86u | tclpa | Do American Presidents really age super fast while in office, or is it just that they've been there 4 or 8 years and have aged naturally? | The stress level certainly takes it's toll, but sometimes people also forget just how much a normal person can age in 8 years (assuming it's a 2 term president). | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ee9lqek | agwoio | Why does having a strong menthol taste in your mouth make cold drinks feel even colder? | Menthol sensitizes thermal receptors. nornallly a very cold temp would activate them, but menthol makes them activate at near body temp. Its analagous to how hot sauce (capsaicin) adds heat to food without changing the temperature. | 269 |
AskReddit/dxl7cpu | 8d8euv | What's your favorite "obscure" movie that you must show all your friends? | Not sure if it's "obscure" or not, but I've convinced a few of my friends to watch Lars & The Real Girl and I will never stop trying. It's an oddly sweet movie with just a.confusing concept when you hear the basic synopsis. | 2 |
AskReddit/djl54fo | 6kctcc | What is a scientific fact that many people don't want to acknowledge? | In terms of the people obsessed with healthfulness -- That no matter how many fruits and veggies you eat, no matter how much you exercise, no matter how many doctors you see, you will eventually die. We all know it, but they just don't actually acknowledge it's delaying the inevitable. | 2 |
askscience/dmn9v8k | 6ygbd7 | Do all solids have a triple point? | No. Some things will decompose before they reach their triple point. For example copper(II) sulfate pentahydrate will first decompose to copper(II) sulfate, and then at higher temperatures decompose to copper oxide. Others will undergo some other kind of phase transformation. For example a diamond would turn into graph... | 10 |
AskHistorians/c8k6rvk | 192gz0 | How accurate does the movie Platoon depict the Vietnam War? | Platoon is a caricature of Vietnam. Drug and alcohol use wasn't nearly as prominent as the film makes out--that was mostly done, if at all, in rear units and not by the actual troops in the field with their lives on the line. In a book that was written by someone who served with my uncle in the war (in 1969) it mention... | 5 |
askscience/cpzi3e6 | 31732g | Do we know why dinosaurs (and other animals/insects) were so large back in prehistoric times and why everything is so relatively small today? | Another post addressed a similar question earlier this week, and I'll echo its sentiments; animals in general aren't really relatively smaller today than they were during the Mesozoic. Remember that the modern blue whale is larger than any dinosaur ever was, and the average dinosaur was not incredibly large. I know thi... | 4 |
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