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askscience/dtrzluc | 7vewj7 | How do whales, the largest mammals on earth that inhabit the water, end up beached? | Don’t quote me on this but I remember a whale being beached in Scotland and hearing an official of some sort say that it was believed that sometimes they beach themselves intentionally when ill as to not prolong the suffering. This was around 15 years ago though so maybe we’ve learnt a lot more since then. Edit: spelli... | 20 |
AskReddit/edv22w8 | af2xw8 | What are ways to get taller? | I'm 20, doc said I'm still growing. At least my hands and upper body would, according to him. Maybe check if you have posture issues. If you stand "correctly" you are taller than when you would arch your back or slouch around. It's only a few cm, but it could help. | 2 |
AskReddit/ctu8yvg | 3g2k0z | What do you do when you're having a bad day? | Stop. Take a breath. Remember that there's SEVERAL BILLION people on the planet that are far, far worse off than me. Remember that I have food on my table and enough money in the bank to prevent me from starving if I get fired or if my family disowns me or if someone get sick or. <continue list of various conditions> T... | 2 |
AskReddit/dx8djsz | 8bnl4g | Did you enjoy high school or college more and why? | High school. I was an international student and immigrant during college, which made me an outsider. Even when I made friends it sometimes felt like they treated me as a novelty more than an equal. In high school I had much more in common with people because we were from the same area. The school I attended was specifi... | 2 |
AskReddit/cf02hla | 1w9szh | What was the last thing that made you laugh so hard you couldn't breathe properly? | Our mini wiener dog likes to burry himself under the covers. One morning he's burrowing his way back out of the covers but instead starts going up the back of my husbands shirt. We were cracking up but I lost it when he popped out the neck of the shirt, with a "hey I made it" look on his face | 71 |
explainlikeimfive/dfceymh | 617zbk | How are cows and rabbits able to eat grass and turn it into muscle mass, but humans have to eat cows and rabbits to do the same thing? | First, a minor correction: humans don't have to eat animals to gain muscle mass. There's plenty of plants like soybeans and almonds that help us do the same thing. But that being said, food is really a bunch of complex chemicals, and your muscles are a bunch of other complex chemicals. When you eat, your body crushes t... | 10 |
AskReddit/c8ywqlv | 1an41i | What is a band that is more famous for covering a song than any of their own original material? | Maybe not the best example but I'd say Quiet Riot. I only ever hear their version of Come on Feel the Noise yet can't think of another song of theirs. I have never once heard the original, by Slade, played in the US. Tiffany from the 80s also comes to mind with her "I think we're Alone now" | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dbtk8rx | 5l7nn2 | Why do cash deposits not generate new money? | What you're describing is a problem with banking that led to the Great Depression. The stock market crash set of a chain reaction where everyone tried to take out their money from the banks at once, but because the banks use the actual currency for other things like loans and mortgages, when everyone at once comes to c... | 9 |
AskReddit/c6imxax | 111job | What is an honest opinion you have that most people would disagree with? | I think most of reddit agrees with the idea of eugenics so I'm going to voice my unpopular opinion of why that's a bad idea: If you want people to take a test what type of test would it be? How do we define "smart"? IQ doesn't necessarily translate to intelligence as it only tests recall ability and calculation ability... | 2 |
AskReddit/d1lexxw | 4ctw29 | What scares you as you get older? | Context: What scares you as you become older in life? Losing your parents? Having to go through a bad divorce/annulment? Homelessness? For me, it's losing my parents. It doesn't bode well that eventually, my parents won't be around. It's scary indeed, but they've lived good lives. My mom loves it in her home country ev... | 2 |
AskReddit/dj2py7t | 6hzcqp | What normal activity seems suspicious when done at 3 AM? | I used to work at a bar so I wouldn't be getting home until 2 or 3 in the morning and the house next to me was a halfway house apartment building type thing and multiple times my neighbor would be sitting out on his little deck at 3 in the morning, in the pitch dark so all I could usually see was his creepy silhouette.... | 2 |
AskReddit/cxf2a6u | 3uiboc | What awesome thing have you only seen in a store once and regret not buying? | I saw this great, good quality transportable salad serving container with different sections on sale for 75% off and I can't even remember how I talked myself out of buying it, but I immediately regretted not buying it and even drove back the next day and they were all gone. Normally, I would have bought it and returne... | 2 |
AskHistorians/ejfu1qw | b5koon | How did students get to school in the late 19th,early 20th century? | For most of the period you're asking about, foot power was the most common, though not the only, option. One thing to keep in mind is that in that for most of the 18th and 19th century, schools were typically built where the children were. (The most glaring exception to this are the Indian Boarding Schools, built to "r... | 4 |
AskReddit/cdy9m7a | 1sjt2l | How did Islam become a major religion in Indonesia? | The same way Christianity became a major religion in the United States; people moved there, others liked the notion Islam brought with it, followers began to appear, and it grew steadily over time. | 2 |
AskReddit/cetqoa1 | 1vmk82 | What's the craziest/worst thing you've done or gotten away with, simply because you were well dressed? | when I was in my early twenties I worked in Reno. 3 blocks of casinos are connected on the 2nd floor. I had to wear businesses attire, I would get off around 7pm and walk by corporate parties. I ate free diner about 3x times a week. By 7 or 8 everyone is already drunk, if you're dressed like they are no one notices you... | 5 |
askscience/c4g55zq | sqhtf | When e-Data is Deleted, does the energy get discharged as heat? | >This has me wondering about how the energy from those electrons (or electrons from any type of computer) gets dissipated upon deletion. It has to go somewhere. Wherever they're grounded. On a laptop, back into the battery, or some small amount lost as heat over time. On a desktop, same deal, only to ground through the... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/dcadgbt | 5ncd1c | Why do they say, "scrambles" jet? | Oddly the only thing that's not necessarily accurate is the "Taiwanese sea" part. Which is sort of not a thing, and likely what would amount to Taiwanese sea is pretty much violated regularly due to the existence of kinmen and Lienching counties right off the Chinese coast. It's pretty likely that the Taiwanese governm... | 2 |
AskReddit/c9fak1h | 1ccy10 | What are your worst/craziest/most annoying neighbor stories? | I have too many stories to share. I got to the point where I never wanted to share a wall, floor or ceiling with another tenant again, nor did I want the parade of inconsiderate / crazy room-mates, ever again. I love my house. Yes, occasionally a neighbor throws a loud party or another will fire up the weed-eater at 7:... | 2 |
AskReddit/efgayet | alr8py | What is the stupidest/funniest thing you told a kid that they believed? | Not me but my native friend told this little boy a good one. We were at the grocery store and a little boy, clearly a tourist, asked him if he had any cool powers since he was an "Indian." My friend calm and casual told him he could turn into a wolf and the kid's eyes just lit up like it was the coolest thing he ever l... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/cuus8ld | 3k4u84 | Why are sugar, cement, and urea considered high risk transactions for anti-money laundering? | They're widely traded, valuable essentially everywhere (in large and small quantities--urea what's in most bagged fertilizer today), and very hard to track/easy to falsify records for. A pile of sugar/cement/urea doesn't have a serial number or other typical provenance information. So if a pile of 100 tons is reported ... | 4 |
AskReddit/dsesl89 | 7p6330 | What's your favourite opening line of a book? | I won't say why because of Spoilers, but it's "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed" As I was reading the series, I was aware of the fact that that line meant a lot to fans. I thought it was a perfectly good line, but I couldn't see why people were so enamored with it. I then got to the ... | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/e5mrfmw | 9e74zq | Why does a blue sign or light seem vague or unfocused? | Certain cells in your eyes (‘cones’ on your retina) can detect red, green and blue light. The ones that detect blue light are most sparse, and also located more away from the ‘center’ where the main point of focus is (the fovea). | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/eu9xrpf | cfh86s | Why aren't species that have huge populations, like humans or bugs, having a commensurate number of mutations and thus branching off new species? | 2 reasons. First is that simply, not enough time has passed. Modern humans have existed for about 200,000 years. That's simply not enough time for speciation to occur. The second is that we don't exist in isolated populations, which is how speciation occurs. Humans from all over the world are constantly exchanging gene... | 8 |
AskReddit/ce7md5b | 1tg937 | What is your advice to someone that is going for their first full-time job interview? | Depends on the job but in IT I'd say don't try to bullshit them, be honest. Prepare some questions to ask them in case they give you a chance to ask them but make sure you care about the answer. Don't ask directly about holidays on the first interview unless they offer you the job. Don't start negotiating the salary un... | 2 |
AskReddit/clbeo5e | 2jg41v | What would the world look like today if Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election? | I'd say that Barack Obama probably wouldn't be President now. In all likelihood a Republican probably would've won the 2004 Presidency and we would've likely had an 8-12 year Republican reign as President then. We seem to, as of late, go in 8-12 year swings of one political party being in power before people get so fed... | 6 |
AskReddit/eamj6sm | a13nod | What's a popular thing you can't understand the fuss about? | Every popular trend. When some brand or type of music or item is trending, I aitomatically get very suspicious that it's just because of popular bandwagoning, not because that thing has any intrinsic value. It takes me a while to like new things, because I first assume it just trended as a fluke and there isn't any sub... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cydcuul | 3ygrsf | Do some humans "need" meat while others do not? | Humans are biologically omnivores. That means that we are suppose to eat a mixture of meat, plants, fruit, fungi, and nuts. Humans need meat because we are not herbivores. We are not capable of getting all the nutrients we need from plants without eating a wide variety of them. It is also important to note that most of... | 2 |
AskReddit/e5a5j9s | 9cevkk | What’s the weirdest question you were ever asked, and what was your reply? | I have a pretty pronounced tracheostomy scar across my neck. I guess it was an emergency job, because the scar is just. ugly. A dude at the Best Buy Mobile counter actually ASKED me what it was from. I just stared at him for the longest time until I think shame set in. I just said, "Emergency surgery." ​ Edit: I... | 6 |
AskReddit/c0yb0wn | d8dw0 | Do you miss anything that technology has made obsolete? | I still write hand written thank you cards, just because it is so much classier than an email. I recently had someone send me a thank you note on facebook. That made me think much less of them. Some people think technology has made normal mail obsolete, but it actually just separates the classless from the formal. | 2 |
AskReddit/cjdpnyt | 2cb4kl | What is one piece of advice you would give to a new manager/team leader to help make them successful ? | Encourage your team to eat lunch together. Eat lunch with them. Builds trust, people get to know each other better, and generally improves collaboration and team work. Source: Am a manager, eat lunch with my team every day. | 3 |
AskReddit/c0qqmdp | c7zqp | How friendly is your town/city/place in general? | Los Angeles. Friendly for a big city. The sunshine helps. But a lot of the time its a "fake friendly" because people here have some hidden agenda. I miss the country. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/df6php3 | 60hwxs | How does commodity trading work? | You usually don't literally 'buy bananas'. You buy or sell a contract to buy bananas at some future date. These are called futures contracts. So today (March 20), you might agree to buy 100 tons of bananas at $100/ton on July 1st. The market or exchange pairs your agreement up with someone who agrees to sell 10 tons of... | 3 |
AskReddit/cgbfemv | 21bii3 | How does a "No Makeup Selfie" in my FB Feed raise money or awareness for charity or cause? | It can't and doesn't. All it does is generate meta-data for whomever started the original feed. If you use FB, never take the stupid quizzes to who you are in Harry Potter land or whatever. And no one is ever going to see a dime because someone shared or liked a picture. Seriously. If you like a page such as those, wha... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/enix248 | boo5v7 | Why is that when we experience a blow to the head we “see stars”? | that's shock, which can result in a rapid lowering of blood pressure, so as to mitigate bleeding out if you were injured. that lowering of blood pressure can make you pass out, or see stars, or essentially feel dazed. It also might have to do with brain injury if the blow was bad enough. | 27 |
explainlikeimfive/dar9t1v | 5gd1py | Why are electronic transactions deducted from an account and posted immediately, but a bank to bank transfer takes anywhere from 2-5 business days to post? | A few things are happening. When you are charged a hold is placed on your account for the amount of the charge and after 2-5 days depending on the bank you will see that your Actual Balance changes to match your Available Balance because the charge has been completed. When you are being refunded you get to see the situ... | 4 |
AskReddit/cgo9t98 | 22mmcj | What's the best method to stop smoking ? | I answered this a while ago, but take a white straw, cut it into 3 inch sections, and keep them in your breast pocket, or sun-visor in the car. Whenever you have a craving, go through the motions of smoking, but use the straw instead. | 2 |
AskReddit/ev2snvi | ci9ywp | Why is the value of money one of the most commonly accepted beliefs among human beings when in fact it is completely fabricated? | Its accepted because to simplify things it's a good substitute for the barter system, for example if you do nail art/manicures that's useless to me as someone who works on cars so instead of refusing to do your work I take your money, which essentially functions as a token for equivalent value. | 3 |
AskReddit/csj753t | 3b63ny | What's going right and wrong with your country's education system and teaching methods? | I'm from the U.S., and am headed to college right now. What's going wrong: We're severely over-tested, in general, and everything is based around the test, or the test score. Even teachers who are obviously passionate about their subjects can't teach in their own way that will keep students engaged because they have to... | 3 |
AskReddit/epg4vim | buqado | What's making you happy right now? | This guy I've been talking to recently, we're on a call right now and honestly I think I may be falling head over heals for him. He makes me laugh, listens to me, makes me smile when I cry, listens to music with me. he's so amazing if only he knew how I felt Edit: We've been talking since 1 am and its now 5 am and I th... | 3 |
AskReddit/dkx2kr7 | 6qg8pz | Which friend did you meet through the weirdest circumstances? | i met my best friend while playing a MMORPG, funny thing is we live 1h away from eachother and we met in a server from USA (we live in Argentina) not the weirdest but im still amazed at the chances of finding each other. i also met another friend of mine at the beach, like 6hs away from home and he lives one block away... | 2 |
AskReddit/ewqokhy | cpodij | When was a time that you looked especially cool and someone both noticed AND pointed it out for other people to see? | Okay, one time I got up on stage and danced in front of a bunch of people at a prom. A lot of people were doing it, but I got a compliment for being cool dancing. I thought I looked like an idiot haha | 2 |
AskReddit/dnhwg12 | 72em23 | If you could re-draw national borders, what would you do and how would you name the new countries? | Erase all borders and create New World Order Seriously though, just redo almost all of Africa. Most of the borders were made by European explorers who had no idea what they were doing from an Anthropological standpoint, and it's been the cause of a lot of strife in Africa for long time. | 2 |
AskHistorians/cu4jo5t | 3h4izi | Are there any ancient accounts of serial killers? | Does anyone have any reliable information on Tom Quick, the Indian Slayer? I have read that he is America's first serial killer and he killed over 100 Indians in the 1700s, but the line between fact and legend is pretty blurry. | 23 |
AskReddit/c0pembq | bzw9d | What (if any) are the drawbacks to living in Sweden? | People are usually less open than in the US, especially to strangers. I.e. people never start a conversaton with a stranger when they are waiting for the bus. Parts of the bigger cities are quite bad due to a pretty large influx of immigrants the last 10-20 years which have resulted in tons of people who live in wellfa... | 16 |
AskReddit/cavq8cy | 1hmeo5 | If you could change one thing about your favorite book/movie, what would it be and why? | Kill Bill. For one reason or another when I got to the end of that movie, I was upset to see Bill die. I don't know how else the movie could've ended. Clearly he deserved it, but just the way it happened. The fact that he was built up the whole time to be some super evil dude and just wasn't that menacing kind of chang... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cgvnuf2 | 23cjns | Why is it socially acceptable to spend so much money on your wedding day even if you are not financially stable? | Traditionally, the wife's family(father) pays for the wedding as part of her dowry. It's part of why you needed a fathers permission to marry his daughter. With the breakdown of the traditional family, and changing social norms, it now rests on unprepared couples to handle it themselves. | 13 |
AskReddit/chv8chk | 26wvwl | What is your biggest guilty pleasure? | Taking baths. I would spend hours in a bubble bath if I had the time. Like I mean, I'll get a snack (usually some chocolate), a drink, a good book or a magazine I've been wanting to read.and just relax. It's bliss. Outside of that planning is a guilty pleasure of mine. It's not even a control thing because if plans don... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c49h2il | rxo44 | Why do we itch? | Remember, your skin is an organ, it has a lot of things going on with it that you can't see, but can feel. Usually what causes itching it eczema, when you think of eczema you probably say to yourself "I don't get big rashes on my skin!" but it's actually far more common than you'd think. Eczema is millions of microscop... | 8 |
AskReddit/dhwnj39 | 6cqnj2 | What do you think about when you're running? | I don't think much about anything other than being aware of my surroundings when I jog/run. Walking is different (I walk far more than I run or jog), I'm mostly in my head, lost in thought or fantasy, but my eyes are constantly scanning the immediate environment while my brain takes mental snapshots of the data and sto... | 3 |
AskReddit/eotp7zl | bt32zm | What’s your most nostalgic memory of a video game? | Playing Yoshi's Island on SNES as a child. The colours were so bright, the music was enthralling, the story was ambitious; it felt like going on a real adventure. Racing in Super Mario Kart felt so fun and the technology really felt like the pinnacle of entertainment. Playing through Legend of Zelda OoT made the kid I ... | 2 |
askscience/cp4cxxp | 2xtj7d | If one were to randomly draw on a coordinate plane, could it always be represented by some equation, inequality, etc? | It depends a bit on what counts exactly as an equation or inequality. But if you only allow for a finite or countable infinite amount of symbols then the amount of possible finite strings is countable. The amount of possible lines over a coordinate plane is uncountable though. So there simply would be more lines than t... | 3 |
AskReddit/d2cfkgb | 4fvu4o | Do Anarchists have so much faith in the good of humanity that they think people could thrive without rules/laws? | People do thrive without "rules" or "laws" as I imagine you see them. The globe is an anarchy, and no state sees itself as subordinate to the law; even in the West where there is so much ink spilled towards lauding governments of law, rather than men, corruption is rife, innocents murdered, state rapacity barely checke... | 2 |
askscience/c69h8wa | 100wg0 | Why is there so much controversy surrounding GMOs? | A big part of it is consumer misinformation/fear, as well as an excuse to make trade restrictions. For example, Europe protects their domestic agricultural producers by banning GMO products/requiring mandatory labeling of imported GMO products. There is no evidence of negative health impacts of GMOs. They can be an imp... | 6 |
AskReddit/cuzupk1 | 3krbp5 | What's a scary thought? | Being responsible for people. Being able to save some money but losing your job and starting to use your savings. Its really scary to see the amount of savings go down and not have a job. You get anxious, and if you cannot control yourself you get desperate. Im just thankful I started a new job this week. Thats a happy... | 2 |
AskReddit/danwo1e | 5fxufb | What is a quote you've heard that truly changed your perspective on life? | Not a quote per se, but my 3rd grade teacher, on the last week of the year, made us climb up on our desk and watch our classroom. Then she said something like "Do you see how different the classroom looks like? You've spent an entire year watching it from one place and thought you knew it. I hope you'll learn that no m... | 2 |
askscience/c1ywjeb | hwdxi | Is there any validity to the arguments of AIDS deniers? | I'm completely biased as my research is on HIV transmission, but no, there is not. There's as much validity to this argument as there is in the "vaccines cause autism" argument. HIV does not always cause AIDS, but AIDS always has a pre-existing HIV infection. And HIV exists, I have the electron micrographs, and tubes f... | 31 |
AskReddit/dy7gyye | 8fyku7 | How come suffering with depression/anxiety didn't seem so prominent 60 years ago? | This is the thing that I don't understand - living standards in pretty much all classes improve almost yearly, and yet people seem to think their life sucks more now than they did 20 years ago. I have (only) theories for this, and I relate it back to a trip I did to SE Asia many years ago. I am not alone in this observ... | 3 |
AskReddit/em12e04 | bij9d6 | What is the best dream you ever had? | I had a really difficult homework question in my day life. Went to bed, my dream showed me doing my homework and I got to the one problem and figured out the answer. Next morning when I woke up, I solved it | 2 |
AskReddit/cwr5neo | 3rtdg2 | Where do you go when no place feels like home? | I'm sorry buddy. I know the feeling. Honestly, the park with some good music helps me sometimes. A nice bubble bath. An Arcade. Sometimes the Library. Any place where your mind can relax and enjoy it. What kind of things do you like? | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d04bfpd | 46duv3 | Why mobile video players such as The YouTube app won't continue to play when you leave the app/close your phone? | Youtube want you to be looking so they can make ad revenue. You can't click an ad if your screen is turned off. Other apps use Youtube's API to show their videos and the license agreement states your app has to stop playing the video if the screen goes off too, just like Youtube's own app, for the same reason. | 5 |
AskReddit/ckj1bm0 | 2gh56k | How would you make me trust you? | Trust takes time. But I would give something valuable or make a trade. My dad used to do that when he was a long haul truck driver. He would find a homeless person to watch his truck and then he would buy them a week's worth of groceries or whatever they needed. It worked! | 8 |
AskReddit/eciv43i | a9fmbc | What was the best Christmas gift that you gave to someone this year? | solid cherry antique dresser for my girlfriend. filled each drawer with other presents she wanted like a purse wax melter thing etc. got a matching mirror and dining room table. sounds like weird gifts for christmas but we desperately needed furniture. | 3 |
AskReddit/cvff25l | 3mj6v8 | What is at the top of your travel bucket list? | I want to spend multiple months (maybe 2 or 3) backpacking around the Indonesian islands. Honestly, this is just what is at the top of my list right now. It's pretty hard to narrow down a bucket list when you want to see it all! | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dimfczm | 6g0a40 | What advantages did modern humans have over other animals, other than intelligence? | Lots of advantages. It has been proposed that the intelligence part was never really a big advantage when dealing with other animals and that we devolved our intelligence mostly to compete against other humans. One thing that gets often mentioned is that our bipedal locomotion and our stamina means that we can keep run... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/czoey45 | 448y3w | How did the US and Canada, two countries with similar colonial and geographic backgrounds, end up so different in terms of political cultures? | Their colonial backgrounds aren't very similar at all. Canada didn't become functionally independent from the British Parliament until 1931, and not entirely so until 1982. Predictably, Canada's political culture is much more similar to Britain's. Not to mention that many of the United States' founders were specificall... | 9 |
AskReddit/c2k4r7t | kgtdi | If I park in the back of a parking lot and take up two spaces (away from everybody), is it still considered unacceptable? | Yes it is still unacceptable. The reason you take two spaces is you want space around your car, inferring that even you believe it is likely that cars will show up and need to park adjacent to you. If you park at the empty part of the lot, you don't need to park in two spaces because the others are empty already. Park ... | 5 |
askscience/d1yb1tr | 4e7wti | Why do people never forget how to ride a bike once they've learned? | The fear of falling is the main reason why it's hard to learn in the first place. You need a certain amount of speed to keep it upright, but a higher speed = a more painful experience if you fall. So the tendency is to want to start off slowly, causing a wobbly ride. The intricate details of which gear to use, how to p... | 21 |
explainlikeimfive/co87hdm | 2ugm44 | If the Colorado River carved out the Grand Canyon, why don't any other rivers in the world have such canyons? | There are actually many such places. They just exist outside of America (although some do too) so you have never heard of them.albeit none of them are as wide as the grand canyon. Which also was formed under unique circumstances, draining fresh and saltwater out of the country with the recession of the Hudson seaway as... | 3 |
AskReddit/cb0yr2h | 1i4o03 | What do you do when you need to kill time until you feel better because you're in pain/sick? | I'm so boring. I find a show on Netflix I have been avoiding because I still don't believe Netflix knows me better than me. Then I watch the whole series because damnit, Netflix IS smarter than me. I also rearrange things. Makes me feel productive even if it's just rearranging books. | 2 |
AskReddit/cgmxlt5 | 22hnmt | How much control do you believe parents should have over their children's lives once their kids turn 18? | They should exert zero control. Any parent that has more than zero control, even in cases of residence, has either taken it (no good) or been given it (also no good) and they need to get out of that role before they defocus the kids life. As a father of a bunch, with 2 in their 20s, I stopped really telling them what t... | 3 |
AskReddit/cp82i6j | 2ybuzq | Have to gain twenty pounds in four days, what to eat? | There is no food you can eat that will give you a 20 lb weight gain in 4 days. Eat a huge meal before weigh in and swallow lead weights. If it's not a nude weigh in tape weights to your legs and/ abdomen. Seriously, don't swallow weights they might kill you. Just eat before the weigh in and try taping weights on. | 2 |
AskReddit/e7ja5wd | 9n37mi | Why is Japanese art and painting much more popular than Chinese art? | Keep in mind China has a population of 1.3 billion, so saying Popular is bold. Chines art is also selling for record prices due to wealthy Chines buying back artwork from the west. If the question is more about western taste in art, I think it would probably go back to the influence Japanise art started to have post-18... | 2 |
AskReddit/dws3gp1 | 89n18w | What's the grossest thing you'd do for $1 million? | To me, the issue isn't grossness but shame. $1m would be life-changing, and I'm not easily grossed out. But reputation matters and affects how I can live with that money after. So it really depends on who knows and how public it is. | 2 |
AskReddit/cvhucjd | 3mswwo | How did you get through a break-up where both people still loved/liked each other but life just pulled you apart? | I fell in love at 15 years old. Everyone told me that it was not real. I knew it was. I stayed with the girl until I was 18. We found out that we just wanted different things in life. After her, I found my current Fiance a couple months later. I've been with her ever since. Its been over 5 years now, since me and my fi... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/doy042c | 78zugu | Why out of certain glasses when you pour liquid out of them does the liquid stay to the side of the glass ? | Surface tension, viscosity and surface adhesion. Basically, liquids are sticky, so they wanna stick to the side of the glass. If you do that tilt the glass enough gravity won't be enough to peel the liquid away from the glass and it will run down the side instead of free falling. Once the liquid is running down the sid... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/c2yyu2u | m89vs | How do river rapids form? | For the same flow rate of open water (gallons per minute) there are two arrangements the water can take. One is a larger area and slower velocity (flat water) and one is a smaller area and faster velocity (rapids). l Rapids occur when the river floor is rough or has a steep change in elevation. The effect is called hyd... | 2 |
AskReddit/e5pfty3 | 9ejfed | What is something you wish you could experience for the first time again? | Traveling to a different country for the first time. Hearing everyone speak a different language, seeing everything in a different language, people dressing differently. it was so weird at first. Seeing different cultures in videos is one thing, but experiencing an entire different culture is another. It was a feeling ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c2byy1r | jgtbz | Why did my blackberry just start spying on me, I'm not even IN London? | Are you sure you didn't just start the voice recorded one day by accident, and it's actually been running since August 7? That's 5 days of recordings, it looks more like an accident than something deliberate - if anyone were spying on you, they wouldn't leave this kind of obvious evidence behind. Was your blackberry ch... | 5 |
AskReddit/d3i18zn | 4kv30s | What should more children be taught? | Empathy. If children are taught at a very early age how to understand the thoughts & feelings of other people before casting them off as bad, wrong, or stupid, then perhaps a lot of unnecessary conflict and/or intolerance could be avoided down the road. | 159 |
AskReddit/c9kx00p | 1cxht9 | What would happen if the police decided to deputize a superhero? | I think they'd be fine deputizing someone who's role doesn't conflict with them, like Aquaman. But I think the super hero genre has always had conflict between law enforcement and superheroes for the right reason, they don't operate within the law, and they aren't subordinate to the police hierarchy. They may both be o... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cdg9adu | 1qtbjc | How does wireless internet work? | The internet works by connecting you to other places (other computers, servers, etc). It is very similar to phones, but instead of sound, it is passing digital information. Just like you can generate your own "phone" connection, you can't generate your own internet. You have to connect to the net itself, otherwise ther... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ejkgdm0 | b6hb63 | If being dehydrated gives you a headache, why don’t we always wake up with a headache after 8 hours without water? | To add to the above comments, our bodies aren’t running at full capacity when asleep. A lot of brain functions and therefore bodily functions shut down or perform at a percentage of their day time capacity, so less calories and water are consumed by the body. In contract, 8 hours at work without water would leave plent... | 454 |
explainlikeimfive/cvkxxoy | 3n58s4 | What are birds doing when they fly around in crazy, beautiful, yet chaotic formations? | Different species of birds flock together for different reasons, so depending on what species you were looking at they could have been foraging for insects, or moving en masse for protection, warmth, aerodynamics, or as a mating behavior. The complex movements and formations they make are called murmurations, and it's ... | 2 |
AskReddit/d8nnd95 | 56zfl6 | What is the scariest night terror / sleep paralysis you've experienced? | When I moved into my new apartment a few years ago, the first night there I experienced sleep paralysis. I was facing the wall, but I could see a lump moving down the wall. This turned into a face. It started pushing out very slowly from the wall, getting closer and closer to mine. The best way I can describe it was th... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/cg3pd90 | 20j1ha | Can afflictions like ADHD, bipolar disorder, etc ever be completely cured? | In order to cure it, we have to know exactly what causes it. Right now, all we have is strong evidence that the introduction of other chemicals can help -- which is good, but not exactly what we need to know in order to really understand those types of disorders. Especially because not everything works all the time or ... | 4 |
AskReddit/c82mj8d | 175gen | What is the one book that shifted the way you think about the world? | To Kill A Mockingbird. I know everyone reads it in high school but I was far too young to understand the subtle and honest life lessons. Reading it again as an adult changed my perspective on how I treat others. It truly captures the way a child views the world if you read it at a younger age. But when you are old enou... | 2 |
AskReddit/ecdzcqu | a8urdg | What are some good pick up lines? | Ok it’s that time of year again, I get to tell this story. Now I will apologize upfront this is not a good pick up line. In fact this is the worst pick up line I’ve ever heard. It was the holidays and I lived in a small tourist ski town. Everyone I knew was going home to their families except me. Some friends had asked... | 38 |
AskReddit/cqzqd5r | 3509xr | Who was your favorite teacher and why? | My all time favorite was my 4th grade teacher. I was having emotional issues, so I got put in the slow class. I am a bright girl, but depression clouds intellect. I cried when I knew I was going to be in her class. It really helped me, though. I was quick to get my work done, so I got lots of praise and was able to hel... | 3 |
AskReddit/dcg40hg | 5o283w | What certain sound, smell, or touch immediately makes you feel negatively? | A crying baby. Idk what it is, it makes me cringe and my heart starts pounding and I feel like I can't breathe and I just want it to stop. Even on TV or movies. I have to mute it if there's a crying baby. The weird thing is I have a 6 year old and crying babies didn't bother me until after my son was past that crying a... | 3 |
AskReddit/c1n0dmq | gen85 | What happens with unclaimed lottery prize money when there is more than one winning ticket? | I'm not sure, but I would imagine the Lottery Commission gets to keep the unclaimed portion, just like any other. Let's say you and I win the big prize and we have 180 days to claim our prize. When you go to claim yours, you sign a statement agreeing to the amount and probably releasing the Lottery Commission from any ... | 2 |
AskReddit/ebyn1ne | a6wus6 | What is one of your favorite smells? | My mom’s house. I’ve not lived with her for a while, but I’m moving across the country next month and I’d do anything to bottle that smell and take it with me. Smells like cookies and memories and hugs. | 2 |
AskReddit/dexavlb | 5zdusx | What are some common scams that people still fall for? | Idk if this is scam. but my grandmother believes basically everything she reads on the internet. •Elvis is still alive and kicking. •there's people who will cut her debt in half by giving them your credit card info (not kidding-she did this)<scam worthy •basically everything you see on foxnews is her bible Edit: She th... | 3 |
AskReddit/c6k6y99 | 118boi | How does a girl know when a guy wants to be more than friends? | Is he breathing? He's into you. Re-watch "When Harry met Sally" pay particular attention to the Can guys and girls be friends conversation. It maybe a little direct for your values, but the statements are pretty true. | 3 |
AskReddit/cb9ylzx | 1j0wot | How could the education system, both grade school and post secondary, be changed to better help individuals find their passion/maximize their potential? | Additional funding to employ more teachers to reduce class size / improve teacher:student ratios. Better individualized attention means problems are identified earlier and addressed more quickly. Healthier food at school lunches so that students dont get after-lunch snoozles. Year-round schooling (trimesters) with mont... | 3 |
AskReddit/cxfmekh | 3ukmdm | What simple activity will teach you a lot? | Being by yourself and taking that opportunity to reflect. And by being by yourself, I mean distancing yourself from all possible distractions and forcing yourself to think. For me, I have to make a five hour road trip every few months. I take this time to reevaluate my habits, my friends, my goals, etc. If what I am do... | 4 |
AskReddit/dskowv7 | 7pww2r | What's your biggest driving pet peeve? | (USA) There is not a fast lane and a slow lane. There are traveling lanes and a passing lane. If someone passes you on the right you are in the wrong lane. If you are in the left lane and you're not passing anyone you are in the wrong lane. It is not your job to regulate the speed of the other drivers by sitting in the... | 2 |
AskReddit/dzf0myf | 8lekyd | What three songs by the same group/artist couldn't be more different? | Beatles: I Saw Her Standing There Within You Without You Helter Skelter I’m a huge Beatles fan, but actually not a huge fan of any of these songs. Still, you have to admit they do not sound like they’re coming from the same band at all. And to be fair Within You Without You is really just George Harrison and an arrange... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cybzyju | 3yb92a | How do Windows Registry Cleaners decide what to remove? | Some basic things right off the bat are references to .dll files that are no longer there. For example if you uninstalled a program and the registry had entries pointing towards a now removed .dll file that's considered useless. Another one would be having an entry that references a filetype that the cleaner determines... | 8 |
AskReddit/cb04srm | 1i1qgr | What has been the single most live changing event in your life thus far? | Being born. I used to stay inside all the time and do nothing. I was wasting my life away. I'd get a little exercise, kicking about a bit, but never really exploring the world around me. Then my Mom must have gotten tired of me. I planned on staying a year, but she wasn't having any of it. One day she just starts grunt... | 4 |
AskReddit/etree12 | cd49bl | Which Self-Improvment Book has really changed your life? | Personal finance has really been a big help. There are a bunch of books. Head over the r/personalfinance and read the wiki. Seven habits of highly effective people is great as well. Really changed my thinking in some regards. | 2 |
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