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What defines our unique taste for certain things that others don't share? And since we all have different likes/dislikes of food, how can we all know how one food tastes? Ex: how do we all know what cinnamon tastes like, but some like it and some don't? | [
"We may not actually be experiencing food the same way. Look at [cilantro](_URL_0_), for example. For some people (like me), cilantro smells and tastes savory and mouth-watering. For others, it tastes like *soap* of all things. As it turns out, cilantro contains a number of different chemicals, but not everyone can... | [
"It depends on the water. Some water can be metallic, or full of minerals. If you think about it, you have to compare what you are tasting to what something else tastes like. So water must taste like something else, and if it doesn't, it just tastes like water. Like, explain what salt tastes like without using the ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Where does the classic green tattoo colour come from? | [
"Please clarify: Are you talking about the blue-ish hue some black inks take after they sit for a while? Because I am not sure there is a \"classic green \" tattoo color."
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"So when and where did playing cards as we know them come into being anyways?"
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When we feel drowsy, why do our eyes lose focus first before any other senses? | [
"As a guy who has worked professionally as a sound engineer, I'll tell you, your hearing acuity goes just as soon, if not sooner. The difference is that most people don't rely on the detail-oriented parts of their hearing as much, at least not consciously, so you notice your eyes first. Have you ever noticed that w... | [
"If we haven't slept in a while, our eyes begin to hurt or itch. This is because, as humans, we rely heavily on our sense of sight. Because of this, our eyes get no rest while we are awake. Whether it's blinking, straining or simply focusing our sight, our eye muscles are constantly at work. When we sleep, we can f... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How come some materials like orange peels can work on my touchscreen phone but others won't? | [
"The touchscreen of your phone is most likely a capacitive one, which creates an electric field in the screen. Your body is electrically conductive, so it distorts that field when a part if it is very close to or especially when it is touching the screen, which is what the screen measures to sense the position of y... | [
"It is not to stop it from drying out. it is to stop it from leaving a mark on things you don't want to write on"
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What exactly is half-life? | [
"the amount of time it takes for half of the drug or medication to be eliminated (or inactivated) from the body simplified example: if you give 100mg of Drug X intravenously and after 1 hour your blood levels are 50mg, the half life is 1 hour... 25mg after 2 hrs... 12.5mg after 3"
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"Maybe let's start with: what is ring tone rap?"
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Why old monkeys don't have white fur? | [
"Old apes do get gray, starting with their heads, just not to the extent that humans do. Why? Your hair follicles makes two chemicals to feed the hair: catalase and hydrogen peroxide. The catalase breaks down the hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen*. When you stop producing catalase, you just have hydrogen per... | [
"Maybe on you, but the hair on the top of my head will never protect me from sunburn. You couldn't hide a gnat in it."
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The word "existential" | [
"Having to do with human existence - the nature of what makes people (are we physical beings, spiritual beings, both, or neither?) and what makes living things alive. It can pertain to questions about free will vs. fate and if there is a higher purpose of life."
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"Words like \"decriminalize\" are Latinate constructions; Latin through and through. The words \"head\" and also \"behead\" are old English; the \"be\" prefix denoted taking away. Another example is \"bereft\". edit: technically the \"ize\" in \"decriminalize\" is Greek."
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Why is Pluto no longer considered a planet. | [
"Astronomers began to look more closely at Pluto's area of the solar system about a decade ago. What they discovered is that there are other objects within the vicinity of Pluto's orbit that are the same size or even larger than Pluto itself. After calling a meeting to determine the official discriptor for Pluto, a... | [
"An Exoplanet is a planet that is not in our solar system. The Goldilocks Zone is the zone around a Star that liquid water can exist on a planet."
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How does the cord of my earphones get all tangled up in several impossible knots? | [
"Entropy man. It takes more energy to keep something \"clean\" or \"arranged\" than it does to let it go to chaos and become a mess. Put a bunch of strings in a box and shake it. Things will get tangled up quickly, and take more time/energy from you to untie/unknot the item(s). User /u/crnaruka answered this best i... | [
"I used to tangle the cord by answering the phone with my left and hanging it up with my right. That put a half twist in the cord every time."
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Why aren't polygamist rights treated similarly to gay rights? | [
"Polygamy is a far more complicated change - to make polygamy work, you have to rewrite every law about what a marriage is, what the rights connected to it are, and so on. For example, if A, B and C are all married to each other, what happens when they divorce? Does each get 1/3 of the household income paid to them... | [
"Liberals believe that government should use it's power to promote social good & equality. Libertarians believe that government should do as little as possible. Liberals are pro-abortion because they believe in a woman's right to choose. Libertarians are pro-abortion because they don't think government should be ag... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What happens to lotion after it is applied to our skin? | [
"The water evaporates, and leaves behind oils. Dry skin is a misnomer, much like dry chicken. It is the lack of oil (lubrication) that makes something dry."
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"Doing so removes the protective layer of oils that your skin secretes. Allowing even more water to evaporate and dry out your lips."
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Who sets (and maintains) the criteria for sanity? In other words, who has the authority to decide the definition of a sane person and why as a species do we accept this definition? | [
"There is no official definition for sanity within psychology/psychiatry. There is just the DSM IV (Diagnostic Statistical Manual iirc) which defines plenty of things/behaviours/symptoms as insane. If no description from the catalogue of insanity fits, people are considered 'sane'. If someone arrives in a psych war... | [
"A sane person can be reasonably expected to know the laws of the country, state and city they are in. An insane person is not held to the same standard."
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Why do birds seem to wait until the last moment before they fly in front of a car? | [
"Because that's when the car gets close enough that the bird thinks it needs to escape. It doesn't know that cars move in mostly straight lines, so even though it might see it coming from far away, it has no reason to expect that it will continue moving straight towards it. It flies in front of the car because that... | [
"Birds poop everywhere. You only notice the poop on your car. Now if you park under a tree or other place birds sit, try not doing that."
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The relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico. | [
"Puerto Rico is subject to American federal laws, and formally ruled by the President. Any autonomy is granted by the U.S. Congress. It has it's own Constitution, but it is subject to the American constitution. They have no representatives in Congress or Senate, and can't vote in any U.S. federal (or state) electio... | [
"The main reason is because of the religious background of the United States."
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; why white caps of waves appear to be frozen in time, when flying over the ocean shore. | [
"The farther away you are from something the slower it appears to be moving. Kind of like how the sun doesn't appear to be moving at all yet it is, at an astonishing speed even. This principle is what the paralax effect is based on."
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"same way you can see a forest when your in it. The thin streak you see is the rest of the disk relative to us."
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What will happen to the EU if the flow of refugees continiues completely unobstructed? | [
"Not much. The EU has a total population of 500 million. So far only 4.2 Million Syrians have fled the country and most of them have gone to Turkey or Jordan or Lebanon with only a tiny fraction ending up in the EU. If all of these refugees decided to move to the EU instead they would still make up less than 1% of ... | [
"Its a bigger catastrophe in Europe. Greece and Spain, in particular, are suffering severe social crisis because it it. European countries, however, have stronger social safety net programs than the US does. This means being unemployed in Europe isn't as financially devastating to the unemployed person as in the US... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do broccoli flowers/crowns seem to repel water? | [
"The spines of a broccoli crown aren't very absorbent, and the surface tension causes the water to flow off of it rather than get trapped inside the spines."
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"I am no botanist, but I would guess that because they look fragile and might get smacked to death by raindrops, they have evolved to close up when rain starts hitting them."
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Why do (most) people enjoy being warm but not cold? | [
"Cold things absorb heat. Hot things give off heat. Our bodies are warm, we give off heat into the air. That's why skin naturally feels warm to you. If the air is cold it keeps sucking our body heat, our bodies need to keep using energy to make more heat which keeps getting sucked away. This is uncomfortable. The a... | [
"Maybe they're stereotyped as being more gullible or they're seen as more likely to be bored with nothing to do but look at their phones all day. Just a guess. Not meant to be offensive."
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American Football head trauma/concussions vs Boxing | [
"The real difference is the intensity of the impact. In boxing you are hit by a single padded hand. The boxers muscles are mostly to accelerate your hand and glove up to speed and to follow through, but little is applied during the actual punch due to rebound. Kinetic Energy = (1/2)(Mass)(Velocity^2). A strong p... | [
"Different form of contact, football you tend more to lead with your head were rugby you try and protect yourself more as the tackler. Sports science did a good episode on the actual force applied in a tackles for both. The equipment allows you too use more force because it cushions the blow to the tackler. sports ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does mortgaging a property in Monopoly relate to my real world mortgage? | [
"When you get a mortgage on something, you're basically taking a loan out with the promise that if you can't pay it, you will pay with the property you mortgaged. This is not quite the same as monopoly as you will not need to give the monopoly property back to the bank, but it is similar in that you will generally ... | [
"I think a better question for this topic might be what is national debt and how does it translate into a monetary amount."
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Why don't two different velocities add together? | [
"Well in general that's how it works, or at least that's a useful simplification for how it works at at speeds you are used to. The reason it doesn't ACTUALLY work like that is because light is the ultimate speed limit. The actual formula for adding velocities is more complicated then should be posted here but it c... | [
"You actually can't do this! The way you'd do it would be to measure the velocity of the other photon from the rest frame of the first photon. However photons have no rest frames! So the answer unfortunately is undefined."
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How come when I'm out in the cold (shoveling snow) my hands feel freezing, turn red and start to feel warm? | [
"Your body is providing more blood to that area it's deeming too cold (your hands). The extra blood brings extra warmth, thereby you starting to feel warmer in your hands."
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"It's just like, one single \"taste bud\" that gets all angry and swells up - not friggin huge, but bigger than the rest, and it feels all sensitive. I get them after acidic foods - oranges, tomatoes, pineapple. When I was a kid, I'd just pinch them off with my fingernails; it hurt like hell for a minute but they w... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it cheaper to imprison someone for life than to give them the death penalty? | [
"People who receive the death penalty are entitled to an extensive appeal process which can be very expensive. People who are imprisoned for life are not given the same privilege. This is because killing someone is an irreversible act and we don't want to make mistakes (Unfortunately we still do). The appeal proces... | [
"Because they are convicted of multiple crimes, each one is bad enough on its own to earn a life sentence. This way, if one of the counts is overturned later, they still serve life for the others."
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Why do I always enjoy a good song more if it happens to come on the radio than if I listen to it on my phone or computer? | [
"I've always felt it's because it's a shared experience. You know that hundreds/thousands of other people are listening to the same thing as you and that makes it more exciting."
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"So people can choose to repeat a single song, or repeat an entire album, library, playlist, whatever. Some people like to just listen to the same song over and over again, I guess."
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How Spotify makes money? | [
"Advertisements or from people who subscribe to premium service."
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"Advertising, selling info, and premium versions of the free stuff."
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What is the difference between programs and algorithms? | [
"An algorithm is just a collection of instructions to do something. But that's pretty abstract, it's not tied to the specific way its done. For example there's a maze solving algorithm that goes like this: \"Whenever you reach an intersection in the maze, take an unmarked path at random if available, then mark it. ... | [
"It has a few different meanings in different contexts. What setting are we talking about?"
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Why does vinegar get rid of odors? | [
"Vinegar is produced by fermenting something with acid-producing bacteria. These bacteria produce acetic acid to the point that it eventually kills them. The result is you have an acidic liquid that kills bacteria. Bacteria is responsible for most unpleasant odors, so when you smother it with vinegar, the bacteria... | [
"I believe because the vinegar makes the water solution too acidic for most bacteria to survive in."
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How do celebrity endorsements actually help the marketing of anything? | [
"If you see your favorite celebrity using a product you're gonna want to buy that product so you can be more like that celebrity. Buy a Kia and you're a step closer to being Lebron."
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"Sponsoring is a form of advertising and creating positive PR. Coca Cola sponsors sport events, for example. Sport has nothing to do with soft drinks, but that is not important. It is important to sponsor whatever events is attended by your target market."
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Why is it that birds can fly with wings and humans can't? | [
"Too heavy and our arms are not strong enough. Note that flying birds have MASSIVE chest muscles relative to their size. These are used to flap the wings. Additionally, they are very light weight, with adaptations such as hollow bones."
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"Because instinctively if we can't move we can't escape danger"
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Why doesn't aluminum foil get hot after being in the oven at 400F | [
"It's very thin and wide, meaning it has a lot of surface area with radiate heat away but not a lot of mass to hold that heat. It does get hot it's just that it cools off incredibly quickly."
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"The reason is that it takes time for the earth to heat up, and the balance of daylight in July and August is still perfectly capable of heating the earth. Imagine you have a frozen pizza. You preheat your oven to 400 degrees and put it in. Every 5 minutes, you drop the oven temperature 100 degrees. So after 5 minu... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is that "distinctly human element" of chess that prevents computer chess engines from truly being unbeatable? | [
"As far as i'm aware, chess computers crossed into the realm of unbeatable long ago."
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"Most cant do it well. Its hard to tell between a computer player and a human player, humans react more to the momentum of a position than computers do. Still, high level players are not going to be easy to tell from computers."
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How does the technology in song-identifying apps like SoundHound and Shazam work? | [
"I believe MP3 encoding algorithms convert sound waves to Fourier transforms. These are much easier to database and then Shazaam performs fourier transformation on the song you are \"listening\" to and compares to the database... or something of that sort."
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"Most companies want you to pay streaming fees for services like Apple Music and google play."
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how are penis enlargement pills not false advertising and therefore illegal? | [
"If something doesn't work, people tend to ask for their money back. And they may get it. But for the illegal part, you'd have to prove that in a court of law -- which means being able to show a pattern that their product doesn't work. That means you have to have testimony from customers who did not get the results... | [
"No it's a scam. From previous thread - What they don't tell you, is that with the pills you get also a pump. Which brings blood to your penis, and the pill being a chemical that temporary helps that process. So it is technically a penis enlargement pill, the same ways as Viagra is."
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Why does going the speed limit save gas? | [
"1) Increasing air resistance. According to CNN, \"Pushing air around actually takes up about 40% of a car's energy at highway speeds. Traveling faster makes the job even harder...The increase is actually exponential, meaning wind resistance rises much more steeply between 70 and 80 mph than it does between 50 and ... | [
"Why do some parts of the world call gasoline petrol?"
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What will happen to Hong Kong in 2047 | [
"Right now, it is *not* independent like Singapore or Taiwan, and unless there's a **big** change in Beijing, it won't ever be. It is difficult to predict how firm the grip the Communist Party has on power will be by 2047, but if nothing changes then yes, it's supposed to become like the other areas. It might still... | [
"How do you know they will run out of oil in 50 years?"
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When a bank is robbed, do the people/companies get reimbursed by an insurance company or the bank for all of their money that has been lost? | [
"When a bank is robbed it is not the customers of the bank that is robbed. The bank still owes their customers the money they had deposited no matter what happens. The bank may have insurance to protect against bank robberies or they might be able to foot the bill themselves. If the bank is not able to pay back the... | [
"Debit cards pull funds directly from your bank account to pay for your purchases. By contrast, credit cards work by having the bank pay *their* money for the purchase, and then you paying them back. So if your debit card is compromised by a card skimmer or something, people can take money directly out of your acco... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why does workman's compensation rep want to come ro my Dr appt?? | [
"The workers comp person will have access to your medical records; I don't see any good reason for her to be physically present at your appointment other than to try to influence the process. I would tell her politely that you would prefer your visit to be just you and your doctor, and to leave third parties out of... | [
"Because they want you to go to your doc and say \"is propecia right for me?\""
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What is adverse possession and why should it be abolished? | [
"Imagine you decide you want to put a fence around your yard. You build your fence along what you believe is the property line. You enjoy your fence for a long time, in fact you even build a deck off of your house that extends to this fence. Later you enclose part of this deck, it's basically an extension of your h... | [
"Procedural Due Process = Did the government go through the correct *procedures* when depriving you of your life, liberty or property? Example: if you were thrown in prison for life without being given a trial, this violates PDP. Substantive Due Process: Does the government have adequate *reason* to deprive you of... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If I know the exact contents of an encrypted file, can I create a decryption key? | [
"What you're describing is basically a [known-plaintext attack](_URL_0_): if you have a plaintext and a ciphertext, can you figure out what the encryption key is. Modern encryption systems like AES aren't known to be susceptible to this kind of attack. So, if the ransomware is using AES or something similar, then t... | [
"The software installer has a secret function that takes the key you type in and manipulates it to produce a result. If the result is good, then the installer proceeds. The point is that you can't easily guess what the secret function does, so you can't make up your own keys. Random keys will fail. But, if someone ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why was it so easier to hear conversation in old movies compared to modern movies? | [
"Those old classics have monaural sound and the dialogue is mixed up front. Everything is tightly focused into one channel and doesn't have the exaggeratingly \"graded\" dynamics of modern surround sound (which, by the way, didn't become the standard until the '90s). Modern movies are meant to be played LOUD on a m... | [
"Because in a lot of ways it is no different than fast-forwarding through commercials on TV or going to the bathroom when they play."
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The purpose of the states roll call during the Republican National Convention | [
"Long ago, the convention was where the nominee was decided, not the primaries. So when they did the roll call, they were literally voting to decide who would become the nominee. In some conventions, they would have to take several roll calls because no clear decision would be made the first time. Under the curren... | [
"Do you mean the election campaigns, or the policies of his office?"
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Why can something be waterproof, but only for a certain amount of time? What happens after the nth minute that suddenly negates any waterproofing? | [
"Without knowing what you're talking about specifically, it's hard to say. But a guess would be that the object has an outer skin, which water will slowly permeate through. While the water is penetrating the skin, the components inside will stay dry and safe (and the skin will be able to dry through evaporation onc... | [
"Imagine a sink, you can pour a bucket of water in every five minutes and the pipes are well and capable enough so that there is no overflow. The sink is not capable of handling six buckets at once to account for a half hour break. You've probably heard the dose makes the poison. A high enough concentration of dang... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why eating at home and making your own food is better for you than eating unhealthy food if you track the calories/fat/sodium/ect.. content | [
"They often aren't, but the main problem with eating out would be consistency of portions. If Bob from Chipotle gives you 150g of guac, and Sam from Chiptole gives you 230g of guac, you may not realize the difference in portion size, but Chipotle's calorie counter online might list guac as a 100g side, and both peo... | [
"Post the nutritional facts and the quantity you are eating if you want a real answer. But you are likely consuming too much sodium and carbohydrates while not getting all of the vitamins and minerals your body needs."
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Why are most modern houses built with wood frames? | [
"Wood is popular because it's inexpensive, quickly and easily assembled, allows for relatively large amounts of insulation (within the hollow spaces), and they're strong enough to survive many common weather/geologic issues while better, more expensive materials have little effect on the home's ability to survive r... | [
"Middle eastern homes don’t have to deal with the snowfall. The flat roof also helps with collecting rain water. In places that get snow they have V shapes so the snow slides off and doesn’t build up on the roof and cause it to collapse. Thirdly is material. A lot of middle eastern homes are made of brick, with tim... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people like Mosh Pits? | [
"It started in the 70s and 80s at punk shows, where people's dancing got wilder and wilder, and eventually got to where people were slamming into each other. It kind of went from there. It was originally called mashing, but it turned into moshing because that's the way the singer from Bad Brains, who had a Jamaican... | [
"Why do British people say mate or git?"
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Why, when ironing, it takes infinitely longer than the rest of the entire garment to iron out a crease you accidentally create? | [
"When this happens to you, use the spray button on your iron and dampen the crease then iron it. It'll come right out."
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why we count years in terms of C.E. and B.C.E. | [
"The Roman Catholic Church, which controlled a major portion of the civilized world for over a thousand years, adopted the Julian Calendar, which is similar to the calendar that we have today. They started counting from the supposed birth of Jesus, calling the new period AD and the period before his birth as BC. T... | [
"A.D. Is not after death. There would be time missing in between where Christ was alive. It mean anno Domino (in the year of the Lord). Edit: Towards the end of high school teachers began using B.C.E. which stands for Before Common Era. C.E. can be used in place of A.D. for Common Era."
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why a flat tax wouldn't work in America | [
"because the less you make the more of your money goes to basic necessities. so a flat tax would be unfair to these people (the majority of America)"
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"minimum wage is all you need to make a living in America?"
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I was asked about Ethical Egoism the other day and didn't have a very good answer even after reading wikipedia; what does it mean? | [
"Ethical egoism is the idea that right and wrong are dependent only on self-interest. That is, it's right for me to do things that are good for me, and it's wrong for me to do things that are bad for me. The effects of my actions on *other* people aren't relevant."
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"This is a really broad question; I think I'd have to write at least a short book to give a remotely complete answer. Is there something more specific you wanted to know?"
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Why people prefer to say that they're 'Marxist' rather than 'communist'? | [
"Marxism is a philosophy while communism is an economic system. Think of Marxism like the blueprint of a house while communism is like the finished house. The Marxism blueprint has been used to make several communist houses, but all of those houses have been structurally unstable and most of them have collapsed. Ma... | [
"They're called Communist because they're run by the Communist Party. Nobody with any knowledge of China actually considers it to be communist or to be moving towards communism. It's misleading and annoys a lot of communists."
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Why are all of the most-viewed videos on sites like PornHub currently incest related? [NSFW] | [
"I am no expert but, people tend to want to satisfy their curiosity and that includes delving into the taboo."
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"Basically because there are just a few players that own it all. MindGeek owns over 20 pornographic websites; It is the owner of many major Pornographic video sharing web 2.0 websites in the now so called Pornhub network including YouPorn, Pornhub, Tube8, XTube, RedTube, ExtremeTube, GayTube, KeezMovies, SpankWire,... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are the world's deserts where they are/not at the equator? | [
"Deserts are less about sheer temperature as they are about aridity. Rainfall patterns are influenced mostly by air currents. The way air circulates around the planet causes particularly dry air in bands 30 degree off the equator, which is where you'll find most deserts."
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"That didn't happen. There was more ice at both poles. However the effects of the ice age on the Antarctic Ocean aren't as clear as the ice effects on landmasses in the northern hemisphere. Patagonia and Tasmania had ice ages, they just weren't as severe because they are much farther from the south pole than Canada... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What actually happens when a young mans voice 'breaks' during puberty? | [
"Girls' voices break, too. During puberty, your whole body grows at a rapid pace. That includes your larynx. It thickens and elongates. But when it's at a \"transitional\" size, it doesn't vibrate as steadily as it did when you were smaller. You grow into it. And when you get old, the larynx loses some flexibility,... | [
"Men have more testosterone which increases the size of the Adam's apple which lengthens the vocal cords which deepens the voice"
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if there have been over 2000 nuclear bombs detonated since 1945 (for testing purposes) why isn't "Nuclear Winter" already a reality? | [
"Also, a lot of those bombs were detonated underground/underwater, which doesn't cause nearly as much particulate fallout as bombs detonated above ground."
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"The tests have been conducted in mostly a select few, remote locations. You basically bombed what already was bombed. And most tests were conducted after the nations agreed to ban open air tests. Underwater and Underground tests create less fallout. Still the tests have indeed caused a lot of ecological damage, it... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do politicians want to ban encryption? | [
"SOME people who fight crimes/terrorism thinks that a better society means a society where we can monitor everything. Because if we can monitor everything we can fight all crimes. Fortunately some guy thought of this plan a long time ago and wrote a scifi novel to make people understand what an utterly bad idea thi... | [
"Politicians are receiving to much money under the table to legalize them."
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What's the difference between 'www3.' and 'www.' website urls? | [
"It's difficult to give a comprehensive answer here, but the thing is that there's nothing to stop the people responsible for the site having whatever they like in place of the www - convention dictates that your web server is called _URL_3_ in order to distinguish it from other servers that might also live there (... | [
"You can. The http:// is always there whether it's displayed or not, because it needs to identify the protocol, but buying a domain like _URL_2_ gives you the ability to add any subdomain you want. www is just the default for most world wide web servers, but there's no reason you can't configure it to be little._UR... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does white noise help people sleep? | [
"Helps me sleep because in a silent room, my tinnitus is deafening. Try sleeping with a loud ringing that you can't dig out with an icepick."
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"We don't need to close our eyes when we sleep, it just helps block out distractions, which in turn helps us fall asleep faster."
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Why are diamonds cut the way they are? If they are so expensive doing so diminishes its volume hence worth? | [
"In a sense, I guess I'd say it's the same reason why the statue of David is worth more than the chunk of marble Michelangelo carved it out of. Generally speaking, diamonds are priced by the karat, which, for diamonds, is a weight measurement equivalent to [.2 grams](_URL_0_). However, the value of a diamond is als... | [
"No, in fact lab diamonds are more pure than natural diamonds. However, one of the reasons that diamonds are valuable is because people believe that they are rare and hard to find. Because lab diamonds don't fit this mold, demand for them is lower, dropping the price."
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Why don't police make suspects take a lie detector test to see if he/she actually committed the crime they are suspected of? | [
"b/c they are not reliable and the results are not admissible in court, so that would be a waste of time/money."
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"I'm not 100% sure it's legal to refuse to respond at a police checkpoint. But if it is, it's due to the 5th amendment to our Constitution, which says \"(no person) shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself\". Basically, you can't be forced to say you've committed a crime. That being s... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can solids keep its form if the atoms that make it up are constantly moving? | [
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"Think of the three basic phases of matter: Solids are fixed in shape and volume; their molecules are held close to one another, and not free to move. Liquids are fixed in volume, but not shape; their molecules are held close to one another, but are still free to move. Gasses are fixed in neither volume nor shape... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Freedom of Information Requests | [
"It is public, by request. Nothing is seeing anyone from getting it aside from simply asking for it. At least, that's my understanding"
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"Be sure to check out our Booklist! _URL_0_"
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The difference between active and inactive ingredients in medication, hygiene products etc. | [
"In medication (according to the FDA): **Active ingredient:** Any component that provides pharmacological activity or other direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or animals. **Inactive ingredient:** Any co... | [
"Perhaps it is a preservative in bottled juice. Check ingredient list."
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Why is it that most palm trees in Santa Monica slant toward the ocean, when thats the direction the wind comes from? | [
"The ocean's large reflective surface area and lack of light blocking structures create an opportunity for the plant/tree life to receive more sun by angling toward it, so they naturally grow toward this surface as time passes to harness more of the suns energy."
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"The local climate depends on the locale. To be serious Arizona is in the middle of the continent and has a low rainfall. Florida is a peninsula surrounded by ocean on both sides. It can rain every day in the afternoon in Florida which you would never know when looking at advertisements for Florida vacations. There... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How are late night TV infomercials beneficial to companies? | [
"It’s cheap airtime compared to most of the day, and allows product or brand exposure for much longer time segments."
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"They are selling things, just not to you. Just because you're not a member of their targeted demographic doesn't mean their commercials are pointless."
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Why do some bands have many many singles off of an album released for radio airplay, but other bands usually only ever seem to have like one or maybe two? | [
"What makes a good single and what makes a good album are different things. For the radio or MP3 shuffle, a song should be less than 4 minutes and make sense on its own. For an album, the songs are supposed to be played in a certain order, and combine to tell a story. A good example is Pink Floyd's *The Wall*. The... | [
"The value add provided by these compilations is mixing and matching tracks from a variety of sources. They pay the original artist $x for the rights to have it on their album. Then they charge you $x+a little bit extra on the compilation album. Depending on the genre compilation albums are a great way to get a doz... | eli5_question_answer | {
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"not for individual resale" or "not to be sold separately" - how do manufacturers legally impose this on retailers? | [
"The problem is that generally those types of products are sold in a bundle, and the bundle has its own packaging and labeling that meets the legal requirements for what needs to be on the packaging. The individual items within the bundle may not be properly labeled individually, and therefore would be illegal to s... | [
"They do that to avoid running afoul of manufacturer set minimum prices. Manufacturers of premium goods, generally sell them in expensive retail outlets (with skilled sales staff). If customers go to the store and take lots of staff time to make a decision but buy on a cheaper Amazon the retailers will go broke, an... | eli5_question_answer | {
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whats that on the chocolate ? | [
"Milk skin or lactoderm refers to a sticky film of protein that forms on top of milk and milk-containing liquids (such as hot chocolate and some soups). It is caused by the denaturation of proteins such as beta-lactoglobulin (whey protein). _URL_0_"
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"Follow up question- how do people see me in the street: handsome mirror timaldinho or burn that photograph timaldinho?"
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why do we spend trillions of dollars exploring out of space while we have only discovered less then 5% of our ocean | [
"You can do a lot more interesting science in space than at the bottom of the ocean. Also, NASA's spent less than $800 billion, inflation adjusted, over it's entire existence, including aerodynamics and basic research on Earth."
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"I've always been intrigued by the idea of intelligent life if you think about it there's supposed to be like 6 different cataclysms that has virtually wiped out life on our planet but us being surface dwellers would be the ones that felt the brute force of the cataclysm versus something deep at the bottom of the s... | eli5_question_answer | {
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the point of view of those in favor of and opposed to dog breeding | [
"Pro: If I am going to commit to caring for a dog for the next 10-15 years, I should be able to get the dog I want, and breeds give me a good idea what kind of dog a puppy is going to grow into. Con: There are thousands, if not millions of dogs that are euthanized every year because no one wants them. Every dog cre... | [
"Because, as a policy, there is little impetus to change it, and what impetus there is is mostly from people with little political power. An often overlooked characteristic of such a policy is that, in it's simplest form, it exempts anyone with no income from fines."
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What do scientists mean when they say all we know and see is really just an illusion? | [
"Your brain gets signals from your senses (eyes, ears, nose, tactile) via nerves and interprets these signals in a such a way that your consciousness (which somehow lives within your brain) perceives reality. So *you* (actually, your consciousness, whatever that may be) does not experience reality first-hand, but o... | [
"We don't. But it doesn't matter. The mathematical models that describe these things allow us to predict observable outcomes that are incredibly accurate. Everything could be a quantum probably field or a vivid hallucination of the mind. But until a more accurate model exist to explain what we experience we'll keep... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The difference between a humidifier and a vaporizer | [
"A humidifier is a device that adds humidity to the air, through evaporation. A vaporizer is a type of humidifier, that instead of waiting for the water to evaporate, shoots hot air with atomized water into it the air. This creates zones where the water content exceeds 100% humidity, and briefly condenses back into... | [
"Cold air is dry air. You may be able to make the nosebleeds stop by getting a humidifier for your home, or at least for your bedroom."
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Is there any sort of evolutionary advantage to our heads/necks being shaped such that we require a pillow to sleep comfortably? | [
"We don't require a pillow. You can sleep on a flat hard surface with no pillows at all. Comfort we have now is a modern invention."
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"Not an expert, but it probably has to do with our walking upright and needing large butt muscles for balance."
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How close is the connection between reddit and imgur? | [
"It was created to host images used on Reddit, which is still its main purpose today. However, some people only go on imgur. I know a girl in a class I had who was browsing Imgur, I saw that the images were the daily popular Reddit posts, so I asked her if she's on Reddit, but she had no clue what Reddit was."
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"I was under the assumption that reddit was international. If that is the case why is a counterpart needed?"
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What would happen if I gave up my country citizenship and refuse to take up any other? | [
"Most countries will not let you give up your citizenship if you aren't a citizen of any other country. That said, some people do end up stateless. Being stateless does not give you any special ability to cross borders without a visa or ID. Quite the opposite, it would make crossing national borders very difficult.... | [
"Yes you can. Depends on whether each country you're a citizen of allows it. But if they do, and you are eligible for citizenship, there's no particular reason you can't have any number of citizenships."
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How come Facebook has no direct competitors. | [
"Facebook DOES have direct competitors, it just beats them. Here's why: even though the ToS of Facebook is stupidly crazy, so many people are on Facebook that it's hard to leave. Would you go to a \"better\" party, if you were the only one there? No. You wouldn't. You would stay at your shitty party and hang with a... | [
"Because if the best Apps are blocked, there's less reason for someone to buy the phone."
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Why police can shut down concerts.. | [
"There are a plethora of reasons police could shut down an event like that, something like a threat or hazard, maybe to many people in one spot etc. It would be up to the venue to refund the customers if they so chose."
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"It's still going on but isn't getting the same level of attention is was a few years back. According to the news, they've moved on to Iranian vessels."
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Why do I get an erection every time after I eat? | [
"Don't have an explanation. Never happened to me. But wow, this really interests me :D Never heard of a condition like that before"
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"Why do the glands in my neck burn like high hell when I'm holding back tears?"
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Why were there tons of super giant creatures like dinosaurs a few million years ago, but there aren't now? Why did everything shrink in scale? Even a lot of bugs were much bigger then. Did Earth's gravity change? | [
"The prevailing theory is that our atmosphere had a lot more oxygen in it at the time (right now it's just over 20%). This let animals grow larger, especially with the scale of insects. Since most of them don't have a true respiratory system, they take in oxygen through their skin/exoskeletons. By having more O2 in... | [
"An ecosystem with 0 species is not an ecosystem anymore. It's a dead rock, and the Earth in that position would not sustain itself like it does now. We care because we appear to be driving species extinct much more quickly than those past mass-extinction events. Even the impact that took out the dinosaurs wasn't i... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do video game speed-runners develop their strategy for beating a game so quickly? | [
"Practice, for the most part. When you run the same area of a game 100 times a day, you tend to get good at it. In all of those attempts, you're gonna try different things, maybe because you're looking for a faster way and maybe because you're just bored. If you realize that you can cut across a gap by doing a cert... | [
"Game Developers have tried to make games realistic, but it turns out that doing so makes the game significantly less fun to play. So game developers nudge a lot of things away from reality to make them more fun. About the only place games are realistic these days are the gun models."
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When looking from the Moon, why does the Earth appear the same size as the Moon from viewed from Earth? | [
"It does not. Your premise is false. Earth seen from the Moon is much larger than the Moon seen from Earth. [source](_URL_0_) Looking at a photo you can't tell one way or the other, because the apparent size depends on the length of lens used and on how the photo was enlarged."
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"The picture was taken when the Sun was down. The Earth is brightest because it's the planet nearest to Mars, and it's lit up because of reflected light. The brightest object in our night sky (other than the Moon) is usually Venus for basically the same reasons."
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The current coup d'état in Egypt | [
"Hank Green of the vlogbrothers posted a video walking through the Egyptian situation - it's very comprehensive and easy to follow, with reading provided in the video description. _URL_0_"
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"Portugal's 1974 Carnation Revolution, that put an end to over 40 years of a Catholic para-fascist corporativist dictatorship. It was ran by insurgents in the Portuguese Army but these never used their guns. The State's Secret Police eventually fired over about 5 people but ended up surrendering without exchanging ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why are amazons (or any company's) servers/scripts named with seemingly jibberish names like _URL_0_ (1)? | [
"Typically this is done automatically as part of the build pipeline to facilitate caching. Next time a build is completed the bundled scripts/css will be combined in a file with a different name. Since it has a different name the browser won’t find it in cache and will pull down this new version from the server"
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"Just an artifact of the formerly used duplication process. It used to be a [cyanotype](_URL_0_)."
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In football, why does it always seem like the defense can lock down the last 10 yards, in a manner they couldn't seem to up until that point? | [
"Same amount of guys. Way less area to cover. It's a simple madder of player density"
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"Football is very much the game of inches. Rushing the ball is slow and takes a lot out of your players, but its consistent. You are going to gain yardage, and as long as you can get first down its progress. Throwing the ball is risky if its an incomplete pass there is no progress, and if your QB gets sacked you lo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do certain foods (like cookies) go soft when they've been in the cupboard a while, but other foods like bread become hard? | [
"Breads and cakes go \"hard\" because the moisture in the air actually crystallizes the structure. Cookies on the other hand are much drier and the absorption of water from the air adds moisture to their structure and causes it to re-bond with pliable connections. That's why stale cookies are softer but pliable. A... | [
"because you're going to eat it. Cooked meat can be dangerous if you leave it in the fridge for a few weeks. Just like raw meat. The difference is that if you put raw meat in the freezer, you can save it for a few months. Cooked meat can be left in the fridge for a couple days, but still is subject to rotting. Bein... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can blind peoble "feel" colors? | [
"I have not heard of blind people \"feeling\" colors, but I did recently hear about a study that showed blind people could still identify emotions in photographs of people. _URL_0_ While most of the sensory input goes to the visual cortex which is the part of the brain that lets us see things, some information may ... | [
"People who are not color blindness can see details with color and patterns etc, but colorblind people cant see the colors so the only thing they can foucus on is the pattern and size, shape, and therefore they can notice patterns faster than non colorblind people. EDIT: You can kind of say that color blind people ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What does some of the lingo for reddit stand for? Like TIL or NSFW? | [
"TIL=Today I learned NSFW= not safe for Work SFW=safe for Work HIF(W)=How I feel (when)..... MRW=My reaction when EDIT: ELI5=explain like Im 5 NSFL= not save for life TIFU=today I fucked up TL,DR=to long, didnt read. Edit^2:^grammar"
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"It would help if instead of something like: The Five-Year-Old's Guide to the Galaxy, A collection of the greatest explanations from this subreddit. Comment to suggest additions. read **The search bar is your friend. ↑↑↑ LOOK, IT'S RIGHT UP THERE! ↑↑↑** **Things you don't have to ask, they've already been answered... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When we get tired, what is that pleasant sensation we get when we close our eyes? Why do we get it? | [
"Do you mean...*why does getting ready to sleep feel good when we're tired?*"
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"You will yawn as your body tries its hardest to stay awake. Yawning helps you absorb as much oxygen in the air. Whereas as you're trying to sleep, your body is has to be rested and relaxed so you tend not to yawn when you're lying in bed."
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Why do they put tar and other harmful chemicals they advertise about in cigarettes? What's the difference between smoking a cig and smoking just tobacco without the tar and chemicals? | [
"Tar is part of the tobacco, that's true - but there are hundreds of other chemicals that are added to to cigarettes. The big tobacco companies claim that these additives make the cigarettes more flavorful and provide a more pleasurable smoking experience. Others have argued that they make cigarettes more addictive... | [
"You *can't* make it healthy. Almost all of the bad shit comes from burning plant matter, not specifically that it's tobacco or any of the additives. If you were smoking pine needles or cotton, you'd have most of the same problems."
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EL15: The European royal families | [
"Why were the royal families of so many countries related? Simple, royalty marries royalty. When there is nobody to marry in your own country you go looking abroad. In the past there was also a lot of politics involved."
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"The other four are simply a repeat of the last four on the front"
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How is it possible to hear multiple sounds at once? Since sound is vibration of the air/your ear drum, shouldn't the vibrayions combine into one single vibration? | [
"The 'one single vibration' you hear is the sum of the vibrations at each frequency. Your ear has a variety of little hairs, all of which are tuned to resonate only within a specific frequency range. The combination of which hairs are vibrating and the amplitude of their vibration allows you to discriminate between... | [
"Well, when you say sound waves what do you mean? I think you mean the vibration of a medium, be it air, door, water, etc. So I guess looking at your question, it's never the original sound once it's left your throat. Or it's always the original sound, because that causes everything to vibrate, regardless whether t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If your skin cells are constantly regenerating, why does a mole, freckle, birthmark, etc. generally stay with you for life? | [
"Moles exist because the cells DNA has mutated to become a mole. These cells continue to divide with the same mole DNA so the mole won't go away. If you remove all the cells that make up a mole it won't come back. Not sure if freckles a d birthmarks operate the same way. Probably do. I bet if you cut off a birthmar... | [
"Moles can, but don't always, have an increased network of blood vessels associated with them. Another common feature some moles can have is an increased number of hair follicles growing out of them. So nothing too out of the ordinary in your case, I would hazard. One thing to keep an eye for is if your mole is get... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is the Wilhelm scream used in so many movies and TV shows? | [
"Using stock footage is always easier than recording. It's cheaper and faster. Movie studios have libraries with thousands of stock footage for filmmakers to use. The Wilhelm Scream gained fame thanks to Ben Burtt, the sound designer for Lucasfilm. Burtt had a liking for the Wilhelm Scream, a stock scream he found ... | [
"You play too many video games or watch too many movies."
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Why do female voices in choirs stand out more? | [
"The way our hearing works, we notice higher tones more readily than lower tones. You'll notice with most music, the higher notes carry the melody and the lower notes provide rhythm and harmony. Since women tend to have higher voices than men, we hear their voices more readily. However, you would notice if the male... | [
"They typically assume the role as 'front man.' It isn't always the singer, it's whomever you will remember the easiest. The singers voice is usually the most identifiable part of music, so they usually get the spotlight. Aesthetics play into this heavily too, put the prettiest face out there and people will be mor... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Is it actually possible to stop the world cup from happening in Qatar and, what would the consequences of this be? | [
"A boycott is still possible but more than likely it would be the FiFA sponsors that would end up forcing a venue change. Qatar would probably be better off now than if the games were actually not held there. They lack the infrastructure to deal with the number of people expected to attend in person, and have essen... | [
"Because people saying he has done all sorts of bad things and being able to prove them in a court somewhere are very different standards. It is possible the recent round of arrests by the US Justice Department is the first step in making a case against Blatter. But his arrest is iffy at best and years away should ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why isn't alcohol a schedule one drug in the USA? | [
"From the exact same thread about nicotine: laws are political, not scientific."
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"From their site: Please note that we do not prescribe narcotics or pain medications, that have been designated as U.S. Controlled substances as a Schedule I, II, III or IV drug. Sounds like they can do antibiotics and the like, though."
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What does it mean for the body to ‘fight’ a virus? | [
"To kill the cells infected by it (usually not achieved completely due to latency) and prevent the viruses already in your body from infecting more of your cells. The first part is achieved chiefly by so called T-killer-cells, the rest is the standard human immune response. Wikipedia gets you a long way to understa... | [
"Along with all the scientific answers, it seems like a convenient way for your body to tell you to stop inhaling water."
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How do actors get paid? | [
"They usually get a fixed salary, with major movies like MCU movies actors get a bump in salary if the movie does really well, RDJ gets's ~$50 million for every marvel movie he does (starting with Avengers, then Iron Man 3, Avengers 2, and now Cap 3 and other future movies)."
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"And more importantly how do I get one for myself?"
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Why is urine yellow? | [
"The yellow color in urine comes from a pigment called urochrome, which is a form of a pigment found in bile, bilirubin. Bilirubin is stored in the liver after it is filtered from the bloodstream, and most is released from the body through feces. But some of it stays in the bloodstream and goes to the kidneys, wher... | [
"Can you not get an erection in space?!"
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Why are cars so damn expensive? | [
"It has gotten easier and more cost efficient to build a car. The problem is, technology has also continued to evolve. If you were building the cars of 60 years ago, they'd be much cheaper. Why aren't we building those cars? People are willing to pay for safer and more advanced vehicles."
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"What's so bad about having something made in Israel?"
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Why do people frown when they're thinking? | [
"Frowning seems to cause you to narrow your eyes so that you can reduce your field of vision. This cuts off extraneous information and lets you devote more brain time to what you are pondering upon. When I'm concentrating deeply, I tend to scowl, and people ask me why I do that and i say \"I'm thinking furiously\".... | [
"How do you know you're blinking when they're closed?"
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