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How come Idubbz gets a pass for saying the N word but other people don't? | [
"I think it has to do with him refusing to give the word any power. He kind of explains it in his Tana Mongeau content cop (i think). Personally, when he says it, there's no malicious intent. He's not using it as an insult or thrown at anyone so idrc what he says. I just wish he'd put out more kickstarter crap."
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"I thought it was the new Google plus thing that made them mad ? Also I don't know of any you tubers leaving because of it"
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What causes pee to come out? | [
"Your bladder, where urine is stored, is made from elastic type material and squeezes it out like a balloon."
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"Sometimes when you make pee pee it comes out at a fast speed, which makes air bubbles and you see foam. This isn't always the reason, like you've noticed. If you drink a lot of fluid at once, you can still pee quickly and it not be very foamy. This is because it's very diluted. Other times there may be a lot prote... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Electric cars don't need oil changes like my gas car does--how are they different? | [
"Electric cars have significantly fewer moving parts, the most significant being the motors. These don't wear so easily like combustion and combustion byproducts would hurt gas cars. They don't have transmissions, gears, or engines that are all prone as points of failure."
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"Because electric vehicles just aren't ready for prime time yet. The technology just isn't far enough along to replace what gas engines can do. An electric battery weighs far more than a tank of gas, yet holds far less energy. They take a long time to charge, are still expensive to own and operate when all costs a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why do emotions trigger certain chemicals in our brain? | [
"To put it simply, emotions don't trigger chemicals in our brains. It's the other way around. Chemicals changes (triggered by perception - this can be memories, experiences, etc) in the brain cause reactions - these reactions are what we consider emotions. The specific reaction/emotion itself is heavily influenced... | [
"Most of the effects of nicotine can be attributed to a release of a chemical called acetylcholine which binds to receptors in the brain increasing alertness and enhancing concentration. Positive feelings might be due to the drugs enhancement of dopamine action in the nucleus accumbens or reward center of the brain... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why it stings to pee after ejactulation | [
"Um, it doesn't? I sometimes get the split stream when there are sex juices partially blocking, but that's it."
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"do they squirm when you squeeze them? if so yes."
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Why does pizza make grease? If I don't cook it am I still ingesting the grease? | [
"The grease is the fat that was already present in the cheese and meat. If you don't cook it, it's still there, hidden."
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"Because they are covered in whatever oil was used to cook them. This is absorbed into the potato once they cool down and become soggy. Best way to prevent it is to eat them quickly! Short of not deep frying them, there's no way to prevent it."
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What is eminent domain? | [
"Eminent Domain is the legal concept that, ultimately, a country owns all the land it comprises, and may buy out — at \"fair market value\" — the rights that a tenant of that land (who is commonly understood to be \"the owner\" but is legally described as the \"tenant in fee simple\") holds, in order to use the lan... | [
"Only if the federal government let it. See: American Civil War"
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If Libertarians run as Republicans in the US, why aren't more Socialists, Greens, and others openly running as Democrats? | [
"\"libertarian\" is a philosophy, \"Libertarian\" is a political party. Some libertarians feels there political goals are best met by being active in the Libertarian party, some do not. Similarly, \"green\" and \"socialist\" are philosophies, and many who hold to those philosophies are Democrats. \"Socialism\" has ... | [
"UK calls liberals what the US calls libertarians. In the UK people who would be called liberals are in the Labour party."
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Insider trading is illegal. Making decisions about what shares to buy and sell on the stock market based on information you have is not. ELI5 Where the line between them is. | [
"Insider trading uses information that people in the marketplace can't get. Trading on information that is publicly available (even if noone else has read it) is legal. But using secrets from within the company (or another company, or the Government, or family) that are not available to the public is illegal."
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"It's a form of securities fraud. Stock exchanges rely on the notion that everyone has the same information to consult when making decisions. If you have access to information that others do not, you can use that information to manipulate prices. Because so much wealth is tied up in the stock market, securities re... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why are carpenter's pencils rectangular? | [
"The lead doesn't break as easily, it's easier to sharpen with a knife than a round pencil, and probably most importantly you can set it down and it doesn't roll away."
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"Mechanical pencil erasers are made of softer rubber. They don't last as long, but they work better. Regular pencils have a hard eraser because they're not easily replaceable, unlike the eraser on a mechanical pencil."
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How come some pimples on my face hurt to the touch and others don't? | [
"It all has to do with the amount of swelling and the speed at which it swells. So pimples form quicker and larger causing increased pressure of the local tissue."
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"I don't know about ant bites. However with the toothpaste if you dab it onto pimples its supposed to dry them out and make them shrink."
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why do people cyberbully when they don't even know me in any way? | [
"Because if they knew you, you would be human to them, and they wouldn't cyberbully you. As a faceless tag on the internet, you are not a person to them, so they feel safe bullying you. Or as popularly expressed, people+anonymity=assholes"
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"1. A lot of people don't like it 2. Ignorance is bliss 3. Just like a lot of people don't care about internet privacy \"because I have nothing to hid\" mentality a lot of people don't see the censorship as affecting them because it doesn't change what they would view anyway"
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Why did China, India, and some other countries, realize that boiling water makes it much safer, but other countries (e.g. in Europe) didn't catch on to this until thousands of years later, only in modern times? | [
"Imagine a world where the only way to spread news was to spend months riding, now imagine a world where there was deep distrust of the world outside nations. Now take this and add a reality with no science. There was no requirement to boil water with the population of Europe until such time as cities became a thi... | [
"A few reasons. You see, alcohol is fairly easy to make, so it can be invented in many different areas all over the world, unlike complicated designs or techniques which did not leave their area of origin in the ancient world. In the ancient world there were very few effective water purification systems like we hav... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can a drug like fentanyl be multiple times stronger than something like morphine when they bind the the same mu receptors | [
"The difference in strength between morphine, heroin and fentanyl arises from differences in their chemical structures. The chemicals in both bind to the mu opioid receptor in the brain. But fentanyl gets there faster than morphine — the almost-instantaneous byproduct when the body breaks down heroin — because it m... | [
"There are a couple of major differences. The opium poppy has several chemicals in its sap that are useful to modern medicine. So some of the different drugs are made from the different chemicals. Morphine is not even a derivative. It was isolated directly from the plant. Codeine is another drug that is directly de... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why can't kids pick which classes that they want to attend in school? | [
"Because they are children, and children don't make good decisions."
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"So the big thing is that America USED to have it. But budget cuts have meant that most public schools have been forced to remove those sorts of programs because they have to focus on just the basics. Many schools can't even afford art classes or music. That being said, most Americans I know would love it if Home ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why don't stars burn all their gas all at once even if they take several millions of billions of years to make? | [
"Go light a bucket of gasoline on fire, it'll take a few minute to burn depending on the depth/width and whatnot. Now imagine something hundreds of billions of times larger."
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"I'm not sure, but one thing is certain: life would never develop around such a star. First, extremely massive stars emit most of their radiation in the form of high-energy X-rays, which are extremely destructive to organic molecules and life. Secondly, even *if* life could get around this problem, the star would h... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does a movie like John Carter (where the box office gross is higher than the budget) considered a financial bomb? | [
"The reported cost of a feature is its production cost. It doesn't typically include marketing and promotional expenses, which can sometimes nearly double the cost."
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"If you're breaking box office records, it usually means the movie is making a lot of money, and considering few movies even break even, that's a big deal."
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Why do prices end in .99 or .95 rather than a whole number? | [
"I remember reading as to the reason why they do it. It's something along the lines of if you see $19.99, you still see the item as only 19 dollars (and change) rather than 20 bucks. So when they sell a car for $29,900, I guess the mind likes to think that it's only 20 something thousand dollars rather than the ful... | [
"Don't do price differences in nominal values, always percentages If regular is $1.00 and premium is $1.10 then premium is 10% more. If regular is $3.00 and premium is $3.30 then it's still 10% more despite it appearing as though the gap has increased"
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Why do babies sleep so much when compared to adults? | [
"Growing makes you tired. I always know when my kids are about to have a growth spurt because they start eating and sleeping more."
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"There are a lot of nerves in our faces. Stimulating these nerves helps to keep you awake. This is why you see babies doing this a lot when they are tired and don't want to go to sleep yet."
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Are banks able to "forget" how much money I have in my bank account? | [
"If you're in Canada, the CDIC protects you up to 100K should the bank or banking system fail. Banks are *legally required* to maintain resilient storage of all sensitive and financial records. The type of failure you're referring to is literally impossible. Through offsite storage, multiple datacentres, multiple ... | [
"Because Visa is holding on to the cash and using it to earn interest from another financial institution. The longer they hold on to your money, the more money they make. Once it's in your account, though, it isn't theirs anymore."
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Why do certain bank transactions take 3-5 business days to complete even though it's an online transaction? Isn't it all automated? | [
"Verifications. Banks are very very careful not to process incorrect transactions immediately. They give lead time for people to cancel it either through reports by whoever lost the money, or through internal qa checks."
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"I wouldn't call it a bad system, just an outdated one. ACH is the system that US banks use to transfer money to each other. The system is run by the Federal Reserve Bank. When you request to send funds to an account at another bank, your bank sends the cash to the Fed, and the Fed then sends the funds to the recei... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The dying bee issue, and what civilians can do about it besides fear monger. | [
"A guy from [Crown Bees](_URL_0_) did an AMA on reddit about a year ago. Afterward, I bought bees from them for my sister's birthday. They hatched and bee'd it up all summer, we have high hopes that we'll get another good crop this year."
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"Why are they important? One world: pollination. All crops need to be pollinated to produce. A tomato plant or strawberry plant that goes un-pollinated will never fruit. Most of our food is bee-pollinated. The \"how we actually save them\" is a tricky question and \"why are they dying\" is even trickier to answer! ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can scientists know which number vertebrae dinosaur spinal fossils are, if they only find one or two vertebrae and it's from a species we've never seen before? | [
"The skeleton is a basic fundamental part of vertebrates. It is often conserved with vestigial limbs long after their utility is gone. Remnants of limbs are found in whale species. Giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae as other mammals. A lot of changes can occur in the shape and size of a bone. But it ca... | [
"You're right about the jaw, but more specifically the teeth. Herbivores have larger and flat top teeth, like your molars. They are great for grinding down leafy material. Carnivores have sharper, more pointed teeth used for butting into meat and tearing pieces off. Omnivores like humans have sets of both, since we... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do we get sick more often when it is cold out? | [
"When it's cold, it's a combination of: -People being huddled together in closer proximity, breathing each other's air, taking in each other's expelled airborne droplets. -The cold and DRY air outside irritates the respiratory tract, especially amongst the nasal conchae, making it \"raw\", and therefore easier for ... | [
"It simply means coming up with ideas to explain things we see. Those ideas then are put to the test and discarded or validated. - Deduction: Winter is cold. Winter starts next month. So it will be cold next month. - Induction: Last winter was cold, the one before was cold, and so on. So next winter is probably go... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Is there enough paper currency to support every person, and business in the United States withdrawing their money all at the same time? | [
"Not by a long shot. The amount of money on the books in various forms exceeds the amount of physical cash and coin by a multiple of several thousand. The money supply is broken up into various categories, like *M0*, which is the amount of physical currency, *M3*, which is long-term and very large deposits (retirem... | [
"Less than 10% of all currency exists as physical cash, so its affect is negligible. In the US, banks constantly send in old bills for destruction and receive new ones in return. I assume it works the same way in the UK."
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Villages in very remote parts of cold countries, with no farming, industry, tourism, etc - how do they make enough money to survive? | [
"The village almost certainly only exists because there was some reason for it to exist - some natural resource, a tourist attraction, a stop on the way to somewhere else where a market or an inn would have brought in money, and so on. The reason will vary from one place to another. I googled the coordinates you ga... | [
"It was impossible for early civilizations to survive out there. It's simply too cold and too barren. There is not enough plant life to sustain the fires they would have needed to stay warm. There is not enough animal life to feed a town. Agriculture is not possible. The only way scientists survive there today is b... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How to fugitives on the run go to a new place and get settled in with a new identity? | [
"> How to they find jobs? Also when applying for a job, how do they get away with using an alias? Cash in hand work that don't ask questions."
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"To their jobs, they have to make a living somehow. (But probably to find places that are damp)"
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I always hear the metric system is so much easier and better than the system that America uses, why? | [
"Let's say you have a meter. What's a centimeter? 1/100th of a meter. What's a millimeter? 1/1000th of a meter. What's a kilometer? 1000 meters. Pretty simple stuff, right? It's quite easy to move between the units, because they're all base 10. Let's say you have a foot. What's the next smallest unit? An inch. Well... | [
"We do use the metric system and it has been adopted by our government. If you are a scientist, you use it daily. That being said, if you work in construction you are using inches and feet not meters, and if I'm baking a cake the box instruction will be in cups not grams. Most Americans think in imperial units in ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is the appeal of the film "American Psycho?" | [
"It's a critique (satire if you like) of yuppie culture, which encourages and rewards sociopathy. Every character in the movie is purely self-interested, caring only about their social status, because that's the only way to get ahead in New York yuppie culture. This results in every one of them being interchangeabl... | [
"On this topic, how accurate is the description of life at the front, in \"All Quiet on the Western Front\"?"
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Why don't we have all politicians announce publicly which lobbyists they receive benefits from? | [
"I would like to see them wear patches on their clothes like NASCAR drivers showing who their sponsors are."
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"Lobbying doesn't necessarily involve any money whatsoever. Any citizen can lobby to represent their interests, and their representatives are supposed to listen. But most are occupied with jobs and such. So some companies that want their interests represented pay professional lobbying firms to do so full time. Unf... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is a tree made out of? | [
"It comes from the air. The tree absorbs carbon dioxide from the air, uses the carbon to build the majority of its mass, and expels oxygen."
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"Are you asking how a wheel works ?"
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The Conflict Between Tibet and China | [
"See [this thread](_URL_0_) for a more balanced ~~disgussion~~ discussion."
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"Huh, literally *just* was involved in a discussion about this topic with a history professor. Here's a list of some of the books he recommended: Ahmad, Anis. Global Ethics, Environmentally Applied: An Islamic View. 2009. Dien, Izzi. The Environmental Dimensions of Islam. The Lutterworth Press, 2000. Murad, Munjed ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Growing up in the Philippines, I have never met anyone with a nut allergy, yet it seems to be very common in the US. Why is that? | [
"In countries such as the U.S a lot of parents sort of assume their child is allergic to nuts. I read an article from a study done in a school once where less than 5% of children whose parents declared their child had an allergy actually had one. What this does is actually create allergies - if someone has never be... | [
"Many are eaten around the world, from insects to dogs and cats to snakes and other reptiles. It's not common in Europe or N America, but that's not the world."
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How did people in the 50's and 60's look so good when their diets were basically bread, cigarettes, donuts, and bread? | [
"It was before the era of corn syrup: dirt cheap sugar that has been added to everything. It's in your tomato soup."
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"I've heard a theory that if we ate what our ancestors ate in the paleolithic age, our teeth would look a lot better. They wouldn't be perfect, but neither are animals' teeth. This means that instead of eating lots of refined sugars and starches, we'd eat meat, fish, nuts, leafy vegetables, fruit, and nuts."
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Why does Jimmy Carter have such a bad reputation? | [
"When Carter took office in 1977, the inflation rate was 5.22%. Four years later it was 11.83% and during his presidency it actually hit as high as 14.78%! Our current inflation rate is 1.07%. _URL_0_... The cost of living adjustments (COLA) when Carter took office was 5.9%. Three years later it was 14.3%. Our COL... | [
"What's so bad about having something made in Israel?"
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Why are some plants considered hardy to 20˚ and some to -20˚? Isn't it all the same below freezing? | [
"No, water does get somewhat denser if it is frozen at colder temperatures. Additionally many plants have chemicals and enzymes in them that lowers the freezing point of the water in their cells. So the water in them might not freeze until the temperature is 10, 0, or as you state -20."
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"That's just an average. As a comparative, this year's earth's average is 33.56 °F (0.87 °C). Barely above water freezing point. A few decades ago this number was below freezing. A summer day on Mars may get up to 70 °F (20 °C) near the equator. Warm enough for liquid water, with or without salts."
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What's the purpose of the rubber lining between concrete blocks on roads/sidewalks? | [
"Concrete expands and contracts quite a bit based on temperature. So if you lay concrete slabs very close together when they get hot they will expand into each other and crack. The easiest way to deal with that without leaving gaps between slabs is to use a rubbery compound that can expand and contract with the sla... | [
"A) It's easier to put down cement in small portions before moving on to the next one B) The gaps between sections allows for thermal expansion and the ground underneath shifting without shattering a whole sidewalk."
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Why do oil rigs have towers that burn a constant supply of oil? Surely this is just wasting produce they can sell? | [
"They are not burning oil, they are burning off natural gas. The natural gas can be found in relatively small pockets and it is difficult to isolate and store when your rig is set up to pump oil. It isn't worth their time to harvest it, so they just separate it and burn it off for safety."
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"Gas flares are used to burn off natural gas released during the mining process. Natural gas is a much bigger pain in the ass to store and transport in meaningful quantities than oil, but is released by the mining of oil. As a result rigs end up burning off the natural gas - it's generally less environmentally dama... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is pizza (and other dairy products) so popular if lactose intolerance is so prevalent? | [
"Because pizza is delicious and lactose intolerance isn't that prevalent."
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"Most dairy products have a type of sugar in them called lactose. Our body requires an enzyme called lactase to break down lactose. People who are lactose intolerant don't have nearly as much lactase, so they have trouble digesting things with lactose. Most cheeses are just made from the milk fat and don't have any... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do people who work in theoretical professions (philosophy, metaphysics, ancient history, etc) earn their income and where does the capital come from to pay said income? | [
"Three main areas. 1 - They work at a university. Whether they are researching or teaching, this gives them a steady income. This money comes from the government and/or the university itself 2 - Grants, whether it be to research or to go excavate an area. This money comes from the government and/or private investor... | [
"The whole point of tenure is so professors can concentrate on research. The professors primary job isn't to teach, but to make advancements in his or her own field of study. Teaching is like a side gig for tenured professors."
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Why are some things like food deals at McDonalds or Wendys "Not available in Alaska or Hawaii?" | [
"Because Alaska and Hawaii both cost a fortune to ship anything to. Lots of deals and sales exclude those states because products in AK and HI are generally much more expensive than they are in the contiguous 48 states."
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"\"Shop with us it's more expensive than our competition! \" Are you interested?"
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Why are testicles stores in a thin, sensitive sack outside our body instead of a protective casing inside our bodies? | [
"Sperm require a fairly specific temperature to be most healthy, and this temperature is lower than body temperature. So, hang the baby makers outside the body in a sack that can expand and contract to cool it or warm it, and you're good to go. Until you get kicked in the nards. But, evolution decreed it's 'good en... | [
"Every fetus starts out female; the reproductive organs all start out in the gut. If you are finally a male, the organs drop out of the body and dangle precariously in a thin, vulnerable pouch of skin. But the nerves in the organs still register as in the gut."
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Why does music sound slower when I'm working out? | [
"Well, the body has it's own sense of natural rhythms, and does not perceive time in an consistent manner. Your brain amps up it's response rate and effectively dilates time when the fight or flight response is triggered. I remember, I think it may have been on Mythbusters, but they tested perceived time and found ... | [
"Because you don't have much other sensory input coming in. Same reason why a lot of people close their eyes when they really want to listen to music."
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Why is there a distinct smell after a female uses the toilet? | [
"My best guess would be a different hormonal and pheromone balance in women, which could make urine smell different as they are excreted."
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"Urinals don't require you to fully take your pants down. Using a toilet does."
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Why is is proper grammar to to precede the word "historic" with the word "an" and not "a"? | [
"Phrases that use \"AN H...\" were grammatically correct when no-one in England really pronounced their H at the start of any words; this wasn't a class issue, it was just the accepted way the language functioned. As people began pronouncing the H at the start of some words, the \"AN H...\" structure remained part ... | [
"If you study any language in high school (preferably foreign- grammar rules of English in the US has gone by the wayside), then you'll learn about the way we use verbs. If you notice, we often conjugate verbs, which means we tailor them to the context in which we are using them. I am, you are, he is, and others. T... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What causes turbulence and how can pilots predict when it is coming | [
"It's not just about the weather. If there is a mountain below, it disrupts the air flow coming toward the plane, creating uneven pressure on the top and bottom of the plane. Going above turbulent water can have the same effect. So, the pilot can predict there is going to be turbulence based on recent weather patte... | [
"They can try to fly around it or change altitudes to fly below or above it, but that's not always possible if the airspace is crowded or the area of the turbulence is too large to avoid. Otherwise, they just fly thought it. Turbulence isn't a danger to the plane so avoiding it is for passenger comfort; avoid it if... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does my poo float sometimes and sink sometimes? | [
"I think it depends on your diet and fiber content. There's actually a big debate about which is healthier. I don't think there's definitive answer either way."
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"EIL5: Why can't I stop sitting with my legs crossed, even though it hurts my knees, and why does it hurt my knees?"
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Why is it standard practice for Chinese restaurants to use so much MSG? | [
"It's like asking why is it standard practice for fast food joints to use so much salt on their fries, or cheese on pizzas, and so on. It's an amino acid which is a 'building block' of life, it happens to enhance the taste of savory food, which is arguably a good thing in that it allows manufacturers to use less sa... | [
"When you make it yourself, you simply can't force yourself put the same ridiculous amounts of salt, sugar, fat and msg into the food as a fast food restaurant does."
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Motorway driving in England - what are the rules and rules of thumb? Everyone has different ideas and I'm terrified! | [
"From my experience, the left lane is for normal driving. Use the others for overtaking (unless you have a nice car, or want to show off that new BMW, then you permanently use the right hand lane lol). But no hogging the middle lane. Always indicate when moving lanes and avoid braking, when there is congestion ease... | [
"Mostly the general areas population and traffic patterns. Highways slow down when going through major cities (60-70mph) and speed up in between big cities (70-85mph). At least that's what I've learned here in Texas. Not sure if that completely answers your question but just my 2 cents"
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What is the difference between a shillelagh, a walking stick, a staff and a cane? Is it just the length? | [
"1h 1D6, 1h 1D4, 2h 1D6 and 1h 1D2 +2% chance of instant kill (DC14)"
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"If you can use it as a walking stick or light saber,is a stick. If you can pick it up but not swing it, it's a branch. If you can't pick it up, but can roll it, its a log. If you cant move it at all, it's a tree in the ground silly."
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Why does my scale lie to me? | [
"You simply aren't going to get a very accurate reading off of a scale that is meant for weighing humans. Most likely, the scale was manufactured with the assumption that an acceptable margin of error is within around half a pound. Unless you use a scale that is more accurate you won't get the results you're lookin... | [
"Your body is telling you to quit smoking. Listen to it."
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Why are book/movie/game titles sometimes different in different countries and not just literal translations of the original title? | [
"Usually, I assume it's because the literal translation doesn't \"sound right\" to a native. For example, it might be based on language-specific idioms, or it might be as simple as sounding a bit clumsy and unnatural (example: see literal translations of anime titles). Either way, someone's got the idea that a modi... | [
"It's actually really straight-forward and simple: In Japan, cartoons are all called \"anime\", short for \"animation\". When they export animation to other countries, they still call it \"anime\" instead of using each country's colloquial terms. That's ... pretty much it."
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Why are reversed/low pitch sounds amazingly terrifying? | [
"Because they sound odd, we're not used to them. If you would listen to reversed sounds/music all day long you would get used to it and it would sound normal to you."
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"It's generally not rhythmic. In order for background noise not to disrupt your sleep it needs to be melodic or rhythmic."
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What ensures that most people's hearts are on the left? | [
"As embryos develop cilia also develop that beat cells in certain directions. That's why we almost always have similar internal structures. If the heart is misplaced that generally indicates a defect in the mechanism of forming cilia or making them work. In men this tends to lead to infertility since their sperm ca... | [
"I'm no authority on the matter, but I assume it has something to do with the movement of air."
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Why is the Millenium Falcon's cockpit so far on one side of the ship? | [
"You don't critize the Millennium Falcon! It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs."
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"Left or right would depend on which way you were facing. Port is port regardless of wether you are looking from the front or rear of the boat."
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How exactly did people kill soldiers wearing heavy armour(the type from and medieval movies among others) with only swords and arrows throughout history? | [
"There were usually some gaps between the armor pieces. Also you could kill these soldiers with a heavy blow (such as a mace to the head, or falling off a moving horse). Also they could become bogged down in mud and easy to clobber. Also they could just become exhausted. However, very few soldiers actually wore hea... | [
"I mainly deal with European history and was going to chime in on the firearms, but there is just no way to generalize without being more specific. For example, the term \"musket\" covers weapons used from the 13th century up until the 19th century, and rifles are still used today. A Ming Dynasty musket and a Napo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is happening when you burn a disc? | [
"The disc is stamped with a groove the laser tracks. Some data is stamped, indicating it is a writeable disc, what type, capacity, dye formulation and all that. When you burn a disc, the laser tracks it as normal, but to write pits it pulses the laser to hight power to \"burn\" the dye in those spots, letting it go... | [
"In the real world why would anyone want to be a politician?"
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Why are Swearwords depicted as bad? | [
"REMEMBER THIS AND LASER IT INTO YOUR BRAIN: There are NO bad words. The only thing that makes the difference in words is the intent behind it which can be POSITIVE or NEGATIVE. You can say nigger(no offense to black people) in a positive and negative way. We can invent a word right now...for example...''samaru''. ... | [
"Why do you have so many lips and chins?"
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Why wasn't procrastination eliminated by evolution? | [
"Because there's nothing evolutionarily wrong with sitting around and not expending energy until you're forced to. That sounds like a pretty good survival strategy."
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"Was there a similar attempt to recruit Japanese scientists?"
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How exactly does the human mind perceive things as "scary" and why do we fear it? | [
"You fear things because your ancestors feared things and so they ran away from them. The people who didn't fear things tended to go up and give the Sabre tooth a kick in the face and they didn't tend to last very long. Basically fear keeps you from doing things which can cause you harm and thus keeps you safe."
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"We don't exactly understand the inner workings of our imagination as far as I know. I'm surprised this baffles you more than that our brains can create entire landscapes and thousands of people at once within dreams though."
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Why are abortions not homicide but killing a pregnant female considered a double murder (in some jurisdictions)? | [
"They are homicide. But homicide is not necessarily illegal. Killing someone in war is legal, killing in self defense or in the defense of another is legal, carrying out an execution is legal, and abortions are legal. Murder is not a synonym for homicide, it is a sub-category of homicide that is for the illegal ki... | [
"murder is the deliberate intentional killing of a person. Assassination is the murder of an important or famous person. Manslaughter exact definition varies a bit by jurisdiction, but is more or less killing someone illegally when you did not intend to kill them. For instance killing someone while driving drunk is... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What's exactly happening in my body when I take Advil/Excedrin to get rid of a headache? | [
"I'm going to take a stab at this. Advil/Excedrin are anti-inflammatory drugs. When your body feels pain it usually means there is an inflammation somewhere. Inflammation is part of the body's healing mechanism and it is normally associated with pain and tenderness. Advil/Excedrin relieve that inflammation which re... | [
"They both function a bit differently, but essentially, here are some key points: Paracetamol/Tylenol: More effective at reducing headaches, more difficult for liver to process when taken in large amounts, fever reducer, more of a pure pain killer Ibuprofen/Advil: More effective at reducing inflammation/general ach... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do women soccer players "fake fall" so much less than the men? | [
"The real reason is that diving is cultural and the countries that are successful in the women's game don't dive as much. The women's game is dominated by USA/Canada, Asia, Northern Europe. The one exception is Brazil and they dive the most of the successful women's teams. Latin American and Southern European teams... | [
"Because it's a low risk, high reward play. Soccer is a very strategic and low-scoring game, so any advantage you can possibly glean is usually worth it. Couple that with the fact that most high level soccer organizations are relatively tolerant of it, and that's why players flop. Flopping is fairly common in the N... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do (USA) states have their presidential primaries on different days? | [
"It would also be prohibitively expensive to run a full 50 state Primary campaign. Lesser known, outsider candidates wouldn't have a chance since there is no way they could raise the money needed to be competitive in all 50 states."
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"Unlike parliamentary elections, the dates for US elections are known in perpetuity. After this election, the next one will be in November 2020. So there is nothing stopping people from campaigning for that election now. Here's something you have to remember: the 2016 election doesn't officially start until the Io... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is a flat tax considered fair when everyone would still be paying different amounts? | [
"Your version of \"fairness\" looks only at tax contribution. The flat tax version of fairness looks to _proportionality of reward_ from our economy/society _to that contribution_."
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"Our current tax system is a progressive income tax. You pay nothing on the first bit of money you make, a small amount on the second bit of money you make, a larger amount on the next bit, and then all money over a certain amount gets paid at the highest rate. What Huckabee wants is a national sales tax. It would... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What are the pros and cons of net neutrality? | [
"People who are against net neutrality say internet providers could make arrangements with websites and services to provide better access, but at a cost. People who support net neutrality think this will most likely be abused to hell and they will basically blackmail services so they pay the ISPs, or else they wil... | [
"It's a big system. It also carries a bit from state to state. Are you interested in the application process? Policy? Logistics?"
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This subreddit has become like /r/AskScience in many ways, besides its focus on simple, easy to read questions. Should this subreddit start using the "No Medical Advice" rule that /r/AskScience is all about? | [
"except /r/askiscience usually has accurate answers and this sub is often filled with broscience and guesswork. Also it has become a replacement for /r/askreddit since /r/askreddit has become /r/makeupstories."
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"I'm terribly sorry, but given the highly political nature of this question, as well as the fact that many of the studies done on this violate the 20 year rule we have in place, we are going to have to remove this. /r/Ask_Politics and /r/AskSocialScience would be better suited venues for this discussion."
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What human body orientation is most likely to allow for survival upon hitting the ground at a high velocity (e.g., falling sans parachute)? | [
"While you are falling the best way is to have as much surface area facing downwards, so lying flat and spreading your arms and legs. When you come down you will want to fall on your least critical body parts and thus orient yourself facing upwards, feet down, with your knees slightly bend to prevent the shock to g... | [
"Cats have a (sometimes) non fatal terminal velocity (the highest speed they can reach by falling) and as a result they can survive high falls. To help explain, if you dropped an ant from an aeroplane, it would probably land on the ground unharmed and continue with its business, cats spread out their arms while fal... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Is it actually possible to have exactly 1/3 of something? | [
"An infinitely small fraction is zero (the limit as x approaches infinity of 1 / x is 0), so yes it is possible to have exactly one third of something. If I have one of three apples I definitely have exactly one third of the total apples and that's that. Just because our decimal system isn't able to express that qu... | [
"Given 100 days with similar conditions, 30 of them will experience rain."
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why do we cry out/scream when in pain? | [
"The short answer is that is simply communication. Stemming back to primal roots, screaming is/was a way to communicate to our fellow group that something in the area has the potential to harm/kill us. Think of a stealthy James Bond like spy attacking their enemy. If he makes a kill silently, he can continue his at... | [
"why do we yawn when we read about yawning?"
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Why is it unhealthy to hold in your stomach for prolonged periods of time? | [
"Activating your core constantly isn't unhealthy. It's incredibly healthy. Not only are you building the stamina of your abdominal wall, you're in constant correct posture because of the stance needed to maintain a tight hold... I do it all the time, at least when I'm not 6 months pregnant"
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"When you hold a fart in, the gas that would normally come out moves around your bowels. This happens because your bowels keep pushing fecal matter towards the exit, so the gas has to move further in. That's the rumbling you feel and/or hear. It's not healthy to keep farts in for prolonged periods of time. So when ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Can dreaming a lot during the night make you more tired the next day? | [
"The dreaming itself, not really. However there are a few things here that will Firstly interrupted sleep, like waking up after each dream, is really bad for you and will leave you utterly exhausted. The other thing is for a proper nights rest you need a mix of light and deep sleep cycles, the dreaming only happens... | [
"It has to do with when a dream happens in the sleep cycle as well as how much sleep you get. Also try to stop drinking coffee for a couple days and see if you get better dreams"
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Why do companies insist on telling the public there's "scheduled maintenance" when a web site is clearly broken? | [
"In this particular case, we have a way of stopping traffic that lets us try and fix the underlying systems while we shunt incoming traffic...unfortunately it put up an inaccurate message but it was pretty far down the list of priorities to fix that! For the best info, stick to _URL_0_."
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"I have not spent a very long time in the industry (4 years out of college), but from the companies I have interned at and am now employed at, Reddit must have one of the worst systems administrators of all time. Downtime is considered to be a massive problem, and one that really does not require all that difficult... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Does marijuana have side-effects/withdrawal symptoms like controlled-substance medications such as Xanax? If not, why is the latter available legally in every state (with prescription)? | [
"> Yes, marijuana has side-effects and withdrawal symptoms. --- > Additionally, weed has no addictive properties or withdrawal affects. :-/"
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"I think your understanding is flawed. People certainly can develop tolerance of over-the-counter medicines, and they don't necessarily develop tolerances to prescription drugs. The potential to develop tolerance depends on the biochemistry of the drug, no whether it's legal, illegal, or OTC."
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Why Facebook can host all these ripped youtube videos, and no one sues them? | [
"> It's as if the system is setup to make it hard for content owners to find/control their content Because it is. Facebook is trying to take marketshare from other video platforms with strong arm tactics and by inflating the number of \"views\" each video gets (3s of muted video counts as \"view\" to them, with au... | [
"My huge question is on what legal grounds they were shut down? They're just like youtube, they comply with DMCA. What the hell is the difference that made them get shut down?"
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Who invented square roots & why √ ? | [
"Square roots have been known since antiquity. It's not like calculus, which is relatively new (by math terms.) The symbol was introduced by Christoph Rudolff, who wrote a German textbook on algebra in 1525. It's believed that the symbol is meant to look like a lower case r (for radical,) but there's no justificat... | [
"What's 5 + 5? Okay now what's 5.105 + 5.079? Which took longer?"
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Why are some fast food employees refusing to serve police officers? | [
"It's coming from peoples' talent for taking things out of context, misinterpreting and over-reacting. At this point in time there's a bit of a \"Black Lives Matter\" movement - you've probably heard of it. Now, instead of correctly interpreting that as \"Lets not shoot people\", some people are interpreting it as... | [
"It means when you eat at a restaurant, the people who handle your food will be able to see a doctor when they are sick instead of just infecting you."
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Why are civil asset forfeiture "abuse" not protected by the 4th amendment in the US? Particularly for innocent and/or people not charged with a crime? | [
"In civil forfeiture, the person whose assets are being seized is not party to the proceeding. That is to say, your property is the defendant, not you."
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Why does being electrocuted kill you? (aside from burns) | [
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Why does everything hurt more with cold hands? | [
"> This decrease in blood flow to your fingers and toes can cause increased sensitivity to the fingers and toes. As the nerves are densely packed together and are close to the surface of the skin, any cold temperature past a certain threshold is then perceived as increased pain. _URL_0_"
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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 do spiders shrivel up when they die? | [
"Their legs are hydraulically controlled, and can't remain extended without the pumps working, pretty much."
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"They hide under plants when it's sunny. Otherwise they'd dry out. When it's rainy, they can move around without danger of drying."
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What does it mean when cash is referred to as "unmarked"? | [
"Bills have numbers on them that are unique like a serial number. \"Marked\" bills would be a certain set of numbers that were recorded so they could be kept track of. This way if someone ends up with a bill number in that range, you can figure out where they got it because those bills were not in circulation. For ... | [
"This is known as a \"metaphor\". Money isn't literally liquid, but we *do* refer to it as \"cash flow\". Basically, having your assets liquid means you can easily move them from place to place."
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When I was a child I thought girls my age were pretty without make up. Did these girls start wearing make up because they did not think they were attractive? | [
"Make-up is seen as something grown women. Girls want to appear to be more grown-up so they copy."
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"At that age, they have no sexual tendencies. And usually, the other sex is interested in different things (girls might prefer barbies and boys like toy cars). That makes the other sex really boring. There isn't much more to it. Also personally I didn't find girls gross when I was young. That is because I had a few... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is female genital mutilation a thing? Why did the Swedish school force the procedure upon the girls? | [
"The school didn't force the students to do anything. It just happens to be attended mostly by immigrants, and many of the girls were discovered to have undergone the procedure. This mostly happens during the holidays when the parents take the girls on trips to countries where the procedure is legal to perform."
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"> while male circumcision is generally accepted? About 1 - 2 years ago I saw a documentary where I learnt this is a common practice in the US. It's somehow linked to John Harvey Kellogg (one of the inventors of Kellogg's corn flake) attempts to prevent male masturbation which he believed unhealthy. The only people... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Articles/websites that fill your "back" button with the same page. Why why why??? | [
"This isn't usually deliberate, but a consequence of poor website design. If you have one page that redirects to another, then when the user clicks back they'll end up on the redirect page, which will then forward them back to the page they were originally on. This is why redirect pages often have a time delay bef... | [
"This is asked almost every day. Does no one search before submitting at all? \"Search first\" even flashes before your eyes."
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If two humans lived in an environment where all their basic food and water needs were met, but had no external stimuli (or "inspiration" from other living things, how would they figure sex out? | [
"My penis first alerted me to girls. I expect it to mostly go that way for everyone."
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"> It seems like there is no chance for me to pass on my genes if all I want to do is nothing. You would get off the couch if you had an opportunity to have sex, you were hungry, uncomfortable from exposure to weather, or were afraid for your life. Those are your biological motivations which serve well in the natur... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are men so attracted to breasts? What makes them so sexual? | [
"They are indicators of fertility and so we are biologically programmed to be attracted to them. The same is true of having wide hips, and having shiny hair indicates good health. Breast firmness indicate age, so having developed and firm breasts indicates you are still young so potentially able to have more childr... | [
"Breasts are covered up because they are provocative. Breasts are provocative because they are covered up."
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Why am I colourblind? | [
"Most color vision problems are inherited (genetic) and are present at birth. People usually have three types of cone cells in the eye. Each type senses either red, green, or blue light. You see color when your cone cells sense different amounts of these three basic colors. The highest concentration of cone cells a... | [
"I see blue and black. You sir are colorblind."
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Why it's okay to eat a moldy cheese like bleu cheese, but not cheddar cheese if it gets moldy. | [
"Blue cheese is molded in a controlled environment by the fungus penicillium. There are thousands of types of mold, many of which are not safe for consumption. Random mold on cheese comes from spores in the air which can be from any type of mold, some of which can be harmful to your health."
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"When they make cheese it's in a cozy bath with all the right bacteria to make cheesy goodness. People control that bath so that bacteria that makes things gross doesn't get in there. You and I have all sorts of gross making bacteria hanging about our places. When the cheese is exposed to that bacteria it goes b... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is there so much outrage about freebooting from youtubers but people are ok with streaming or torrenting television shows. | [
"People tend to support small-time Youtubers losing ad-money more than large corporations losing money. Not saying it is good or bad, just a matter of how people think. Also, freebooting off Youtube is taking money from people without much reason, since they are already providing content for free, on demand, which... | [
"streaming means you are not participating in redistributing copyrighted material. there is no law against watching streamed movies."
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Why do motels/hotels frequently have numbers in their names? | [
"Well, Motel 6 was called that because it's room rate was $6 per night. I'm going to guess that Super 8 was $8 per night. Source: Wikipedia page on Motel 6"
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"Could be for any number of reasons. How does the layout of rooms on floor 2 and 3 compare to each other and floor 1/4? The hotel may opt to keep each floor's numbering as similar as possible vertically, even when one floor has more or less rooms Room #233 could still be a room, just not a guest room. For consisten... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When you enter a competition and you have to answer a question in 25 words or less, how is the winner chosen? What are they actually looking for in an answer? | [
"I only occasionally see the winners of these contests and from that I see that humour often helps. Make your entry funny. It seems a lot of these contests are about products and the company is asking for 25 words about what they sell. So outright praise of the product or company goes down well. Definitely do not s... | [
"The questions aren't tailored for a specific contestant, they are randomly selected. The lower level questions are general knowledge that most people are likely to know. As the prize money increases, the questions get more obscure and specific to a given subject, but the subject can vary wildly from question to qu... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why we don't start making long term memories until around the age of 5. | [
"Most recently researchers have attributed it to a child's lack of self-perception, language, or other mental equipment required to keep memories. More in depth: rapid neuron growth during early childhood disrupts the brain circuitry that stores old memories, making them inaccessible. Young children also have an un... | [
"Because when you're a kid, a year is a larger portion of your lifespan than when you're, say, 50."
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How can a country block specific websites for everyone? | [
"If you're talking about something like the Great Firewall of China, they force all ISPs to run internet connections through their filter, which they manage."
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"If you're in a free country, you can read nearly every public site in the whole Internet. Including Chinese ones."
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Why do companies spend millions on rebranding? | [
"To stay with the times basically. They gotta do market research to figure out how to stay hip and culturally relevant. For example: Sears is facing uncertainty in part because they failed to rebrand themselves appropriately, whereas Macy's on the other hand have consistently shifted to adopt cultural trends That's... | [
"They spend a lot of money on fancy, expensive equipment."
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How can someone survive a 3500ft fall and expect to make a full recovery? | [
"The article says the parachute malfuctioned, not that it didn't open at all. The full story is that the parachute partially opened and that she hit the ground at 50 mph instead of terminal velocity. Also, she landed in a way in which her legs absorbed the power of the fall."
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"If you had the thighs of gods and can jump at unhuman speeds, maybe. For the rest of us, no. The momentum change from jumping won't make a difference."
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What a person with depression goes through on a daily basis | [
"You wake up and for that millisecond all appears to be right with the world. Then it hits you, the sucking hole of misery your life has become. You hate mornings, you wake up exhausted. There is no reboot, no fresh start. You are walking hip deep in maple syrup, each step harder and harder. You try to fake it, you... | [
"Because we get tired of the lack of empathy when we're honest about our feelings. We put on a mask that is a caricature of the world we hate Source: I'm the life of the party weekly, and contemplate suicide several times a year."
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Why after eating the same food everyday does it start tasting disgusting? | [
"I eat the same lunch every day during work and don't ever think it tastes disgusting. How do you get tired of having a quality sandwich?"
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"You're used to it. Try cutting sugar out of your diet for a few weeks. Soft drink becomes disgusting."
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Why is it that you naturally become drowsy when exposed to warm water for an extended period of time? | [
"The human body naturally gives off heat to keep itself at a comfortable temperature, and gives off even more heat during physical activities. When faced with hot surrounding temperatures like warm water, the body (which is now unable to get rid of its excess heat due to being in an already hot environment) will te... | [
"When you're up and about and walking around, your heart has to work against gravity to pump blood up into your face. But when you have been laying horizontal in a bed for 8 or so hours it gives blood the opportunity to \"pool\" or \"settle\" in your face, resulting in puffiness. You'll get a more extreme example o... | eli5_question_answer | {
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. Why does rocking back and forth comfort people? | [
"Habit. Such as when a child is held by a parent and rocks them as an infant or even when they are older and seek comfort. The motion could be a reminder of that sense of safety and soothing."
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"Nothing is touching the back of your throat or tongue so there is nothing to trigger it. Why do you think sound would trigger it?"
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