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Why do people say "an historical..." instead of "a historical...?" | [
"The rule with \"h\" is that, if the \"h\" is silent (Such as in hour), you use \"an\" (ie 'an hour') but if the \"h\" isn't (Such as in hippopotamus), you use \"a\" ('ie a hippo'). Historical is kinda a weird one because it's kinda silent, especially depending on your accent (Another example of a word like this is... | [
"who's - a contraction of \"who is\" - example: \"who's making that noise?\" whose - to show possesion - example: \"whose car is this?\" for who and whom, try answering your question with either \"he\" or \"him\"; if \"he\" fits, use \"who\", and if \"him\" fits, use \"whom\" - example: should you say \"who should ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Does water have a taste? If so, what does it taste like? How could you describe it t someone with ageusia (A.K.A. loss of the sense of taste) | [
"Water doesn't have a taste, or I guess I should say, we can't detect the taste of water. I think there are some animals who can. When people describe the taste of water, they are typically describing the taste of things dissolved in the water, mostly minerals."
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"Sense of smell is crucially important to the sense of taste. Congested nose = screwed up sense of smell = screwed up sense of taste. Pretty much all there is to it. Same reason things taste different if you plug your nose."
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Why are "bad words" considered bad? | [
"Because in society certain rules are applied in order to keep some sense of peace and routine within the singular culture. this includes things like art, social gatherings, languages, laws...etc anything that makes up a society's culture is bound by the taboos an mores of the construct of that particular society. ... | [
"Because some people are offended by the phrase God damn more than the word damn because they consider it to be taking \"the Lord's name in vain\". To reduce complaints, the networks/show censors the more upsetting part of the phrase."
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What does the Islamic State want? | [
"They want the world to submit to Islam and have their chief as the caliph. Unfortunately, many ISIS fighters are now begging for jail time in their home country because it is not the life they were promised."
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"What about the US election do you want explained, specifically?"
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What happens if a sports team suffers so many injuries they can't field a team? | [
"What sport? Different sports have different rules regarding the same issue."
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"Football is really physically taxing, since it's a full-contact sport. Even playing once a week, the injury rate is high and the rate of long-term problems is higher than in other sports. If the NFL used a best-of-7 format instead of single elimination, then either each series would take a month, or the players wo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How to understand Mathematics if i'm scared of it. | [
"The math you learn for a degree in computer science or mathematics is very different from the math you learn in your primary and secondary schools. It's more about finding and describing patterns than it is about finding the right answer (after all, once you know how to find the answer, you can have a computer do ... | [
"Can you explain the question like I’m five?"
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Why we use chip readers. | [
"The magnetic stripes on the back of payment cards are easy to read and easy to program, making them extremely easy to clone. An attacker only needs about 2 seconds with your card to read the data off the mag stripe, which can then be programmed on to a card of theirs and they can make payments with your (cloned) c... | [
"The fee pays to provide the service for free calls without paid service. Edit: More of an explanation."
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What are water stains made of and how do they form? | [
"liquid water contains dissolved minerals. once the water evaporates, the minerals stay. that's what you see."
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"Grease is almost impossible to remove without wiping or using degreasing chemicals. Even other forms of dirt is too much for pressure washing depending on what it is and how long its been there. Pressure isn't always better. Less is usually more in this case"
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how do pilots eject at speeds ⩾ Mach 1 | [
"If you're asking how they get out of the plane when they are going so fast, the bottom of the ejector seat has a rocket that launches the pilot out of the aircraft."
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"according to sources, terminal velocity of raindrops is about 10m/s, for human body it's 50m/s or so."
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Why am I able to crinkle up aluminum foil without immediately burning my hand after it's been in the oven for an extended period of time? | [
"It cools off extremely fast since its so thin. _URL_0_"
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"Aluminium foil is not going to be permeable to cooking oil. You can test this yourself by making a foil bowl with no holes in it and sticking it in the oven and just cooking that for a while. Either you have holes in your foil or it is leaking over the sides. In either case, oil under the foil will tend to spread ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does St Jude hospital continue to operate while remaining free to patients and families? | [
"Heavy donations of not only money, but time from the workers. Alk of the research they do they share freely with anyone who it could help, so people gladly donate."
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"Scientific advancements in ER the past few decades still don't change the fact it costs a ton of money to go out there."
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The current state of the 2012 election race | [
"As far as the Republican primary polls go: Perry (29.9%) is in the lead, despite being a complete idiot. This goes for most of the other candidates, too. Romney (19.4%) is in second place. Palin (11.3%) is in third place, despite not running. Ron Paul (8.8%) is far back, because he has had a few reasonable ideas, ... | [
"1. They are ridiculously expensive 2. The global decline in Nationalism in favor of Globalism"
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Why TV shows and movies can get the rights to show certain video games, but never the actual sounds/ music. | [
"A lot of music, especially, is licensed from someone else for the game. So if they're showing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, they have permission to show the video game. If they want to play the music (\"When Worlds Collide\" - Powerman 5000), then they have to get permission from Powerman 5000 or their agent/record la... | [
"You can't copyright a game. When I say game, I mean the concept of a game. I could make a baseball video game and not worry. What I can't do is take art from other games or properties of MLB like team logos or player names. By the same reasoning you will see flappy bird like games but as long as the code and art a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is there one section of the audience at Obama's State of the Union that never stands up or applauds when everyone else does? | [
"There are three groups in the chamber: The democrats - they will rise in support of anything the president says, that they agree with (which is pretty much all of it) The republicans - they will rise once or twice when Obama is talking about something they agree with The supreme court - they will not rise for most... | [
"Literally, because of tradition and etiquette. It is strictly prohibited to clap in the House of Commons, so they yell instead. It's been this way for centuries."
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When & how do we develop our sense of humour? | [
"Your sense of humor is particular to the way your mind works, and has a lot to do with how you were socialized."
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"It's not about the method but the motives."
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Lately, I've been getting crank calls where, whether I pick up or not, the caller hangs up immediately leaving no message or insistance that I call someone else or anything. What is the purpose of telemarketing like that? | [
"One reason an organization or entity would do that is to identify what numbers are \"live\". Suppose you are setting up a robo-calling operation and want to call everyone in Texas with your message. You can look up the area codes easily but if you called a random number the chances are it isn't valid. All you woul... | [
"That was a call centre's computer calling you. They dial loads of people simultaneously, some of whom will pick up, and say 'hello', or make a noise of some kind so the computer knows someone's there. You then get transferred to the operator to be lied to about PPI/old car crashes/fake lotteries/phone upgrades. If... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If North Korea actually launches a nuclear capable missle, and it gets shot down over the pacific, what impact will the nuclear waste have on the sea life, and could the tides spread radiation to populated shorelines? | [
"Nuclear capable doesn't mean it has a nuclear warhead. It just means it CAN carry a nuclear warhead. If they actually fired a nuclear warhead at anything the rest of the world would wipe them out."
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"Yeah for the most part Radiation only travels so far before it becomes negligible. For the most part nuclear test sites are in the middle of no where. Russia tested in the middle of siberia which is thousands of miles from civilization. The U.S tested in the Nevada desert fairly far from any civilization. After a ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do so many big corporations attempt to look like small companies? | [
"The usual belief is that big corporations are just after profit, because they're too big to have genuine concern for all their customers throughout the entire corporate chain. By trying to look smaller they look more relateable, they look like people not faceless corporate drones."
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"People still run those companies, and they want the general public to associate their name with quality."
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WTF is going on in Chicago?! | [
"> gang-related, drug-related These two. The city is highly de facto segregated by income (and often race as well) with poverty concentrated in particular parts of the city generally on the West and South sides. Gang violence has become endemic in these areas and others generally because gangs offer a way to make m... | [
"Am I out of the loop on something? Who hates Ringo?!"
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Why can pizza delivery drivers have light up signs on their cars, but my after market lights are considered a 'distraction'? | [
"There are strict requirements around how the signs can be set up. Your lights don't meet the requirements set forth in the applicable laws regulating vehicle lighting."
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"Laws vary from state to state. In most states them putting lights on their own cars is illegal, but it may be different depending on where you live. In many states you can hire a police car to specifically drive with and block traffic for the procession."
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Why is there a groove on the remote control? | [
"Hold the remote, the groove is for your middle finger."
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"Not an expert, but it might have to do with touching the very tiny hair on the skin of your nose."
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Can someone help my wrap my brain around a double and triple agent? Is there such thing as a quadruple agent? | [
"An agent works for country A. A double agent claims to work for country A, but really works for country B stealing information from country A. A triple agent tells country B that they only pretend to work for country A when in fact they are actually working for country A and giving country B fake info \"stolen\" f... | [
"Not sure if you are violating the 20 year rule with that question, also are you asking about if history has seen a push back to globalism prior to what we have seen? I am not quite sure what you mean by context."
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What is the point of filibustering? | [
"In general, it's not a way to get your agenda across, it's a way to block a vote or speech from someone you disagree with. If the schedule says \"You have until midnight tonight to vote on this, or it goes in the trash\" you can stand up at 7pm and just start talking and refuse to give up the podium until 12:01am ... | [
"Who is going to pass the constitutional amendment to limit congressional terms? Congress?"
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How does extreme couponing work? | [
"a lot of time and patience. my wife coupons (although I wouldn't call her extreme) she spends about 4 hrs a week on it. she only does CVS and RiteAid, but we have walked out of both with 3-4 bags of shaving products, feminine products, medicines, and sometimes cokes/2liters for cents on the dollar. Southern Savers... | [
"That's exactly how car insurance works. Can you clarify your question?"
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Why does .5 round up? | [
"because 0,1,2,3,4 round down. 5,6,7,8,9 round up. what else you gonna do? it's 1/2 up 1/2 down. makes perfect sense."
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"Pure luck. EDIT: Wait a minute.. if you take off a 1/3 of your post description: > it's worked for me every time My god."
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Can somebody explain computer specs to me, and what to look for when purchasing a new machine? | [
"> and was always impressed by people who could tell the functionality of a computer simply by looking through its specifications. I don't really know how else you'd determine how good a computer is without touching it. And in response to your question, what do you plan on doing with it? If you just check email and... | [
"It depends how cutting edge you want to get. If you buy a quality PC and are ok with playing games at medium graphics settings, you could get away with upgrading a PC every year or two and replacing it every four or five years. The only way you would need to upgrade \"every few months\" is if you insisted on alway... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What does Power of Attorney mean and what does it stand for? | [
"A Power of Attorney is a document that a person signs giving another person the legal authority to make decisions for her. This is often done by elderly people who foresee that for health/dementia/alzheimers etc reasons won't be able to make decisions for themselves about, for example, healthcare, finances etc. Th... | [
"The President can Veto Legislation Passed by Congress. Congress can Impeach the President. The President Appoints Judges to the Supreme Court who must be approved by Congress. The Supreme Court can Overturn Legislation passed by Congress and signed by the President. No one Branch has all the Power. There is a Bal... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does sleep does sleep depravation make you stupid? | [
"> I lose the ability to write grammatically correct sentences. > Why does sleep does sleep... I see what you did there."
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"A lot of factors affect human sleeping patterns, of which animals don't experience. * stress * smart phone / computer screen affecting the brain * caffein consumption near sleep time things like that, you can even include existential crisis episodes while in bed, and the embarrassing shit your brain won't let you ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What's the logical theory behind lock down procedures in public buildings? | [
"They want to control access to areas of the building because ti is easy to end the situation. If everyone is locked in classrooms, the shooter cannot get into them, and they are a lot less people running around so the police can find the person who is causing the issue."
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"What's the reasoning behind term limits being a good idea?"
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Why do we only learn out multiplications up to 12? | [
"I can't speak for the rest of the world, but in Britain multiplication tables up to 12 used to be taught because pre-decimalisation, our currency was divided into shillings each of which had twelve pennies. Being able to multiply in units of (up to) twelve was therefore an essential life skill -- you simply wouldn... | [
"12 is easily divided evenly into smaller amounts. You can divide 12 evenly by 2, 3, 4, and 6. If it was 10 then you could divide it by 2 and 5."
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Why are there 4 bases in DNA? | [
"It just so happened that those particular 4 chemicals fit together in a way that strings of pairs of them can form a double helix that protects the information stored by their order."
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"Because it is comprised solely of 5 of the most important numbers in mathematics."
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What exactly happens when a voice cracks? | [
"There are numerous muscles in one's voice box that control the pitch and tone of one's voice. While you can consciously alter the tone and pitch of your voice, you don't have conscious control over this musculature. Voice cracks occur when the brain hasn't learned to correctly modulate these muscles to produce a c... | [
"Have you ever noticed how hyper sensitive your penis gets after orgasm? Same thing."
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If the "we only use a certain percentage of our brain" myth has been debunked, how come we can't do things like autistic savants? | [
"When I was a kid, I picked up some human calculator tricks, and got pretty good at it. It is about 25% talent, 25% knowing some tricks, and 50% practice, practice, practice. If you have a condition like autism with OCD tendencies, and those tendencies lead you to practice math tricks all the time, you are going t... | [
"People are ignorant and are not skilled at thinking. I know it sounds \"edgy\" to just sum things up with \"People are dumb\" but it is the truth: Most people don't know very much about how the world works and are very poorly equipped to reason concepts out. They are accustomed to not knowing how things actually w... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why is passing out a concern for pilots and not climbers at high altitudes? | [
"Pilots don't require oxygen unless they are flying at an altitude of at least 14000 ft. Most mountains are not 14000 ft above sea level. Climbers who climb the tallest mountains in the world do require supplemental oxygen once they reach a certain altitude."
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"Asthma medication for people that don't have asthma supposedly gives them better cardiovascular performance and lets their lungs breathe better. Doesn't make a difference in my experience though."
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Why does mint or peppermint flavour make water taste colder? | [
"It activates the wrong neurons (the ones that detect a loss of heat, AKA cold) by lowering their activation threshold. When the cold water touches your tongue, it makes the oversensitive neurons react and flood your brain with incorrect cold signals."
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"That taste is actually the taste of the toothpaste. Toothpaste can be flavored in a number of ways but very often they use mint. Some people actually like the taste of mint! A lot of other things are mint flavored like bubblegum and mojitos. If you do not like the taste of mint you could switch to a brand that is ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do actors often have very dilated pupils while filming? | [
"They're not looking into light, they're looking into a relatively dark area, while being lit. You can actually see that in the picture you posted."
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"It's harder for one to hide his/her emotions while making eye contact. That's why poker players often wear sunglasses despite being indoors."
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Why don't humans produce the enzyme required to digest cellulose? | [
"Because we instead produce the enzymes and have a digestive system capable of digesting meat. The critters that can eat cellulose generally are full herbivores and can't do that, because their digestive systems are entirely geared around digesting cellulose."
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"Essentially it has to do with differences in enzyme expression. Enzymes are little machines in the body that help break down and convert the food we eat into other forms that we can then get energy from or help with growing cells and other bodily functions. For example, other animals (not including humans, and for... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it a social convention for females to have long hair and males short? | [
"I heard women grow their hair long as a symbol of fertility. Long hair indicates a long period of good health. It's kinda like saying \"look I've been healthy enough to keep up these glorious locks for the last 3 years. Im healthy enough to carry your babies\""
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"No reason, it's just a cultural norm. In other words, it is that way because that's the way it is. Breasts are not sex organs, female breasts are not more sensitive than male breasts. It's the same as some cultures requiring women to cover their hair or even their faces."
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Why is water 'harder than concrete' if you fall into it from a great height? | [
"It is not harder, but at high enought speed the effect is the same. You die. Imagine for example what happens when you slowly soak your hand in water, there is no resistance. Slap the water and you will feel the impact. Slap it hard enought and you will feel pain. This happens because when you go slow the water mo... | [
"Water is a much better conductor of heat than air. As a result you lose body heat much quicker in cold water than in cold air."
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What is Raspberry Pi? | [
"It's essentially just a very small computer running a version on linux, the reason its incredibly popular/amazing is mostly the size and what you can do with a full computer that can fit in the palm of your hand. It has all the ports that any desktop computer/laptop uses on a daily basis."
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"This should help explain it Your Brain On Coffee: _URL_0_"
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Is magic and wizardry theoretically possible? | [
"I think what people are driving at is that \"magic\" is based on your perspective. Invisibilty was once considered magic but now through science we have created structures that are invisible to particular wavelengths of light. An iPhone would be considered magical to a culture of humans who do not know what electr... | [
"For the same reason technology doesn't advance in Harry potter, magic is prevalent enough that no one bothers to invent anything new or the existence of magic renders electricity or combustion impossible. I.e. different laws of physics in fantasy realms"
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Why do comedians repeat phrases of their jokes/stories every so often while performing on stage? | [
"If the audience is busy laughing, a good comedian will repeat the sentence they were busy laughing at so the audience has a chance to refocus and not miss the end of that sentence or the beginning of the enxy. I've seen some bad comedians that just can't read their audience and they keep going through their routin... | [
"Hack is really just saying a joke is well-trodden. If everyone's done it, or if it's really common with new stand-ups. Jokes become hack over time because stand-up is very reactionary. It's built upon all of the greats of the past. So, when Chris Rock did his black people / white people jokes, were those jokes com... | eli5_question_answer | {
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For electric trains, why does the friction from the part on top of the train that contacts the power cables not cause the cables to wear out and need frequent replacement? | [
"The friction does wear metal but contacts on the train's antennas are made of a softer metal and this is the one that wears out. The pads as easily replaceable."
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"The magnets serve two purposes: they serve as a metallic conductor to close the battery's circuit allowing current to flow through the copper coil and they create a magnetic field. When conventional current flows from the positive terminal to the negative terminal of the battery, a magnetic field is induced. This ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do planes at major airports sometimes take off in the opposite direction than they usually do? | [
"They take off into the wind. If the wind shifts, they take off the other direction."
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"Just like on the roads, there are highways in the sky. Commercial aircraft fly on specified altitudes and specified \"routes.\" When a plane has to wait to land, there is a flight pattern that they fly in. There is a circle that they make over the airport. If there is a weather problem that closes an airport, the... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does Valium act as a stimulant for some people instead of a tranquilizer? | [
"Some are so crippled by anxiety that they can only \"let loose\" when their nerves have been suppressed and smoothed out by anxiolytics."
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"A depressant is not something that causes depression. A depressant is the opposite of a stimulant, it makes you less focus and drowsy."
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Why don't police officers have some type of malpractice insurance like healthcare practitioners do? | [
"Most local governments do have insurance policies for this sort of thing, which is why they are the targets of lawsuits, not the individual officers. I suppose a few high profile lawsuits directed at the officers themselves might change this."
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"The high prices come from doctors requiring decades of training to even start practicing. Wouldn't you want to be able to make money too? Combine that with the litigious nature of our society and they have to buy malpractice insurance that costs five figures a year. So their pay also has to compensate for that. Me... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How could police be overruled by Scientologists once let alone 161 times as mentioned on TIL? | [
"Scientology has a shitload of money and a shitload of lawyers and basically runs Clearwater, FL like a company town."
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"Scientology in the past have made it a point to go after people personally if they don't get what they want. (google how they got their tax exemption status). They even tried to infiltrate law enforcement (operation show white). This hasn't stopped the FBI though. However, since they are classed as a religious gro... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it that after a night of drinking, I can't sleep past 7:30 usually, however the norm seems to be that others "sleep it off"? | [
"Feels. I wake up super early then can't get back to sleep. Next time when you get up try to sit in the shower for a bit, make some food and take some multivitamins + fish oil then put some calming music on and go back to sleep for another 2-3 hours. Personally the music helps me take my mind off trying to go over ... | [
"I'm 30 and stopped partying about 5 years ago. I still go out some weekends and drink to excess at times. I enjoy the bar scene but for the most part, I don't see the point anymore? I'm happily married so I'm not looking to meet anyone, and it's a lot more fun to hang out with people I already know and like and ha... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How is it normally cold at a higher elevation (on top of mountains), even though you are closer to the sun? | [
"The sun is over 93 million miles away, going up a few hundred feet is pretty much no closer."
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"I'm no scientist so maybe someone can explain this better, but I think it often has much more to do with atmospheric conditions (i.e., greenhouse effects), rather than proximity to the equator, like some have mentioned here. Locations that are less humid and have thinner air are more likely to go through more dram... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can China copy so many products like cars , cellphones etc. without getting in trouble/infringing patents? | [
"Its not \"China\" as in the government officially doing it. It is individuals doing it with the government turning a blind eye to it. Since a connection to the government can't be proved to a level that would allow any World Trade Commission action, about all people can do is demand action from the government & li... | [
"The website owners themselves aren't the ones selling things. They are simply a marketplace for other people to sell things. Also, for Aliexpress, they're based in China and the Chinese government often looks the other way when it comes to infringing on American copyrights and trademarks."
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Why is the camera recording quality noticeably worse when the same broadcast is reporting news outside of North America or Europe? | [
"Not every country has the necessary electronic and technological infrastructure to transmit and receive the crisp video and audio that's most easily found in such countries as you named."
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"I used to be able to watch longer videos on my phone via LTE. Apparently this changed sometime earlier this week. Now when trying to watch, say, a 3-hour podcast on YouTube, it says that the video is only available on WiFi. This is very new and I'm wondering why YouTube would do this. Anyone?"
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What exactly is management consulting? | [
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"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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What is a prefecture? | [
"In modern Japan a prefecture is an administrative district that is similar to a state or province in other countries."
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"What the heck is a parcel pick up?"
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Why do you rarely come across dollar bills with rips in them even though they are really easy to rip? | [
"When banks come across damaged bills, of any denomination, they send them back to the federal reserve, which takes them out of circulation and replaces it with a new bill."
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"Have you ever seen the movie Mad Money? Basically, Fed regulates it. Banks around the country send them something called \"Mutilated\" money. These are the dollar bills that should never see the light of day again. They are just replaced with newer bills and destroyed."
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Why can US citizens be fined for having an untidy lawn? | [
"The local government doesn't want people not taking care of their lawn and letting it get overgrown, likely lowering property values for the surrounding houses/community."
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"That depends on your home country, and what you do. For example, the US doesn't care if you go overseas to smoke some weed, but will throw your ass in jail for a couple decades if you go overseas to fuck kids."
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- From my 4 year-old: "Why don't numbers end?" | [
"Think of the biggest number you can imagine. Now add 1 to it. You can do this forever. So, the numbers never end."
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"As explained *by* my five year old... \"Because it comes from your butt! Ha ha ha!\""
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How does a bone regenerate when you break it? | [
"It's not that it regenerates. But rather that the cells in your body builds new bones between the existing break and they all fuse together. The downfall is... this is enormously taxing on the body to do, and its extremely limited. It also can cause problems as well because its not always on point when growing new... | [
"Apparently a special type of stem cell is responsible for regenerating the lost tails in geckos. Stem cells of course are the cells that have no purpose other than to differentiate and specialize themselves in order to become whatever type of cell your body needs during growth or replacing other dead cells. & #x2... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Thai food spice levels. | [
"They generally add more Thai chilles to hotter dishes. Fun fact: you can ask for your dishes to be Thai hot at most Thai restaurants, and they will serve it to you as hot as if you were from Thailand. I always do this because spicy foods have little effect on me, but be warned ahead of time that this is *not* for... | [
"Same difference between color and colour. Continent-based spelling differences."
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5: Why in Britain do they use the metric system yet they use MPH for speed measurements? | [
"We began moving to the metric system around 40-50 years ago. When I was a child, shops still used to show weights in imperial - but a European directive that shops need to sell in metric really sped up the transition. There are a couple of things which we still use imperial measurements for though. They are distan... | [
"The US DOES use the metric system, especially in regards to business.....we just also use the imperial system."
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How is a company able to force an employee to retire? | [
"\"Retire willingly, and we'll give you a generous severance package. Refuse, and we'll fire you and you'll get nothing.\""
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"Because they promise not to use your answer to determine whether or not to hire you."
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Why do we often feel tired after low-energy activities such as sitting on a plane? | [
"Well, that particular example inflicts quite a bit of stress, both emotional (lines and such, even assuming you aren't afraid of heights), and biological (altitude change, uncomfortable seats and restricted ability to move, persistent noise, and the like). Driving is another good example, again emotional stresses ... | [
"Do you exercise frequently? Or do you sit at your job most of the day? Typically a night of drinking involves a lot of standing, walking or dancing. And if you aren't in shape, that can leave your legs sore."
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Why is there a physical pain in your chest when you experience emotional pain i.e. heartbreak? | [
"Emotional stress induced things like muscle tightness, increased heart rate, abnormal stomach activity. There is also an empathy phenomenon that has been observed in mice where pain sensitivity increases when observing someone else who is in pain, so normal sensations of pain are amplified."
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"Is there something stressing you out that you can't stop thinking about? Alternatively, could be a sleep disorder."
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What makes CEO, CTO and CFO individuals so special? Why can't just any manager, tech lead, or accountant take on the roll? There are so many of them around, and yet companies have a hard time filling those roles? | [
"This [book](_URL_0_) talks about the different skills you need to learn as you ascend from individual contributor to CEO. It is a very different skill to manage a group of people than to do the work of those people yourself. (*Managing* programmers is not like *being* a programmer.) And a different skill set again... | [
"It's true that management requires a skillset that not everyone has. But at the same time, managing a group of people also (hopefully) requires that you understand the work that they do. Hiring a manager with \"management\" skills but no domain knowledge can be just as bad (or far worse) than promoting a domain ex... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If I open a regular site on my phone it takes me to the mobile version. If I open a mobile site on my computer it doesn't take me to the regular site automatically. Why? | [
"Nearly everyone that has a website treats the desktop version as the standard version and the mobile version as the special version. This means there is no explicit need for a desktop prefix, since it's the default anyway, only a mobile prefix is needed. So when you go to _URL_2_, it checks if you have a phone and... | [
"I don't know why. My computer at work also does. But if you can see the link when you open the imgur link, then copy it and paste it into a new tab. That works on mine."
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What would happen if you dropped an ant from the top of the Empire State Building? | [
"Due to gravity, the ant would fall. Depending on a couple of other weather factors, it would land more or less in front of or in the vicinity of the Empire State Building."
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"How do you even take a picture of the center of a tornado?"
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How is damage (in dollars) done by, for example a natural disaster, calculated? | [
"You can literally sum the values of the stuff destroyed. For more advanced estimates (or bigger numbers) you can also add up the lost hours of labour and extra labour and materials required for restoration. You could also estimate into the future how much money a place would make if it were not destroyed. Usual... | [
"The problem may be that your nutritional costs would increase more than your power costs would decrease. To give a good comparison, you should consider how many calories are burned producing how much energy."
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how does being tonedeaf work? | [
"> depending on the degree you're talking about, it's actually a literal brain defect called amusia. one of Oliver Sacks's books (\"Musicophilia\") is all about the brain and music, and he talks about tone-deafness. basically, the part of your brain that recognizes pitch (or tempo, rhythm, etc.) is missing or damag... | [
"i just drop like a sack of potatoes. So if there is such a mechanism i want to ask the follow up question why mine doesn't work?"
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Why does WIC not allow white potatoes? | [
"\"According to Food Politics' Marion Nestle, the white potatoes were excluded because the Institute of Medicine observed 'WIC mothers already buy plenty of them.'\" [Source](_URL_0_) You don't subsidize and encourage something people are already readily buying."
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"Brown rice doesn't taste as nice. Same reason Americans generally prefer white bread and potatoes."
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Why are 'off brand' batteries so much cheaper than on brand? They seem to be about 1/10 the price. | [
"Take a closer look at the cheaper batteries, they usually use a different chemistry. \"Heavy Duty\" batteries perform worse than Alkaline, and don't last as long, but they are cheaper to produce. Store brand Alkalines will be cheaper than Duracells/Energizers, but still competitively priced. Heavy Duty batteries a... | [
"They give you less and less for your 0.99 each year, or they discover new ways to squeeze their suppliers. There is a chain of shops in the UK called \"Poundland\" (everything £1) and \"The 99p Store\" (everything £0.99). I can't remember which it is, but they sell multipacks of AA batteries for £1 (or 99p). They ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why/how do some TV series with such critical acclaim (e.g. Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones) and high production values have a different writer and/or director for almost every episode? | [
"The head of a TV show is known as a \"showrunner\" and he/she acts as the creative lead of the entire show. Showrunners function as a combination producer/director/writer for the entire series. There are individual writers to help with specific episodes and individual directors to help with management of the stage... | [
"British Drama/sitcoms are generally written by one or two people (i.e. the creator of the show or perhaps a comedy partnership). Whereas American shows are generally written by a team of writers including the creator of the show. For British shows, the creator(s) has a vision of what they want to do (and a limited... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can so many countries be in so much national debt? To whom is all that money owed? | [
"'Countries' aren't monolithic entities. Rather, they're comprised of many departments. Departments in the same country can owe money to one another. They can owe money to citizenry, then can owe money to private or public institutions in the same or other country. The majority of United States Debt, for instance,... | [
"We're not going to pay off the national debt. Why would we *want* to pay off the entire debt?"
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What happens in our brains when we realize we've driven miles/minutes and don't even remember consciously driving them? | [
"This happens when your subconscious mind starts handling processes that you normally control consciously. Normally, you're paying attention to the road and staying alert. When you're an experienced driver, you can pass the task of staying between the lines to your subconscious, and stop being alert for hazards. Be... | [
"Your short term memories are not being converted into long term memories. You can be somewhat coherent at the time of a blackout, you just won't have an recollection of it. It is similar to how you can be driving and suddenly realize you don't remember the last 20 miles. Driving in boring and routine, and if nothi... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Is it more profitable for a music artist to have a song in the number one spot for a short while, or to have a song in the charts for a lengthier amount of time? | [
"It depends the number sold and length of time. You can sell 100,000 albums in a month then fall off the radar, or slow burn to 100,000 over a few months. Also, unless the artist is self publishing, they're not making all that much off album sales, at least initially."
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"Most charts are compiled weekly (i.e. they are a chart of how many times a song were purchased in that week). So if a song is released and sells enough copies in that week, then it will be included in that week's chart."
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Why does Seattle have such a large number of major US corporations? | [
"Not just policies. Location too. Seattle's on the Pacific Ocean and so is an easy major seaport with access to major inexpensive manufactories in China and surrounding countries. It has a good quality of life and lots of recreational opportunities thanks to the State of Washington's parks, ski hills, and other loc... | [
"Because in a lot of places, like where I live, there is literally not an alternative to Comcast."
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Why does wind make such a strange noise when recorded on a device but not when we hear it with our own ears? | [
"Have you ever had someone blow in your ears? Microphone are hyper-sensitive to anything and will accept sound from almost any direction. Your ears will block all the \"simulated\" sound waves of the force of the wind except when it's directly blown inside your eartube. That's basically the difference. This is the ... | [
"The voice you're used to hearing is a combination of the sound travelling though the air to your ears, and the sound traveling through the bones of your skull directly to the inner ear. This makes the voice you hear sound deeper and \"richer\" than what other people hear, since they only hear the part of your voic... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do babies and small children fight sleep? | [
"Because they think they'll miss out on something fun while asleep. They're minds are filled with curiosity and wonder"
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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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Why does time seem to slow down when I'm studying and passes by really quickly when I'm procrastinating? | [
"You pay much more attention to the time when you're studying, probably something like \"only 10 minutes left\" or whatever, you probably don't do that when you procrastinate."
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"When you're having fun, your mind is focused on the moment. You're not worried about the time, you're having a blast When you're bored, you keep glancing at the clock, getting all dismayed that only 2 minutes have passed when you thought it was an hour."
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- Why don't we hear babies cry or make other sounds when they are inside the womb? | [
"The baby's lungs are the last thing to form in a normal baby, once they are formed, they will send out a chemical that signals to the uterus that triggers the mother's body to go into labor."
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"It blocks out distracting sounds, and sounds a bit like the noises you heard when you were in your mother's womb."
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Why is wearing a hat indoors considered rude? | [
"It would be like wearing your coat inside, generally you don't do that. Hats have a very utilitarian function to either keep your head warm or dry and inside you don't need to do either. Eventually it morphed into a fashion statement but just like you are supposed to use the correct fork to be polite you are suppo... | [
"It's just a social thing. There's not really logic behind it - there was a time when women wearing men's clothes was just as odd as a man wearing woman's is today."
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why is it we can it people into a medical induced coma but not any medical use to get them out of coma? | [
"Medically induced coma is done through drugs(barbiturates). Drugs wear off, patient wakes up. Comas cause by accident are a result of damage to the brain which is slow to repair/rewire if it ever does."
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"It's not more of a staying conscious at the time of your death, it's literally stay with me, don't give up, please show me you can still make it. I'm not a 100% accurate on this but when a person gets an injury, sometimes it is important to stay awake for the body to not get into something - I forgot if it was sho... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is an enterprise architect? | [
"SAP is a company that makes a suite of tools, generally around accounting and human resources. Just like Microsoft Office has Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. SAP has something to process people's paychecks, the company's bank accounts and generating expense reports. The architect's job is to connect all these differe... | [
"Programmer is to construction worker as software engineer is to architect."
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What exactly is that sinking feeling you feel when you're extremely sad? | [
"What's that scared feeling called, when you don't even know what you scared about?"
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"Because it helps to take your mind off of the embarrassing thought. I do that a lot when I'm hung over."
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How did sites like Grooveshark, Spotify, and Google Play get all that music available for free streaming? | [
"Grooveshark is currently in a number of lawsuits over copyright infringement. Spotify has licensing deals with music studios so that they are allowed to stream music on demand. On the free version, they pay for these license fees with ads. In the US, due to streaming music laws, anyone can use music for Internet R... | [
"Downloading music is only illegal if the rights holders of the music don't get paid for it. There are many music apps where you can download or stream music for a fee."
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Why should I install anti-virus software and a firewall? | [
"Do yourself a favor and download this and scan your computer: [link](_URL_1_) If it says you're free of viruses, then feel free to continue as you were."
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"Use a virtual private network anytime you are connecting to a public WiFi hotspot, or when conducting activities online that you do not want to be traceable. I use ProtonVPN. Use NoScript, Disconnect, HTTPS Everywhere, AdBlock, etc. when browsing, and routinely clear your cookies and browser history. Use a non-tra... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do football fans give Tim Tebow so much attention? | [
"He wasnt a great NFL player. Coming out he was one of the most hyped College Players in YEARS. 2 National Championships and a Heisman to his name during his time at Florida. Basically Johnny Manziel if Johnny had actually won more games in college. That and his strong social example made him easy to cover."
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"He is not good enough to play. The NFL teams are not blacklisting him for some arbitrary reason. He is not good enough. It really is that simple, no matter how hard his fans wish otherwise."
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Can we pinpoint the angle of our trajectory from the source of the big bang? | [
"The big bang wasn't what you seem to think it was. It wasn't an explosion *in* space that things are moving away from. It was an expansion **of** space, and it occurred at every location in the universe at the same time. Galaxies aren't moving away from some central point. Rather, space itself is expanding, which ... | [
"Yes they are, which is why you get spiral galaxies. However the falling towards each other is offset by the original expansion of the universe from the big bang."
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why don't checking accounts get interest? | [
"It's the bank's way of charging you for the convenience of a checking account. Btw, many banks (and more often credit unions) do offer interest on checking accounts, especially when you maintain a certain balance."
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"the banks are using the float to their advantage and ignoring your convenience."
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Why does the US try to prevent places like Iran form getting a nuclear bomb while its own country has thousands and is the only country ever to use one? | [
"\"Deterrent. Mutually assured destruction.\" We only ever used the nuclear bomb because it was an extremely dire circumstance. During the Cold War turning into atomic dust was an extremely likely possibility. Now that Russia's government is slightly less absolutely insane and that most NATO states have access to n... | [
"Because by signing the treaty Iran promised not to develop nuclear weapons. While Israel did not sign the treaty and was therefore no bound by it. Therefore while Israel did develop nuclear weapons it didn't pledge not to, unlike Iran which did. Therefore no hypocrisy. Of course Israel not signing the treaty isn't... | eli5_question_answer | {
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what is the difference between butter and margarine? | [
"Margarine is a non-dairy product created as a substitute for butter. While originally made from animal fat in the 1800s, today the primary ingredients include vegetable oil, water, salt, emulsifiers, and some also include milk."
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From ancient times to the present day, why is it acceptable in most parts of the world for men to be bare-chested but not women? | [
"Women's breast and men's breast are not the same. Treating them differently is not arbitrary, it's meaningful. Women's breast are sexual, they develop during puberty and have a functioning role to feed their kin. They are affected by estrogen (female sex hormones). It is sexual, and thus elicits a sexual reaction.... | [
"Who said anything was unanimous? There's still plenty of cultures where it's perfectly acceptable to show genitals in public."
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Why do my feet get cold and sweaty when I don't wear socks and have them underneath the blanket? | [
"When you first get under the blanket your body begins to heat up, as it no longer has to work as hard to stay warm. As a reaction, it expands blood vessels near the surface of your skin to shed extra heat. The only problem is most of that heat gets trapped under the blanket. When your body registers that it isn't ... | [
"Clothing tends to breathe. Try wearing thick socks and steel toed work boots in a hot environment for 10-12 hours and see how your feet look afterwards."
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Why do many men's bathrooms have open stalls with no doors or doors that don't lock? | [
"Many different possibilities, obviously, but if it was done by the establishment on purpose, it's in order to keep guys from doing hard drugs in there (ie heroin), or some other nefarious activity the place doesn't want occurring in their bathrooms. It can also deter men from using the stall at all, if the place d... | [
"All internal areas of a building with only one exit open to the inside in order to make sure people don't get trapped inside in case something blocks the door on the outside. That's also why most bathroom doors open in, even though everyone would prefer to not have to touch the handle. People's aversion to germs d... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why don't courts (U.S.) add perjury charges to criminals who lie in court and are found guilty on other charges? | [
"except that situation would never happen. the defendant would rarely be put on the stand. if the prosecutor asked the defendant under oath if he did the crime, the defendant's attorney would tell the defendant to please the 5th and not answer."
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"Generally, states and the federal government have laws criminalizing perjury, which is defined as knowingly making a false statement under oath as to a material issue. (There are also laws against \"false swearing\" which cover non-material sworn lies.) These laws can be felonies or misdemeanors, so you're potenti... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How did they make a hex shaped hole on this lathe? | [
"That was beautiful work with a CNC lathe. The CNC calculated how to spin both the parts to make the pattern required, similar to how it did the threads. I have not seen a good video of this particular pattern slowed down, but I'd assume it's very similar to _URL_0_ ."
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"What is the black meteorite stone imbedded in the Kaaba?"
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How does an app like OfferUp make money? | [
"Tons of startups don't make money. They lose shit loads of it trying to get users, hoping to make the ninety back by selling the company or having an IPO."
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"In-app advertising and purchases make money for the developer."
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Why does almost everyone who drives think it's ok to go up to 5 miles per hour OVER the speed limit? | [
"The most likely reason is that 5 mph is within the speedometer's and radar gun's margin of error, so pulling people that are going 5mph over would result in a ton of legal headaches for everybody."
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"Technically the sign only comes into effect at the point of the sign. But it's unlikely an officer would pull you over going 75 when the 75 mph sign is like 100 feet in front of you."
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what happened to RSS? Why did it suddenly just stop being a thing? | [
"RSS lets you get quick updates of websites you like. For example [qwantz](_URL_0_) updates every time a new comic goes up. The idea was that you could get updates and new information without having to go to each site and check."
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"I have no account or app, and I can no longer see the end linked by news sites. That's huge, as they don't directly post videos or pics on the news sites themselves. That has got to change!"
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How can a man be raped by a woman? | [
"The human body will respond to physical stimulation even if you haven't consented and don't want it to happen. Mind over matter only goes so far, so sufficient stimulation will still have a predictable effect. The fact that your body responded in the way it is physiologically meant to respond has nothing to do wit... | [
"Because you haven't fallen in love with a woman yet."
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Why do I like toasted bread, but not stale bread? | [
"It is due to a reaction called the Maillard reaction, which is a non-enzymatic form of browning which is caused by heat. It is a chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars. Maillard reactions are why we like browned meat, roasted coffee and biscuits (most baking processes go through the maillard rea... | [
"Brown rice doesn't taste as nice. Same reason Americans generally prefer white bread and potatoes."
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Why does the military have its own justice system? | [
"In the military (21 years Army for me so far) we have different rules that don't exist in the civilian world. For instance, in order to maintain order and discipline required, we don't have the option to tell a commanding officer to go screw himself as we are turning in our two weeks notice. The members of an offi... | [
"How would the president conduct a hostile takeover without the military? Also a takeover of what?"
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