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Why is there a standard arrangement of the numbers on a game die? | [
"Some arrangements of numbers keep the extremes from clumping up on one side of the die, which if the die is unbalanced, would mean significantly higher or lower averages if rolled a large number of times. Though with dicemaking techniques available today, most dice are going to be mostly fair for most practical pu... | [
"They don't; you're thinking of a different kind of battery."
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Why are women more attracted to "unavailable" men, is this chemical, psychological or a bit of both columns? | [
"1. The less available something is, the more it is wanted. 2. if a man has a GF/wife he appears to be a good bet because somebody already thinks he's dateable."
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"I don't think its a case of women being more attracted to other women, it's just more socially acceptable."
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How does a hostile takeover in business work? | [
"when someone tries to acquire 50% + 1 of the voting shares of a company without approval of the board/stockholders."
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"What does the Pope handle on a day to day basis?"
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Why are some parking lots angled? | [
"Angled spaces are easier to turn into and back out of, but require that you go down the aisle a specific direction."
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"Does it matter if there is water instead of roads between a number of small towns? We have boats and bridges."
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Why does China turn back North Korean defectors? | [
"The Chinese view North Koreans as economic immigrants, similar to how the US sees Mexico. They're only crossing the border to try to get a better job in China, which many North Koreans do along the border. Most other countries see North Koreans as political refugees, like how the US sees Cuba. China is under a lot... | [
"Why is the US so upset over the labeling of US treatment of Native Americans as a genocide?"
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When sheep run away from their herd they grow several pounds of wool. So how do wild sheep now get weighed down and die? | [
"Sheep have been bred to produce more wool. Just like dairy cows have been bred to produce more milk, pigs have been bred to grow very large very fast, and chickens and turkeys have been bred to grow so quickly that they can be slaughtered at just weeks old for meat. Wild sheep produce exactly enough wool to keep ... | [
"If a wild cat had hair that matted, it would soon die. So it wouldn't have many kittens, so cats with hair that shed cleanly without matting would predominate. We started breeding cats with thick, soft fur, because we found them more cuddly. So instead of this thick, easily matted fur dying out, it survived, so w... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Who is it screaming like crazy at the beginning of a run in Olympic downhill alpine skiing competition? Why do they do it? | [
"I was a competitive skier and for me it was always the coach / teammates. In most downhill ski events, you get a short distance before turns or gates start where you will see skiers skating to pick up speed faster. I always thought it as a the last way someone could yell encouragement and get your adrenaline pumpi... | [
"He's warming up for the eventual possibility that you are going to drop him in water. Why else are you holding him over the water anyways."
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Why do seemingly all Russians use dashboard cams? | [
"Because there's an insane amount of insurance fraud that goes on. People who like to jump in front of oncoming vehicles or try to make it look like they were hit all hoping for a quick settlement. Others who back up intentionally into drivers who are behind them and claim they were rear-ended. Also, an unusual amo... | [
"Why do people in Western countries use forks?"
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If humans become an interplanetary or interstellar civilization, what will be the best way to tell time? | [
"Well biologically, we're set for 24 hour days, assuming that doesn't change, I guess we would try and stick with it, but a planet spinning on it's axis is normally a good way to go too."
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"Mastering spaceflight (i.e making it cost and time efficient) has several benefits to it. Being able to travel to other planets and moons would give us more living space when the Earth gets too crowded, not to mention it would give us the capability to save our species from extinction in the event of a disaster li... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do hardware manufacturers keep MAC addresses unique when there are also other manufacturers that produce the same type of hardware? | [
"There is a standards body that allocates MAC addresses similar to IP's. So Cisco will have a range or ranges of MAC addresses it can call upon. I do seem to recall hearing that they are not completely globally unique and may get reused from time to time."
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"It depends. You can do it to Windows key or a GUID which is a bit more complex. You can tie it to an IP address, but that's generally not a good idea because IP addresses are not necessarily fixed. Its better to tie it to physical attributes. This is called hardware binding. For example, your MAC address can't (us... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What does Comcast gain by being a dick to customers? What's stopping them from using the money they spend on lobbying to actually improve their services? | [
"They don't gain anything by being dicks to customers. The problem is that they are the only provider [in many areas](_URL_0_) so they feel that they don't need to make customers happy -- where else will their unhappy customers go? Improving their service might earn them many more millions of dollars but lobbying ... | [
"Google doesn't want to be an ISP. They are showing people what a good ISP can do, so that they will demand that their ISPs (Comcast and what have you) do better. Google's trying to shock the market into changing."
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Why seeing a very bright light leave an imprint in one's vision? | [
"Your eyes retina has photoreceptors (rods and cones) . There's a chemical reaction happening when light hits it, and if the light is very bright that chemical reaction is bigger than normal and it takes a little time until your eyes can get \"rid\" of it again, therefore you see an after-Image since the chemicals ... | [
"I never knew this had a name & thought I was the only one. Most vivid experience was wanting to drive into a concrete barrier at high speed. The thought really scared me."
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How does one become funny or witty? Is it just something you're born with? | [
"A lot of it has to do with the people you surround yourself with. It also has a lot to do with developing it on your own. You borrow silly things from tv and movies, and then, for me personally i use some of that as a template for the silly shit that comes out of my mouth. I also just let my mind wander. I will sa... | [
"Nobody is \"born with the ability\" to sing. Some may develop a talent for it later on, which is as much practice, nurture and interests as it is genetics."
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What is the difference between a Router/Modem and an Access Point. | [
"* Modem: transforms a signal so it can be better transmitted (eg. DSL over telephone wires) * Router: connects two networks (like your LAN and the WAN) * Switch: a (more intelligent) distribution box * Access Point: like a Switch for Wifi The things your telecom provider puts in your home usually combines all four... | [
"Your uplink to your ISP is 30 Mbps. The link between your computer and your wireless router is 72."
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Why do Canadian car models use slightly different icons than the other NA country counterparts? | [
"it is the other way around, there are standardized universal symbols/icons for stuff in a car used by car manufacturers in almost all their cars. but America require them to be written in English, i think top gear made fun of that once."
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"A lot of them have the same products being made for both the American and Canadian market, and Canada legally requires product packaging to be both in English and French."
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how come birds don't collide while flying in a flock? | [
"It's also a bit of an urban legend that birds in flocks don't collide. They collide all of the time, but it's not a Michael Bay collision, they just bump wing tips and adjust their flight. As long as they are all moving in generally the same direction, they don't \"crash\". But general spacial awareness and an ey... | [
"Birds have little magnetic minerals in their skulls that make them sense the earts magnetic field. Thats how they dont get lost when migrating"
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Why would the White House want to veto the bill that allows 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia? | [
"There's a principle in international law called state immunity, which is that you can't sue a government in a foreign court. In the U.S., this is enshrined in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. The only general exception is that you can sue a state for its role as a commercial actor, e.g. if a foreign governmen... | [
"Just because a few very wealthy, individual Saudi citizens give money to or otherwise support groups with ties to terrorism is no reason for the U.S. government not to have a strategic alliance with the Saudi Arabian government."
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Why do some youtube videos take longer times to load than others? | [
"So, when you go to a site like YouTube, or Google etc, you point your browser to somewhere, and a program immediately transfers you to another server. It farms out your request. You are then on one of a huge array of boxes, which you make your request on. This machine then goes off and tries to get your content s... | [
"Because downloading videos uses a lot of bandwidth and youtube would rather you didn't download an entire video that you're not actually going to watch so they only buffer a certain amount at a time and stream the download as you're playing the video. There are steps you can take to disable this but its not a simp... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do electronics (mainly computers) get hot when used extensively? | [
"Because they aren't 100% efficient, some of the energy you put into it is transformed into heat. It gets hotter and hotter of that heat isn't escaping faster than it is being made. Same thing goes for light bulbs, your body, etc."
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"This is assuming that your PC is properly maintained and cooled. Leaving it on at all times will wear out some parts faster, but in most PC's it's not fast enough to really matter. You'll probably end up upgrading parts or buying a new PC before it really matters. Some people leave their computers on all the time ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why don't trains or buses have seat-belts? | [
"The fatality rate for school busses is 0.2 per 100 million miles traveled. The fatality rate for cars is around 1 to 1.5. Buses are already roughly 5x safer than cars, so seat belts aren't worth the bother. The fatality rate for long-haul train passengers is 0.15 per *billion* passenger miles. Trains are a hundre... | [
"It will become standard eventually; just like seat belts, central locking and rim spinners."
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How is Sepp Blatter still the president of FIFA? | [
"When was the last time the CEO of Bank of America/Target/Walmart got impeached? It's a corporation, not a government. If he wants to stay President, unless he does something that puts him in jail, which he could still stay president, there's nothing forcing him to leave. The whole FIFA thing is a crockpile of shit... | [
"Have you been paying attention to the news at all this past year? FIFA is astonishingly corrupt."
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Why were there so many insane asylums 100 years ago, but you rarely hear about them today? | [
"If you are talking about the US, its because of a process called deinstitutionalisation. Starting in the 60s a combination of factors led to the closure of many mental institutions. Books like One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and a series of scandals (such as the Kennedy lobotomy) turned the public against asylums.... | [
"Compare mortality rates to those with chronic illness 100 years ago. Now make the same comparison today. You will find that a very large number of people who are sick today would have been dead 100 years ago. Peanut allergy 100 years ago: Billy mysteriously fell over dead, end of story."
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how do Sumo Wrestlers not pop out while in the ring | [
"Not a sumo wrestler. But watched alot of sumo and did a tour once. Penile slips rarely happen for three reasons. 1) top layer looks loose but the underlying layers are secure and keep everything on place 2) the schlong sits in a crevice in the material owing to the way it's wrapped. 3) sumo wrestlers are genera... | [
"There is technique to a head but that ensures you damage your opponent more than you damage yourself. You use the curve in your forehead as the Striking surface and you aim for their jaw nose or eyes. The curve in the top of your forehead is much stronger than the flat surface of their face and their face has a lo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why when guys pee it some times splits into a double stream? | [
"The pee hole isn't a perfectly round hole, under lower pressure the 2 middle parts can close leaving 2 smaller gaps either side."
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"I haven't seen this in a while but I remember it. The ice covers the part where the urine and watert collects. And when dudes pee on it it melts and dilutes the pee. Both of these together probably help reduce the smell."
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LI5 Twitter. (No, I'm not kidding.) | [
"Twitter is like sending a text or message to everyone in the world. You write a short message, and everyone can read it! Hash tags are like descriptions. It's grouping similar tweets. For example \"Traffic here is terrible! #Boston\". I'm grouping my tweet with other tweets about Boston. Your user name is present... | [
"She's hated? First I've heard of it. Source?"
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Why do are some areas or towns have the name Kill or Kills in them? Was it old tyme English for slaughterhouse areas or the industry that started the town? | [
"Kill comes from dutch, and it means creek. These towns were located near creeks during their founding and were founded by people that were Dutch or of Dutch descent."
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"Much of the time they are names taken from the Old World. Look at Sheffield, a city in England. There were many people who immigrated to the USA and Canada from Sheffield, and when they came to their new homes in Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Ontario, etc. Instead of creating a new name, they named their new home... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do I get the chills and goosebumps when hearing someone who sings really well? | [
"not really an answer, but you might be interested in /r/Frisson and /r/asmr"
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"I think it’s because we respond to music the same way we respond to sex and great food. It hits the same pleasure centres in the brain. It floods your brain with dopamine. Which is why you might feel those shivers through your skull, spine, body when you’re listening to a song that really gets to you. Also we’re d... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why do humans require a balanced diet of various meats and plants, but most animals are perfectly healthy when only eating 1 or 2 types of food? | [
"Plenty of people survive on an all-plant diet, and there are some who survive on an all-meat diet ([source](_URL_0_)). It's just very difficult, and entails eating either a huge variety of plants or a huge variety of meats/organs. But anyway, to get at the heart of your question, humans are omnivores while the ot... | [
"You don't need an extremely varied diet to become muscley. You need calories and protein. We don't synthesize all the proteins we need in our body from grass so we need to get them from different sources (animal meat, combinations of different vegetable sources, etc). Bison get the protein and calories they need f... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does diffused/reflected laser light appear to have a grainy texture? | [
"This grainy look is a product of the laser light waves bouncing off the surface and interfering with one another on your retina. Where two or more waves cancel each other out, you see a dark(er) spot. _URL_0_"
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"When the atmosphere between you and the light source is heating up or cooling down it will create some \"swirls\" (Hot roads in summer). When the light is far enough away those disturbances can cause all of the light to be reflected off and you cant see it."
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Why were the Aztec, Mayans, etc wiped out by the diseases carried by the Europeans and not vice versa? | [
"There were many settlers who died of disease. The thing is that the travel back to Europe was long enough that most lethal diseases would kill their victims before they could get back to Europe. Europeans had more open trade with other groups (Each other, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East). They also lived with m... | [
"Leif Erikson didn't discover the USA. He landed in Newfoundland, then got ran off by the Natives. Columbus on the other hand. He landed, he conquered, and he nearly destroyed an entire race of people, decimated their culture and took most of the gold back to Europe."
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Will we ever stop evolving? | [
"You're forgetting the difference between evolution and natural selection. Humans will always evolve (until we move past sexual reproduction or get designer babies) BUT through modern health care natural selection is becoming less and less effective on us."
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"What do you want to know about them exactly?"
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why female products often costs more then male products? | [
"Could you name an example? Throwing out blanket statements makes it really difficult to answer your question."
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"Your teacher is an idiot. Talk to a doctor about the best way to beat a type of cancer. That being said, a diet high in vegetables and low in red meat would lower your chances of getting cancer in the first place."
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Why do so many tech companies move to such expensive areas like in Cali? Do you really need a fancy office to build apps or Facebook? Why not be located somewhere cheaper cost of living. | [
"It's called a [Business cluster](_URL_1_). See the [Silicon Valley case](_URL_0_) for example. Hollywood would be another example. Lots of businesses within the same industry settle in a geographic concentration. This makes it attractive for startups or venture capitalists to locate themselves there as well. With ... | [
"Some people live in rent-controlled housing. As long as they don't move it will be affordable for a long time. Some have section 8 vouchers that allow them to live in the city. Some just share an apartment with roommates. Three young couples sharing a three-bedroom apartment is way cheaper than each having a one-b... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How are infants and toddlers able to take so much (relatively minor) head trauma on a regular basis? | [
"Compared to adults, kids are lightweight and low to the ground. A full on face plant for a toddler involves *way* less energy than it does for an adult. If you want to work out how much exactly, you’re looking at half the mass times velocity squared."
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"Children's muscles, bones and joints are more flexible, and children tend to be more relaxed when active. Also, children are smaller and lighter but made of the same materials as bigger heavier people. These things all play a part. Beyond this, adults tend to ignore pain while children will stop what they're doing... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Do fish, whales and other aquatic animals experience flatulence? | [
"Yes. * [Whale farting](_URL_2_) * [Dolphin farting](_URL_1_) * [A whole write up](_URL_0_) on fish farting."
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"Apparently the body releases a certain odor that is undetectable to humans, but not to dogs right before some types of seizures."
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Why and how do my nostrils switch sides when my nose is runny? | [
"Actually, even when you are perfectly well, your nostrils will alternately which one is more open than the other, it just seems more noticeable when you are sick. This is called the nasal cycle: _URL_0_"
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"It's more natural for people to breathe through their noses when they are at rest. In about 85% of cases, mouth breathing is caused by blockage in the nasal cavities that prevents people from getting enough air through their noses."
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When you have a 'lesser' mental illness (like depression, anxiety) why can't your brain simply fix itself? | [
"You have a fundamental misunderstanding of mental illness. A broken bone is a bit of damage done to the bone, since bones are constantly replacing and recycling material, lining the bone up straight allows the bones natural processes to fix itself. The Flu is an illness caused by a pathogen, one which our body h... | [
"I explain it scientifically as a chemical imbalance in the brain. Causes problems with mood, interferes with how you feel or just give you nasty headaches. Most of the time OK, but sometimes don't do so well. Exactly like diabetes. I find people understand this very quickly, and separate the stigma from the illne... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why so many Japanese shows have people live reacting to content on screen? | [
"It's the Japanese equivalent of the laugh track or other audience reaction recordings on an American or other Western show. Just like how a western sitcom will have a laugh track to let the audience now 'That was funny, you are supposed to laugh', a Japanese show will have a person reacting. As I understand, it ca... | [
"If there's a video of normal people doing their normal day to day work, will you seat and watch that video? Nope. You'll watch it only if there's something extraordinary or funny happening in it. That's why."
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Why do bugs always try to fly into your mouth and eyes? | [
"At least where I come from (Australia) it’s normally flys seeking moisture in the arid areas - trick is wear a dark shirt and work hard enough so that your back is sweaty and then they’ll land on your back instead of in your eyes or mouth or at least that’s my anecdotal experience. Other than that not sure."
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"The living ones eat the dead ones and then hide. They only come out at night to crawl on your face and in your ears while you're sleeping."
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Why do teachers think Wikipedia is such a bad source? Is it actually as bad as they say it is? | [
"Historically stuff found on the internet was not that well sourced. Wikipedia was the same in its early days and got a bit of a bad reputation in that sense. It has gotten a lot better since, though. The thing is, however, that you shouldn't rely on Wikipedia per se; You should check the sources used for that Wiki... | [
"You are seriously going to change your major based on some random half page article you randomly read on the internet? Have you considered that not everything on the internet is true?"
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What do people who are considered by economists to have "given up looking for work" do for income? | [
"It can be anything. They might be supported by a partner (sometimes as a stay at home parent), they might be living on savings, they might be earning money under the table, they may have gone back to school/started another education, sometimes they qualify for assistance."
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"In the United States, people who are \"unemployed\" are those who are of legal working age and legal working status, who do not currently have a job, but are actively seeking one. If you've given up looking for a job, do not feel the need to have one, or if you have a job but are only part time, you do not count a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do Christmas lights (or other lights) affect WiFi? | [
"They really shouldn't. LED lights transmit at THz range (e.g. visible light) well well well above the GHz range your wifi uses."
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"They share similar wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum, so interference is most likely the cause. How powerful is your microwave? Are your router and microwave nearby?"
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Why is LGBTQ in that order? | [
"It mostly has to do with when each letter was added as a term to the acronym. In the mid to late 80s the term LGB started working it's way into common language as a replacement for the term \"gay\" to describe the LGBT community. Why LGB and not BLG, GLB, or LBG is likely at least in part due to how those letter a... | [
"No, that's why it's called American Sign Language."
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What is the difference in a muscle strain/pull and normal fatigue from working out. Why does one heal so much faster. | [
"They are very different. Normal fatigue from working out is caused by lactic acid, a compound produced by your muscles when they run out of oxygen. Lactic acid is a byproduct of breaking down carbohydrates for energy that has the unfortunate side effect of making your muscles feel sore, but it doesn't physically d... | [
"\"Feeling the burn\" is caused by a buildup of lactic acid on your muscles from you breaking down the contractile proteins that make up your muscle fibers. It it generally a feeling of muscle weakness and tenderness, and is often accompanied by Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS), which is soreness that begins ro... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What's this programming lingo of branches mean? | [
"A branch is when you have an if / then / else code. So you might have some code which goes: setupSomeStuff(); logTheUserIn(); Until this point, the code has only one possible route, but it can do one of two things: if( loginSuccessful() ) userDoesStuffWithProgram(); else reportFailedLogin(); so... | [
"I could not find that idiom anywhere so I gotta ask: what do you mean with run hot or cold? Something biological?"
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What exactly happens if you default on a student loan? | [
"If you default on a federal student loan, they will first demand payment in full. Then they will add collections costs to the loan - generally between 18% - 25% of the balance. If you don't reach out and try to resolve it they will eventually garnish your tax refund and up to 15% of your wages. If you have a profe... | [
"You can't file bankruptcy on student debt. It's good for the banks, not you."
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Why do I get more mosquito bites than others? Why are the bites larger and itchier? | [
"Mosquitos, along with many other insects, are attracted to the CO2 you produce. This means it is something you are unlikely to change. What you can do is place something nearby, but not too close, that is producing more CO2 than you. Dry Ice in water will do this. So if you are backpacking or something, you will j... | [
"When you contact poison ivy, there is oil on the leaves that causes the itch. If you scratch at the itch, you spread the oil and prolong the itching. When you get chicken pox, not only can you spread the contact area of the spot, but you can get scars as you constantly scratch skin weakened by the disease. Scratch... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If scientists can tell that their best atomic clock loses 1s every 16 million year, why not use what ever they're using to measure the clock's accuracy as a clock itself? | [
"They're not measuring the atomic clock, they're using the science behind it to judge it's statistical likelihood of accuracy. They're measuring it's \"margin or error.\""
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If utilities infastructure was created through taxpayer dollars, then why do people have to pay private companies for their utilities? | [
"In most cases where facilities were built by the public and then privatized, the company either had to pay the government for the facilities, or agree to repair or improve the facilities at their own expense, thus effectively paying a bill that would have been the government's bill."
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"1. the electrical company makes much of it's money selling you access to electricity and only some in charging for actual electricity. For example, I generate more power than I use with my solar panels, but...i'm still on the grid and I pay for that every month. That fee that both you and I pay is a profitable por... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do so many people believe that if your urine isn't clear you aren't drinking enough water and is there any truth to it? | [
"Clearer urine is a sign of hydration but it doesnt need to be that clear, just not very dark. Side note, caffeine and alcohol are diuretics so they pull extra water into urine in the kidneys. So if you've drank something with them in it you'll have clearer urine but won't necessarily be hydrated."
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"Water or liquid? Milk, juice, soda, coffee all have water, so you might be getting your liquid needs that way. If you only drank 1 glass of liquid every week, you would have died of dehydration long ago. Also look at the color of your urine, it should be almost clear or light yellow, dark yellow usually indicates... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are most lawyer offices come in duos? 2 Lawyers working together in one office? | [
"Running a law office adds a healthy number of fixed costs (like a library and a receptionist, a high volume copier, etc) but one lawyer usually does not come close to fully utilizing these services. So two lawyers partnering can share these costs, each paying half, with plenty of capacity for each and increasing t... | [
"Men wear pants to work, women wear aprons in the kitchen. 20th century logic for ya."
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Obama says he supports decriminalization of marijuana but not its legalization. Is there a difference or is that just political word games? | [
"Yes. _URL_0_ To 'decriminalize' means to remove the criminal penalty for - it can still be a civil offense (like a traffic ticket) where you pay a fine, rather than facing a stiffer criminal penalty. Basically, Obama wants to make it so that it's not something you can be sent to prison for, but it's still not OK... | [
"Legalizing marijuana is not a politically wise proposal to make. There are lots of reasons why this is so, but the core thing is that a politician would lose more votes from the minority that opposes marijuana than from the majority that supports it. As long as that is true, marijuana will not be legalized, no mat... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does Feng Shui work? | [
"It doesnt. A bowl of goldfish by your northeast entrance isnt going to improve your relationship problems. Good interior design *does* however improve your quality of life in general and has been shown to increase work productivity."
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"The things that are touching get tangled. ELI25 Version: Pursue a Ph.D. in Material Science...we still don't have all of the answers."
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rubber bands get colder than they started when they contract? | [
"I am sure there will be physics papers published on this during the next months just like with the glowing sticky tape. One theory is briefly explained in the original video. As the rubber is stretched the molecules have to align in certain ways. This constricts them which increases the internal pressure of the ru... | [
"basically you have a goo kinda like gum and it makes little voids that create a vaccuum when they're pulled apart, resisting being pulled apart. its just mini- vacuum balls that get stronger as you pull (until they pop)"
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Whats the big deal about Macron being the new President of France? | [
"The big deal is that the alternative would have been Marie le Pen. And she would have been a disaster for the European Union. Amidst all the other right wing and nationalist ideology that you may or may not agree with, she wanted to have a referendum for leaving the EU. Since France and Germany are basically the c... | [
"In which countries is it even done this way, except the US?"
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Is Diamond a "substance" | [
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"Because it's not a virus or strain of bacteria. It's a cell mutation."
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Do infants that rely on sign language communicate as poorly as infants that use their voice or are they well spoken due to a more 'tangible' language? | [
"I forget what age, she was probably 2, but my niece learned a few words in sign language and it helped communicate her needs, such as thirsty, hungry, and so forth. All around the time she learned to to talk. So her parents would make the sign and say \"thirsty\" so she learned to say it but sign it as well so the... | [
"Here's an article on the subject: _URL_0_ > Those who were born completely deaf and only learned sign language will, not surprisingly, think in sign language. What is surprising is those who were born completely deaf but learn to speak through vocal training will occasionally think not only in the particular sign... | eli5_question_answer | {
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because there is a 1 million dollar reward for anyone who comes forward with proof there is an afterlife, how come the long island medium has not come forward? or any other medium? | [
"Presumably because they aren't capable of providing verifiable proof."
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"> I've never seen a ghost before but so many people claimed they have, they all cant be lying? There's a difference between lying and thinking you saw something different than what you actually did. For all the supposed sightings, there hasn't been any proof produced that they do exist, so chances are that they ma... | eli5_question_answer | {
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A whitening toothpaste advertises 1 shade whiter every week. Theoretically, could I brush my teeth 28 times in one sitting and have my teeth 2 shades whiter after? | [
"No. Brushing has nothing to do with it, the effect comes from having the chemicals sit on your teeth for a week."
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why is there no yy chromosomes? | [
"The woman has the XX, while the man has the XY chromosome pair. A man can inseminate a woman and pass on either the X or the Y, while the woman always provides an X."
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"why do we yawn when we read about yawning?"
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How are video game cheat codes discovered? Does it have anything to do with algorithms or are they simply leaks by the developers? | [
"What gamers call \"cheat codes\" are usually commands created *intentionally* by the game creators for testing purposes during production. There's no reason to remove them once the game is done, so when its released people will dig around \"under the hood\" as it were to find them."
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"No. The numbers are randomly generated in a way that has nothing whatsoever to do with your actions or anyone else's, short of rigging."
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Car drivers are fined for running red lights, why aren't pedestrians fined for walking on "Do not Walk" signs? | [
"They are. It's called jaywalking. Enforcement will vary with the attitude of your local police force."
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"They should treat it the same way they treat a four-way stop. Look both ways, cross when safe. Traffic yields right of way to pedestrians."
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Why do trees lose their leaves in winter if they need them to breathe? | [
"They need them to make sugar, which they store during the Winter as they don't need to use it."
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"> Why/when do pinecones open up? Pine cones open when it is warm and dry because it is a better time to spread pollen and seeds. Pine cones open in order to either produce pollen or receive pollen depending on if they are male or female cones."
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When selling a car on craigslist why do people call, sound excited about the car, say they are coming over right away to look at it and then never show up? | [
"> Did they forget? Are they pathological liars? Do people on craigslist just have a different definition of \"right now\"? People are fickle. They routinely make promises and then don't follow through. I've seen this with recruiting volunteers for a charity thing, scheduling appointments for private tutoring sessi... | [
"Its all marketing. I used to sell cars and hate their business model so Ill tell you this. The best way to get the best deal is to contact a big dealership that you are confident sells a high volume and get their best number, check it against true car and then go to the dealership you want to buy with the numbers.... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why did Hitler think that Northern Europeans were "the perfect race"? | [
"Because that's the race he belonged to, of course. Racists always think that their race is the most superior one. It's an amazing coincidence, don't you think?"
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"Eugenics. The nazis believes they were the master race and everything else was subservient to them and thus not human."
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Why can't our Children Inherent our memories and experiences/learning ? | [
"Your memories are patterns left in your brain after something happens. They are not encoded into your DNA and definitely not encoded into your sperm or eggs"
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"What do you want to know about them exactly?"
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How video game hosting works. | [
"What do you mean by \"hosting\"? There are many topics that we could go into. Do you mean \"servers\"? It works in the same way as a web server, it's just that instead of web pages, it's sending and receiving other data. Do you mean that your buddy on the room across can press a button and host a server? It's the ... | [
"Advertising, selling info, and premium versions of the free stuff."
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How do you start a fire by blowing on it? Shouldn't that put it out? | [
"Blowing on a fire, or more usually the embers to start it brings the oxygen that fire can use as fuel closer to it, which allows it to grow and burn more. This does only work to a certain degree though, if you blow too much air, or too hard at the fire, it'll blow it out if the fire's small enough; like when you b... | [
"Because the flame is not hot enough and transfer of heat does not happen immediately. Blue flames are generally much hotter. It's as if you were trying to get someone wet with super soaker versus using a fire hose. You'll need a couple minutes for soaker and a second for fire hose."
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how does astronauts not get throat burns from stomach acid in 0G? | [
"The stomach has two \"gates\". One (gastroesophageal sphincter) prevents the things inside to go back up when you're doing a handstand. The other one (pyloric sphincter) prevents the things inside to continue to the intestines before you're done partially digesting them."
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"3 main reasons 1. Space is really cold. Despite it taking a while for your body to actually lose heat in space, your outer skin can still get frostbite which is not fun to deal with. 2. Radiation. There is a ton of it in space and the long term effects not pretty. Radiation is actually why astronauts are more pron... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Spacecrafts can withstand insane forces while launching into orbit, why is it gently tipping over during landing such a catastrophe? | [
"They are designed to handle significant air resistance and compression in the direction of travel. Hit them from the side, like when they fall over, and they'll crumple easily."
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"It's about orbital speed. Ships go into orbit, which means they need to be whizzing around the Earth *extremely* fast, like 17 thousand miles per hour. When things burn up on re-entry, it's not the speed of them falling, it's the speed of them orbiting. A balloon goes straight up, so there's no need to have the ex... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What happens when frying food that makes it so much worse for you? | [
"Frying food entails submerging it into oil and fat at very high temperatures, which greatly increases the fat and calorie contents of the food. The fat adds flavor and gives fried foods their signature taste, but also makes them unhealthy as we all know. There are different ways of frying something, with the tradi... | [
"Oil gets hotter than water allowing things to cook faster and hotter. Why you cook things over the boiling point of water, you start browning the surface which is tasty. Fat from dead animals is oil. We probably knew about that long before plant oils. Cooking with fat adds flavor and allows you to get more calorie... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What gives fresh cut grass that distinct smell? | [
"Volatile organic compounds that the plant uses to try and self-heal, as well as signal other plants that there is danger. Basically, they are screaming. In scent-form. _URL_0_"
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"It just masks the smell with something even stronger."
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What happened to labor unions? Why are they no longer around? | [
"The PATCO (Air Traffic Controllers) union defeat by President Reagan changed organized labor in the United States thereafter. Laborers stopped trying to form unions and managers started employing more aggressive union-busting techniques (such as hiring \"scabs\") that had been previously frowned upon by the Nation... | [
"A workers union allows the workers to collectively bargain with the employer putting both parties on equal footing rather than having each individual employee having to deal on their own. I believe unions are beneficial for reasons that the fire in the clothing factory in Bangladesh vividly represent. A corporatio... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does your nose run when you're sat in the cold? | [
"Some of that is the same thing that makes a dog's nose wet - condensation. When it's cold, your nose gets cold but your lungs, and the air coming out of them, is still ~98f/37c and the air has picked up a lot of moisture from your lungs. When it contacts the cooler tissues of your nose, it condenses and eventually... | [
"Why do the glands in my neck burn like high hell when I'm holding back tears?"
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how can defeat device software, like the kind recently found in Volkswagens, allow a car to cheat on its emissions test? | [
"For testing purposes the car is put on a device where the traction wheels can rotate. If a car doesn't have 4wd one pair of wheels does spin but the second pair doesn't. Newer cars don't like if only one pair of your wheels spin 'cause it thinks you are loosing control, so you have to trick the car into doing it. ... | [
"Emissions. The car companies have to produce vehicles that meet certain emissions standards. In many parts of the country there is no smog testing after you own the vehicle so you are,free to do what you want."
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In space, what opposing force keeps orbiting entities, like planets/satellites, orbiting against the constant pull of gravity? | [
"There is no opposing force. Orbiting is when something is falling due to gravity, but it continually misses its target. > but how can it go on forever It doesn't because nothing goes on forever. In the context of the universe at large, it's very important to make the distinction between \"Forever\" and \"For an ... | [
"Not necessarily. There are a couple of main contributing factors that go into the velocity at which any given satellite orbits around a planet or star. Number one is the initial velocity at which the satellite was already traveling when it was pulled into its planet's gravitational pull. Remember that an object in... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What exactly are reddit bots and how do they work? | [
"A reddit bot is a computer program that downloads all of the newest posts to reddit and writes replies to them. They are programmed like any other computer programs. There are libraries you can download to help do some of the work, like getting all of the newest posts and posting some text in a comment."
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"Subreddits are not official reddit creations. Instead, reddditors like you or me create subreddits, and then decide what they want to do with them. So, for example, you could create a subreddit that is used solely as a sort of message board for your group of friends, make it private, and only allow your friends to... | eli5_question_answer | {
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With the recent passing of the world's last *male* Northern White Rhino, how will efforts to revive the species continue? | [
"Most likely as CRISP-R gene sequencing advances more this will allow them to remove and replace the southern white rhino DNA and would allow them to make a complete northern white rhino... they have made significant progress in wanting to bring back the woolly mammoth and even calm with in the next year or so will... | [
"Because there is money and funding in reviving *a species that longer exists*. There is much less money and funding for saving the tuna. That doesn't mean there isn't cross pollination. The things we are learning in trying to clone a Mammoth may end up being used to save other species like the Tuna. Of course, we... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What do fruits and vegetables do for my body that vitamins can't? | [
"Some synthetic supplements (like Vitamin E) aren't exactly the same composition as their naturally occurring counterparts. Because of this, their bioavailability is much lower (meaning it's not as readily available for the body to use, so your body needs more of the supplement to get the same effect). Also, many p... | [
"Multi-vitamins will simply help fill deficiencies in your diet. If you are short on a specific vitamin, a multivitamin may help ensure you get what you need from it. Really the only reason to take one is if your normal diet is lacking. If you regularly eat balanced meals, including a variety of fruits and vegetabl... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people sometimes make odd noises after they misspeak in order to re-attempt speaking and why does it so often work? | [
"Short answer, recalibration. You kinda try to reset. Do various noises to check your voice, see if they came out ok then try again."
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Some Soap/Shampoo rinses off with water quickly, while some others leave a slippery residue even after rinsing off for a long time. I hate this. What is the substance that is doing this? | [
"Some soap is soap (that is, oils/fats reacted with a strong base like lye or potash) while other \"soap\" is more like industrial detergents. Some people complain that real soap leaves behind a film. Maybe that's what you're talking about?"
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"It is better at freeing up oils. Imagine trying to wash butter off a plate using cold water. If you tried it with hot water, it would melt right off. The same goes for oils in your hands and your clothes. The oils can trap bacteria, which is why washing with warm water and soap is important."
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Why do TV shows, such as Breaking Bad, have different writers and directors for each episode? | [
"Prevents burn out. Brings some fresh ideas into the mix. Even the best and most interesting plot outline for a show can become boring if the same writer has to keep coming up with material. Depends also how they break up the work. Some shows have different writers for different characters, others for whole episod... | [
"In addition to what the two above answers have already I provided I would like to submit this: - The workload of directing an entire season of any given show would simply be too much for any given director, or writer for that matter, which is why the shows usually have a room full of them. Although it's not a qui... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why don't we have to pay sales tax on items from vending machines? | [
"The markup includes the relevant tax. It gets paid, they just don't break it down for you."
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With dropping/increasing currency, why doesn't anyone exchange for a profit? | [
"It is. Look up forex. You can either buy and hold currencies to sell for later (some people advocate holding usd if you are Canadian because they expect CAD to depreciate) or take advantage of exchange rates to buy one currency and sell at a good price for another, then exchange it to your own currency for a profi... | [
"The same thing we did with the money except reversed. So instead of exchanging to their money on arrival, they exchange it back to people leaving."
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Why does DeepDream seem like it's mainly just adding eyeballs and animal faces to everything? | [
"It relies on the image dataset you have given it. When you feed it animals and eyeballs, it's gonna dream about animals and eyeballs. There is now a live system of DeepDream and it has a different dataset - > _URL_0_. You can see it's dataset in _URL_1_ You can guide what DeepDream is dreaming about in twitch chat... | [
"Humans have amazing pattern recognition capabilities. If we see a picture of a cat we can almost certainly identify it no matter what. Even if the cat is badly illuminated, an American curl, upside down, an emoticon, yawning, drawn in watercolor, with inverted colors or anything else. Computers are strong in situa... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What happened to /r/punchablefaces and why? Just a few days ago posts from the sub were reaching /r/all, but now the sub is filled with random content and there are 40 mods. | [
"There have been a few threads on /r/OutOfTheLoop, but basically the top mod decided they didn't want to mod anymore and turned the controls over to someone who enjoys trolling. _URL_2_ _URL_0_ _URL_1_"
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"That's to prevent people flooding the post with comments as they are directed to the post from /r/bestof . It's happened that posts from non-english subs that made it into the /r/bestof sub become flooded with idiotic comments that ruin the post. The locking of the thread prevents trolling."
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Why is the Nanking massacre so controversial among the Chinese and Japanese? Which is correct? | [
"considering there are living witnesses to some of the atrocities, it's hard to deny atrocities happened. the Japanese story says there was no high level orders. and whatever stories of individual soldiers committing actions must have been fabrications because honorable soldiers always follow orders. just like fla... | [
"A related question were there public figures at the time who were apologists that tried to justify for the actions of the Japanese military at Pearl Harbor?"
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What about orgasm that makes it feel so good that we want it more and more? | [
"/u/casey_pritam has it right, but to go more in depth: The act of sex itself is exercise, and so you're already going to get what amounts to \"runner's high\" afterwards. Combine that with the other drugs that your brain naturally produces, and you have an addictive experience. To answer \"why,\" simply evolution.... | [
"For men an orgasm releases many different hormones at once and causes men to change mood almost instantly after the high goes down. Some men cry, some men feel shame, some feel tired, whatever it is it seems to be design to make them not want to want to have sex anymore or even be repulsed by it for a short time."... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do you understand computer specifications? | [
"You might want to re-ask with a little more detail in the text. What exactly is it you don't understand?"
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Why don't we ride moose? | [
"Lots of people ride elephants. Its not about size. Its about moose being violent, evil, murder machines."
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"Why, when restored, don't they fix this then?"
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Why does the skin produce heat after it has been sunburned? | [
"The damage of a sunburn extends to the blood vessels in your skin, which causes increased bloodflow to the skin, making it appear red and feel warm."
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"If you are referring to blisters: First off, they have some fluid contained within them that varies depending on a few things. Secondly, It is your bodies way of trying to keep your skin safe after it has been damaged in some way. Most often, that damage is in the form of intense rubbing (i.e. friction). It can al... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do tin cans have that ribbing around the sides? | [
"The ribs act like tiny beams, reinforcing the side of the can against crushing. A smooth-sided can is much easier to dent."
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"A few years ago many companies redesigned their containers to use less plastic, especially in the lids. During the redesign they added a small circle lip to the inside of the lid that seals the container in place of the seal you remember."
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Could some explain sampling variability in statistics for me please? | [
"by looking only at reddit one could reasonably assume that pretty much everyone in the world is a white libertarian male between the age of 15-30 but if you look at say everyone who lives on your street you will reach a (presumably, maybe you're in a college town) different conclusion. this difference is your samp... | [
"I think you will have to define your question a bit more. Are you generally asking us to explain correlation and translation of pressure and forces?"
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Why do people no longer smoke opium as much as they did 100 years ago? | [
"In short: because opium has been distilled into more potent forms. The long answer is the history of opiates, from which opium is a relative. This lead us to the drugs we have today that are related to opium such as: Heroin, Morphine, Codine, and Oxycontin. All of which are highly addictive and are regularly abuse... | [
"No. Opium smoking started sometime in the 16th century in China, and wasn't popular enough for there to be 'opium dens' until the 18th century or so. Most accounts of opium dens in Europe are 19th or early 20th century."
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Why do male children get bonners if they do not get sexually aroused? | [
"What is a bonner? For a serious answer it is usually due to some slight stimulus either a touch or rubbing of the pants. The nervous system reacts just showing it is working. Young and older men can get erections when needing to urinate or go poop. It is just a nervous system reaction. Just a system check."
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"Boobs are not (originally) for attraction, they're for baby feedin and that's why they respond to hormone changes Also having small boobs rarely stops people from being sexually successful enough that it'd make a difference"
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Using Methanol injection in cars | [
"Is typically used on water injection engines, , basically it is spraying water into the cylinder or incoming air/fuel mixture to cool the combustion chambers of the engine, this allows for greater compression ratios and largely eliminates the problem of engine knocking (detonation). As a result of this it increase... | [
"The particular flares used have a temperature higher than the engine exhaust of the plane that uses them. Source: _URL_0_"
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Why some (most?) people in America seem opposed to a national health service? | [
"Part of it is the belief that insurance companies should be allowed to turn a profit. Another part of it is a fundamental misunderstanding of what \"insurance\" is, along with cultural roots in American individualism: People don't like the idea of having to \"pay for someone else's healthcare\" while also claiming... | [
"Because a large part of the population was fed a string of lies about how much better life would be out of the EU."
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What would happen if everyone in the US that has student loan debt just stopped paying? | [
"There is a group called Debt Collective which recently initiated a well publicized debt strike for debtors scammed by Corinthian Colleges. They plan to follow this up with a wider strike for all borrowers in the future. Go to _URL_0_ and show your support. You can also subscribe to /r/studentloandefaulters here on... | [
"The same way a person with a mortgage still pays for groceries. Just because you have a ton of debt doesn't mean you are required to use every cent you earn to pay it off. The US government has monthly bills just like everyone else."
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Why does 90 degree heat feel hot while a 90 degree swimming pool feels amazing? | [
"Because water conducts heat (and cools you down) more efficiently than air. Your normal body temperature is around 98.6 degrees, and the main way the body cools itself is through evaporative cooling when it is exposed to air. In humid weather, sweat has a hard time evaporating since the air contains too much mois... | [
"This is a classic example of relativity. Its all in the perspective of you and the surroundings you are in. Hot and cold are only relative to other things. Compared to lava, your stove is cold, and compared to liquid nitrogen, ice is hot. During the summer, in your house at 21C(70F), the outside is hotter than t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do women have curvier butts than men? | [
"Curvy male ass right here. Fuck the rules."
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"Why are noses different in size, why are people different heights, why do we have different hair colors?"
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