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Economics | US Taxes: What's the difference between filing taxes and tax returns? | [
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Mathematics | How do neural networks work? | [
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Economics | How did companies make their profits back in the days when tools and appliances were more reliable? | [
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Biology | Why can we not fall asleep some nights even when we've been lying in the dark for a long time? | [
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Other | If Kim Jong Un studied in Switzerland under an alias, then he must be proficient in English. Why does he need a translator? | [
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Biology | How come armpits and feet have their own unique bad scent? (onions vs Fritos chips?) | [
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Physics | Is there an edge to the universe? | [
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Other | How did those with mental disabilities (Autism, Down Syndrome) function in society before modern help centres and widespread awareness of these conditions? | [
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Chemistry | How comes water makes sand grains stick to your skin and wet sand can hold a shape while dry sand cant? | [
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Other | the concept of a statute of limitations on violent crimes, why? Shouldn’t they always be eligible for persecution? | [
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Other | Why are things that are going to fall or move, drawn different in cartoons/anime? | [
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Mathematics | How are the variables in math chosen? | [
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Technology | Why do computers use 1s and 0s? | [
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Chemistry | Why does sticking your finger in foamy soda cause the foam to recede faster, but the same is not true of beer? | [
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Chemistry | Why does the pop at the bottom of my glass get sticky but not when the glass is full? | [
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Technology | How do airlines determine flights? | [
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Biology | ()Why and how do our fingers get pruned from too much water? | [
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Physics | Why does jumping on the trampoline just before someone lands make them launch way higher? | [
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Biology | How does the brain use glucose? | [
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Psychology | When someone tells you to do something you were about to do, why does it make you want to do it less? | [
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Mathematics | Why is Mathematics called the Universal Language? | [
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Biology | why is it that our minds can blindly know where all the keys are on a key board, making us able to type fast, yet if you were to ask someone to draw out and label a keyboard, they would likely have a hard time doing it? | [
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Physics | when astronauts do some space walk around the ISS, how are they not being left behind by the ISS that is orbiting around 17k mph? | [
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Economics | Why are tax haven countries reserved for the ultra wealthy? | [
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Chemistry | why does steak buckle when cooked in a frying pan but not on a grill? | [
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Biology | How do services like "23 and me" and " URL_0 " distinguish human DNA from non-human (bacterial) DNA in the spit sample? | [
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Other | Why is radiohead considered so musically innovative? | [
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Biology | How does a pig nipple end up inside of a can of kidney beans? | [
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Economics | Can someone explain “money making” to bail out an economy? | [
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Technology | why does slow motion video need a specific setting? | [
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Mathematics | Why is it that when you multiply 2 negative numbers, the negative sign cancels each other out? | [
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Other | how are votes kept anonymous? | [
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Chemistry | Why do things smell different when wet? | [
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Psychology | How does a brain pick out what memories are traumatic enough to block out? | [
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Technology | why do only some materials work on touchscreen, and what is in touchscreen gloves that makes them work? | [
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Other | What Causes Certain Elements To Be Concentrated in Ore Veins? | [
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Physics | How would you best explain higher dimensions? How do we know if they are real/not? | [
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Biology | How are humans able to sense footsteps or a car coming from beyond our vision? | [
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Technology | if water doesn't conduct electricity then how does it break electronics, in detail? And why are they called "shorts"? | [
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Other | How "reality" TV can openly deceive an audience with fake tricks and scripts and still keep an audience? | [
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Other | What is the difference between sarcasm and irony? Is sarcasm a subset, is there any overlap? How exactly are the two related? | [
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Physics | What is space made out of? What is the blackness in space? | [
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Chemistry | What causes egg wash to darken bread the way it does? | [
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Biology | Why do we need peristalsis in the oesophagus when we have gravity? | [
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Other | Why are “flushable wipes” marketed as flushable when they are not? | [
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Technology | How is sound recorded in the grooves of a vinyl record? | [
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Biology | How does anaesthesia make your body fall asleep almost instantly and not wake up when enduring pain? | [
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Other | Why are coroners elected officials? | [
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Biology | Why do we urinate even when we are dehydrated/thirsty? | [
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Economics | How is a publicly traded company affected if it splits its stocks? | [
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Biology | Why are we warm? Where does bodyheat come from? | [
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Other | Why is card counting illegal in casinos? Isn't it just a skill that not everyone has, how would they even know? | [
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Physics | Why is it necessary to wear special glasses during a solar eclipse? And why can't you just use normal sunglasses? | [
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Physics | Why is the difference in air pressure able to move things? (Ex. Close a door) | [
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Chemistry | Why do pop rocks pop? | [
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Psychology | If humans are social animals, why do so many of us quickly become annoyed and impatient with our fellow man? | [
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Physics | Why does heat distort images ? | [
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Chemistry | There is many types for gas/dust mask. How to know which one to use? | [
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Economics | It seems that the most appropriate way to control the hoarding problem would be for all retailers to limit one pack person. How come this isn't being done everywhere when everywhere has the problem? | [
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Other | What's the difference between the different varieties of gasoline, why do they exist, and who even buys anything other than regular and diesel? | [
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Mathematics | When people compare something to the number of grains of sand on earth, how can that possibly be accurately estimated? | [
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Mathematics | How do mathematicians figure out absurd odds? | [
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Biology | Why sleeping just 30 minutes less during night, horribly affects my cognitive function and performance? | [
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Economics | Where do governments borrow money from? | [
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Mathematics | How did Astronomers use the transit of Venus across the Sun to calculate the distance between the Sun and Earth back in the 17th century? | [
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Physics | How is the the amount of force required to break something calculated? | [
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Biology | Why do people with higher intelligence worry more often than people with lower intelligence? | [
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Biology | How do stem cells repair parts of the body? | [
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Other | Why is polyamory considered ok, but polygamy is considered both illegal and amoral? | [
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Physics | why the speed of the light is the maximum possible speed in the universe? | [
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Technology | Can anyone simplify parity and/or error checking in data storage context? I simply can't grasp how a parity stripe in RAID 5, for example, can rebuild missing data, but isn't actually a copy of the data. | [
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Other | Why does everyone like the food that their own mom made the best? | [
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Physics | Why does it feel colder in a car that’s been sitting out than it does standing outside? | [
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Biology | what makes babies/young children prefer soft calm voices over deep manly voices? | [
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Technology | Why do cameras use a quick flash instead of, say, five seconds of sustained light? | [
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Technology | Why when you see photos of countries from the ISS they look huge (like they take up a large amount of the planet) and then when you see a photo of the whole world they look no where near as big? | [
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Economics | "Why does the freedom of Information Act matter since the releases are so heavily censored and redacted?" | [
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Other | If we can have mail-in ballots for the U.S. elections, how come we don't get to have tracking numbers for them to know that our vote was counted? | [
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Physics | How does water pressure affect you when you're INSIDE a Submarine? | [
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Technology | How does an actual strip of celluloid film get digitized to be released on, for example, Netflix? | [
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Biology | Why do we crave sweets after a meal? | [
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Other | Why do we sometimes say a word or look at a word so many times that it sounds foreign/doesn’t look like a real word? | [
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Other | Does the opioid-related "prescription drug abuse epidemic" exist outside the USA? What makes it such a huge issue there and not so much elsewhere? | [
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Other | How can we tell what the core of a planet millions of light years away is made of, yet we're just now finding a 4.8 quintillion pound mass of metal under the surface of our own moon? | [
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Chemistry | Why can you rub off permanent marker by first drawing over it with whiteboard marker? | [
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Economics | How do owners or CEOs of companies pay for things if all their value is tied up in equity/stocks of the company? | [
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Chemistry | How does mist, fog, and clouds form if the water never reaches the boiling point to escape the liquid phase and enter the gas phase? | [
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Biology | Why is it when you go to take a crap, even if you didn't have to pee when you went in, you always pee when your done crapping? | [
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Biology | Why do our bodies build up a tolerance to some medications but not others? | [
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Mathematics | Are there different types of infinity? | [
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Technology | Why does the back button on the browser work and other times does not? | [
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Economics | If power utility companies make money selling electricity, why do they want their customers to make their homes as efficient as possible? Won't that mean less utility sold? | [
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Physics | Where did all matter come from? | [
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Other | How did they take the lead bullets out of hunted game and how do we make sure we've got all of them? | [
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Economics | How do seasonal theme parks or water parks stay in business/make money in the off season? | [
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Physics | Why do we feel bass in our bodies but not other audio frequencies? | [
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Earth Science | why are certain gems and/or metals only found in certain areas and not others. Why arent they finding gold in Pennsylvania or Jade in Arizona? | [
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Economics | How does the luxury tax work in the NBA? | [
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Biology | if you’ve been put under a general anaesthetic in hospital, what do the doctors do to make you wake back up? | [
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Biology | Why do muscles shake when they get tired or weak? | [
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