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what does it mean for something to be unironically good? | [
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why do you feel hungry the morning after eating a big meal? | [
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why is it so difficult to balance on a bike/motorcycle when stationary compared to while in motion? | [
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how the video feeds are shared globally for events like the Olympics. Is everything mixed and edited in one place then shared or do local broadcasters receive all of the video feeds and edit themselves? Also is the data shared via satellite? | [
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Can you re-give yourself a virus? Ex; if you wipe your face with a towel while you have a cold sore, after its cleared up could the germs on your towel reapply to your lips and give you another? | [
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Can we actually save our planet or are we too late to stop certain extinction of our species? | [
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What is the relationship between mental health and serotonin produced in the gut? | [
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why do things that are hot (like lava or fire, or... lights) generate light? | [
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Why does mac-n-cheese not taste cheesy after you reheat it? | [
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Humans are mammals and are not able to use salt water for nutritional value yet how do marine mammals such as whales and dolphins process salt water for its nutritional value? | [
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Why are Americans able to vote on the privatization of the World Wide Web? How will this affect the rest of the world? | [
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Why is fresh air good for mental health? | [
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Why is internal rotation of the shoulder bad? Is it bad in all cases? | [
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Are we able to kill bacteria and viruses by force? (E.g. if I slap my leg, have I killed the microbes there?) Why or why not? | [
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How come rotary phones came before phones with buttons? Isn't it much simpler to use buttons? | [
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when govts buy land from people to build roads, railway, etc, how do they know figure out how much to pay for it? | [
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- How do Video Game servers work? | [
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How can North Carolina introduce a law banning same-sex marriage, directly negating a federal court decision? | [
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Why do small objects grip to wet surfaces best, but large objects grip to wet surfaces worse than a dry surface? | [
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If the symptoms of being sick are your body’s reaction to fighting an infection, why are my symptoms different every time and vary in severity so much? | [
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what is a hot spot after a fire, and why does it last for hours after the fire has been put out with cold water? | [
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What’s the meteorological processes that made the current winter storm so particularly bad? | [
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Why does light have a finite speed? What is preventing it from going faster than it does? | [
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How do enzymes work? I know that they speed up chemical reactions, but how? | [
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What exactly is an executive order and what does it mean for everyday Americans? | [
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Why do the last few pieces of cereal tend to come together and form clumps rather than float independently? | [
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Are the Gambler's Fallacy and Bayes Theorem Contradictory to one another? | [
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How can Fibinacci do stuff like this? | [
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what is the Kernel in an operating system? | [
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How is time different on the moon? | [
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How can we think in terms of more than 3 dimensions? | [
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How does both fission and fusion create usable energy? | [
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Why is Adobe Flash so insecure? | [
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Why do salt water fish NEED salt in the water to survive? | [
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is there a chemical reason we don’t make banana jam or jelly? Or is it just some weird flavour preference that the whole world seems to share? | [
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Why exactly does length contraction occur? | [
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How do chicken pox work, and why does it become more dangerous if you get it at more mature age? | [
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When photographing a model, why do photographers stay far away and use a huge lens rather than get closer? | [
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Why cant paper be folded more than 7 times? | [
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if the Grand Canyon was created by water erosion from the Colorado river, then how come there isn't grand Grand Canyons around all or most major rivers? | [
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Why is it that you breathe into someone’s mouth during CPR, but we exhale carbon dioxide which is something humans shouldn’t inhale? | [
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- why are there tears when crying? | [
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If low interest rates stimulate the economy what are the advantages of raising them? What are the disadvantages of keeping them low permanently? | [
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why does the west coast burn while the east coast seems relatively unaffected? | [
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How we went from Hurricane Laura to Hurricane Delta when hurricane names are supposed to be in alphabetical order? | [
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How do scientists make an adult cell turn back into embryo like state? | [
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How is military technology developed? | [
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What is the difference between an RN and a CNA? | [
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Why do car speedometers go up to > 120 mph when we can’t go that fast on roads? | [
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why is our first instinct to grab and hold where it hurts when we stub our toe or otherwise accidentally hurt ourselves? | [
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Why are some clouds blacker than others? | [
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why isn’t cost of housing include in the CPI? It seems like it’s the largest inflationary factor in most people’s lives? | [
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- Why does it take so many eggs to scramble vs fry to make a meal? | [
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What is preventing us from effectively storing energy harnessed by windmills and solar panels? | [
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. Since VPNs can change your IP address, can you connect to a WiFi even if your device is originally blocked from that same WiFi? | [
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How do we draw a straight line on a curved surface? | [
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How does heartburn imitate arrhythmia? | [
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How do the companies that sponsor benefit from having game shows give away their products to contestants? | [
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Why does light bend when it goes from one medium to another? | [
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How do radio stations broadcast album art? | [
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How do TV channels know their viewing figures and how accurate can they be with the numbers? | [
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Why can a drug test tell us if a drug is present, but can't determine the last time the drug was used? How could you prove for instance you weren't driving under the influence of marijuana, and it is in your system from the day before, weekend before etc. | [
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Do animals besides humans exhibit symptoms of severe mental illness (manic depression, schizophrenia, personality disorder)? | [
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How does devaluing the currency help the country? | [
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Who is the mobile provider for the US Government? What mobile devices do they use? I would assume it's not a private carrier like Verizon. | [
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Why is it often advised to unplug an electronic device for a few minutes to resolve an issue? How does unplugging it (instead of restarting it) make a difference? E.g. Smart TVs | [
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Why are some shapes named based on number of angles and others number of sides? | [
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How come in the course of an hour at the beach, waves can go from huge and consistent, to few and calm, when neither the wind, temperature, or seafloor has changed in that period of time? | [
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What causes chills down your spine? | [
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How does tennis racket theorem (dzhanibekov effect) work? | [
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why is social isolation bad for your health? | [
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How does government trade work? Like, for example, the US gives France $1 billion USD, are they actually given the money, or is it all similar to credit? How do they spend the money? | [
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Why do some programs & games open quicker when you recently closed them? | [
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What do we actually see/don't see and why can't we see all the colors? How can a modern camera be/see better than the eye and is that even true? | [
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Why is the general noise one makes when unsure of what to say some variation of "uhhh" or "ummmm"? | [
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Why do we see weird colors and patterns when we put pressure on our eyes? | [
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Considering the amount of crap we cram into our bodies, why is urine commonly shades of yellow to brown and not purple or green? | [
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how come we can hold in our urine while sleeping for many hours (6+) every night and not get a bladder infection, but risk an infection if holding it in too long while awake? | [
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why do some people get more addicted than other people? | [
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What exactly is stopping me from making 20 email accounts and referring all of them using paid survey sites/apps to get loads of points? | [
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When you're looking in a mirror, why are left and right switched, but up and down aren't? | [
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why does youtube load videos faster than other streaming platforms? | [
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why does notepad on windows save files with an asterisk? | [
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Why do some of us (such as yours truly) feel so absolutely murderous when we hear a crying baby? Shouldn't humans be biologically wired to care about our young? | [
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How does "Big Pharma" drive up the cost of healthcare in the U.S. and what portion of our healthcare spending can be attributed to it? | [
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Why does being in hot water feel so much better, than being in hot air? | [
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How come during the 1950's, they were called 'Atomic' bombs, but were then called 'Nuclear' at the start of the Cold War? | [
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What would happen to a lawyer if they defended somebody that they knew was guilty of the crime? | [
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How does a nuclear power plant generate electricity? Where does the radiation come from when there are failures? | [
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How does a vinyl wrap (e.g. for a car) wrap around the curves of the car so seamlessly without folding over itself? | [
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How does using a Logarithmic scale work for representing something physical? | [
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How can we be 100% sure that our physical laws are universal? | [
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What is this text, and why does it exist, and how does it work? | [
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Why is 5G exceptionally faster than 4G/3G ? | [
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why some people can stand colder or hotter temperature better than others? | [
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?If jelly fish can't die of old age and reproduce why haven't just taken everything over | [
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Why do images of earth from space not contain satellites and other space junk? | [
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Why does mixing alcohol get you drunker than drinking the same amount of one alcohol? | [
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Why do humans laugh? Do other animals laugh? And why do we all have different laughs? | [
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what makes gallium a liquid but not aluminum or some element close to it? | [
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