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how does homelessness cost cities money? | [
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Why does the brain feed you random old things (a jingle from a commercial you saw in the 90s or a song from School House Rock) when you're not actively thinking or trying to fall asleep? | [
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How do we know that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs? Why is there no crater if the asteroid was so big? And how do we know what exactly happened if it was millions of years ago? | [
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Were Mitrochondrial Adam and Eve actually two real people? | [
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How does washing your hands with soap and water remove germs? | [
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How are you able to keep bandages/dressings on post surgery for an extended amount of time before it can be washed/changed without getting an infection? | [
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Why would Homo sapiens ever migrate north into colder climate? | [
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Why is it that some materials, like ice and metal, melt but others, like wood and coal, burn? | [
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Why do undocumented immigrants returning to Mexico drive down wages there, but proponents of relaxed immigration say they don't do the same here? | [
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How do you make beers/lagers alcohol-free? | [
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When does our brain choose our dominant hand? | [
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Why has Einstein been considered one of the greatest geniuses of our time? | [
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How do those needles the size of cells work? How they are made and how can you get so precise with them? | [
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Do throwing knives always hit blade first? | [
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Why does room temperature water feel freezing but a room temperature room feel warm? | [
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How can the sum of all natural numbers be negative? | [
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How does a person survive a lightening strike? | [
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Why do vocal harmonies of older songs sound have that rich, "airy" quality that doesn't seem to appear in modern music? (Crosby Stills and Nash, Simon and Garfunkel, et Al) | [
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Psychologically, how do the camera angles in porn arouse you? (Potentially NSFW) | [
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How do pencil erasers work? | [
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Why do bubbles sometimes fuse? | [
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What results has the Panama Papers leaks had? | [
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Why are the worst positions for your joints/muscles the most comfortable? | [
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Why does light go in one continuous direction? Why can't it stop, go left, right, or backwards? | [
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How do our eyes "get used to the dark"? | [
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The difference between eating 1500 calories without exercise vs eating 1800 calories and burning 300 calories with exercise for a man with a BMR of 1800? | [
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if, for example, a Greek man is taught English by an English speaking person with no speech deficiencies, why does the pronunciation come out different? | [
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Why is it that when you hit the mouth of a beer bottle from above with another bottle it foams up like crazy? | [
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How did people 100s of years ago know the shape of countries? | [
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Why is heat bad for batteries? | [
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Why is inflation necessary in an economy, and why is it hard to revert it? | [
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Glass is not biodegradable, and will perhaps take even longer to decompose than plastic. Why isn't it made out to be as big of an issue as plastic? | [
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On a molecular level, what causes metal to bend permanently? Explain what causes the flexing to fail and something to finally bend. | [
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Will water freeze if it is unable to expand? | [
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Why do sounds seem louder in the cold weather rather than warm weather? | [
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When you delete something off of a phone or camera, where does it go? | [
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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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what is the science behind weighted blankets and how do they reduce anxiety? | [
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How does an Epipen work to help severe allergies and why don’t we use it for moderate/mild allergies? | [
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Why are conversations in series and movies in a foreign language relatively easy to understand while song lyrics in that same language are so hard to understand? | [
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Why do records sound better than digital? | [
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Why is it not recommended to have 2 antivirus programs running at the same time? | [
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How do light bulbs go out? | [
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Who in Luxury branded clothing companies determine the price of their items? And what is the process like? | [
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How is the distance from Earth to the sun measured if the sun is a ball of gas without a definable surface? | [
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If spiders' webs are the strongest fiber in the world. Why are not used as a material to build or create artifacts? | [
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Why do mobile games suck, even though phones are more powerful than good handheld gaming systems like Gameboy? | [
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Why do some tasks become more difficult to do when you think about it? | [
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Why does 2008 still feel like a couple of years ago? | [
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What does Platonism and nominalism mean without using words like abstract? | [
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How can we see Venus on the night sky ? | [
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How do you keep the blood flowing in a heart transplant surgery? And how do you make the new heart start beating again? | [
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Why does Russia own a random chunk out of Lithuania and Poland? | [
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If you have a pile of mulch/woodchips/etc and leave it long enough it can start to smoke. How? | [
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Why will it take the economy years to bounce back? | [
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What is the .com bubble? And why did it burst? | [
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Why dont all planets rotate backwards? | [
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why ARM processors are less energy consuming than x86 and why it is not easy to make x86 less consuming? | [
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Why does sleep deprivation after a certain point make me hyper? | [
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(ELI3 would be better) What is a CFD (Contract For Differences) ? | [
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Why does 4 hours of sleep feel better than more? | [
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How exactly does cruise control work? | [
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How can nothing be faster than light when speed is only relative? | [
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Why does grapefruit juice mess with so many medicines? | [
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An observatory discovers we’re in peril as a cataclysmic sized asteroid is on a path for Earth and we’ve only got a year before impact. What measures are in place to save our bacons? | [
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How is the protein content and other nutrients in food calculated? | [
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Why when suffering from a virus do you wake up half way through the night covered in sweat? | [
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How does someone source a history book? What's to stop me writing a book about history and making it all up? | [
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Why is the minimum age for president in the US 35? Is there something special about that age, or is it just kind of a number that was decided on a long time ago and was kept around? | [
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How does ad blocker work and how does website know if we are using one? | [
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How come every time you save an image the quality becomes worse and worse. Would this still happen if you screenshot it? | [
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Why do game companies not support their games better? | [
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Why does the sunlit area in this photo appear almost "foggy"? What causes this lighting phenomenon? (There is no processing on this picture, the effect was visible with the naked eye) | [
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- how does the porn industry make money? | [
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how do anxiety/mental disorders give you physical symptoms? | [
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why does spicy food feel like it cleans out our sinuous'? | [
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Why are burns due to chemicals or intense cold also called “burns”? What do they have in common with the regular burns due to fire or heat? | [
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How do human bodies keep from losing air and crumbling on an airplane unlike a half empty water bottle on an airplane? | [
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How exactly was Jordan Belfort scamming people and why did it work successfully till his demise? | [
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Why is it that with old Christmas tree lights if one bulb went out the entire strand stopped working but with new lights if one goes out the others stay on? | [
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Why is that in some animation styles things that are animated are brighter than the static background? | [
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Why does 60 degrees outside feel completely different from 60 degrees inside? | [
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what's the deal with Swiss bank accounts? | [
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Why do spray paint cans get cold when we shake them? | [
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What do people mean when they say that some insects/animals don’t “experience” pain the same way we do? | [
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Many billionaires like Bill Gates "give away" billions of dollars, but they give it to their own foundations, who dole it out at a trickle. Could they take this money back if they needed/wanted to? | [
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Google Maps uses Mercator projection when zoomed out, giving a distorted view of Earth. Why does nothing seem to change as I zoom into those distorted areas? Surely there should be areas of Siberia, Canada, etc that look fucked up when zoomed in? | [
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How does stress manifest as physical symptoms? | [
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Why water from the ocean is salty ? | [
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What does 100% humidity mean? Wouldn't something 100% humid be just water? | [
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Why did the indigenous Australians population decline so much? How did it happen? What were the causes? | [
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Why do birds such as as chickens and pigeons bob their head back and fourth? | [
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Scientists say cell phones are many times dirtier than toilet seats, so why isn't everyone with a cell phone sick all the time? Is this a blessing for us to freely lick toilet seats? Or have sickness rates actually increased since cell phones became popular? | [
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Why is the reversible, and compact design of USB-C only made recently? Why couldn't they have used this design decades ago when they were designing USB-A? | [
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How do Asian keyboards work? | [
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Why are Northern coastlines absolute messes compared smooth non-northern ones? Eg Scotland and Canada Vs India and Somalia coastlines | [
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what is Novamin in toothpaste, how does it work, and is it a permanent solution? | [
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Why do softer things like blankets feel warmer than things like rocks? | [
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how does something rough like sandpaper, make something smooth? | [
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How do the bubbles/fizz stay in carbonated drinks? | [
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