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Why does wetting my fingers help me to separate plastic sheets? | [
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Why do some appliances/devices require 6 AA batteries instead of 2 C batteries? | [
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How does sound travel during phone calls? How am I able to hear someone half way across the world but it sounds like I am sitting right next to them? | [
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Why do smartphones seem immune to storage failures, whereas PCs frequently suffer from hard drive crashes? | [
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Why does an orgasm feel so good? What is happening inside your body? NSFW | [
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What caused the big bang to start and what existed before it? | [
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Now that most movies don't use film, how do they distribute movies to theaters? | [
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Why is it so easy for you to use a screw driver to loosen/tighten screws, but nearly impossible/very hard to do it with just your hand? | [
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Why do we get goosebumps? | [
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why scientists claim that we never detected any alien signals although space is full of all type of waves? | [
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How does the air stay so hot in the nighttime when the sun isn’t even out? And how is it that the sun makes the temperature only like 5-10 degrees warmer during the daytime in the summer? | [
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why does the existence of wormholes automatically make time travel possible? | [
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how does salt soften water? Why doesnt it taste salty? | [
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Why do games render cutscenes real time instead of the cutscene just being a video that plays? | [
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Why is it that there are so many advancements in the world, yet it never feels like anything revolutionary is happening? | [
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What happens to a Fly when they are exiting a vehicle window of a car that is going 60+MPH? | [
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Why are gas prices so low, and will they continue to decrease? | [
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why do things like Chocolate and Butter get soft before melting but things like Water don’t? | [
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Why is it better to buy a course from an educational site when you can find it on the internet on some shady sites for free? | [
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How can large chains (Target, Walmart, etc) produce store brand versions of nearly every product imaginable while industry manufacturers only really produce a single type of item? | [
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Why didn't Native Americans wipe out the Europeans with their diseases the same way European diseases wiped them out? | [
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How do 4chan raids work? | [
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How do they get the colored tail behind the ball on tv while watching golf? | [
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Why do people in the US refuse pay raises to not get into higher tax brackets? | [
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Why can you die from using methamphetamine and having anthesisa performed on you? | [
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why are clouds flat at the bottom? | [
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Why are most laptops with a 4K display touch-screen? | [
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How can dollar/99c stores exist? | [
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How can things like sunburns and smoking still increase risk for cancer decades after their damage has been done to the body? | [
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how did the US fund the government prior to establishing an income tax/what were the primary revenue sources? | [
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What is the statistical importance of "median" and "mode?" | [
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Why do mammals need sleep,if in nature this makes them vulnerable and easy prey? | [
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What does "you can't have your cake and eat it too" even mean? What good is the cake if you can't eat it? | [
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Why does a car moving at 5 MPH for 70 miles use less energy than a car moving at 70 MPH for 70 miles? | [
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How can the same side of the moon always face earth? Doesn't it rotate? | [
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how does the body correctly sort food and fluid (especially when you eat and drink together)? | [
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What is the coriolis effect? | [
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what is insider trading? I know what money laundering and fraud are, but not really IT | [
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what is the difference between a jungle and a rainforest? | [
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Why do often we forget what we dreamt after waking up? | [
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Orbitals’ shapes. Why do electrons describe such weird shapes? Why not just circles? | [
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How can we sustain 300+ million people constantly using water every day? Talking USA only. | [
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why do woodpeckers not bash their skulls in when smashing them into wood? | [
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How did Eratosthenes figure out Earth is round and calculated earth circumference 2000 years ago? | [
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what is the reason that almost every video game today has removed the ability for split screen, including ones that got famous and popular from having split screen? | [
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how do beauty marks that show up later in life, “form” ? | [
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how can electrons in water molecules keep going around a nucleus for millions of years? where is the energy coming from for so long? | [
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How do prisons make money? | [
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Why do all currencies undergo inflation over time? | [
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Why is it that when writing percents the symbol comes after like: 25%, but when you write dollar amounts the symbol comes before like: $25 even though spoken and written the word for the symbol comes after the number? | [
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Why do we have vivid nightmares when we sleep on our backs? | [
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At what point do you stop floating in space and start falling? | [
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When sea level rises, why wouldn't it rise the same amount everywhere? | [
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What is LIFO, FIFO & FISH in accounting? | [
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Why do plastics become yellowish over time? | [
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How is it that phones differentiate between fingers touching the screen and material objects? | [
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Why does FM radio sound better than AM? | [
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How can a central bank set a negative interest rate and why? | [
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Why is it bad to boil water twice when making tea? | [
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Why does math often times use two very similiar looking letters? | [
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How can our eyes track objects so precisely, even during unanticipated movement? | [
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If we have timezones, are objects in the same time zone still affected by differences in time if they are far enough away? | [
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Why can’t bots check ‘I am not a robot’ checkboxes? | [
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Why don’t ionic compounds ever exist as molecules? | [
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How come hiding under the blankets feels so safe even though it isn't actually much safer than having no blanket? | [
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Why was Ted Cruz (Born in Calgary, Canada) eligible for US president when there was a whole lot of discussion about ineligibility on Barack Obama due to his birth certificate? | [
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Why do videos seem so much shorter when watching them the second time around? | [
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; What is epistemology, what is ontology, and what is the relation between the two? | [
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When censoring people’s identity, why are only the eyes covered? | [
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why does the US spend so much money on military? | [
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how do laser pointed thermometer guns find a reading of the temperature? | [
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How come Animals don’t have to brush they’re teeth to clean them but they’re totally fine? | [
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what is the cause of death of people who fell from big heights? | [
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How can musical notes be consistently broken down into discrete notes (C#, D etc.) when pitch operates on a continuum where degrees of pitch can exist between these notes? | [
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If entropy is the universal tendency towards disorder, why were planets and galaxies and life allowed to form? | [
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Why do we frequently add the sound "ee" to the end of names, particularly children's names? | [
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- if I ice an injury am I making it better or just masking the pain? | [
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Why can't people that had chemotherapy touch cold things? | [
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When a sapling is planted for a tree, and that tree grows, where did the matter for the grown tree come from? | [
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How do natural harmonics and also ‘pinch’ harmonics work on a guitar? | [
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Why do kids struggle with the volume of their voice? | [
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Why is it so difficult to mentally understand infinity? | [
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Why do planets close the Sun, like Mercury, have very hot days BUT very cold nights as well, despite being so closr to the Sun? | [
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why use courtroom sketch images when they can just take a photo? | [
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Why isn't Fox a credible news source but CNN or New York Times is? | [
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Why were humans able to globally standardize units of time but still struggle to standardize other units of measure? | [
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Why is it therapeutic/cathartic to indulge dark emotions (watching dark movies, listening to sad music etc) rather than trying to cheer yourself up? | [
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Why do flames of different temperatures appear to be different colors? | [
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How is nearly every book on display a New York Times Bestseller? | [
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() What are those colors you see when you close your eyes in the dark? | [
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What actually is a headache? | [
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How can the human mind perceive at what/who someone is looking? | [
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Why is it when you translate a phrase through Google Translate from A to B and back to A, that the first A and the second A are not identical? | [
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What is the business and occupation tax and how does it work? (WA state) | [
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Why does sugar free soda fizz way more than regular soda? | [
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How do generative Artificial Neural Networks work? (AI that "imagines" images) | [
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How does counting between seeing lightning and hearing thunder tell you roughly how far away a storm is? | [
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What are programming design patterns? | [
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Why is insulin patent allowed to keep updating to keep original patent running out? | [
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What does it mean when a business owner ‘writes off’ an expense, and how does it work? | [
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