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What happens when the founder of a private company owning 100% of the stocks decides to take the company public , but decides to keep control of 51% of the shares? | [
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Almost everyday I see a new commercials saying “No more plastic, we switched to paper [straws/bags/whatever]!” I understand that it’s good to not use plastic, but won’t this contribute to cutting down more trees and hurt our environment as well? | [
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- why do power lines affect radiowaves? | [
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How does blacking out someone's eyes protect their anonymity? | [
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What are saving & loan associations and how are they different from commercial banks? | [
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how do crabs living in the sand not get crushed when humans walk on top of them? | [
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Why over the past 15 years, the typical CPU clock speed still remains around 2.8 to 3.2 GHz? | [
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Why electric cars aren’t solar powered? | [
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How did we collect Titanic's Morse Code messages and logs? If it was audio, did they somehow also record it? | [
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Why do wet rags clean dirty surfaces so much better than dry ones? | [
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How are websites that sell anabolic steroids not shut down by the feds if possession or distribution of such products are illegal? Specifically in the US. | [
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If fire feeds off of oxygen(O), and there is oxygen in water (H2O), how does water extinguish fire? | [
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How does Google manage to parse every page on it's database and show our search results on them in miliseconds? | [
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Why are there prescription strength drugs when we can just take more of the regular drug? | [
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How does the whole bail bond system work in the courts over in America? | [
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Why can't online newspapers make a healthy profit with ad revenue from a higher volume of readers rather than charging subscription fees and having fewer readers? | [
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If rice have arsenic (a kind of toxic elements) and can cause health problems and increase risk of chronic diseases, then why Asian people who consuming rice every single day have no problem whatsoever? | [
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How do cough drops work? | [
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If the sun emits pure white light, why does the sun seem yellowish (as opposed to, say, bluish)? | [
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Why do people have "tells" when lying? | [
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How does URL_0 work, and has a petition ever succeeded making a change? | [
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how does a sailors clock work? | [
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How do snakes digest their food when they eat the animal whole? | [
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How are the prices of fuel at gas stations determined everyday? | [
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How do scientists calculate the approximate surface area, mass, and weight of planets? | [
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If electricity travels so fast, why does it take so long to charge a battery? | [
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If formula 1 qualifier rounds decide your place on the start at F1 races, why doesent everyone do badly to get further up on the start line? | [
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Why can you look directly at the sun during sunrise or sunset but not when it's middle today? | [
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how did they resuscitate people before CPR? | [
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How do you apply the 9 rules of inference in logic? | [
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Why is the research done at high energy particle accelerators important for mankind? | [
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Are photons emitted from a source at infinite angles? | [
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Why do MRI machines make such loud and strange noises when performing a scan? | [
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Viewed as an expanding sphere,does the Universe consist of concentric spheres of galaxies?Or,is it a single layer of galaxies? | [
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why is the square root of -100 an odd equasion? | [
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Why do different types of alcohol affect us differently? | [
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Why is there so much got damn static electricity in the winter? | [
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how can we prevent the mentally ill from possessing guns when health records are protected information? | [
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Why does the US gov have boneyards for Airplanes rather than selling for scrap? | [
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If neutrinos have no charge and are basically massless, how are neutrino detectors even able to detect them? | [
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How wealth is not a zero-sum game ? | [
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Jury nullification and it's consequences? | [
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Why does a weighted blanket feel so good/makes you feel so relaxed? | [
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What is codependency? Why is it bad? Could it be good? | [
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Why do you need to study and memorize the best chess plays by previous players to actually become better at chess? | [
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How are illegal immigrants able to work, go to school, own property and pay taxes? | [
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Why can we eat runny egg yolks without the threat of salmonella but not the whites? | [
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How are IQ tests scored and what evidence is there for their accuracy engaging a persons intelligence in every day life? | [
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Why do I have to put a constant on an undefined integral and don't have to in a defined one? | [
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What does it mean to "own the float" in regard to stocks? | [
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- 10 trillion years from now, will the Cosmic Background Radiation have dissipated beyond levels of detection? If so, how would future civilizations measure the age of the universe? | [
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Why was art from the Middle Ages so different? | [
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What exactly is plastic and how did it become so wide spead? | [
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Why do smaller loans have much higher interest rates than larger loans? | [
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How does hazing even happen? | [
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Why is the airline industry seemingly so fragile? | [
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How large can an explosive volcanic eruption get? | [
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Why does chelation therapy not work on thallium poisoning? | [
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Why do companies consistently release products with much lower retail values than their eventual market values? | [
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Why do rechargeable batteries get weaker over time? What's "wearing out"? | [
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In trading Options, why are option spreads better than just an option? | [
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What makes it difficult to make flavors that taste exactly like pie, roast chicken, spaghetti and other food of the like? | [
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Why do Hard Drives need to be defragmented? | [
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What exactly happens inside our body that gives us cramps around spleen level while running? | [
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Why does closing your eyes when lying down make you feel like you're resting but lying down with your eyes open you feel no rest? What does closing your eyes trigger in your body? | [
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Why do rose plants come back bigger the next season after cutting them all the way back in the winter? | [
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How does a wax cylinder phonograph produce sound? | [
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Why is some rain little droplets and some rain are big old fat drops? | [
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Why should i go to a nice, prestigious college? | [
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What does Tupper’s Self-Referential Formula prove or realistically achieve? | [
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If you wash and dry clothes repeatedly, is there a point at which you would no longer get lint as a dryer byproduct? | [
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Why does HIV turn into AIDS? | [
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What exactly does incognito browser do? | [
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Why is it impossible to completely ignore pain? | [
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How do we translate old texts from dead languages? | [
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What does 'Legitimate Interest' mean/include on cookie banners? | [
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- How are we able to decipher text from letters so quickly? for example I saw a insta post with . and was able to figure it out first try | [
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How is mains AC turned into usable DC power, particularly in the context of a desktop computer PSU? | [
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Why is warm/melted butter so much more satisfying (tastes better?) than cold butter? | [
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What did Jordan Peterson do and why did he get so much backlash? | [
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Why is two minutes recommended for the appropriate amount of time to brush your teeth? And what happens overnight to your teeth if you don't brush before sleeping? | [
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How do software updates like iOS11 speed up the phone? | [
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does a train with two wagons need exactly double the energy of a single Train wagoned or less? | [
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How do doctors make predictions of how long someone will live or if they'll ever walk normally again? | [
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where do I get my REAL news if everything is algorithmically attached to what I like? | [
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Is most money based on anything today that is physically tangible? Or is it just abstract imaginary numbers being subtracted and added on computers? | [
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why certain noises “go through you”? | [
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Why is it that hitting a body of water at terminal velocity is fatal? | [
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When a group says "aye" or "nay" when voting, how can they be absolutely sure more people said one over the other? | [
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How is the 'expiration date' calculated on products? | [
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What are vacuum tubes on amps? Do they actually do anything? | [
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What exactly is a Tropical Depression? | [
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What is an API call? | [
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How is a root canal actually done? | [
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How can you drink water in countries with temperature less than 0°C ? | [
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How do cable companies produce/provide internet service for customers? | [
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Most (but not all) male mammals are larger than females, but most (but not all) female insects, arachnids and fish are larger than males. Why does female-male sexual dimorphism vary by biological class? | [
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What would happen if all the frogs went extinct? | [
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How does the human body generate electricity? | [
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Why can't we notice the huge amounts of salt in processed foods, but if we put the same amount of salt in home-cooked food, it would be too salty? | [
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