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If Fire needs oxygen to burn, how does the sun burn when there’s none in space? | [
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Why is a single Venusian day longer than a Venusian year? | [
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How can high speed cameras (5 trillion fps) capture photons? | [
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Why doesn’t it normally thunderstorm during the winter? | [
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Why can't food be refrozen once it has been unfrozen? | [
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Why do the pictures NASA releases to the public look like CGI? | [
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Why do we have to eat multiple times a day? Why can't we just eat a lot at once then not eat for several days? | [
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What speaks against bees being conscious? If they aren't conscious, how is their behaviour explainable with instincts only? | [
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Why aren't all sounds "music"? How is it that we perceive some as melodic but most are just noise? | [
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Why have no deer species been successfully domesticated? | [
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. If someone needs to take an MRI scan but has metal implants in them, how do they go about doing the scan? | [
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Why do eggs become solid when we cook them? | [
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- Why does the kettle stop whistling as soon as you turn off the heat? I would think it would continue for a little while after | [
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how does community college work in the us and how is it different from a regular university? | [
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Why is punching through a wall or smashing a glass object so much more satisfying than squeezing something like a stress ball when you're angry? | [
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On a chromaticity diagram why is green so different than the other colours? | [
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Why would muscles feel fatigued after alcohol? | [
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- WeWork - How can the CEO walk away w/ a $1.7B payout when the company has never turned a profit? | [
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We have VRR displays now. When will we see Variable FPS videos? | [
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How are riders actually added to a bill in Congress? | [
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Why are Saturn's poles Hexagonal and blue? | [
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Why does scratching metal gives chills? | [
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When taking a picture of a monitor or TV screen with a camera phone why does the screen seem to have moving waves and lines even after the picture is taken while zooming in and out? | [
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When cleaning, when should you use ammonia? When should you use alcohol? When should you use bleach? | [
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How do magnetics remove tape footage? | [
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Why government closures don't happen in other countries outside the USA? | [
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how the eff do magic erasers work so much better than soap and water? | [
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Why do we have different countries with left handed drive and others on the opposite side? | [
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How does glass shatter when run under super hot water or in a dishwasher? | [
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Why does our eyes move rapidly during R.E.M. and what purpose does that serve? | [
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What happens when a man takes birth control medicine? | [
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can anyone explain me the butterfly effect? | [
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From a cryptography POV, why were the Navajo code talkers so difficult to decipher? | [
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Why when we try to remember a word we can usually recall the first letter or first few letters but not the full word? | [
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Why do rocking motions relax us and help us to sleep? | [
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Why do internet browsers fail to prevent "add extension" advert pages from locking up the browser? | [
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Why do some noises produce a physical reaction in people? | [
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why do some games only work on windows? | [
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What is inflation/interest rates and how do they affect an economy in the long run? | [
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Where does a thought go when it's forgotten? | [
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How does Google know that you get the letters correct in a captcha! if they were designed so that computers can't read them? | [
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Do base values change the patterns in numbers? | [
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Does producing light or heat deplete the # of electrons in a circuit? | [
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What do dissolvable plastic pouches (for example: tide pods, cascade pods) break down into? Do heat and humidity affect them significantly? | [
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why do humans pick off scabs? | [
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why countries with weak currency don't remove multiple zeroes off their money to make it worth more? | [
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is there a way to conceptually describe a 4th dimension in terms of our 3 dimensional world? | [
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How did chemists synthesise/discover artificial flavours/sweeteners? E.g how did they know a particular compound would taste like strawberry? | [
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What makes some plants edible, and others not? | [
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That scene in Iron Man 2 when Tony Stark 'creates a new element'. Is something like that possible, and how? | [
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How easy would it be for us to destroy the moon and what would be the benefits/disadvantages of it? | [
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Why does opening your eyes, even in complete darkness, stop “the spins” when you’re drunk and laying down? | [
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When you open a tap, why does the flow of water near the top seem more orderly, while that near the bottom is more chaotic? | [
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When the government saves money by cutting public sector funding where does this money go instead? | [
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How come bars of soap feel slippery on the skin initially, but soon afterward leave your skin feeling coarse/rough? | [
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How do you force a passenger plane down, they can't just shoot a civilian aircraft if the pilots refuse? | [
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Why is prostitution illegal? (Not including child prostitution) | [
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Why do some sign language speakers use exaggerated facial expressions when signing? | [
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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 rainbow discoloration that happens when steel is subjected to extreme heat? | [
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Why is it when you see a propeller (like from a turbine airplane) starting up it seems to switch directions as it spins faster and faster ? | [
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please, What’s the difference between crystal and glass? | [
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Why dont we have 1000v1000 multiplayer games? | [
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Is the technology behind Zoom actually super groundbreaking or advanced compared to older videoconferencing options like GoToMeeting/Skype/Hangouts, etc? | [
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- What are blood groups? Why do they differ from person to person? Why can't a person of one blood group receive blood from a person of a different blood group? | [
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Why are details of deadly chemical compound easily available on the internet? | [
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How does card counting in Blackjack work and why is it commonly considered cheating or at the very least frowned upon? | [
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- why is it so hard to swallow a pill or tablet but so easy to swallow large chunks of food? | [
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Why do we just "click" with some people? | [
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Why do aerosol cans ask you to "shake well"? | [
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Why does putting a heavy book on a a crumbled piece of paper make it flatten out and why does it take 10-15 mins for it to happen; not instantaneously? | [
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Why does it feel like there's a "blue filter" when looking, after being out in the bright sun for a while? | [
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How does Google Stadia or other gaming streaming services work? | [
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Why do coins have “heads” and “tails”? | [
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How does rubbing alcohol kill what is harmful while not hurting the living body? | [
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Whats the difference between a band and a singer with musicians? | [
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Why do people require less sleep the older they get? | [
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What makes ‘permanent’ markers more permanent than regular markers? | [
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Why does exposing burned skin to cold (like running water or a cold compress) makes the burn milder? Didn't the damage already occur? | [
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Why do eggs only have that egg smell when they are hard boiled? | [
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What is the twelve-tone technique in music? | [
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Is sugar a drug? Why or why not? | [
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How does technology like an Apple Watch or Owlet Smart Sock track Blood Oxygen levels? | [
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Why do our joints ache when the barometric pressure changes? | [
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Before surgery was possible, what did people do if they tore their ACL? | [
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What are the main issues with Nuclear Power and why do the majority of people have a problem with it? | [
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why do our brains briefly obsess over things we like a lot? Like a book, tv series, or video game? What’s the chemistry behind obsessing over a thing we like? | [
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How does a loading bar work? | [
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Why do fragrance ads make no sense ? What is the marketing strategy in doing so ? | [
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Why does a full circle equal 360 degrees? | [
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This slide puzzle—if every piece can move individually of each other, and occupy each of the 16 separate spaces, how can the puzzle have impossible-to-solve solutions like the ones shown in the picture? | [
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how do solar panels work? | [
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How do payment processors like MasterCard and Visa compete with each other? Why would I, layperson buying groceries, care? | [
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How is electricity generated? Is there any difference between solar and coal? | [
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When people say "put ice on it to stop swelling", isn't that bad because swelling is your bodies way of fixing it? | [
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Why does life (and viruses) "want" to self replicate? | [
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How does country get richer through protectionism? | [
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How does Netflix and other services know I am using a VPN? | [
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Why does time seem to pass much quicker the older we get? | [
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what is it about certain songs that helps me push harder through a workout than I otherwise would not be able to do? | [
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