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Why does he government pay a premium for everything it's involved in? | [
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what makes coffee and tea decaf as opposed to full of caffeine? | [
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which are the pros and cons of escapism? | [
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Does it require an elevator more energy to go "down" empty than to go "up" full? | [
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Benford's law. How does it happen at all? | [
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How does bulk pricing work? | [
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Why do you get a headache when you have slept only a few hours the night before? | [
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What are the differences between storms? What makes a 5 year storm different than a 100 year storm? | [
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How did people start using currency? | [
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What is that smell right after a good sneeze? | [
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Why are One Bedroom/One Bathroom Town Houses not built more in cities? | [
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Since we're aimlessly floating in space with no real orientation, who first decided that the North Pole is "up" and the South Pole is "down" and not vice versa? | [
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What will happen when no one can afford housing in major cities anymore? | [
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. What makes you like a rhythm or beat? What makes it enjoyable to hear? Why do we release dopamine for that? | [
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Why is the Australian dollar so weak against the British pound? | [
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why can cloth absorb/soak up water but plastic can’t? | [
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why do our mouths build odor overnight and taste bad when we wake up? | [
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Why do countries even bother blocking websites if people can easily bypass and access them? | [
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What is are salts and how do they differ from the regular compound/substance? | [
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Why is it that when you listen a song on a loop the sound changes after a while? | [
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Why do people with Tourette’s Syndrome tend to use swear words during uncontrolled outbursts? | [
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Who would be the indigenous peoples of Europe? | [
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Is there an actual specific reason why women's clothing is generally more short and tight? Basically why do women's clothes show more skin? Is it because males design the clothing and want women showing skin to be the norm? | [
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why does wasabi heat affect our noses while chili pepper heat affect our tongues? | [
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What decides the volume and duration of a thunder clap? | [
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How does the sun location specify where we are on earth? | [
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How do authors benefit from their works being in libraries? | [
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How do armies collect their dead soldiers? | [
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BCAA's, Fish Oil, Creatine, Protein and other workout supplements, what is their purpose? | [
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What's the difference between a muonic atom and an electronic atom? | [
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How was the first computer software coded? | [
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How do we know multiple/parallel universes may exist? | [
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Could you theoretically create your own religion and demand your work to accommodate it under freedom of religion? | [
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- Why do flies not die when you smack them? | [
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- Why, when on a slow connection, does a video often manage to play through once, but have difficulty replaying? | [
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How can you explain the concept of Laplace and Fourier Transform using analogies to a kid? | [
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How does posting quality content attract viewers/followers/etc, when you have no viewers/followers/etc in the first place? | [
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What are fractals and why are they so trippy? | [
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If muscles are what allow us to exert force, why is it that ligament tears severely reduce performance even after recovery? | [
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I’ve seen numerous studies claiming that clean and renewable sources of power (solar, wind, etc.) are now cheaper to build than it costs to operate coal plants. If this is the case, why aren’t such plants being phased out more quickly? | [
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please: Why is a declining birth rate a source of panic for national governments? | [
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Why do dimpled golf balls go farther than smooth? | [
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How can napkins/paper towels absorb water upwards into the paper towel against the force of gravity, i.e into sections of the towel that are above the water line? | [
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If you were to stack blocks on top of each other into a tower, but each subsequent block is half the size of the preceding block below it, will the tower eventually stop growing? | [
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How do engineers know what an actual safe weight is for a bridge? | [
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How are "lab created stones" made? How is it possible to grow a gem artificially? | [
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Why is 3D printing products usually cheaper than the normal way of making the product? | [
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Why does everybody go to work when the stores are open, and the stores close when everyone has time to go shopping? | [
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How do transparent colors work? | [
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How does s thermos/cooler keep things hot/cold and why do the high end ones, like Yeti work better? | [
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What are SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) and what do they do? | [
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What is the difference between the UV light from a lamp and the sun’s light when curing nail polish or resin? | [
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Why does glass break when there’s a sudden temperature change? | [
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What is a Pseudo-Riemannian manifold? | [
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why do our fingers curl when our hands are at rest? | [
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why do smelling salts wake you up as they do? And what are their limitations? | [
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Why does oxidation of iron (i.e. rust) typically happen when it's exposed to water but not air? | [
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Why do we cringe over thoughts and memories? | [
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How was code written on the very first computers? | [
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If you're travelling at the speed of sound, will your voice be delayed if you spoke? | [
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Why do we perceive 100 or 10 as "complete" ? | [
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Why are there a hundred different AR variants, Glock variants, etc., aren't they all more or less equally pricy/accurate/ergonomic? What differences do all these variants have from each other? | [
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How was the first clock programmed? | [
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Why isn’t an Einstein’s Cross a circle instead? | [
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how were maps created in old times? | [
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Why is the temperature of the heat death of the universe so low? | [
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physical media for movies has changed over the years. From VHS to DVDs to Blu-Rays it seems like they are constantly upgrading. Why haven’t music CDs done the same? Changing formats for better sound quality. | [
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what are the main questions in cartography nowadays? | [
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Why do our fingers always feel colder to the touch than our arms? Despite being in cold room at constant temperature. | [
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Why do no carb and all fat diets work? Shouldn't they become fat from eating fat? | [
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When the “restart” option is pressed on a console, how does it know to turn itself back on? | [
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How were old maps made to be so accurate without satellite imagery or any idea of what a country looks like from the sky? | [
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What exactly is a magnet pulling from the other metal? | [
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Do animals get cranky when they're tired like humans do? If not, why not? | [
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Energy transfers from the hand to pluck a guitar string. This energy is then transferred into vibration which travels through the air to our ears. Energy doesn't die, so where does the energy go once it's hit our ears? | [
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why does poking a bruise sometimes feel good even though it’s painful? | [
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How did bread or beer taste or how was it different pre-1960? | [
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Why does private college cost so much? | [
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Buoyancy: how can massive cargo ships stay afloat? | [
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Why do some materials resonate at certain frequencies when they is sound playing around them? | [
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Weird Math and Arbitrary Numbers? | [
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Why does India have union territories and states? | [
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What actually is the difference between a psychologist and a therapist? | [
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Why do we feel pleasure when we defecate? | [
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Why are we able to eat dessert after a large meal despite being full and unable to eat more food? | [
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How does dyslexia manifest in languages that don't have an alphabet such as Mandarin and Japanese? | [
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What are endocrine and exocrine in hormone system? | [
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How are chemicals in the brain made? | [
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How do radio stations measure how many listeners they have? Does the strength of the signal they send out weaken when more listeners tune in and they measure it? | [
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Why do pain pills with the same active ingredients have different purposes? Like headache vs back and body | [
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whats the difference between a subnet and a VLAN? | [
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How come its easier to gain weight the second time around compared to the first? (like if you gained weight, lost it, but then gained it back faster than you did the first time) | [
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How did people living in hot regions get ice before the invention of refrigerators? | [
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Why can't the body restore it's nerve cells when a disembodied body part is reattached? It's the same genetic coding as it was before the dismemberment, so why can you be able to move it, but not feel/feel pain with it. | [
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what makes a Hydrogen more acidic in a compound than other H atoms? | [
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why does the light of laser pointers look 'grainy'? | [
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From where does Earth get energy to rotate around itself and revolve around the Sun? | [
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How do animators sync up their characters talking with audio? | [
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How were blood vessels discovered if they're so small? | [
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- Why do we use fonts that use make I (uppercase i) and l (lowercase L) look exactly the same? | [
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