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Is it possible to learn a second language without using your first language as reference? | [
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How do people work out the odds for betting? Like I get who is the favourite but how do they decide between 3/1 or 4/1 or even those odds to start with? | [
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How does Canadian pension work? | [
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In the U.S., what exactly does deploying the National Guard mean? | [
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How does gravity affect sound? | [
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Why does the genre "cyberpunk" have a huge Asian influence? | [
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I've been told temperature can affect weight, but not significantly. What is the science behind this occurrence? | [
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What are the economics/business structure that make the airline industry so fragile (bankruptcies, bail outs, etc)? | [
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What would happen if you remove all the other planets from our Solar System and kept only Earth, Moon and Sun in it? Will Earth survive? | [
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How do buttons on electronic devices have more than one function based on how long you press them for? | [
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Can a child be conditioned to think insects are the cutest thing ever and be instinctively afraid of kittens? | [
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. How are surgeons able to perform such long surgeries without getting sloppy as they get tired? | [
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Why do some screens' colors get distorted when viewed from extreme angles? | [
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How come two great tastes don’t always taste great together? | [
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how do we know dating something is accurate? If the materiales from which something is made are millions of years old, what difference does it make once it’s made into something? | [
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Why do our eyebrows and eyelashes stop growing after a certain length? | [
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What do spoilers (on cars) actually do, and how? | [
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How does a company just “shut off the internet” within its borders? | [
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Is clímate change local to sources of pollution? If every source of air pollution (cars, factories, etc.) in the world was moved to one single city, would there still be global environmental effects? Or would only the area around said city be affected? | [
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How does the US National Guard deploy? I always understood it to be made up of a group of people basically on call that then report to their base in your city and then go out from there. Am I wrong? | [
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How do creators of free apps/websites make money? | [
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Why is information easier to retain when presented as a story versus esoteric fact? | [
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Why did it take so long for console games to run on 60fps while pc has this option for decades? | [
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How do wealthy people benefit from donating to charity? | [
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How are Rats and other smaller Mammals with tiny limbs capable of moving so fast? | [
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How are math problems unsolvable? | [
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why isn’t there a metric system unit for measuring time? | [
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Why doesn't ice get squishy when it thaws? | [
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Why are fruits sour before they turn sweet? | [
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Why does it seem like there were way more single-income households 30+ years ago compared to now? What caused the modern trend of both adults in a household needing to get jobs? | [
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How does thunder make a sound? What makes lightning strikes sound so powerful instead of just being silent? | [
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How does alcohol kill neurons? | [
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How do transition lenses on glasses work? | [
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Why do films increasingly have a half-dozen or more production companies logos shown at the start of the movie instead of just one? | [
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How do commission-free companies like Venmo and Robinhood make money? | [
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Apple recently made the news for having a trillion dollars. My country's GDP is a bit less than 200 billion. Does this mean Apple can buy my country 5 times over? | [
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Dear homebrew developers why the original Xbox was able to emulate N64 games flawlessly and a twice faster CPU on a Raspberry Pi 3B/3B+/4 (and far more RAM) still can't? | [
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why does turning off and on your technology usually resolve issues that your tech is having? | [
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what is Mandelbrot set ? | [
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Why are the values for depreciation different in cash flow statements and income statements? | [
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How does online credit card verification work? | [
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How do paralysed individuals still have functioning organs? | [
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How does plastic packaging prevent bread going stale? | [
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Mathematically, 0.999... (infinitely repeating) = 1. How does that make sense? | [
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Why do people have to use the bathroom so soon after drinking beer? | [
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Why are green bell peppers so much cheaper than all the others? | [
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Is it true that baling wet hay after a frost won't start on fire vs baling wet hay after rain will? If so, what makes the difference? | [
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How does sandboxing (computer security) work? | [
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What makes particular adhesives bond so well with their intended material? (I.e. woodglue woodglue, JBWELD-Metal etc) | [
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What is GAP insurance? Why is it an option on my Lease agreement but not my auto insurance? | [
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how does noise cancelling headphones actually work? | [
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what are stimulates packages and where exactly does the money come from ? | [
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Why is it you can be in a submarine on the bottom of the sea, shake a can of coke and open it, it doesn't spray everywhere? | [
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If egg and sperm form first cell of baby, then why does mtDNA comes from mother only? | [
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Why do cold temperatures cause a weaker immune system/make it easier to get sick? | [
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Why is the USPS expected to turn a profit? | [
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What make pi the same in circles of different sizes? | [
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how has Venezuela's inflation rate gotten so out of control? | [
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What exactly makes muscles fail to perform during exercise? Ex: being able to do 42 push-ups but not 43. | [
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How do video game hacks work? | [
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The Sensitivity Conjecture has been solved. What is it about? | [
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Why do large, orbital structures such as accretion discs, spiral galaxies, planetary rings, etc, tend to form in a 2d disc instead of a 3d sphere/cloud? | [
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Why do lots of mobile video game advertisers just show random fragments of out of context gameplay, without showing us the name of the game or even trying to make an ad that is nice to watch? Does that strategy even work? | [
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What are the consequences of the USA being in increasingly high debt as a country? | [
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Why teeth do not grow for a third time when they fall out? | [
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Why did Mao and Stalin kill all those people? | [
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What is, and how does diabetes work? | [
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Why does the LGBT+ abbreviation keep being changed? | [
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What is that feeling called "when a vehicle beside you is moving, but you’re stationary, however for a brief second it feels like you’re moving if you look at the other vehicle and why does it happen? | [
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what is the difference between center of gravity and center of mass? | [
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how do company’s that sell a gas like oxygen/ helium collect the gas? | [
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Why are moldy food bad for us? Molds on foods like yogurt/cheese is fine, but on bread and suddenly we’re sick. | [
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Why are newly discovered stars and planets given names like ''HTS-967008234679'' rather than a unique name like those of our solar system's planets? | [
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Why do some solids dissolve in water? | [
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Why are milk and eggs so interchangeable in baking, when individually they are so different? | [
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What happens to our bodies when we get the chills? | [
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Why do objects that are far away appear to move slowly? | [
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Why do some analog watches contain quartz/rubies/other gems? | [
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What is the source for gravity, or what causes it in things? I understand that way massive the object is, the force will be great (and depends on length between a second object too), then, the object creates it? How? | [
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How does wireless phone charger work? | [
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How does the human body produce heat? | [
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How do scientists know there is liquid water on planets from other solar systems? | [
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Radio telescopes only see from certain angles? | [
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if a torpedo blew up a nuclear submarine, would there be a risk of a major nuclear meltdown type situation? | [
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What is terminal velocity and how does it happen along the vertical axis but not the horizontal plane of motion? | [
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Why exactly do my hands get wrinkly after they're under water? | [
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How do those anti-theft sensors at entry/exit doors at stores work? | [
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If every cell on your body changes eventually, how are tattoos permanent? | [
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Why is there a notable distinction in taste between food that is hot and cold? | [
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I've always seen that prescription medicines cost a lot of money without insurance, what makes it cost so much money to produce these small pills? And why are generic versions so much cheaper if they're just made out of the same thing? | [
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Why do our eyes jolt around when looking around, instead of smooth transitions? | [
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Why does ice crack when you put it in a glass of water? | [
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why does the moon appear larger earlier in the night, when it’s “rising” as opposed to later in the night when it’s higher in the sky? | [
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How are lines on roads painted so consistently and accurately? | [
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After an adrenaline rush, why do humans experience a sudden severe drop in energy? Would this not be disadvantageous for primitive survival? | [
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what exactly is being “improved” when we see games graphically improving with time? | [
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How do radar detectors work? | [
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what makes breast cells so much more likely to become cancerous than say the cells in our toes? | [
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Why is there a delay on feeling the heat of an object but not on feeling your fingers contact the object? | [
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what process goes into capturing photos of stars, planets, galaxies etc.? | [
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