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What happens to the physical money when doing international transfers? | [
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How does shaving gel go from a blue viscous liquid to a foamy thick liquid? | [
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capacitors. what do they do? what is it for? | [
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What is ear wax, where does it come from? | [
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Why is the big bang seen as a singular event, and not a continuous event among most scientists? | [
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How the hell do firefighters find the source of the fire in a completely burned down house? | [
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why do workers in America have terrible employment rights? | [
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How come armpits and feet have their own unique bad scent? (onions vs Fritos chips?) | [
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What does the term "gaslighting" mean? | [
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What is motor oil actually made of and why is it called a “fossil fuel”? | [
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Why in the armed forces is the rules of engagement usually "do not shoot unless fired apon" but ploce officers in the states can fire if they feel threatened? | [
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Why is there so much smoke produced after a fire goes out? | [
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What set of economic circumstances allows for creation of so many Japanese companies that seemingly make everything (Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Yamaha, et cetera)? | [
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How does the satellite business work? How do the small telecom companies get access to satellites that costed millions to get into orbit? | [
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Why is it that when you see a computer screen in a movie or on tv it doesn’t do that distorted thing that always happens when you see a computer screen in a video shot with a commercial video camera? | [
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Why is latency and bandwith separated? If latency is delay of data, and bandwith is data over time, shouldn't one affect another? If it takes 5s for a car to start, and 10s to reach it's destination, then the average speed would be spread out across the whole 15s. Should this not be the same? | [
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How does data transmission from something like the ISS work? Those are massive distances and i guess a whole lot of data. Are there some special protocols are massive antennas? | [
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How do motorbike riders drive safely in the rain? Rain drops on helmet, boots wet etc | [
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When people say we share 65% of our genes with a banana, what does that actually mean? | [
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How do RX Bars only have 15 grams of sugar? | [
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how does it turn into a perfect circle? | [
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Why do some states, (Texas, Florida, California.) have 2 teams of each sport? | [
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Whilst drinking alcohol, does drinking water slow down the process of getting drunk, or does it simply combat dehydration and therefore limit he hangover? | [
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Why even after having so many advanced technologies in the world do we still need humans to clean the windows of the skyscrapers? | [
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Why can't we use text in things like italics or bold in cell phone text messaging? | [
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Why does electricity make noise sometimes? | [
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Bicameral legislatures - how do they work and why do they exist? | [
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How fire fighters ,most of the time, are able to determine what caused the fire? How can they do such a thing if everything is burned down? | [
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Why did controllers in the 80s and 90s require calibration? How come we dont need to calibrate controllers now? | [
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Why some factories runs 24/7 while others can do only dayshifts? | [
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Every year, more money is "pumped" into the economy, and prices go up, wages go up, expenses go up... Where does all that money come from? | [
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Why is it that we generally find food that's bad for us more delicious than food that's good for us? | [
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what causes us to involuntary make silly faces whenever we taste something hot, sour, or bitter? | [
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Why do many of us simply never get car/air/sea-sick, if it's supposed to be a normal biological response from the brain? | [
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How does my computer prevent feedback when on a video call and my mic isn’t muted? | [
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Where does the value of stock come from? | [
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Why do people's migraine experiences vary so much, and what causes them in the first place? | [
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Why is it such a common bug in video games for people to be launched up into the sky? | [
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Why do we burp? What is the function of burping? | [
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What is the difference between an associate company and subsidiary company and what are benefits of each? | [
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What makes voices sound different, other than controllable things like pitch and intensity? | [
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Why is 8 (with exception of hydrogen and helium) the magic number for chemical stability of elements in the valence shell? | [
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When a flight is overbooked why would someone need to be removed from their seat to let someone else on? | [
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What makes an object contaminated with radiation? | [
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How can European companies like Zara afford to produce their clothes in places like Portugal and Spain, while American companies rely on sweatshop labour to sell at the same price? | [
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How does catnip work and does it affect any other animals? | [
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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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How does the US dollar come back to the US when it has been used in other countries? | [
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On TV crime shows, the police or FBI are always aiming at the perpetrator with the perpetrator aiming back. In real life, is it the same? If so, how do the agents or officers know if the criminal is going to shoot? | [
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What actually is food poisoning and what is happening in our bodies that make them respond so violently to it? | [
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Why do hotel rooms not have central lighting? | [
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How do forensic investigators ensure that recovered computer files are accurate representations of the damaged or deleted file? | [
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Why do animals (including people) gorge themselves despite their stomach being full? | [
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Will automation cause an inflation or deflation on the price of goods and services in the future? | [
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How can a bank lend out more money than it possesses? | [
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What are pyramid schemes and how do they make people lose so much money? | [
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What about the chemical composition of apple juice makes it safe to store in the cupboard, as a opposed to the composition of OJ, which needs to be refrigerated? | [
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Why do electric cars have a lower range when it's cold? | [
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What happens to an eyeball after it's removed from a body and loses its moisture? | [
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Why is not charging a laptop to it's full capacity if you run it on power often better for it's battery than charging to 100%? | [
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How can every card deck shuffle be unique? | [
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in videogames, why is the animation of simple things so damn difficult( kissing, drinking water, playing an instrument, etc? | [
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Why do ears ring when your sitting around doing nothing and ring louder when concentrating on the ringing? | [
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How did people create different maths like trigonometry? | [
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How do we know the chemical structure of compounds? How do we know from which particular atoms a molecule of a compound is made of? | [
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why do some liquids evaporate faster than other liquids (like alcohols versus hydrocarbons)? | [
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Why do sometimes soft blankets feel warm and sheets feel cold in the same condition? | [
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How did Walmart become so successful? | [
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If everyone actually recycled their plastic, would using plastic be ok for the environment? Is not recycling the real issue? | [
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Why are companies removing the head phone jack? | [
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When a central bank lends money must it first borrow the money that it lends? | [
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Does Google have to pay to advertise the Pixel 3 on YouTube? | [
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Why does blue light make it hard to sleep? | [
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What does it mean when someone says "Treasury bonds are extremely liquid"? | [
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How do we know that a very old painting such as the Mona Lisa is genuine? | [
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Where do certain insects get their energy from if they don't eat and their sole purpose is just to reproduce and die? | [
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Does humans being allergic to pollen have any benefit for trees, or is it just an unfortunate accident? | [
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How do people build computer components such as transistors that are nanometers in size and make billions of them in tiny chips to hold and read data? | [
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why do Floridians feel like 65 degrees is colder than someone in New England would? | [
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Is it true that modern human existence on earth is equivalent to an 80 year old man having had a cold for only one day? | [
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Why is Iron the boundary between nuclear fusion and fission. What makes it so unique? | [
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How have wolves impacted Yellowstone? | [
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What is rust and why does it form? | [
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Why does water taste different at different temperatures? Ice cold vs like warm vs hot water taste differently. | [
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Why isn't all income taxed the same? | [
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Why do some people grind their teeth at night? | [
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Why do you experience more pain when you are expecting it vs. When you aren't? | [
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How does Hollywood accounting work? | [
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Do All the Planets in our Solar System Spin and/or Orbit in the Same Direction? Why? | [
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Why are environmentalist's against building more dams to store water to protect against droughts? | [
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Why does heat distort images ? | [
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How does the Fast Fourier Transform work? | [
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Why do large objects appear to move extremely slowly, while tiny objects appear very fast? | [
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Why has every washing machine I've used taken 10+ minutes longer than the timer said it would take? | [
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Why do SSDs have limited amount of rewrites? | [
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Why does taking a warm bath when you have a fever feel so cold? | [
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why are sunsets larger during certain seasons? | [
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How does lightning work? Like in the clouds and all the way to it striking the earth? | [
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What's the difference between store brand cheese and name brand? | [
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How do money transferring apps like Venmo, that do not charge fees or have ads, make money? | [
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