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Leveraged Buyouts, siphoning off debts, and who is holding the bag? | [
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How do the antiplagiarism mechanisms work in uni? | [
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Why a mother's allergies or autoimmune diseases antibodies don't get transmitted through colostrum to its newborn, but the rest of the antibodies do? | [
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How does flying standby work? | [
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Why is it the faster we go in and vehicle or mode of transportation we get wobbly? | [
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How does binary code translate into, for example, a 4k movie? | [
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can you die from ingesting too many calories? | [
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Why is the South Pole so much colder than the North Pole? | [
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How come low unemployment rates don't directly translate into higher wages? | [
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why CalTrain has to honk EVERYTIME that cross a city? What is the actual reason? Is it really that necessary? | [
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How does government spending and accommodative monetary policy supposedly lower unemployment? | [
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Why are cryptocurrencies (e.g. BitShares) able to increase by ~250% in 48 hours while the rest of technology stocks fall drastically? | [
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Why does it take a lot of time to move, let's say, 600GB of archives between two folders in Windows 10, but it's almost instantaneous to move the folder itself (with all those archives inside) to another? | [
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How are working bees determined as female? | [
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why does boiling water make bubbles? | [
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Why was Ted Cruz (Born in Calgary, Canada) eligible for US president when there was a whole lot of discussion about ineligibility on Barack Obama due to his birth certificate? | [
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How come it feels like you're freezing when you have a fever? | [
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How do Americans afford/pay for their extortionate healthcare fees and why is the government so unwilling to help? | [
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C3, C4, and CAM pathways. What is the difference between them, and in what type of plant are they used? | [
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Why does a webpage jump around on its own if I am scrolling through it and it is still loading? Shouldn't it recognize that I am scrolling and not jump to where it wants to go? | [
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why do bass tones create more vibrations than high pitch tones? | [
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When looking at ancient texts, how do we know if there are typos in the language/grammatical errors? | [
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Why do we tend to remember exactly where we were when we learned bad news (that may not effect us personally, such as something on the news)? | [
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How could a senior executive of a company sell any of that company's stock without it being insider trading? | [
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What is a Roth IRA? | [
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Why it is illegal when traveling internationally to bring foods from one country to another, even though those same countries may trade (and sell) the very same foods with which it is illegal for you to travel? | [
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How do bases and acids actually harm your skin at the physical level? | [
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Why does black/oily snow take so long to melt? | [
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Why are screen resolutions like 1920x1080 rather than 2000x1000? | [
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Why is the inside of a refrigerator cold, but the sides hot? | [
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How does a evaporative cooler work? | [
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Why do we bleed when we cut ourselves if the blood is in the veins and arteries? | [
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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 does cryptographic salt and pepper work? | [
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Why does the rotating of the Earth result in time passing? | [
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How are people with little to no knowledge of music theory able to harmonize to and predict chord progressions of songs that they're hearing for the first time? | [
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How are Vicks Vaporub and Methamphetamine the same chemical formula, but one clears your sinuses while the other clears your bank account? | [
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How can it be “too cold to snow” when it snows on top of mountains and in countries with much colder climates? | [
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Why do movies have deleted scenes? | [
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Why does water get bubbly if you let it sit for a while? | [
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Why do hard candies make the inside of your cheek rough? | [
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Why do computers slow down significantly over a few years compared to when it was purchased if hardly anything has been downloaded? | [
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How is a person in a 3rd world country that makes 1$ a day poor in their local economy? | [
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If beer is 90% water why isn't it considered a good source of hydration? | [
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Why do hotels still charge for long distance calls? | [
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Theoretically If I was 66 million light years away from Earth and had a telescope strong enough would I able to see the dinosaurs if I faced it towards earth? | [
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Why does beer bubble so much more than other carbonated liquids when you pour it in? What exactly happens to cause bubbling in general? | [
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How do researchers 'gather' atomic and subatomic particles? | [
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How does WWE work? How fake and how staged is it? How do their performers progress and is there any actual competition? | [
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how does concrete get stronger over time? | [
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Why is the US government under constant threat of shutting down? | [
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what happens with a donor organ's DNA after a successful transplant? | [
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how do atoms bond, what are valence electrons, and can atoms bond when their valence shell is full? | [
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How come we can see a source of light extremely far away when the source only illuminates the area much closer to it? | [
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Why is there a value for the square root of -1 (i) but not for dividing by zero? | [
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Why is it okay to drink alcohol from the liquor store, but not Listerine/mouth wash? | [
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Impeachment "Jury" meeting with defense team? | [
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How do we know that statistics works? | [
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How is it that the wavelength that we see as red is so much longer than violet when violet has red in it? | [
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How do rock climbers use ropes to help them climb/for safety before any of them reach the top of what they are climbing? | [
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Why can’t my laptop microphone pick up the sound coming from my laptop speakers? | [
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Why do we work more hours today than our ancestors, even though we are objectively more productive than they have been? | [
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Why do gray-colored shirts reveal more sweat marks compared to other colors? | [
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Why do people jump or physically twitch when they get shocked or surprised? | [
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What is impedance and ohms and why is it so important to audio? | [
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In his latest video, YouTuber Boogie2988 talked about getting surgery done because of his weight. But the doctor isn't willing to do it before he's down to 410 pounds. Why is it a problem performaing surgery on a 520 pound man? Why the limit at 410? | [
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When not on a channel, why do radios make static noise instead of it being just silence? | [
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is it correct to say that if an airplane has 1/1000000 chance of crashing, in the flight number 500000 has a chance of 50% that an airplane has already crashed? | [
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Why does the US categorize people as 'white', 'black', 'hispanic'? | [
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If light slows down in water, how does it speed back up again when it comes out? | [
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Why is it so frowned upon to be friendly with Russia? | [
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Whenever a major financial market crash occurs, why is it that (as shown in movies) the stockbrokers are shitfaced at the end? The investors should be fucked right? Why the stockbrokers, who just buy and sell for the investors? | [
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Why is eye witness testimony is the highest form of evidence in law but not in science? | [
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how do they take the caffeine out of coffee to make decaffeinated coffee? | [
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Why do some Japanese words (like desu and masu) have the U silent? | [
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How are minor notes in music affiliated with sad/melancholic emotions and major notes with positive ones? | [
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Why are cases allowed to be retried after a hung jury? Doesn't this prove there's reasonable doubt the defendant is guilty? | [
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How does the making of cotton candy work? | [
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How do online passwords work/ protect information? | [
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With the resolutions and graphics capabilities we have, why aren't we capable of of creating a simulation of a person that's visually indistinguishable from a REAL person? | [
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Do those “credit card-debt forgiveness” advertisements legitimately work? If so, how? | [
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Why is it a problem that "they" are farming our data? | [
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Why is the recommendation to wash your hands for 20 seconds but the same rules don't apply to washing dirty dishes? | [
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how do scientists know that a rock is from space and not of earthly origin? | [
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how does hydroponics work if overwatering plants kills them? | [
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Why does Netflix (and other streaming services) have so many series with the last few seasons missing? | [
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Why are flies so attracted to my pint of beer? | [
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today the S & P 500 shed 2 trillion dollars. Where did that 2 trillion dollars go? | [
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Why do squares have 360 degrees, as well as why do triangles have 180? | [
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Why are we so terrible at comprehending large numbers? | [
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Why, when my family went camping, my sister was mobbed with mosquitoes meanwhile me and dad got only a few? (We all applies the same amount of bug spray) | [
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Why do some wines get better with age while whisky stays the same once bottled? | [
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Why do we need different programming languages? | [
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Why does drinking hot drinks after eating spicy food make the spice feeling worse, whilst colder drinks lessens the feeling? | [
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Why are people willing to pay for every other alt-coins? What's their point? | [
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How can viruses penetrate cells, mimick certain things (e.g blocking signals across cells) and develop smart tactics to infect more people/animals even though it is not even a living organism? | [
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Why does paper product (paper towels, napkins, etc.) become transparent when wet? | [
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How am I able to watch someone do something (like a professional) and understand how they're doing it, yet I'm not able to do it myself? | [
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What is needed to get matter to being a Bose-Einstein condensate, the least known about state of matter? | [
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how do gesture recognition sensors work? | [
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