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Why do websites use infinite scrolling? | [
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What would happen if nobody was there to buy the stocks you sell? | [
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Why does a paper cut hurt like hell compared to a knife? | [
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Why 480p now seems me unwatchable, but 10 years ago it was like super good ? | [
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How do HD photos and videos seem to look better than our own naked eyes? | [
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Why is it so crucial that a public company continue to grow at all costs? | [
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How does this kind of "investment" works? | [
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How does air conditioning work? | [
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Where does the idea that going FTL allows for travel to the past come from? | [
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what is keeping us from transitioning completely to biodegradable plastic tomorrow? | [
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Why are Dumbbells called Dumbbells, there’s nothing dumb about them? | [
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After I swim in a chlorinated pool for an hour and a half, why does the water I drink taste like chlorine water? | [
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What is happening to the body from exercising that causes you to lower your resting heart rate? | [
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Why do we tend to listen to a new song that we like over and over again and then we can’t stand hearing it anymore? | [
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What exactly happens when we bend paper? Why is it permanent? | [
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How do you order complex numbers? | [
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Why do pharma companies take a product's chemical name (like Albuterol) and give them equally complex sounding brand names (like Ventolin, Accuneb, Proventil), rather than giving them more marketing friendly names like "Pain-B-Gone"? | [
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When some famous/well-off people get convicted of a crime and sentenced to years in prison, why do they get to "report to prison" later (sometimes months) after the conviction? | [
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How does analogue recording work? | [
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how 8-track tape recorders are still in use on the Voyagers 1 and 2 after 41 years. Don't tapes wear out or demagnetize over time? And if tape recordings are magnetic, how does that work in space? Do magnets work in space as you get farther away from celestial bodies? | [
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what causes bond interest rates to fluctuate? | [
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How do hashing functions avoid collisions? | [
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We could sleep with ambient noises but not when someone next to you snores? | [
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What’s menthol and why is it in some cigarettes? | [
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why does Google Crome use so much RAM? | [
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How did corporate raiders boost share prices? | [
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What are inserts in a Digital Audio Workstation used for? What can I do with them? | [
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How does your social security number contain so much information about you? | [
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If scientists could invent i as the square root of -1, then why can't we do that to other unknown stuff such as dividing by 0 or log 0? | [
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Why do some recent films from the 2000s need to go through a remaster process into higher resolutions like 4K? Aren't the original source files already at their native resolution, especially if they were filmed digitally? | [
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Excited for the SpaceX and Blue Origin rocket launches, but what's the actual purpose for this series of launches? Are they just launching and landing immediately for the sake of testing? | [
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Why Mona Lisa is such a big deal? | [
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Why does microscopic views of salt and sugar reveal near perfect geometrical shapes? | [
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Why do we burp? What is the function of burping? | [
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Why are mass produced salsas (like Tostitos) usually liquid but homemade salsas are usually just diced? | [
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Why do bugs always die belly up? | [
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How do cam girls/girls getting money off snapchat report their earnings? Or rather, how are they able to transfer all that money to the bank? | [
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How does a Lead-Acid Battery work? | [
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Why do batteries seem to "recharge" ever so slightly when not in use? | [
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what are the differences between an sheriff, cop, detective and city guard ? | [
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How come our brain can create auditory and visual hallucinations from schizophrenia for example, but we cannot do it willingly? | [
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how exactly is pi calculated? | [
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How are mountains (or mountain ranges) formed far away from plate boundaries - is it a sort of crumpling effect? | [
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Why are smartphones incapable of setting two timers to run concurrently? | [
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How does buying US Treasury Bills help in keeping Chinese Yuan low? | [
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Why do we represent molecular structures as beautiful alveolus-like schemas and do they actually look like that ? | [
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How does my ear make ear wax ? | [
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How come the file size of my camera's photo are always different even though the same amount of pixels are being recorded? | [
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what is the significance of the closure property in math? | [
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How do companies not turn a profit for years yet not go under? | [
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What's the difference between "rap" and "hip-hop"? | [
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Why does it sometimes take a few listens to start liking a song? | [
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Why can we see faraway light source (e.g. cars, lamps, stars) clearly when it doesn't seem to illuminate my position? | [
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What is "geo-redundancy" when it comes to cloud back up? | [
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How does a pyramid scheme work? | [
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How does an octopus camouflage itself so well? | [
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why ropes, cables and string tangle so easily, yet are so hard to untangle.? | [
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How do kettles know when to turn off? | [
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Is maple syrup equivalent to blood? | [
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What is the difference between House bills and Senete bills with the same name? | [
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On a molecular level, what is energy? | [
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Is the nothingness surrounding our universe a different type of nothingness compared to the empty space (nothingness) between two atoms? | [
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If some countries have no mosquitoes/ or any common insect, why is there a saying that killing all mosquitoes (an example) will bring major imbalance to the ecosystem and food chain? | [
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Why humans are relatively Hairless? | [
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How come when you do nothing all day you're more tired than when you're productive? | [
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How can the police or the fire departement tell what the cause of a fire was? For example by arson, by accident or just by nature itself? | [
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Salt water oceans, but fresh water ice caps? | [
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how does eating less meat help saving the environment? | [
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- Why are Americans destroying Christopher Columbus statues? | [
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Why are our ears so sensitive? | [
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if gravity is the warping of spacetime then why would gravitons be needed? | [
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does a baby smell like s mix of its parents or a new smell to an animal with a more sensitive ability to detect odor? | [
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How are individual elements identified ?.... given we cannot see the electronic configuration with a microscope. There can be a different elements with very similar properties and can be mistaken for thr other in a chemistry lab. | [
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How does the concept of Universal Basic Income work? | [
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How come that in WW2 the soviet union was able to produce so many tanks, but lacked guns to equip their soldiers with? | [
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why do we cringe when we look at old vids & pics of ourselves? | [
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Why the US imports oil from far away places when it is a net oil exporter? | [
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1x, 3G, 4G, 4G LTE; what do these designations mean and what do they do? | [
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Why is virginity something you “lose”, or else “take” from someone else? Where did this idea originate? | [
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Why the dollar sign comes in front of the amount? | [
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How is California simultaneously doing very well financially while also drowning in debt? | [
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Why do fruits have different colours? | [
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Why do rockets launch straight up into space instead of just taking off at an angle like airplanes do? | [
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Why are humans the only organism that need to wipe after shitting? | [
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Why is it accepted that some commodities can fluctuate in price daily, (like hotel rooms or gas), but others are expected to stay relatively stable (Windex, batteries, an iPhone)? | [
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Why does leaving something in the sun fade the color? | [
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Why does cooked food generally taste better than raw food? | [
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why do our phones charge faster when they have low battery? | [
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How are we bankrupting hedge funds by all buying the one stock? | [
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How did taxation work during medieval times when most of the population was illiterate? | [
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Why are earnings obtained actively through labor (wages) taxed at a significantly higher rate than earnings obtained passively through investments (capital gains)? | [
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why can people eat hot foods (temperature wise) and not burn themselves but if they drop the same food on their skin get burned? | [
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if cocaine and meth release dopamine, why do they feel good? | [
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How does your body know not to cross that line between replenishing bodily fluids (blood, spinal fluid, stomach acid, etc.) and exceeding capacity? | [
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How can a medication cause suicidal thoughts? | [
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How and why is the wasp's stinger area still actively moving despite the wasp already killed? | [
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difference between udp vs tcp ???? | [
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Why does pain take a few seconds to really hit? | [
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Why are the laws of physics impossible to break? | [
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On my auto loan I see this thing called “Disbursement Limit” What does that mean? | [
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