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How do food scientists/Nutritionists/Dieticians determine how many calories are in a certain food or food product? | [
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how does the laser thermometer measure how hot/cold something is, by just shining on it with a few rays of laserlight? | [
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If an electronic device or machine is hit by an EMP powerful enough to knock it out, what will you have to do to get it running again? | [
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What determines what color a scar will be? | [
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How does the government actually take in and spend money? | [
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Why are 3D glasses red/blue and not complementary colors like red/green or orange/blue? | [
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Why is it that a wet tissue or piece of cardboard or paper tear more easily? How does water affect the structural integrity of paper products? | [
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How did people reset their clocks when the power went out, 50 years ago? | [
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what actually happens when a molecule activates a receptor vs when an inhibitor molecule just blocks it? | [
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why do experts say to grab vertical ropes when climbing nets? | [
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Why is it that when someone suffers from amnesia, they forget specific things or completely who they are but not how to act as a human and complete basic tasks like eating and talking? | [
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Why do bananas remain sweet and get creamy when they freeze while other fruits seize up into flavorless ice orbs? | [
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Why does pills (eg. painkillers) have an expiration date? Aren’t they usable after that date? | [
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Many insects appear to move extremely fast relative to their size (like ants, moths, flies, etc). If I could somehow magically enlarge an ant to, say, human size - would its speed and agility increase proportionally as well? | [
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What makes a liquid thick? | [
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Why does a beer overlow when someone hits the top of a beer with the bottom of theirs? | [
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In regards to alcohol, what does proof and percent by volume really mean? Is one more important than the other? | [
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how/why do pot holes randomly form in the middle of straight flat roads where weight from vechiles would be evenly distributed? | [
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If light can't escape black holes, where does it go? Do chemical reactions still happen on/inside them? Can heat escape? | [
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How/why is 'Jewish' a religion AND a race? | [
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Why do companies/government always consider interest whenever they are lending you money but when an individual is "lending" to them no interest is ever accounted for? | [
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How does a calculator work? | [
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Why do helicopters crash so much more often than other aircraft? | [
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Why does the moon in the SpaceX spaceman video appear smaller than the moon appears from earth? | [
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Why are places like the Caspian and Dead seas considered seas, but all the Great Lakes are lakes? What about the Great Salt Lake? | [
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How does Supply and Demand work together in Economics? | [
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Can someone explain confidence interval in simple words? Also, what is the difference between confidence level and confidence interval? | [
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What exactly is shame? How do one experience it? | [
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How did scientists measure the age of the universe if spacetime is relative? | [
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Why do certain calculators add - presumably wrong - decimal places to the end of the result of a Subtraction? | [
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How did they figure out Mount Everest was the tallest mountain on the planet? | [
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If I'm holding a stick that is light years long but has weight of just a gram. If I move my hand slighty, would the end of the stick also move at the same time? | [
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How do scientists determine historical CO2 levels? | [
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What determines the range of Bluetooth devices? | [
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why do soaps foam more on the second/subsequent applications? For example, when people "lather, rinse, repeat"? | [
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what is the connection between inflation and interest rates? | [
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Why do muscles knot and tense up if you don’t stretch? | [
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Why is fruit/vegetables so cheap despite the time and resources needed to produce them? | [
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how do television shows make money? Aside from commercials is it based on how many people view the program and how does that translate to dollars? | [
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How do radio staions find out ratings? | [
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How does telephones actually work? How can someone in other part of the world hear my voice or sounds through the telephone with almost no delay? | [
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You can walk all day in the same socks and they’re fine, but the moment you take them off and want to put them on again they’re wet and filthy. Why is that? | [
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What happens if you're caught with fake bills? | [
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Why does the US hoard gold (ie Fort Knox) if our money isn't based on the gold standard? | [
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How are nutritional values in food measured and calculated? | [
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Is consumption actually the "engine" of economic growth? | [
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Why is the UK going through a period of austerity with a debt to GDP ratio of 89% while the United States is consistently spending more with a debt to GDP ratio of over 100%? | [
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Why, when peel hard boiled eggs, do some give up a layer of white but others allow a 'clean' shell-only peel? | [
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What is the difference between luminescence and fluorescence? | [
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What is the difference between (executive) producers, directors and studios? | [
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Why are the movement of people in spacemovies so slow, if there is no resistance? (Example: When they climb up stairs) | [
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How does electricity "know" the path of least resistance? | [
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Due to the recent drama of hurricane Harvey I thought this, what happens if you’re under house arrest during this hurricane? Do they let you evacuate or do you have to stay at home? | [
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I recently learned about Graham's Number, which completely blew my mind. Then I looked up some other large numbers, and came across TREE(3). After reading some stuff about it, I still have no clue as to what it is. Can anyone explain this concept with general language terms? | [
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How do obvious scams like "you won a free trip to the Bahamas" make money. With as cliché they are, who would actually fall for it? | [
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why do the numbers on digital clocks "jiggle" if I look at them while chewing or walking, and it doesnt happen when looking at text on a screen like a computer or phone? | [
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Why does honey never go rotten? | [
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Why do certain fuels, such as jet fuel used in commercial airliners, only burn when atomized? | [
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How come the body doesn’t see the ink from a tattoo as a foreign object and try to attack/get rid of it? | [
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What's the difference between types of glue like Wood, fabric and Craft? Also if you are gluing wood to fabric or vise versa, which would you use? | [
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How is it possible that space is infinite? | [
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Does ice ever go off? | [
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How do video game display mechanics work? | [
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What causes people to have a dominant hand? Is it more of a hand thing, a brain thing, or something else? | [
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why do people put their hand in front of their mouth when something horrible happens? | [
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Why are headaches and toothaches much less tolerable other kinds of body pain? | [
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who discovered the act of smoking? And why is it that only a handful of plants can be smoked? | [
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why is it that sometimes when you touch something really cold it feels hot at first and takes a few seconds to register that its cold? | [
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Why are guns with long barrels like rifles more accurate at long range than handguns? | [
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If i was traveling towards a star at a really high speed, would i see it's history unfold before my eyes? | [
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Lighting Strikes! What happens with air resistance during a lightning strike, and how low does it get? | [
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How does getting a tattoo affect your blood sugar? | [
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What is so difficult about making nuclear weapons? | [
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Why is 0 an even number? | [
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why do people with Down Syndrome tend to have similar face structures? | [
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Why does a baseball traveling towards you fly farther when hit than a stationary one? | [
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What is Kik? and Why do people use it over texting? | [
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How do solid state drives (SSD) store and retrieve data? | [
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what actual medical reasons would prohibit people from wearing medical face masks? | [
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What is the difference between program and a script? | [
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How does the ohms resistance in coaxial cable effect the data flow? | [
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- how does one prepare for a tornado? | [
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By default our voice is meant to be clear, but how do some voice actors make their voice become raspy or coarse on the fly? | [
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Why do cringing memories from the distant past remain so persistent? Do we know what triggers them instead of other memories? | [
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What regulates air traffic over long distances? What's to keep two planes flying over the Atlantic from crashing midflight? | [
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odd time signatures: what are they, how they work? | [
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How did people begin to disprove the geocentric model? | [
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What exactly is hyperinflation and what are the causes of hyperinflation? | [
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How far up into space must one go before a compass stops working, and what do they use at that point for navigation? | [
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why after a thunderstorm does the air not feel as stuffy and has ‘cleared the air’ so to speak? | [
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Why is it bad to maintain a 3 hr/night sleep schedule like Gordon Ramsay? | [
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In music videos, how does the video play in slowmotion, but the artists still move their instruments and mouth in time to the music? | [
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How can the sun shrink objects left in the car? | [
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Why does liquid sometimes run down the side of containers that are being poured? | [
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How do hundreds of users access files on one server simultaneously without the server crashing? | [
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When pouring a liquid, what determines if it pours out nicely or dribbles down the side of the original container? | [
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What exactly is Freemasonry? What do Freemasons do? | [
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Why is there no "Metric vs Imperial" equivalent with how the world measures time? | [
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Non-Euclidean Geometry. What exactly does it mean? | [
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Why does it cost less to order food from a food delivery app / company then directly from the restaurant? | [
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