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Why does the milk poured into coffee or tea not spoil if left out/not consumed over many hours, while a glass of milk or cream left out would go bad? | [
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What is GDP? What does it mean if a country has high or low GDP? | [
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How do ants know to bite? | [
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How does a vinyl record store audio?? | [
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How does "Hidden City" travel cost airlines? | [
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How can one tell if they have absolute pitch vs. relative pitch? | [
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How do hatmakers turn cotton fabric into a semi-rigid, leather-like hat? | [
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What the hell are all these schools and states sueing Juul for? | [
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How do dryer sheets remove wrinkles and/or reduce static if it's just the small sheet? Wouldn't it not be touching all the clothes in the load? | [
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Why does metal get colder than plastic? | [
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why does it sting a lot when you initially get water on a wound (like a small cut), but it say after a while of running water on it, it doesn't hurt that much? | [
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How do social media “bots” work? Are they like programmed trolls? How do their accounts/comments seem as if they could be a real person’s? | [
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Why do house plants require so much maintenance and still die easily, where as their wild/outdoor family with no maintenance survives for decades? | [
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Why does our ear(s) randomly ring for a short period of time and slowly recede? | [
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What causes people to believe a celebrity they've never met loves them? | [
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How does the NSA make any sense of the huge amounts of data in collects? | [
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Why is it much more difficult to take a tight-fitting ring off your finger than to put it on? | [
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Why is “Short Stop” seen as a superior position in baseball? How does it take more skills? | [
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Why can't a browser just stop and resume downloads later, like a torrent can? | [
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How did physicists figure out the structure of an atom at a time when it was impossible to observe them? | [
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If the winter solstice is the longest night of the year, why does it mark the beginning of winter, rather than the very middle of it? | [
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Why do we prefere to listen to sad songs when we are sad? | [
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MSG+ alcohol = roofie spiked drink?? | [
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do planes actually have to request 'permission' to land at airports even when they have flight plans? | [
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Why does the Salt in McDonald's Salt Packets Taste Different from the Salt They're Prepared with? | [
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How does the brain repress memories and not let people remember entire parts of their lives? | [
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Why do unresponsive network operations freeze your computer? | [
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How can "power naps"(10-30m) be more effective than longer naps? (1-3h) | [
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Why was Nazi Germany so fixated on Heavily armoured tanks rather than improving their anti-tank shells and technology to combat the Soviet KV tanks? | [
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- Why does checking your credit score damage your credit score? | [
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How can a black holes singularity be infinity small, but still have mass? | [
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Why can't we take hormones or vitamins from someone's blood/body and give it to someone else? | [
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How can encryption methods be open source? | [
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Why do we have to pay to freeze our credit? | [
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Why do we skip a number when two (or more) things are tied for the same rank? | [
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Why does "trickle-down" economic philosophy not work? | [
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why do laptop and PC manufacturers install all of this useless software that slows the computer down so much? | [
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why does plastic degradation take so long? | [
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If we were shrunk down to the size of a bug, would dropping something like a feather be loud? Would we also have the same durability as a big if we were dropped from a relatively extreme height? | [
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how does quenching steel work? | [
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How does a cruise missile know where to go? | [
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how do bank accounts gain interest? Do all banks do that? | [
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Why is there no road connecting North and South America? | [
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Is image quality capped by the resolution of a screen? | [
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Why do cars look like they are going faster the closer they get to you? | [
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Why do certain people have sexual fetishes? | [
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In layman's terms, what does P=NP mean? | [
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Why all the companies are now investing in the United States; for example, Fiat? | [
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What does having an extra exhaust pipe (2 in total) do for a car’s performance? | [
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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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In baseball, why do managers and coaches meet with pitchers but not batters? | [
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why do our muscles get sore when we get sick? | [
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what is happening from a cardiovascular perspective when you get in shape? | [
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Why doesn’t light, TV, etc. flicker or get switched off and on if AC current is used for domestic purposes? | [
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Why when someone's not listening to a conversation and their name is used, they can usually remember the two or three words that came before? | [
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how does the moon affect low and hightide of the ocean which is pretty heavy but does not cause other things which are lighter to start floating? | [
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How come mostly every animal in the animal kingdom as soon as its born it can walk and almost take care of itself but human babies have to be taken care of for years? | [
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How do the currency exchange store gain profit? | [
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If the internet is primarily dependent on cables that run through oceans connecting different countries and continents. During a war, anyone can cut off a country's access to the internet. Are there any backup or mitigant in place to avoid this? What happens if you cut the cable? | [
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What's the difference between countable and uncountable infinity? | [
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Why does blue light from a phone trick my brain into thinking it's daylight, but blue lighting in a movie or play makes it look like night time? | [
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Are gas giant planets gassy? As in could I land on a gas giant and like poke my finger through? | [
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Derivatives. The U.S.A has 687 trillion dollars of "currency and credit derivatives." What exactly does this mean? | [
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How do we remember things and forget things? | [
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If digital money can be hidden (like in offshore accounts), how do we know it can't be digitally counterfeited? | [
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When FaceTiming someone on speaker, how do they not hear themeself through the microphone from the other person? | [
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Why do a few gases start boiling at sub zero temperatures and then freeze at a much lower temperature? | [
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How do epsilon delta proofs work in math? | [
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What is derivative in math? What are they used for in real life applications? | [
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if I’m already sick, can my own germs make me more sick? | [
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How do blood oximeters calculate one’s blood oxygen level by just being placed on a finger for the pulse? | [
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How does a player piano work? | [
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Why do some app’s features change depending on the device it’s used on? | [
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How are mathematicians and astronomers able to predict solar and lunar eclipses thousands of years in advance? | [
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Why do some bands re-record songs for music videos when they already have a album version? | [
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Why do red clothes appear gray / black underneath red lights? | [
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How does facial identification work on I phones? I shaved my head and started to wear glasses.. | [
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Why do some medications recommend that you take them along with or after a meal? Are there any side effects to not eating while taking them? | [
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How does Tourette Syndrome cause such specific tics? | [
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What's actually happening in your head when you have a headache? | [
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Why is it that from whatever angle you look at the eyes of someone/something in a picture they're always looking back at you? | [
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Why does buying power seemingly not correlate with how people feel about the economy? | [
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When light is reflected, how doesn't its velocity ever 0? | [
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How do predators like lions and tigers become pets for humans? How come they don't just kill the humans? | [
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Is it better physically and emotionally to lash out in anger or to hold anger in? | [
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what happens during a detonation of a nuclear bomb and how is the mushroom head formed? | [
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How are animation movies (Pixar, etc.) made? | [
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Why haven't Saturn's rings coalesced into much larger moons? | [
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How are people able to walk again after being paralyzed? | [
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Why shaking my head left and right , remove or lower feeling of dizziness ? | [
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How do erasable pens work? And why is the ink usually lighter than conventional ball and gel pens? | [
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Why is it that nail polish stays liquid in the bottle, but dries in minutes after it’s applied to the nail? | [
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Before there were search engines like Google, how did we request files from the world wide web? | [
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Why do rollercoasters/fast rides make people vomit? | [
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Why are plastics straws so bad for turtles and not all plastic in general? What's special about straws? | [
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How does a computer understand code? | [
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How is a bank "too big to fail"? | [
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How do we all have unique eyebrow and eyelash mites? | [
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Why does your hand get hot if you stick it in a tub of powdered laundry detergent? | [
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What is the difference between sound waves of the same pitch, but with a different timbre (sound quality)? e.g. Piano vs. Guitar | [
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