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If water turns to gas at boiling point(212 F/100 C), why does a spill on the ground inside your room temperature(68 F/18 C) home evaporate? | [
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How should I interpret statistics like "The people of X country live on less then X U.S. dollars a day."? | [
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How do countries do trade with different currencies? | [
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Why does it seem easier picking up a person than a weight that weighs the same as them? | [
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Why does 0.5 round to the nearest integer above, and not below? | [
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Does the government of a country gain any money from just someone buying a plane ticket to the country? | [
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why does 60 degree water feel freezing compared to 60 degree air? | [
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What caused hyperinflation in Venezuela? What motivates its leader to create new currency? | [
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How is my Macbook Air able to play videos at 1080p up to 4K, with a screen resolution of 1440x900? | [
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Why is it that when we start getting weight, the most common place for fat to be laid down is the belly? | [
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How can apps like Google Maps or Waze be so consistently accurate with their predictions for ETA? | [
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what is the psychological motivation for advertisements for games that depict a person failing at them? | [
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What happens if the U.S. withdraws from NAFTA? | [
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How does stealth technology still work for aircraft? | [
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Nutrition Information Labels- how are the calories, fat, vitamins, etc measured/ figured out for a given food item? | [
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Why is HD referred to as 1080P, which is it's vertical resolution (1920x1080), while UHD is referred to as 4K, which is its horizontal resolution (3840 x 2160)? | [
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Bonds broken require energy and bonds formed release energy. Why does ATP release energy when it is broken down into ADP? | [
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How does your mind choses random numbers when someone asks you to do it? | [
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Why does the picture of high frequency TV's look like a soap opera? | [
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How does a stock's price get calculated from day to day in response to supply/demand? | [
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How does my body know to blink and stop something from hitting my eye that I couldn’t even see? | [
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Why do we consider sqrt(-1) to be imaginary but not abs(x) = -1? Is it a different kind of imaginary number or is it not? | [
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Firefox 79 making links more secure, how does that work? | [
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How do Artificial Neural Networks work? | [
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why does bread soaked in water taste so bad? | [
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Why does cold air smell fresher than regular/hot temperature air? | [
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. What is the psychological reason people are terrified of rodents or other small animals/insects that will not harm them? | [
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What is an electrical ground, and why do electronics need them? | [
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how come when something is spinning, you start to see it spin backwards before you are unable to keep up? | [
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How do charging pads for phones, or that new Samsung that can charge from another phone, work? | [
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Why is it that whenever juice solidifies into ice and melts back into juice the "fruity flavor" becomes more watery? | [
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how did the sun get created? | [
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What is terrorism? What are the boundaries of terrorism, and how is it classified? | [
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How do we find the area of a country? | [
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What limits digital transmission speed in a usb port for example? | [
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How do we know the centre core of the earth is hot, filled with lava? Wouldn't it make more sense that things get colder the deeper towards the centre you go? | [
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How do firefighters find the object that started the fire if everything burns up in the fire? | [
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How I'm productive at the library as opposed to being lazy and drowsy at home? | [
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What is a shell, and orbital, and a suborbital in an atom? | [
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How does automatic Hover Mode in Helicopters detect wether you are flying or standing still relative to the ground beneath you? | [
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If electricity from natural gas power plants cant be stored, how do they know how much electricity to produce per day and where does the wasted electricity go to? | [
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How are primary colors made, if you can't technically create them with other colors? | [
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why do most lotions contain alcohol when alcohol is very drying for skin? | [
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If temperature is related to average kinetic energy or speed of the particles, why is fast flowing water not hot? | [
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What would be the effect of having one computer connected via LAN and the rest of the computers connected via WiFi? | [
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Why are American stocks rising when unemployment rates are exploding? | [
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When is a plant dead? | [
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How do calculators find square roots? | [
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Why is it so hard to make a current-gen console emulator? | [
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what is that random high pitch ringing in your ears and why does it happen? | [
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If oxygen and carbon dioxide are non-polar molecules, how can they dissolve in water? | [
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Do animals in a social setting with their peers feel embarrassment? | [
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can chocolate exist as a gas? | [
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What is the psychology behind Pareidolia? | [
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What makes certain soap better? | [
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Why does meat get tougher after cooking, but tender after cooking for a very long time (or under pressure)? | [
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How is it possible to film light passing and bouncing of a mirror? | [
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How do storms continually drop rain? Why does it not all drop at once, and how can storms keep a steady stream up? | [
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how audiobooks are similar/different to traditional reading when it comes to the benefits to the brain? | [
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how do the fed rate hikes impact mortgage rates? And how in turn will that impact the housing market? | [
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how can laptops fit over 1tb of storage and 16gb of ram in a tiny chill while PCs need massive ram sticks and often large SSDs? Why isn’t PC ram as small? | [
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Why are radians the unit of choice for angles? | [
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How are compounds made? Does chlorine and sodium just touch and make NaCl? What about H2O? | [
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How exactly does sleep replenish our energy and how is it different/better than things such as coffee and energy drinks? Why do we need 8 hours of it? | [
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Why is the CIA considered so powerful? Why are there internet(?) rumors that the CIA kills people? Are there basis for these things? | [
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What are the advantages of buying debts? What does it mean? | [
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Why does taking a band aid off quickly hurt less than taking it off slowly? | [
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What’s the difference between .com .net and .org? | [
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What Happens where Predators eat body parts of animals that contain large dose of Venom, like the head of a Snake or the tail of a Scorpion? | [
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Why is a cashless society a bad thing? | [
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Why do stocks exist, who created the concept, it just seems like an extra feature for a company with no benefit to them? | [
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A vast majority of cords and cables are black. Why? | [
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How does the eye-sight-measuring machine at the glasses shop actually give you the exact number of your eyesight? | [
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How does file compression work? | [
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Why is it so hard to develop a cure/treatment for prions? | [
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If I fell into an ocean of table-tennis balls, could I swim back to the surface? | [
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I often hear about new planets being discovered with water beneath the surface, but rarely about planets with large oceans. Is subterranean water easier to detect or more likely to occur, and why? | [
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How were maths formulae like Pythagoras and area of a circle discovered millenia ago - way before people had access to pens, papers, rulers, calculators, computers, a standard maths education etc? | [
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How are we certain that the laws of physics are true for the WHOLE universe and not just our Earth/solar-system? | [
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If 70-75% of all stock trades are executed by lightning-fast, software-driven, algorithm-based High-Frequency Trading (HFT), what advantage is there to the remaining 25-30% of trades occurring at traditional human timescales (especially those occurring on trade floors)? | [
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Why wouldn't you want a car with a rebuilt title? | [
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Where does the wax go when we burn a candle ? | [
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If the Earth orbits the habitable zone, how come the moon doesn't look like the earth does? | [
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How TV Shows like 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' and the creator Rob McElhenney went from nothing into lots of money? | [
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What makes the iPhone more secure than other phones and how do people still hack it? | [
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How exactly does the math of RSA encryption work? | [
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What is equity and how does it work? | [
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Why is ‘the talk’ referred to as ‘the birds and the bees’? The flowers and the bees would be a better analogy imo. | [
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How are film reels copied onto other reels (as with movies)? | [
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How Did Humanity First Make Bronze? | [
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Why aren't we using IBM's Watson to help people suffering from Dementia? | [
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How are paintings or museum art classified as masterpieces? Some look like paint scratches and yet they are classics. Why is that? | [
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How come studios can't make movies with IP they don't hold the rights to, but shows like Robot Chicken can have any characters they want show up? | [
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How do antidepressants differ from one another? For example, Latuda and Ability both treat bipolar disorder, what is the difference and why choose one over the other? | [
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How does thread count work and what makes higher numbers better? | [
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Are there less clouds at night? If yes, why? | [
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Why is it called "cream of tartar" when it very obviously isn't creamy? | [
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() Why do non-arthritic joints in your hand become stiff when exposed to cold weather? | [
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Why do we say "Antisemitism" and "Islamophobia", but not "semiteophobia" or "anti islam"? | [
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People say that big corporations don't pay their fair share in taxes by using loopholes. What exactly are these tax loopholes? | [
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