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Why is it so hard to hear lyrics right? | [
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Why is graphene so much more resistant and everything better than graphite if graphite looks like a bunch of graphene stacked? Also, never thought about it until I searched for the structures, where are the 4 carbon bonds on both graphene and graphite structures? | [
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How come I'm still dehydrated eventhough I drink a lot of soda, coffee and tea which contains water? | [
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What does 100% air humidity mean? | [
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How can CEOs of large corporations run them into financial ruin, but get super-wealthy in the process? Why are they not paid based on company performance? | [
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Why do burns hurt so bad when the injury is not actually that severe, and why does only slightly cooling it provide such immediate and complete relief of the pain? | [
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what is ego death and how does it actually feel? | [
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Why does a laser pointer not work with a power point display? | [
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How do geodes form beautiful crystals on the inside, while still being boring on the outside? How do you spot one? | [
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Is there perfect amount of mold on blue cheese, or any amount is fine? Is it possible for it to grow too much mold, to point where it is spoiled, or is drying too much only way for it to spoil? | [
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Where does influenza come from and why does it come every year? | [
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How did the Antikythera machine actually work? | [
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Why are submarines so hard to track with modern technology? | [
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How is an i7 processor faster than an i3 if the clock speed is almost the same? | [
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Why do people riot when Milo Yiannopoulos shows up to speak? | [
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why are there so many different currencies? | [
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How do wind instruments work? | [
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Why do two thinner coats of paint typically last longer than one thick coat? | [
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Why do some countries use the USD despite them not being connected to the US? Ex. El Salvador | [
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How does a 1920x1080 resolution screen display media in lower resolutions, such as 1600x900, when the ratio between resolutions isn't a whole number? | [
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With Doctors and nurses being in such important positions, why are their shifts so long? | [
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How are companies like Uber and AirBnB among the most valuable private tech companies if they don't own much in the way of property (cars, houses, etc)? | [
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What causes our perception of time to change when we’re actively doing something compared to when we’re not doing anything? | [
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If any distance can be halved, at what point do you stop touching something? | [
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How exactly does currency “move” between banks, individuals, companies, etc. when processed electronically and without the use of any actual physical currency (cash)? | [
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How can nuclear fussion and nuclear fission both produce energy? | [
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What part of your Appendix bursting is actually dangerous to humans? | [
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Can't you simply guess a PaySafeCard pin since it only contains numbers? | [
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How can Google display and monetize things like article snippets and images under copyright? | [
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Why haven't Saturn's rings coalesced into much larger moons? | [
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If University of California gets 13% of revenue from student fees, but spends 14% on financial aid, why can't tuition just be cut to zero? | [
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why countries with weak currency don't remove multiple zeroes off their money to make it worth more? | [
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if you're standing on the back of a truck headed North at 100 mph, and you throw a baseball South at 100 mph, would the baseball appear to fall straight down to someone watching from the side of the road? | [
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Why most of round trip tickets are cheaper than one way? | [
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Why do colors disappear when you zoom in with a microscope? | [
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Why does soap smell good but taste bad? | [
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Why do very light objects take a great deal of force to throw, like very heavy objects? | [
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Why does in private browsing let you view more articles on a website that restricts you to a certain amount of free articles per month when you've gone past the limit of free articles? | [
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How sports are able to keep such high viewership without any change while esports games need to change constantly to stay relevant? | [
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What are the root causes of anxiety disorders? | [
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Can anyone explain to me the chain rule? I'm kinda doing some self study ryt now, and i'm having a hard time with it. I think i already have a good background with the basic rules, but i am confused when some problems contains mix rules: < < | [
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Why, when you start laughing, every other joke, as silly as it may seems in a normal context, seems absolutely hilarious? | [
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- Why are there unsolved mathematical equations? Who wrote them and how do they know if they are solvable or not? | [
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Before phones were popularized, how were the police informed of a crime taking place? | [
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Why do streaming providers supply different content to different countries? Can't they just provide the same content to everyone? | [
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What's the difference between white and brown sugar, and why does more brown sugar make cookies so much softer? | [
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Why are metals attracted to magnets? | [
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How do speakers perfectly recreate the specific timbre of different sounds, like human voices and instruments? | [
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Why do nosebleeds happen out of nowhere? | [
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How do powerline adapters work? What is the connection between powerlines and networks? | [
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What is the difference between different soaps? | [
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How do rotation matrices work in computer graphics? | [
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if I place both waters into a bucket from where the two oceans meet but don’t mix, why do they mix just fine in the bucket? | [
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Why is the production of iron atoms a sign that a star is dying? | [
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Why is there demand for stocks that don't come with dividends? | [
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Why/how do our eyes "lose focus" and get blurry? What's happening? | [
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How do stocks go up or down? | [
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How does the International Space Station(The ISS) gets their Oxygen supply? Does it gets refilled on a regular basis? How does it gets refilled and what is the capacity of their Oxygen tank? | [
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How do stock prices and currency values go up and down? | [
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How does dynamite work, and does it work differently than a hand grenade? | [
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how do non-narcotic painkillers (acetaminophen, ibuprofen, etc.) work? | [
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If humans manufacture currency, why can't we manufacture more money and hand it out to the less fortunate /lower class? | [
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You know how bees have to have a Queen - is the Queen bee born a queen, or when the queen dies does another bee transform into a queen? If so how does the hive decide who gets to be the queen bee? | [
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How does surface tension work? | [
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Why are some people content living vicariously through others, while some people just get mad and jealous? | [
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What happens to the weight that you loose when on a diet? | [
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What would a person without colour blindness see if they wore a pair of colour blindness correction glasses? | [
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How does increasing the heat in the car help against fogged up windows? | [
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How do turtles and other Oviparous animals breath inside their eggs? | [
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A fat molecule is made of a bucket of C's, H's, and O's, whereas a water molecule is just one O and two H's. If a fat molecule is so much more massive than a water molecule, how come oil still floats on top of water? | [
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How is the lethality of a substance determined in an ethical way? | [
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what determines wether a flame is yellow or blue? | [
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Why do some foods taste better cold and some hot? Is it strictly cultural, or are certain tastes more apt to be pleasurable at a certain temperature biologically? | [
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So 99% of atoms are empty space, what would it take to squeeze through them? | [
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Why do objects in cartoons that move/will move appear brighter/more vibrant than objects that are stagnant in that scene? | [
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If humans all originated from one place, how did various races end up developing different physical traits? | [
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Why do money market accounts generate more interest than a regular savings account? | [
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What causes clothes to stink when they have taken long to dry? | [
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if produce has a use by date of 2 weeks time and is immediately frozen, when defrosted will it have 2 weeks from that point? | [
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What happens neurologically when dominant hand is switched? | [
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Why do the instructions on pasta call for you to measure out water? | [
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How does the Cosine Law work? | [
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With the human population constantly growing and the need for more money, how much and who decides the amount of money made per year in a country? | [
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Why does refinancing a home loan involve closing fees? | [
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Why is it so easy for a spark from a flint or other source to light a gas such as propane or butane, but the hot from a cigarette won’t do it or struggles to? | [
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How does white hat hacking work? | [
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Why do we always want the things we can't have? And sometimes stop wanting them the second we can have them? | [
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Why does the sound of poured water gets higher and higher as you keep pouring? | [
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How do websites like Honey make money by finding discounts? | [
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How come whenever the banks have network challenges it never affects their deposit-taking activities even though other major activities such as withdrawal may not work? | [
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Is there a maximum amount of pain you can feel? | [
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What's in it for people who upload torrents and pirate movies? Why do they take to risk when there's no reward? | [
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The human body is able to heal itself when it has a cold or a broken bone. Does that also work with mental illness like a depression? | [
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Why is there so much focus on saving the middle class? | [
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Why do companies not purchase debt at debt collector prices and forgive it like Stephen Colbert did every year to massively reduce their tax liabilities? | [
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How do researchers in the humanities analyze the responses from Likert scale questionnaires? | [
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what is a magnetic monopole? | [
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How does the fluid in you inner ear balance you? What happens if you go in space and there's no gravity for it? | [
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if US is trillions in debt, who are they in debt to and what are the assets? | [
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why are some programming languages faster than others? | [
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