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How do photochromic (The ones that turn into sunglasses, when there's too much light) glasses work? | [
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Most people who die from hypothermia are found naked due to a burning sensation in the body, how does this work? | [
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How do significant figures in math work? | [
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Internal combustion engine was invented a couple centuries ago. Why haven't we come up with something better by now? | [
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Why is the average work week so much higher in the United States at 34.40 hours per week in comparison to other countries such as Germany where the average person works 26.37 hours per week? | [
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What's that rough, vibrating sound when you cough too hard? | [
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How did people thousands of years ago deal with food poisoning? | [
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How do trains work? Especially, how does the electricity flow between the power lines and the train, for example, while changing tracks? | [
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What is DLSS and how does it benefit gamers? | [
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Why are astronauts allowed to do water droplet tricks on the ISS? | [
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Why do your muscles randomly twitch sometimes and what causes it? | [
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How are animals able to drink water from puddles from the road, dirty ponds, etc. etc. But if we were to do it, we'd fall terribly sick? | [
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Why do you need a ";" at the end of each line of code? | [
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if the moon is out in the middle of the day, what does the opposite side of the world see? | [
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how we know what inside of the center of the earth if we never been there ? | [
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How is it that tattoos last a lifetime, when the body replaces most of its cells roughly every 10 years? Wouldn't the dying and creation of new cells remove the solidified ink over time? | [
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How do US federal reserves and economists in general actually figure out the rate of inflation, and the measures they need to take to prevent it? | [
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Why do humans need pillows and what would happen if we slept without them on a regular basis? Would this cause long term spinal problems? | [
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If an exoplanet like Kepler 442b, the most likely to be habitable exoplanet, has a mass 2.34x that of earth, would the gravity of the planet be 2.34x that of earth as well? Also, how would this affect humans if they were to travel there? | [
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Why do Common Core Math algorithms change and gain more steps and what is the motive behind it? | [
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How do commercial fishers know what they are going to catch? | [
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Why is it far easier to keep our eyes closed when we're tired? | [
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Who owns the US national debt? Can it be repaid? | [
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How does dubbed anime sync up with the camera angles so nicely? | [
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Why do things change color when they burn or get cooked? | [
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How does dna being data work? | [
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How do we know, wether a sound is made in front or behind us, even though we only have ears on the sides? | [
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How do internet searches work with non-Roman characters? | [
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What does the quote "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee" mean? | [
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NASA has a telescope that can see the creation of stars and planets billions of years ago, how? Link is in description | [
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Why people who can speak more than one language sometimes forget words or expressions in their mother tongue? | [
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Why are birth control methods only 99% effective at most? | [
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Why is Gödel’s incompleteness theorem so important ? | [
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Why isn't water vapor considered worse than carbon in climate issues? | [
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Why does cable cost money when advertisements are broadcasted through each program, while other services are free to use because they utilize advertisements? | [
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How does fog form and what makes some areas of fog more dense and harder to see in? | [
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why does paper turn yellow and brittle as it ages? | [
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Oil dripping from a Bible or Painting? | [
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How do kids think things that are beyond their vocabulary? | [
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What stars would we see during the day if we were able to see through the "light pollution" of the sun? | [
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Why should you not put frozen meat in your slow-cooker? | [
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What is the difference between buying residential heating oil at a fixed, variable or capped price? | [
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why does water transform from liquid to solid at a specific temperature? | [
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Why do so many business facing companies still force customers to talk to a salesman to get any pricing information or to place an order, when in many cases a website with online ordering would save customers and the company time and money? | [
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If you had a funnel that led to 5 different containers, and every time you dropped a ball in the funnel it was truly random where the ball went, would the spread be approximately even after many trials? | [
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Why do doctors only accept certain insurance? Aren't they still getting paid from every insurance company? | [
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How does the SAR sensor work in smartphones? | [
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Why do lower-income folk work multiple jobs to support themselves rather than work more hours at a single job? | [
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What is physically making the sound that comes out of a speaker? | [
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So I know that for water to boil the vapor pressure has to be equal to atmospheric pressure. Does this mean that as the pressure increases, a substance becomes more gaseous? Then why is CO2 liquid at high pressures? | [
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How does the mlb regulate the dimension of a park when its being built? | [
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Why is solipsism a flawed idea? | [
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Why can't we recycle the stuff that's sent to landfill? | [
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How do snails get their shells? | [
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How do we know exact time? Do we all copy one clock and if so, how do we know it is correct? | [
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Benfords law? Like seriously, wtf?? How come everything adheres to it? How is it built into the fabric of our universe? What is the logic behind it? | [
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If Spacetime is a "fabric" how are objects in space on a different plane? | [
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Why do compressed air cans get really cold when you use them? | [
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Do animals naturally sleep more in winter months than summer months due to changes in daylight time? | [
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Why can't the sperm of other species fertilize human eggs? | [
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What does it mean to argue in bad faith? | [
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Why does a good pair of headphones/earphones make it feel like the sound is coming from inside the middle of your head? | [
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How are amputees able to control the fingers in their bionic arm ? | [
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Moore's Law - Does computing power really double every 18 months? Will this ever plateau out? | [
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What muscles are the least used and why do humans still have them? | [
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Do physicists or mathematicians actually remember hundreds of equations? | [
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How do stock dividends work? | [
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How did John Rockefeller monopolize the oil industry? | [
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Why does gum get hard after being chewed for a long period of time? | [
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How does the DNA of an insect that uses camoflage, know what the camo is supposed to look like? | [
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Why do millennials say that they can't retire? | [
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Is there a scientific reason why many young girls like like pink more than any other colour? | [
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How is a professional sports player bought from a different team? Is the multi million dollar value what the player gets, or is it what another team would pay a club to get that player? | [
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Why do some plastics discolor and turn white when they are stressed/bent? | [
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NASCAR, why do 2 cars in tandem travel faster? | [
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what happens when a show is abruptly cancelled such the case like Roseanne's show do the investor lose money, does the network just eat the cost, is roseanne liable for any future profit? So many questions agh | [
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What lung disease has been linked to vaping and is it serious? | [
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Why do onions irritate your eyes? | [
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How does the birthday paradox work? | [
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Why is it so difficult to run a real-time render on a computer but we have 3D video games run in real-time with ease? | [
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What's the difference between a Neoliberal and a Leftist? | [
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how can sata drives contain tbs of data, but a CD can only hold a little less than 5 gb? | [
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Why do we have dominant sides? | [
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if the Grand Canyon was created by water erosion from the Colorado river, then how come there isn't grand Grand Canyons around all or most major rivers? | [
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How does spreadable butter work? Like what makes it spreadable? | [
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Why is there historically so much people in what is now China and India? | [
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why are the 4 inner planets in the solar system are so much smaller than the 4 outer planets? | [
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how are the ears related to balance? | [
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How does dental UV lights work on fillings? What makes it cures so fast? | [
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Why would a college give a student a full ride? What's the incentive! | [
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why do people see double when they are drunk? | [
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If batteries work off chemical reactions and people might put batteries in a fridge to slow down that reacion and make them last longer, how come a car battery might drain because of the cold in winter? | [
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Why do studies like Physics and Chemistry prefer significant figures over higher decimal accuracy? | [
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How do countries check the licence plates of foreign vehicles? | [
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How can dust float in the air? Surely the dust particles are heavier than air, so they should sink. | [
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0% matter and does it exist? | [
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Why is it children’s shampoo is “tear free” while regular shampoo burns like all hell in the eyes? | [
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How does 3D modeling work in video games? | [
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Why does turning airplane mode on and then off sometime fix my internet issues for a very short period? | [
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How is the temperature below absolute zero possible? | [
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