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How could a propane tank ignite the gas without using the starter? | [
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- what is our brain doing when we “paint a picture in our head”..? | [
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How exactly does drafting in automobile sports such as Formula 1 work ? | [
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How Does Flight Pricing and Fluctuations Work? | [
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What caused the water to disappear (and in what manner will it return) from the Bahamas coast? | [
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is it possible for astronauts to carry plants (and everything needed to tend to them) on a shuttle into space for more oxygen? | [
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Why do most current-gen games on consoles require you to wait until it's fully installed, while last-gen games could be played immediately? | [
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What is creatine monohydrate and what does it do to the body? | [
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why do we have 4k monitors and 144 Hz monitors, but not 4k 144 Hz monitors? | [
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What decides the flavor/taste of things? | [
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Why does rabies virus cause photophobia in people but in raccoons it makes them come out during the day? | [
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How does the news get shots of reporters in hurricanes? | [
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How does the Nike Vaporfly make runners faster? | [
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Could a person with more body fat actually live longer without food than a person with less body fat? | [
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Why do pregnant women crave certain foods? | [
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why are there so many political figures tied to Russia? | [
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How do gas planets have any kind of objects orbiting them and/or gravity when they are just a big ball of gas, no rocks and stuff? | [
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if an unconscious person is operated upon by a hospital, is there an enforceable contract between them, even in the absence of an express agreement? Specifically, what kind of a legal obligation is that patent under, if not a contractual one? | [
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How is Wi-Fi "shared" to multiple devices? | [
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What does the little ball inside a whistle do? | [
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The US National debt is reaching $30 Trillion. Why does this matter and how can it hurt us? | [
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how does nausea work? Does the level or degree to which you feel nauseous have anything to do with surface area of your stomach? Or what mechanism determines how nauseous you feel in a given situation? | [
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Why does campfire smoke "follow people around?" | [
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Converting decimal to binary in octets? | [
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If a certain result has a 1/x chance to occur per action, on average which iteration will it first occur on? | [
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Is there less Oxygen in the air in Winter? | [
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Why do almost all countries still have speed limits on highways, even though Germany has no speed limit and has a low crash rate? | [
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Why do men have more blood than women of a similar size? | [
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How or Why do Mushrooms grow on Rocks, even if Rocks aren't even composed of Decomposing Materials which they digest? | [
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Why can't you eat pills? Why do you have to swallow it? Isn't it the same thing? It's still going to get digested. | [
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What happens to the healthcare sector of the economy if single payer healthcare goes into effect? | [
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What makes the human mind dwell so easily on embarrassing experiences even after a long time since they occurred? | [
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why does wine go bad when exposed to air, but when air gets through the cork in tiny amounts it ages? | [
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How does the temperature of meat continue to rise after the heat source has been removed? | [
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Why does the ISS not melt if the thermosphere is 500°C +? | [
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Why do hot countries like India, Mexico, Spain etc.. eat very spicy food? Isn't it hot enough as it is? | [
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How does garbage collection work in the US? Is it done by private companies or the government? If the former, then who pays the private companies? | [
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Why do fully able adults struggle with Right and Left? | [
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Why does hormonal acne tend to pop up on your chin/jawline, as apposed to elsewhere on the body? | [
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How do you make a pill and how does it work? | [
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Why could retro cartridge-based games not save player data without a battery backup? Why do modern cartridge-based systems not let you do this as well? | [
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Why do we have dofferent gauges of needle for injection? What difference does it make? | [
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Can someone explain what a derivative of a function tells you about a function? For example what does dy/dx mean ? | [
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Why do your stomach and chest hurt when you are depressed? | [
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In a democracy, what is supposed to stop hypothetical 90% majority from literally killing off minority 10%? | [
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How did something come from nothing? | [
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How come VCs & Angel investors don't just hire people to copy an idea rather than invest in it? | [
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When we mute our phones, do the apps actually stop sending the data to generate sound at the speakers? | [
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What is the difference between baking powder and baking soda? | [
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what is the point of airplane mode?? | [
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Why did digital audio/cds allow for increased dynamic range and wider stereo separation compared to vinyl? | [
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Why do we have to ensure food is piping hot throughout, even if it's okay to be eaten chilled? | [
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When a balloon pops, what is actually creating the sound I hear? | [
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What are the practical living, and political differences, between the USSR and post USSR Russia? | [
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Why do objects with larger mass slow time down? | [
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What can insurance agents do that we can't? | [
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How do transition glasses work? | [
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Why do some photos from the 19th and early 20th centuries appear to be of higher quality than photos from the mid to late 20th century? | [
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How do ink remover pens work? | [
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why does red wine go bad only a few days after opening the bottle but white wine can stay good for months in the fridge? | [
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“Gulag Archipelago” question. What was the reason they imprisoned a huge amount of people in Russia 1920s-1950s? | [
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What was the Michelson–Morley experiment about? How was it done? | [
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the word “platypus” is Greek for “flat footed”. Why, upon discovering the venomous, lactating, egg-laying beaver-duck, did someone look at it and think, “damn those are some flat feet! Let’s name it after that!”? | [
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What are the major components and subsequent advantages that distinguish various household cleaners? (Ex, Soap and water vs 409, glass cleaners, mold/mildew type cleaners, etc? | [
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In films portraying olden times you’d see a lady get off a train in a foreign country and someone would help her carry dozens of suitcases off the train and possibly onto another vehicle. Was this a service that trains always provided back then or did the lady bring the helper from home? | [
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How can bugs crawl on the ceiling? I understand they might have really good grip, but does the blood not rush to their head? | [
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what octane fuel should i use and why? | [
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Why does freezing food make it last longer? And is freezing the brain a real thing? | [
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How did people in the middle ages keep their swords from rusting in the rain? Did people just not fight if it was wet out? | [
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Can someone explain musical interval ratio to me? | [
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If the value of land keeps on appreciating, how will future generations afford to buy land? | [
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Why does your mouth swell up after getting teeth removed? | [
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Why does hot water sound different than cold water when poured? | [
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How do gills work, and why can't fish survive on land very long? | [
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Why are rich Chinese businesses and businessmen investing so much into the Canadian and American economies? | [
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How do cemeteries maintain funding for maintenance and lawn care once they have sold out all of their plots? | [
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Why do certain medications of the same dosages vary drastically in size? 25mg of one medication may be very small while another 25mg pill might be very large? | [
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What is the difference between RAM and ROM? | [
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How come the cost of education, housing and healthcare in the US become so high? | [
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Why is NAFTA good or bad for USA? | [
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Why is 16:9 Aspect Ratio so preferred over 4:3 Aspect Ratio? | [
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Why is prolong learning or extreme usage of brainpower, such as math, so mentally (And sometimes physically) exhausting? | [
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In the United States, politicians are required to declare party affiliation, but why is it also required of the voters? | [
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How does the organ inside the ear that controls balance works, and why is it that if there's something wrong with it balance cannot be kept, even in full muscle tension? | [
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Why is tomorrow's election a possible win for the Dems for the House, but not for the Senate? | [
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What's the psychology behind the appeal of effeminate K-pop male stars to girls, even in places without the Korean "male beauty" standards? | [
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Why does salt make you thirsty? | [
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With so little land and resources, how is Great Britain still as rich and powerful as it is today? | [
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Why do companies like Juicero and Keurig Cold buy back their machines when they go out of business? | [
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When massive amounts of rain fall, where do all of the earthworms go? I know some come up and hang die on the sidewalk, but do some go lower? And if so how much lower? Do they go under sidewalks? Or do massive amounts die | [
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Why (or how) do SSRIs make people feel suicidal? | [
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why does the Australian government fail to provide a sufficient upgrade to our broadband network even with the knowledge that the Internet will be as vital as the electricity grid was in the 19th century? | [
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How are credit card numbers validated? | [
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Why do some PDF documents open immediately in a browser while others need you to save it first before it can be opened? | [
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What is shitposting and why do young people find it funny? | [
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What actually happens to our skin when we apply lotion? How deep does the lotion go? | [
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Why do images on the internet sometimes load all-at-once in rows and other times they load from a blurry image to a sharper image? | [
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Why is the primary braking force on a motorcycle applied to the front wheel? | [
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Why are certain storms all rain and no thunder and others all thunder and no rain? | [
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In this age of computers and (near)instant processing, why do some things like standing orders, direct debits etc not get taken at weekends? | [
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