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Why is it we want commitments, but when we get them we often have urges to quit them? | [
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What causes people to sleep walk? | [
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Why does tap water from the kitchen sink taste slightly different than tap water from the bathroom sink, despite having the same source? | [
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What is the principal agent problem? | [
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Why is Henry Kissinger considered a war criminal? | [
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Why does squinting help you read things far away? | [
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Why do we get a sore throat after being in the cold for a while? | [
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Why does the urge to use the bathroom increase when you come in close proximity to a bathroom? | [
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How do natural magnets not violate thermodynamics? | [
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Why do onions become sweet when boiled? | [
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(USA) what is mandatory military spending vs. discretionary military spending and why does it matter? | [
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how can plants can live in the cracks of concrete during a drought, yet you take that same plant and put it in a pot but forget to water it 1 day it will die? | [
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What is Happening with this 'Caravan' coming to USA from Central America? - No Politics Please | [
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How did aliens become associated with Area 51? | [
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How do 3d glasses work and what do the red and blue lines have to do with it? | [
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Before money was invented how did people accumulate "wealth"? | [
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If Tupac is dead, who receives the royalties when someone listens to his music? And same for other deceased artists | [
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Why do standardized tests each have unique and seemingly arbitrary score ranges? (e.g. SAT 400-1600, ACT 1 to 36, LSAT 120-180, MCAT 472 to 528, USMLE Step 1 1-300) | [
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What is the survival instinct? | [
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Why is the night sky more clear after it rains? | [
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If a Canadian gets an acting role from a company in LA and the film shooting takes place in Europe, how would they pay their taxes/with what government? | [
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How does Bluetooth Low Energy Work? | [
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Why are we scared after having nightmares or watching horror movies when we know that they are not real? | [
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Why does the US vote seems like a mess and badly organized for a European - why don‘t you just count votes? | [
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what makes us feel tired? | [
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The concept of Dimensions. How do we know there are 12? How do we know which one is which specifically? | [
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What happens to Buttigieg's delegates now that he's out of the race? | [
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What is the relationship between matrices and computer program variable arrays? | [
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Why is the Amazon Burning and how is the Brazilian Government Implicit in that? | [
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what is inflation and what causes it? | [
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Why're red states significantly cheaper than blue states? | [
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What exactly triggers the burst of an asset bubble? And why would it lead to unemployment, loss of savings etc? | [
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When you board a plane to a different country, which country are you technically in for law/regulation purposes? For example if I board a plane from Canada to USA, is the drinking age on the plane 18 or 21? | [
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At what point is it statistically favorable to play Mega Millions or Powerball, disregarding split jackpots and tax? | [
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Why are “poetic” contractions such as (th’), (an’), and (o’) used, considering they’re not exactly easier to say nor write? | [
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How has the lava in the earth not cooled? | [
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Why can spacetime warp faster than the speed of light? | [
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What are some signs that someone has a personality disorder (sociopathic and such)? | [
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Is there a way to describe multiplication of two negative terms vividly/picturesquely/descriptively? | [
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Why electric cars are not regular thing? | [
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How does bail work in the US? | [
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Why is the main camera not positioned on the opposite side of the bench in soccer (Premier League)? | [
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How does carbon dating work and how can scientists reliably date things millions of years back? | [
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Why do our noses run and eyes tear up whilst eating spicy foods? | [
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When does avoiding long lines become macrophobia as opposed to a normal activity? | [
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How do we not kill off bees by harvesting their honey? Don’t they need the honey to survive the winter? | [
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Why does one get heavy sweating before getting healed from a fever? | [
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Why is the Socratic Method not being applied in today's teachings? | [
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Why do seemingly respectable websites allow junky clickbait adverts? | [
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why don’t all phone services send texts over the internet (like apple’s iMessage does)? | [
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Why do humans find creative things more interesting than things in the real world? | [
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How is it that Cows can consume the same fibrous grass that makes every other herbivores scat into tight balls, somehow manage to produce turds of such low density as to be called "cow patties"? ? | [
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the difference between basic universal income and welfare? | [
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Why couldn't a world develop where there was no competition and prey/predators and all life was purely vegetarian? | [
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How come it feels like you're freezing when you have a fever? | [
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Why do bugs in videogames appear or not sometimes if it's the same situation? Wouldn't it happen always if it is the same situation? | [
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How do goggles/glasses that correct colourblindness work? | [
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what's it called when water runs down the side of the cup while you're pouring it and how does it happen? | [
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Why is memorizing a speech backwards more effective? | [
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What is the Euler-Mascheroni constant? | [
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How does a multinational company pay it's taxes? | [
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How was money inserted in society? | [
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why is it difficult for cameras to capture such things like snow falling on film when we can easily see with the human eye? | [
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what happens to a file when it is uninstalled from a computer? | [
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Does the U.S. defense budget make the States more money than it spends? | [
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How do we know what the other planets in our solar system are made of if we don't have the technology to take samples? | [
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How come when you are hungry your stomach feels nauseous? It seems like a design flaw that when you're hungry, you don't feel like eating anything. | [
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What does it mean to say a disease is eliminated from a country? | [
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Why does chewing gum become unchewable after a while? | [
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Why does looking at a twisted wire or metal fence cable up close make my eyes freak out? | [
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Why do fuel prices jump UP 20, 30, or 50 cents at a time, but only come DOWN a few cents at a time? | [
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Why do so many Australians idolize Ned Kelly? | [
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Why are nutritional facts based on a 2,000 calorie diet when that's well below the average for humans? | [
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What is Russia’s obsession with taking over the Ukraine? Is it a strategical thing or more of a power move? | [
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How do scientists identify new elements and isolate them? | [
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What is "smiling depression"? How is it compared to other types of depression? | [
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what causes this rain pattern? | [
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How does a Queen of England choose her King? | [
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How does stomach acid not affect your stomach itself, and how does it stay in your stomach? | [
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Are numbers and mathematics written and performed the same way in all languages and cultures? | [
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Why is the sky Red, Orange, Yellow, and Blue, but never green? ROYgBIV tells me that the light wavelengths should go from yellow to green before they get blue. | [
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Why do Bluetooth speakers take so long to connect to phones that are regularly connected to the speaker? | [
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How does entropy prove why time only goes forwards? | [
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Why does you feel weak right after waking up? | [
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How does substance dependence work? | [
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What does separation of church and state actually mean if politicians can bring up God in their arguments? | [
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What actually is a Gömböc and what does a "shape" need to be considered one? | [
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How are we able to increase things like our lung capacity or condition? Aside from practice and condition training, what incites the improvement? | [
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What’s the science behind people’s “smells”? | [
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When an employer makes you take a personality assessment test, what are they really measuring? | [
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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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Instead of making content safer for children, why not just ban children from viewing it? | [
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How do we decide where one ocean begins and another ends? | [
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Why do quarterbacks yell things like “Blue 80” before the snap? | [
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Why does sweat leave a yellow stain in white material? | [
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How do our eyes work? | [
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Why Does Good Alcohol Feel "Smoother" Than Bad Alcohol? | [
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... How can a infection like chicken pox trigger alopecia? | [
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Why are game updates so large if they're not including assets? | [
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How does a spacecraft use thrusters to move through essentially nothing? If they blast, and there’s nothing (aka, atmosphere) around them to get traction, how does it propel itself forward? And how does it steer? | [
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