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If a movie or documentary has a scene where cocaine is consumed, often times it will be consumed over a mirror. Do people really do this and if so, why? | [
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What are lagging and leading indicators? | [
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Why does it take the FDA many years to approve a new medicine? | [
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Why do some fabrics shrink when you put them in the dryer? | [
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Why does water always beat fire? | [
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How do cheap subscription boxes like Dollar Shave Club actually make any money? | [
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How do 'dry' wines taste dry when they're a liquid? | [
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In word processing software, why is the option to create a pdf file always so far removed from the regular 'save' option (e.g. somewhere on the print menu)? | [
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Why are sounds like rain and campfires relaxing to so many people? | [
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Why do clothes that are very static-y have this weird, distinct smell to them? | [
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How are status pages for major CDNs and major backbone providers designed to be up even though the provider is down? | [
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Why when you buy games on PSN or Steam you don't have to pay tax, but you do if you buy the physical disc? | [
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why is it that some metals like zinc and iron are essential for our bodies while other metals like lead and Mercury are toxic? | [
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Given that we started at $0 and we are now at countless zillions, where did all the worlds money come from? | [
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When you receive a local anaesthetic, although you don’t feel pain, why do you still feel pressure? Also, why does that area sometimes feel big or heavy (for example your lip when you get local anaesthetic for dentistry) | [
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Pornhub and YouPorn have both pledged to use encryption to block ISP's from using your traffic on those sites. How is this effective? | [
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What is the relationship between surface area, angle of attack, and drag? | [
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How does Nvidia DLSS work? | [
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With leaves converting sunlight to supply nutrition to the tree, how do deciduous trees after losing all their leaves survive and rejuvenate? | [
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How do employers or corporations benefit from unions? | [
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Why does water from a lake usually freeze from the edges and the top of the lake first? | [
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Why does a glass of water left overnight develop bubbles in it? | [
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Why/How does does the US Senate majority leader have more power than any other US Senator? | [
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why does an equal quantity of alcohol do nothing on some days, give me a buzz on other days, and put me to sleep on other days? | [
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Why are moldy food bad for us? Molds on foods like yogurt/cheese is fine, but on bread and suddenly we’re sick. | [
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How does "acquired taste" work? Will simply eating enough of a certain food make it taste good, or at least more acceptable? | [
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How are currency exchange rates set? | [
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Why do some sites check my browser before giving me access to it ? | [
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why we can use topical, long lasting flea and tick repellents on animals and not humans? | [
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What is the 'My heart Skipped a beat' sensation we feel when we are surprised? | [
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why do fraudsters use stolen credit card details to buy things that I think can be easily traced back to them? | [
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Why are an aging population and automation simultaneously a problem? | [
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Why does food turn black when it burns? | [
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How do sound waves get louder when they are bouncing around a resonating chamber, like in a guitar? | [
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Why does phone with 18w charger not use all 18w while charging? | [
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How do sin, cos, tan and their reciprocals work with angles that are multiples of 90? It seems like the opposite and adjacent wouldn't even be a part of the problem, but that's not what the results say... | [
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what exactly is mercury poisoning and what will happen to somebody who gets it? | [
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When people talk about ballistics why do they use velocity instead of speed? | [
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How does color safe bleach work? Is it actually bleach or just a stain remover, and how does it only brighten whites without damaging color? | [
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Why do NBA players put a long sleeve on over their jerseys immediately after sitting on the bench? | [
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Why does food taste differently hot and cold? | [
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How does someone like Al Capone report his illegal income to the IRS and not get arrested for it? | [
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Why is cringing our first reaction to something embarrassing or uncomfortable? How did cringing even become something that we do automatically? | [
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Why does fire always look disconnected from its source? | [
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Why does freezing food not destroy bacteria in the same way cooking food does? | [
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What is the Riemanm hypothesis and what does it have to do with prime numbers? | [
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How are laptop components (web cams, microphones etc.) so, relatively, easily exploited and hacked? | [
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How do imaginary numbers work? | [
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What is so groundbreaking about the Amiga? | [
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how do hexadecimal numbers work? | [
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how paul george can snap his leg in half and recover to be an mvp candidate but people are wondering if KD can return from an Achilles tear? | [
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Why is it, when you try to wipe away drops of blood off of a surface, it leaves a behind a thin ring around it which is harder to clean? | [
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Why are atoms with 8 valence electrons so stable? | [
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Why are some iron unmagnetic? | [
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Why do we get words or small phrases stuck in our heads over and over and over and over? | [
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How do states like Monaco and Singapore make so much money and have low taxes? | [
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Why does hot sauce seem to be mild on lukewarm foods but much spicier on hot foods? | [
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Why is calculus important in the medical field? | [
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How is plastic actually made? | [
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Why does a bad score on a final drag your grade down more than a good score raises it? | [
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What fills the space of a synapse? | [
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How do objects get the same amount of power from one port as it would from an extension cable that splits said port in 3 or 4, wouldn't it just cut the power in half or in quarters giving less power to the object? | [
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What are nootropics doing to your brain when you take them? What happens if you start to take them routinely? | [
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Why are most PC components compatible, yet CPU's architecture changes massively that you need new motherboard structure for the CPU? | [
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Why do U.S. Citizens have to file their Income Taxes? | [
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The Duchess of Cambridge has won damages for topless photos of her being printed in a French magazine. How is this amount quantified? | [
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What is the science behind shy bladders? | [
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how do electric eels not shock them selves, and how can they build up and store that energy? | [
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Why are spousal hires so prominent in academia but not other industries? | [
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Why is it always shown to be important to keep people conscious when trying to keep them alive? Ex. injured/ trapped in the cold weather overnight | [
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Why does carbonated soda taste so much better than flat soda? | [
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Do movie directors write the story that have on their mind, or do they get someone to write it for them? | [
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How do garbage collecting companies know if you put the wrong thing in the bin? | [
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Are are zoo animal births less successful than in their natural habitats? If so... Why? | [
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How do USB/HDMI/DisplayPort keep getting faster? | [
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Where does money come from? How does an economy keep getting more money - what is the origin? | [
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How do we track launched missiles yet lose passenger planes? | [
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How bloated is the US military budget really, especially compared to other countries? | [
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How does water "climb up" certain materials, like paper? | [
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Why do old televisions emit high-pitched noises while in use? | [
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What exactly is base 8? | [
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how do dolphins echolocate when there are other dolphins also doing it? (ie. Making noises that would interfere with the echos) | [
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Why is it that people hate waking up even after getting 7-9 hours of sleep? | [
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How are phone numbers created ad why do they need a country code? and wont we run out of phone numbers eventually? what happens then? | [
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Why does a dislocated shoulder never heal properly without surgery? | [
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the difference between milliamperage (mA) and kilovoltage peak (kvp) in radiology? | [
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google analytics and how does using an add-on prevent it? | [
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How does activated carbon work and why it's in every cleansing product now a days? | [
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what was with the weird static noise speakers made when someone called on an old phone? | [
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How are songs ranked on the Billboard top 100? | [
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What are tax exemptions/what to "claim" on your W4? | [
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Why can't we upgrade phone parts like we do with PC parts? | [
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Humans often experience an acquired taste for beverages that they originally despised but now love, what's the reason for this? | [
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Fundamentally as an object gets farther and farther away from us, what makes it look 'smaller' in our vision? | [
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Light reaching Earth comes from the past. Because this is true, does that mean that focusing a telescope on a source of light at different magnifications can give us a look at different points in the past or is what we see always constant? | [
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Is there light in a closed box? | [
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How does getting your tubes tied work? | [
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Can a person survive a pulmonary embolism passing through their heart? Why are they so deadly for some and not others? | [
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Why is comedy less funny the more you watch it? | [
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How do we learn non expressible words as a child? | [
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