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AskReddit/eh7nwfs | aueqn6 | What's your cute story behind how you, your parents or your grandparents met their spouse? | Grandparents met at school. Been together ever since. They were married at 18, and they are still married now. They are 86. My parents met on the bus. My dad was working not far from where my mum lived. My mum sat next to him for a couple of stops, and got chatting. My mum was 18, my dad was 19 when they got married (6... | 3 | 184 | [MLT:300] |
AskReddit/e8gktvc | 9rfxp4 | What is the quickest you've quit after starting a new job? | Not sure but this qualifies. I started Friday morning, I quit Saturday afternoon with at least 3hrs left until quitting time. Manual labor, working for a Pepsi warehouse. Shiftleader was a drunk and there were bees everywhere. | 3 | 46 | [MLT:50] |
AskReddit/ex1jzq1 | cr2672 | What was your most bullshit looking excuse that was actually true? | My sister was dating this guy in middle school that smoked weed. I was a freshman in high school, but I was brave and a bit edgy, but still hadn’t ever been around weed before. Her boyfriend left some pot seeds at her house and she was freaking out. As the big sister, I told her I would take them and dispose of them. I... | 2 | 244 | [MLT:300] |
AskReddit/enjqf27 | borla3 | What are some games that you really liked but now can't get back to them because you played something objectively better? | I can't stand Call of Duty anymore. The last one I played was Infinite Warfare and I got so tired of the jet pack movement system it had. My friend recommended Battlefield 4 to me and I have barely touched any CoD since then. I know the recent Battlefields haven't been great, but to me I've had so much more fun playing... | 4 | 74 | [MLT:80] |
AskHistorians/c8x52iw | 1afywn | How significant was the South Vietnamese military in the Vietnam War? | bernadito's answer is good, but to add a little extra to it, the quality of the ARVN varied quite a bit depending on time and circumstances. The Johnson administration's efforts towards improving the ARVN were, depending on who you ask, either minimal or inept. Westmoreland's team focused far more on winning the war th... | 2 | 231 | [MLT:300] |
explainlikeimfive/cotxip9 | 2wteb1 | How to get to the Moon? | The Apollo project used a rocket called a Saturn to send a 3 person crew to the moon and back. The Saturn had 3 main stages which sent the Command & Service module (the part with the crew) and the Lunar Module (the part that landed on the moon and returned to lunar orbit) to the moon and the Service Module's engine sen... | 5 | 589 | [MLT:700] |
AskReddit/c2oz0xs | l1c37 | What is the funniest thing you've heard/seen a sleep-talker or walker do? | oh god this is so easy. i was sleeping at my ex-boyfriend's house one night, and i wake up to him on his stomach with his arms out in front of him, punching furiously at the wall. i (stupidly.i later realized) shook him, trying to wake him up enough to get him to stop, and he turns to me and immediately says "in my def... | 4 | 175 | [MLT:300] |
explainlikeimfive/ct42kss | 3ddibg | How do space vehicles, like new horizon, navigate through the asteroid belt? | > maybe thats just the impression I have gotten from tv and movies. That's your problem right there. The asteroid belt is pretty empty. The average distance between objects in the asteroid belt is about 600,000 miles. | 3 | 49 | [MLT:50] |
explainlikeimfive/cvr2jxu | 3ntckq | What exactly happens between the director of a movie finishing filming, and the movie coming to the cinema? | Cut all the film together into one coherent storyline. Cut out scenes that the director doesn't like, re-film scenes that the director is unsatisfied with, etc. Add in the music, sound effects, and visual effects. In modern times, visual effects can take a long time and cost a huge portion of the overall film's budget.... | 2 | 230 | [MLT:300] |
explainlikeimfive/ce27bfe | 1sxh9v | Why can we eat our beef steaks rare, but need to eat pork well-cooked? | Chef here, There is a higher risk of being infected by parasites or bacteria from raw pork, pork is classed as dirty meat because of the diets and upbringing of the pigs and a little bit of evolution thrown in. You can also be infected from beef as well, but its not as common as bad pork. | 12 | 63 | [MLT:80] |
AskReddit/c1g8b0f | fis7d | How much sleep do I actually lose if I wake up in the middle of the night for a few minutes, and then pass out again? | Maybe, are you fully awake, or are you just stumbling to the bathroom and back? Usually when you wake up naturally in the middle of the night it comes between your optimal sleep periods, so the only sleep you're missing out on is less important anyway. | 3 | 52 | [MLT:80] |
AskReddit/c6v28k7 | 12h574 | What is a time someone surprised you by not knowing something that you thought was common knowledge? | A dear friend of mine thought dying Easter eggs with food coloring rendered them inedible. Every year she threw out dozens of delicious hard cooked eggs. | 3 | 30 | [MLT:30] |
explainlikeimfive/ecg0fg2 | a92nf9 | What is the difference between centre of mass and centre of gravity? | The center of mass is the mass-weighted average position of your body. The center of gravity is the gravitational force-weighted average position of your body. The center of mass tells you the average inertial behavior (how the body as a whole responds to arbitrary forces on it), while the center of gravity is telling ... | 7 | 219 | [MLT:300] |
AskReddit/dn6vzhr | 70yxvx | What are some good medium to light revenge tactics for a coworker who's ruining everybody's time at work? | Story: work as a chef, chef also works there in lower-management who ankle bites, spreads rumours and poisons the well for everybody, and everyone is out for blood. So minor revenge tactics could be blamed on anybody and everybody. Therefor, a blameless crime. What would you do? | 2 | 60 | [MLT:80] |
AskHistorians/ctzt12h | 3gnt7y | Are there countries that have ever imposed economic sanctions on the US? | Just to clarify would you include things such as blockade of ports preventing trade during war time ala civil war or just internationally agreed to sanctions? | 2 | 28 | [MLT:30] |
AskHistorians/d3zl9p5 | 4myl11 | Why did the Vikings depict Thor using a hammer as a weapon when the war hammer wasn't a weapon the Vikings used? | Thor as a god predates the Viking period significantly, and might even predate other popular gods like Odin. It is quite likely that the ancestral god for the later Icelandic Thor was the 'Hercules' that Tacitus refers to when describing the gods of the Germanic peoples (besides Mercury/Odin, and Mars/Tyr). Note howeve... | 35 | 324 | [MLT:500] |
AskReddit/dy5m9ks | 8fqdmf | Which film director would you want to direct the rest of your life? | Taika Waititi as a Kiwi, I feel that he would understand the Aussie lifestyle pretty well. And the fact that his story telling methods are so out there and wacky makes me think life directed by him would be awesome. | 5 | 47 | [MLT:50] |
AskReddit/eeyljvk | ajtdvt | What are some of the signs you are getting ready to be dumped by your boyfriend or girlfriend? | Nothing is for certain but some of the signs I've noticed are: They call or text less, or differently. Like if they usually use a ton of smilies or punctuation and Al of a sudden it's one word answers and no emotes. They seem to be creating arguments out of nothing, especially ones that lead to questioning the relation... | 4 | 315 | [MLT:500] |
askscience/c6cts2l | 10el8g | Why does spinning protons create a magnetic field? | A spinning charged sphere will produce a magnetic field, that much is classical electromagnetism. But 'spin' of protons, electrons etc, isn't really spinning. We call it "intrinsic angular momentum" and it behaves very much as if the particle was spinning on its own axis, but it doesn't behave in exactly that way. The ... | 11 | 475 | [MLT:500] |
AskReddit/c548f5l | vg8u9 | What's the best way to clean a large amount of blood out of your bed sheets? | step 1 remove body step 2 burn sheets step 3 replace sheets with red/black high thread count sheets | 9 | 22 | [MLT:30] |
AskReddit/ebkvf48 | a59n59 | What is the most pointless thing you have been paid to do at work? | Work in a scrap metal yard, I regularly get paid to stand in the yard with a fire hose and wet the dirt to stop dust. | 4 | 28 | [MLT:30] |
AskHistorians/djd3y97 | 6jagby | What was the explanation for Iceland's extremely long and short days pre-Heliocentrism? | A geocentric model can accommodate this phenomenon perfectly fine, as long as it accepts that 1) the earth is round, and 2) that orbits can shift throughout the year. Given that scholars in both ancient and medieval Europe acknowledged both of these facts, they explained the Arctic midnight sun as a purely natural phen... | 27 | 739 | [MLT:800] |
explainlikeimfive/du32ft1 | 7wtjfy | Why and how does weather change? | Weather fronts move across the planet because of exceedingly complex interactions. For instance, warm air is less dense than cold air, so as the air is warmed, say, in the tropics, it rises higher in the atmosphere, which creates an empty space for the more dense, heavier cold air from the poles to rush in and fill tha... | 3 | 514 | [MLT:700] |
explainlikeimfive/djwbowg | 6lspo6 | How did scientists figure out how to make computers? | The whole field built on top of other stuff over many years. First, people figured how to control electricity with electro-mechanical relays. Relays are binary - ON or OFF, like bits in a computer. Then they figured things like how to combine them to make a circuit that can make some basic boolean logic gate - for exam... | 7 | 525 | [MLT:700] |
AskReddit/c9vknn2 | 1e0eif | What can the right side of your body do that your left can't, and vice versa? | Throw a baseball. I can throw a ball around 80 mph with my right hand, but with my left I throw a ball like a girl. That sort of elbow bent and locked into position while pushing your forearm forward type throw. | 2 | 48 | [MLT:50] |
explainlikeimfive/cjzzs55 | 2ej61e | Why are people who are mixed race (black and white) simply called black in America? | Depends on how dark the persons skin is. Very few people would call mariah Carey a black person. Or vin diesel. Or the rock | 5 | 29 | [MLT:30] |
AskReddit/cva9uck | 3lxoip | What's the best piece of trivia you know? | That the word trivia comes from latin, means three streets, and stems from the Romans putting up signposts on crossings where three streets met, showing information about each of the directions | 1,204 | 35 | [MLT:50] |
explainlikeimfive/e78ffil | 9liqwi | How does a projector project black colour on a white screen? | Projectors and laptops are all back-lit - they shine white light, and a filter provides the color. Both your laptop and projector have an LCD screen in front of the back-light to act as the filter. The LCD screen has 3 color channels, red, green, and blue. Each channel can vary opacity up to 256 degrees, from completel... | 2 | 508 | [MLT:700] |
AskHistorians/cy510sd | 3xi11m | Why is it traditional to remove your hat out of respect, especially in the context of mourning? | I think this question may suffer from being a bit too broad. The tradition you’re mentioning isn’t present everywhere, and not even is it universal in Western culture. The practice in some situations is tied to religious significance which non-observers are not obligated to adhere to, e.g. in many sects of Judaism: > N... | 72 | 673 | [MLT:700] |
explainlikeimfive/ewihmbw | coiu85 | Why did early planes have more wheels in the front and now most wheels are in the back? | Lots of reasons. It was not practical at all for the pilots but it was very practical for the designers. The shape of a low wing airplane lends itself well to a taildragger configuration. The wings are natural mounting points for retractable landing gear (needed if you want better range and speed, incredibly important ... | 10 | 557 | [MLT:700] |
explainlikeimfive/ddq6t67 | 5tzlkp | Is land mass fixed to the earth beneath or does it float on the sea? | Land is not floating on the sea. Land is attached to the crust. The crust is what you find below the sea and surrounds the entire planet. Now, the crust is sort of floating on the magma layer below. The thicker parts of the crust (5-70 km thick) are high enough to be above water, the thinner (oceanic crust, under 5-10 ... | 3 | 226 | [MLT:300] |
AskReddit/c7geq0q | 14tpra | What is the best day of your life? | I worked at a Six Flags over the summer of 2009 and I've legitimately thought about writing a book about it. It was the worst/best/worst experience of my life, and I met a ton of really weird and interesting people while I had the job. The best day I've ever had also happened while I was there. I worked at the Superman... | 2 | 800 | [MLT:800] |
AskHistorians/ebq9izp | a5wbyx | Could the Spanish Civil War of the 1930's be accurately described as a conflict between democracy and fascism? | Though all the democrats were with the Second Spanish Republic and all the fascists with the Nacionales I'm afraid it was considerably more complicated than that. To context and backdrop! Spain oft had a weaker national identity and more tumultuous internal politcs than most of its European neighbors (and still does to... | 4 | 719 | [MLT:800] |
AskReddit/cm2qvcy | 2mbm26 | What is a genre of games you love, but fully acknowledge that you're terrible at it? | I thought I was good at Tetris until i downloaded a tetris game on facebook where you compete against your friends for a high score when I realized I'm the worst person I know at Tetris. | 2 | 41 | [MLT:50] |
Ask_Politics/d7jkxw7 | 52ej68 | What stage does a court case need to get to for the media pick up the Doe v Trump child rape case? | It'll probably have to get past the Motion to Dismiss that will inevitably appear. The timing is too suspicious and the charges too defamatory for the media to start widely reporting on this absent additional evidence or corroboration. | 8 | 46 | [MLT:50] |
AskReddit/cowajl3 | 2x2h6g | What is something you can't learn from the internet? | Real life experiences, can't learn how air smells on the internet and I'm still yet to find a place to make realistic fake money. | 2 | 28 | [MLT:30] |
AskReddit/d35so7j | 4jdkvz | What is something that looks insanely difficult, but is actually surprisingly easy? | Picking locks. Seems like magic until you learn the concept then its pretty simple. Most people can learn it in a fairly short amount of time. "Mastering" it is difficult but a basic level of skill is pretty easy. | 3 | 47 | [MLT:50] |
AskHistorians/df4isp1 | 6093rg | Why did the Soviets accept the Finnish peace agreement instead of installing the puppet government they had prepared, despite having (at great cost) crushed the Finnish army? | That kind of happened twice, first in 1940 after the Winter War and second in 1944 after the Continuation War. In 1940 the Winter War had turned out to be a bit of a humiliation to the Soviets. Finland had been able to resist the invasion for much longer than the Soviets had thought possible. Secondly, there was a risk... | 83 | 710 | [MLT:800] |
AskReddit/cdbq9j3 | 1qdk31 | To be/Currently Married users of Reddit, how did you and your Significant Other meet? | I owned a consulting company, some 15 years ago. She hired my company to do some work for the company she was working for. I was interested, but I did not want to get involved with a client, it would be unprofessional. When she told me she was quitting her job, I thought that would be my chance. She immediately told me... | 2 | 228 | [MLT:300] |
AskHistorians/d1i0pde | 4cft27 | Do local historians produce the best history? | I think you might want to be careful with how you phrase this, because my first impression is that you were asking about a specific kind of history known as 'local history', which focuses on limited areas (a city, province, etc.) instead of national or transnational narratives. It's actually really interesting and ofte... | 4 | 599 | [MLT:700] |
AskHistorians/egomzt1 | arla7v | Would a Roman from the 1st-2nd century AD recognize anything in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) in the 11th-12th century as "Roman"? | In religion, language, and many other respects, the Byzantine Empire of the Comnenian period was very different from its Roman ancestor. It continued, however, to preserve many of the cultural traditions, some of the institutions, and one of the great cities of the Roman world. In the second century, the Roman province... | 1,009 | 510 | [MLT:700] |
explainlikeimfive/dawo8ba | 5h1mmg | What's to stop a president from passing everything via executive order? | An executive order only covers the actions of the executive branch, and has to conform with existing law. So, for example, the president can't issue an executive order that changes the tax rate, which is Congress's constitutional responsibility and spelled out in current law. Even if the president issued such an order,... | 7 | 357 | [MLT:500] |
explainlikeimfive/e1zytaf | 8x0y1l | Why do darker objects absorb more heat than white objects? | Dark objects absorb the energy from light where white objects reflect it. Dark objects will also cool faster than a lighter colored object of the same temperature | 4 | 28 | [MLT:30] |
askscience/edywpe6 | afdvj0 | Can Three of the Four Types of Volcanic Eruptions Happen Underwater? | The viscosity is referred to as basic and acidic. Basic magmas have a low viscosity whereas acidic are high. You're right that high volatile (gas) content will cause it to degas when confining pressure is released. Exactly the same Principe as opening a carbonated drink, the volatiles can no longer stay dissolved in th... | 2 | 585 | [MLT:700] |
askscience/dqghll6 | 7g0aoe | Why do our hands and other extremities shake? | There are too many possible causes to answer succinctly. One common cause of shaking (that itself has any of a number of causes) is a combination of "too-strong" impulse strength to stabilizing muscles (over-correction, even very minor over-correction) and the inherent delay of neuron message transmission to extremitie... | 4 | 166 | [MLT:300] |
explainlikeimfive/ewwu1o1 | cqjepb | What caused the Great Recession? | There is an excellent documentary called Inside Job (2010) which gives a good breakdown of one part of it - the sub-prime mortgage disaster. It really boils down to big institutions lying about the value of products, and selling them to one group of investors while telling different investors to steer clear. It was a h... | 3 | 97 | [MLT:150] |
AskHistorians/cktcubr | 2hiubi | Why did Los Angeles become the epicenter of filmmaking? | This is really two questions rolled into one: Why did the American film industry end up in California? Why is the American film industry internationally dominant? Why did American film-makers move to Hollywood? There really is no singular answer to that question. One oft-cited reason is that, in the 1910s and 1920s, th... | 12 | 703 | [MLT:800] |
AskReddit/do8u8hx | 75t4oy | What's the nicest thing a complete stranger has ever done for you? | A gentleman I met at a Terry Pratchett book signing mentioned he had an extra copy of Good Omen's signed by Neil Gaiman and told me he'd send it to me. A few weeks later it showed up in absolutely pristine and carefully wrapped paper, no return address. I have no way to thank him for his extreme generosity. We maybe sp... | 2 | 126 | [MLT:150] |
AskReddit/edyg0sa | afgh52 | What was the "accident" at your high school? | Not high school, but in grade 8 a girl smuggled alcohol from her house and drank some with other students Somehow only suspended for 2 days. My middle school had a really odd punishment system. | 2 | 41 | [MLT:50] |
askscience/csp21c4 | 3bpd86 | HOW did humans discover complex processes like fermentation, brewing, farming, mining, blacksmithing, pottery and textile manufacturing? | People are very good at noticing patterns. It's what makes our intelligence really good. And language helps us pass the knowledge of those patterns on to others and create a sort of history. And example of this might be that I notice every time the birds fly south apples grow on trees. I say, "Hey, when birds all start... | 7 | 669 | [MLT:700] |
AskReddit/d26zxfd | 4f9d1k | What's the most inappropriate thing a child has said/done to embarrass you in public? | My approximately 5 or 6 year old daughter was with me when I was in line at a hardware store. She asked me about something on a shelf or whatever, and I casually answered her. She replied with "I see said the blind man to his deaf wife." I was initially embarrassed, but the other guys in line just laughed a little and ... | 3 | 88 | [MLT:150] |
AskReddit/ciqt6qi | 2a22e2 | If Forrest Gump were set between 1990 and 2010, what events would Forrest unwittingly find himself involved in, and how? | A Young Forrest Gump gives Gorbachev the ideas for Glasnost and Perestroika on a plane. "That nice man with the funny mark on his head went ahead and tried to help his people." A young Forrest Gump tells Governor Ronald Reagan that his mama always said that that walls separate people, and it would be best to tear them ... | 298 | 262 | [MLT:300] |
askscience/d8kivg8 | 56mgyk | How can we know the Sun's surface temperature when the Sun's corona around it is hundreds of times hotter? | The corona and chromosphere are very tenuous, so most of the light emitted by the photosphere passes right through them. By comparing the emission spectrum of the sun that's observed when looking directly at the central region and the spectrum that's observed when looking only at the outer layers (achieved by observing... | 12 | 221 | [MLT:300] |
AskReddit/c7zypnq | 16vx0f | What's the best (or most epic) war movie you've ever seen? | there are many great war movies. I can't reall pick the top 1 so I'll give some of my favorites Kingdom of Heaven, Full metal jacket, All quiet on the western front, The great dictator, Apocalypse now. | 2 | 47 | [MLT:50] |
AskReddit/e4gaj4p | 98ijzx | What's the craziest thing that happened at your workplace? | had an armed robbery, so 911 was called. coworker clocked out maybe 5 minutes before it happened and went in the bathroom to change because they had to go somewhere right after work. silent alarm and all that, coworker had no clue anything was going down. coworker comes out of the back to leave right as like 9 cops com... | 3 | 156 | [MLT:300] |
explainlikeimfive/dsy3r9k | 7rmup7 | Why is it that cameras cannot take a clear picture of an LCD screen? | Monitors and TVs typically have a set refresh rate - 50Hz and 60Hz are fairly common. This means that the screen is redrawn around 50 or 60 times a second. To the human eye, this looks smooth - it's fast enough to be almost unnoticeable. Cameras, though operate differently from our eyes. If the frame rate of the camera... | 9 | 353 | [MLT:500] |
AskReddit/eaj835x | a0o76d | What do you have in your house that requires explanation every time you have guests over? | There’s a ukulele on a simple little shelf on the wall when you first walk in, and it seems to perplex a lot of people. It’s a souvenir from our honeymoon to Kauai. I thought it was cool. Apparently, a lot of guests find it a little strange. Oh well. | 23 | 63 | [MLT:80] |
AskHistorians/eduwsnl | af1ilk | Do animals have historical agency? | Timothy Mitchell's book Rule of Experts has a well-known chapter that makes a semi-serious argument that mosquitoes have to be understood as agents in the history of mosquito-borne diseases, riparian agriculture, etc. In this, Mitchell is working a bit off an idea that is associated with the critical theorist of scienc... | 12 | 765 | [MLT:800] |
AskReddit/c5kblc6 | x99kn | What are some good gifts for a birthday and/or good as a housewarming gift? | As you said yourself, if she needs something she'll buy it. Don't focus on what she needs, but rather focus on something that's nice to have but will also remind her of you. If she loves books then buy her a nice 1st edition by her favorite author. If she loves cooking buy her a marble rolling pin. As far as generic ho... | 2 | 87 | [MLT:150] |
AskHistorians/d2hwc0x | 4ghm0n | Was Phillipé I of France hesitant of William the conquerors conquest of England? | The short answer is that Philip (or Phillipe*) wasn't hesitant about William's conquest of England, because there was nothing he could do about it. I imagine he wasn't very happy about it, but not because William would become independent: in 1066 Normandy was totally independent from the French crown's influence and it... | 37 | 713 | [MLT:800] |
AskReddit/e4ed6r7 | 989p19 | What’s more dangerous, being too fat or too skinny? | I mean it really depends how far on either side of the spectrum. People at 600 phone don't usually make it past 50 but if too skinny means literally starting to death then that's more dangerous. Not really comparable. | 2 | 49 | [MLT:50] |
askscience/cp33q99 | 2xsbka | How might the amount of water in a tea kettle affect the time it takes to start whistling? | There are quite a few more variables you would need to answer this question: heating power, heat loss to the environment, atmospheric pressure, starting water temperature, kettle orifice size etc. In general though, for a normal household tea kettle it should take more time to start whistling if there is more water. As... | 2 | 522 | [MLT:700] |
AskReddit/c1hzo34 | fr1qw | What's the most hypocritical thing you've ever witnessed another person do/say? | Not the most hypocritical thing, but maybe the most frequent. Friends buying green/organic items because they want to save the environment (make themselves feel better), but fail to recycle almost everything. | 3 | 39 | [MLT:50] |
explainlikeimfive/e4t7lxs | 9a63v5 | How is it possible that a pair (male and female) of an animal species can populate an entire territory? | Think back to school when you were asked a question “Would you rather have a penny doubled every day for 30 days or $10,000?”, and how if you chose the penny option you would get around5 million dollars. Well now say we have some 2 bugs were that just dropped in a new area, and they had 10 children. well a year passes,... | 1,993 | 622 | [MLT:700] |
AskReddit/cl7q8ra | 2j2de5 | How can we as citizens stop police brutality? | Pay politicians to care about it enough to enact laws which would discourage police brutality. I hear that having police wear mandatory cameras has reduced complaints of brutality. | 2 | 30 | [MLT:30] |
AskReddit/de6xzu9 | 5w3465 | What were the top headlines of the first 30 days of Hillary Clinton's presidency? | Hillary Clinton signs executive order replacing US constitution with Sharia law. In an unrelated event, Clinton Foundation receives $10 billion in donation from UAE. | 7 | 29 | [MLT:30] |
explainlikeimfive/dxm4rvj | 8dcrqr | How does a computer delete/get rid of a file, and clear the hard drive? | It's pretty simple. The computer tracks the location of each free space on the hard drive. When a file is deleted, instead of physically removing each bit on the hard drive (very slow) the computer simply adds the file's location on the hard drive to the list of free spaces. This is important to know because when you d... | 5 | 133 | [MLT:150] |
AskReddit/d2ggir9 | 4gd3vs | How has someone else substantially changed your life? | Hm. I have several people who have influenced and greatly changed my life. None were particularly short instances. One of the top changers is my old Russian Teacher. This woman was 70 at the time she was my teacher, vegan (I'm not, but it's relevant for reasons), ran two miles a day during lunch, had PhDs in Russia and... | 2 | 695 | [MLT:700] |
AskReddit/c0xpz4m | d5j1l | Are any of you blind? | My brother-in-law is blind. He uses software called window-eyes to read whatever is on the screen. He also has text to speech software on his phone, and the preferred audio book player for the blind is the victor stream. | 2 | 48 | [MLT:50] |
explainlikeimfive/exflmdu | cslwgi | Why we die if the bees die? | Bees make plants grow. Chicken eat plants. You eat tendies. No bees=no plants=no chickens=no tendies=no you. | 25 | 27 | [MLT:30] |
AskReddit/c16nd1s | eaon6 | When you play air guitar do you try to make your fingering look realistic? | I actually play a real guitar so when I'm playing air guitar I mimic the actual fingering. I've had people tell me I look stupid and "that's not how you play guitar". | 5 | 39 | [MLT:50] |
AskReddit/eix4l2t | b34qv5 | What is a solid reason you would need to wear 2 pairs of pants? | Skiing - snow pants + regular pants Extreme cold - legging-type stuff + other pants Prank involving pants | 2 | 23 | [MLT:30] |
AskHistorians/dft2zvl | 63ayf7 | How did religion evolve from polytheistic to monotheistic? | Unfortunately for your analogy, the development of separate religious orders often happens more in the form of discrete events, like the Great Schism between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In addition, systems of polytheism did not become, but were supplanted by those of monotheism. Monotheism is far older than you may thi... | 4 | 799 | [MLT:800] |
AskReddit/cfos7bz | 1yy1j7 | How do you stop your feet from sweating/stinking? | The smell is due to bacteria breaking down the organic compounds in sweat and wet dead skin, so regularly washing your feet with antibacterial soap will help. | 5 | 30 | [MLT:30] |
AskReddit/ch1621d | 23w8hc | What is a skill everyone should have before going to college? | Critical thinking skills Written communication skills Personal finance skills And the most important one for learning in a college environment: How to ask good questions. | 2 | 27 | [MLT:30] |
AskReddit/c4f4p2o | sk04w | Can someone help me become a flight attendant? | I am a flight attendant. Hopefully I can be of assistance! Start applying for every airline you can. The industry can be notoriously difficult to break into, and I know many people who have been knocked back from several airlines (more than once!) before they got the job. The flight attendant recruitment process is unl... | 2 | 748 | [MLT:800] |
explainlikeimfive/dvwaei6 | 85c479 | How are businesses able to acquire phone numbers like "333-3333"? | They are called gold numbers and many phone operators sell them for pretty high prices. They are usually rated from how memorable they are. A single digit number would probably cost six figures or more. There are also independent companies who buy and sell gold numbers. | 8 | 50 | [MLT:50] |
AskReddit/cbmvv74 | 1ka6gr | Which names do you associate with certain character traits? | Any male name that starts with the letter J is a jerk. Particularly the name James. Even names in other languages that translate to a male name in English starting with J like Diego. Diego is James in Spanish. (In case you haven't realized it yet, I had a bad childhood experience with a guy named Diego and a guy named ... | 3 | 70 | [MLT:80] |
AskHistorians/caz11fa | 1hxqjs | Why did the French kingdom become much more centralized than the Holy Roman Empire? | Here’s a simplified “textbook” version. I’ll let experts German history expand and correct this, because it's probably out-of-date in some ways. In the 900s until the 1000s, monarchial authority in France was extremely weak. The French king held only a small part of France—the “Ile de France” or the area immediately ar... | 31 | 800 | [MLT:800] |
askscience/c7tdptf | 166wb5 | How does the hair on my legs know when to stop growing? | The hair doesn't start growing when you cut it, and stop when it reaches its max length. Instead, every single hair continuously grows for a set period of time, falls out, and the re-grows from scratch, over and over and over. However, the follicles are not all synched up, so the hairs in an area are all at slightly di... | 14 | 204 | [MLT:300] |
AskReddit/dta2z93 | 7t5od7 | What is something that is actually true, but not for the reasons most people think? | Truth: Capitalism is failing in America right now and old truths are no longer true, such as "trickle-down" wealth. Wage gap is widening at an alarming pace. Reason people think it's true: Capitalism is bad and we need more socialism/communism/something not-capitalism. Reason it's actually true: Mega corporations have ... | 3 | 143 | [MLT:150] |
AskReddit/ebyveka | a6xwao | What is something that only rich people can get? | I work in asset management now for very wealthy. ($500mm minimum net worth), I will talk about individuals first then institutions. Access is the answer here. there’s a lot of politics to any person or institute with money so understand these are sweeping generalizations: Billions said it right when they described Bobb... | 3 | 547 | [MLT:700] |
AskReddit/dyth6u4 | 8ip2nk | What's the best 3 dollars you ever spent? | In the UK, spent £2 on a frame for a picture I painted for my grandparents. I'm an amateur artist but I enjoy painting things for family and friends and popping them in little frames for simple gifts. The last time I ever saw my Grandad alive I gave them the picture. My grandma and he both loved the picture (my grandad... | 2 | 184 | [MLT:300] |
AskReddit/cmkno72 | 2o87qt | What argument about religion do you hate hearing? | Any argument against Religion that tries to disprove faith using logic. The entire point of faith is that it defies logic and is pure belief. Any argument for Religion that tries to prove faith using logic. The entire point of faith is that it defies logic and is pure belief. | 5 | 57 | [MLT:80] |
explainlikeimfive/cnmn8q2 | 2s6kal | How are survival instincts (a baby giraffe walking, a neonate's sucking reflex) passed on genetically? | The very short, oversimplified answer is that the brain functions that manage those behaviors are fully or nearly-fully developed during gestation, which allows the instinct to be "learned before birth". If you think about evolution as having its own agenda, and/or starting at birth, this is hard to wrap your mind arou... | 2 | 706 | [MLT:800] |
AskReddit/d1nzmd0 | 4d5wvj | Would you want Facebook to notify your friend list in the event of your death? | I would prefer a family or friend write a post a week or two following my death. This way, anyone who should hear it from my family personally would have; anyone being surprised by the news wouldn't be a close friend or family member. And coming from my family would be a little less "cold" than just a Facebook notifica... | 5 | 68 | [MLT:80] |
AskReddit/dj0adb6 | 6hqajn | If you left your music player on shuffle at a party, what's the most embarrassing song that would play? | Depends on what you find embarrassing. Some people might laugh at my hip hop/rap stuff, some people might laugh at the extreme metal, and most would scratch their head when staticy drone music starts playing. | 3 | 43 | [MLT:50] |
askscience/cqq1fil | 33y7bx | How far would the earth need to be from the sun during it's red giant phase to be at the same temperature it is now? | The issue is more than heat and light. It is the fact that the sun will bloat enough to reach the orbit of Earth. Our planet's orbit will then start degrade due to friction with the solar atmosphere until it falls into the core of the sun. You would need to move the planet for it to survive. If you can do that then a s... | 7 | 771 | [MLT:800] |
AskReddit/c1okz0t | gm9lw | Is washing your produce really that important? | Most super markets get them covered in pesticides and a thin coating of wax to make them shiny. So yeah its kinda a good idea to wash your produce | 2 | 30 | [MLT:30] |
AskReddit/duegz8k | 7y8qkn | What are some adult equivalents to experiencing Disneyland for the first time as a child? | Never been to Disneyland I'm still young Listing to wu tang clan, nas, mobb deep and biggie for the first time feel pretty good | 3 | 30 | [MLT:30] |
AskHistorians/e2mz0dr | 8zfx5l | Why did Christian theologians hold disputations with Jews in the Middle Ages? | Christians did consider Judaism as a threat to Christian theology, but not quite in the way you think for disputations. The problem Jews posed to Christianity was fundamentally that they were the religion around when Jesus was, who were promised the messiah of the Hebrew bible, yet rejected Jesus as that person. This i... | 2 | 732 | [MLT:800] |
AskReddit/e4pmwiw | 99qfg7 | Why do photographs come out in-focus when the photographer that took them wasn't wearing his/her glasses when taking the picture? | No one is giving you a serious answer because they don't understand cameras, I guess. It's a legitimate question, though. If cameras didn't account for this, visually impaired people would never know if their image was focused correctly until after it was taken and would have to blindly trust the autofocus, which can b... | 4 | 157 | [MLT:300] |
AskReddit/coyxmdp | 2xcn2k | What do you typically do when you're stuck in traffic or at a red light? | I'll be honest: I'm usually on my phone. And, I question most of the rest of the responses on this thread, because when I look around me at a red light, the vast majority of other drivers are also on their phones. I try not to text while actually driving, though. | 25 | 61 | [MLT:80] |
AskHistorians/civ2ajg | 2ah58s | Why is it called the "Golden Age" of Piracy? | Piracy has been glorified and romanticed in various ways for 300 years, or about since the time the pirates of the "Golden Age" sailed. I wouldn't really say academic historians developed the phrase, it came out of people writing in the late nineteenth century. As far as I can tell, the term isn't meant to glorify the ... | 3 | 558 | [MLT:700] |
AskReddit/cdabrgc | 1q8r1s | Why is there no real competition for YouTube? | It isn't about what the consumers want, it is about where the uploaders put their content. Consumers might want a site that is marginally functional and isn't continually getting worse and putting ads up, but uploaders want page views and YouTube has the most viewers. Consumers don't leave because they can't find as mu... | 7 | 120 | [MLT:150] |
explainlikeimfive/deeb7p1 | 5x063z | What is 'Legacy Code' in programming? | It is code, often written in archaic languages running on archaic systems, that no one who has to work with it really understands anymore. The original programmers have retired or are dead, the company that made no longer supports it or is out of business, and the requirements are lost or never existed. If it serves a ... | 13 | 133 | [MLT:150] |
AskReddit/cmxf905 | 2pk3an | Is it wrong to say that babies/children are ugly? | Baby dog, cute. Baby cat, cute. Baby panda cute. Baby human, ugly disgusting monster that shouldn't exist. | 3 | 25 | [MLT:30] |
AskReddit/egp87s5 | arro9j | What was the time you were most scared of your parents/siblings and why? | I've never been scared of a sibling but I was scared of my dad once, he was so mad that he was holding his fist like he was going to hit me. My mom talked him down. All I did was tell them I found beer in my sisters room and they didn't punish her (she was very underage) and I told them I didn't think it was right or a... | 2 | 142 | [MLT:150] |
explainlikeimfive/d9o9mry | 5bgee9 | How is time a dimension? | You need three numbers to specify a point in normal space - this is because there are three independent directions. This means the space is "three dimensional". Now let's bring time into things. How do we describe an event at a point in space and at a particular time? We would need four numbers - three for the location... | 9 | 432 | [MLT:500] |
AskReddit/esg2kis | c7ludy | What's the embarrassing or cringe worthy thing you've heard in game chat? | Ive heard a guys wife literally leave a guy mid raid and he started crying. The entire party chat heard it go down. | 2 | 26 | [MLT:30] |
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