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Physics | How does a crowd support the weight of someone stage diving? | [
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Technology | How exactly does a automatic weapon work? | [
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Economics | Why is the US military low on money when it has more money than the next 8 countries combined? | [
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Chemistry | How does sunscreen help protect our skin? | [
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Mathematics | What does % chance of rain really mean? | [
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Economics | how does the bond market work? | [
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Earth Science | how did a cloud form inside the garage with the dryer running? | [
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Earth Science | Why does the moon look like it is covered in asteroid craters, but Earth doesn’t? | [
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Physics | Why can’t gravity be blocked or dampened? | [
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Technology | How did graphic designers enlarge images before computers? | [
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Economics | Why are China's economic policies considered a threat to the US? Isn't the US being benefited by trade with China? | [
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Biology | Why do animals in a particular ecological niche often look so similar even if they are completely unrelated? | [
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Biology | Why is it that the body's core being cold is fatal, but hands can be cold 24/7 and it's no problem? | [
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Biology | Is ECMO basically like dialysis for the heart? | [
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Biology | When you touch really hot water, why does it feel cold? | [
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Other | Why do Americans have to pay for an ambulance if someone else called it for them? | [
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Other | Why is "mama" the same word with the same meaning in languages that have nothing to do with each other from Africa to Europe? | [
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Technology | Why are moving fan blades visible through a phones camera but not with the naked eye? | [
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Physics | why do gears multiply forces ? | [
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Technology | How do bits in a computer become meaningful to human beings? | [
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Economics | What kind of power do the board of directors have over an 'average' company? | [
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Economics | How do companies make money from Product Placements in movies? I've never seen a product in a movie and wanted to buy it, so what positive (or negative) impact does it have for them? | [
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Physics | What is this sun lockdown/solar minimum I’m hearing about and how will it affect us on Earth? | [
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Psychology | What is it about human psychology that causes us to find games like Candy Crush, Tetris, etc so satisfying? | [
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Physics | Why does lightning has to travel in such complicated patterns, why doesn’t it just go in a straight line? | [
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Physics | Why does the light from a blue LED light seem to sit offset from the source itself? | [
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Biology | What happens to the human body that makes it feel like cold isn't cold? | [
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Physics | What is it about the dynamics of an explosion that causes damage, especially the impact damage on the human body? | [
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Physics | Why can’t people who are in danger of drowning just do the starfish thing and float on their backs? Why do they have to tread water? | [
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Economics | What is gentrification? Why do people think it’s good or bad? | [
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Technology | How does a virus like "Petya" lock a computer so that it can't just simply be deleted, and how do the makers receive the ransom money without their identities being disclosed? | [
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Biology | Why can babies learn to speak a language just by being exposed to it regularly for a couple of months but adults can't? | [
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Technology | Where are backdoors /security flaws from ? | [
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Other | Why do you often hit a motivational wall before doing the last part of a task? | [
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Other | How do breweries and wineries maintain a consistent flavor profile for their products, year after year? | [
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Biology | How exactly does aging of cells work and how come some organisms get to live really long lives and some age very fast? | [
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Chemistry | Why does tap water (and fountain water) taste different in different cities even though I'm in the same state? | [
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Physics | Why is water 'harder than concrete' if you fall into it from a great height? | [
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Other | How did the blue raspberry flavor come about? | [
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Economics | How exactly did privatization of student loan debt in the US affect tuition rates? | [
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Technology | is it more efficient to turn off your heat or to turn it down when going to sleep/leaving your home for long periods of time? | [
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Biology | why do our nails curl round when they're extremely long? | [
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Biology | Why does some face wash bring out more acne even if it considered harsher for you skin? | [
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Economics | If wealth was equally distributed throughout a first World country, what would the quality if life be like for any given individual? | [
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Physics | How can we split an atom of atoms technically never touch? | [
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Technology | How do apple/google maps know where traffic is and how quickly can it be worked out? | [
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Mathematics | Why is it mathematically impossible to solve polynomials of degree 5 or higher? | [
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Economics | Why does money "adjusted for inflation" still lack purchasing power? | [
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Biology | How does your body know to increase the amount you have to go to the bathroom, the closer you get to your house? | [
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Technology | The cult of Volvo owners. What makes Volvos so beloved? What makes them preferable/superior to other manufacturers? | [
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Earth Science | Why are there sudden changes of temperature when you’re walking near a running body of water? | [
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Biology | How do growth spurts actually work, and why does such a drastic jump in height/size not happen at any other point during human development? | [
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Biology | Why does something just smelling/tasting bad make some people physically sick, even though they haven't consumed any of the item in question? | [
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Economics | How do investment firms work? | [
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Other | Why do some states require you to reveal your identity when you win the lottery? | [
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Other | What purpose do silent letters in words serve? | [
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Technology | How an adblock block the ads? | [
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Mathematics | how do random number generators work? | [
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Chemistry | why is the perfect ratio of oxygen to hydrogen in rocket combustion 6:1 and not 8:1? | [
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Biology | If a chimp of average intelligence is about as intelligent as your average 3 year old, what's the barrier keeping a truly exceptional chimp from being as bright as an average adult? | [
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Economics | What's the difference between a Roth Ira and a Traditional Ira? How do they work? | [
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Technology | how do Android phones get slower over the years? | [
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Other | What does a a movie producer actually do for the movie? | [
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Technology | How is it possible that Next Gen Graphics Engines can render billions of triangles, dynamic lighting, DOF etc at 60fps+ but making a single frame with similar settings in a 3D rendering program would take minute to hours to render? | [
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Biology | Why do white people exist? | [
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Technology | Why do we have to limit clock speed on processors? | [
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Other | If a bathroom is full of steam why does a towel not get saturated absorbing all the water in the air and can still dry someone off? | [
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Biology | Do people with perfect pitch actually hear themselves perfectly or do they have a different talent? | [
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Economics | Why was our recent 'economic growth' just a bubble and not real growth of the economy? | [
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Economics | When a company gets bought out, how do they (the bought company) decide where the money goes? | [
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Other | In music theory, what determines a chord's name? | [
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Economics | During, for example, the Crash of 1929, if everyone is selling their stocks, who buys them? | [
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Physics | How come your glasses don't focus light and burn your cheek from the sun? | [
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Earth Science | how do scientists know the Earth's core is liquid if no one has ever seen it or extracted a sample? | [
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Biology | What happens when somebody drinks themselves to death by drinking too much alcohol in a short period of time? | [
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Biology | What exactly is an abscess, and when/why does it need to be drained? | [
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Technology | Why are people hating on Apple for removing Fortnite? | [
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Technology | Why do CT scans spin in circles? I just don’t understand why you need to go into a really loud scary tube rather than just getting a standard x-ray? | [
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Economics | How do we determine room occupancy limits for a business, and are they accurate? | [
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Other | What makes a ‘salad’ a salad? | [
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Physics | How did scientist find out about the planets in our solar system? | [
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Chemistry | If charcoal is burned wood, how does it burn again in the BBQ? | [
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Economics | Why do single taxpayers in the US have to pay more federal taxes than married taxpayers? | [
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Chemistry | Why are pills 💊 multi colored? Why not just have the entire pill be like one color? | [
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Biology | How does radiation work in killing you? | [
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Biology | Why do the inside of your ears get sweaty and itchy if you have earbuds in after a while? | [
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Other | What are shepherd tones ? | [
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Other | Did people during The Medieval Ages know about ancient Greeks,Romans? | [
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Mathematics | Why do we call 3D functions "vector functions" and call its output "a set of vectors"? | [
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Other | What is the line between the first amendment and hate crimes? | [
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Technology | why do blow dryers consume so much power? | [
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Chemistry | Which of the two types of weapons, chemical and biological, is more lethal and effective in the long run? | [
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Technology | How exactly do you get code onto other pieces of tech? | [
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