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Why are people right-handed or left-handed? Is it a genetic thing or something you pick up on your own?
It is entirely evolutionary. Some evidence is coming to light that handedness used to be split exactly 50/50, but when the speech center of the brain started to enlarge a few hundred thousand years ag
Why does the US have so many mattress stores?
That's like asking why there are so many brands of toilet paper. Given the sheer number of people who use them, multiplied by how often you replace them, there
READ THE INVESTIGATION arrow_right_altWhy is it that on most fans, the switch is ordered as off, high, medium, and low?
When you turn the fan on, the motor that powers the fan is running at max speed. When you turn the fan to medium or low, the motor is slowed down. Running the fan at the maximum speed of the motor is
Why does it burn if you burp through your nose after drinking something carbonated?
They contain small amounts of carbonic acid and there will be some of this left in the gas that you release. Your nose is far more sensitive to such things than your mouth is, so you feel the acid bur
Why do people fall into comas? What makes some people miraculously wake up all on their own?
There are a hundred reasons why someone might be in a coma, from kidney failure to infection to stroke to whatever. Some people wake up when their bodies heal from these injuries. Very rarely does som
why smoking weed gives me major anxiety instead of helping it
Unfortunately, drugs effect everyone differently. This goes for "illegal" and legal drugs and just has a lot to do with how your body metabolizes the drug (in this case the effect of THC) on your body
Why MLB parks are different lengths and yet, baseball tries so hard to keep even and accurate statistics with Homeruns
/u/upvoter222 makes good points, but to add a bit on that: A smaller ballpark does not necessarily mean the odds of hitting home runs is greater. For example, Coors Field is actually pretty average re
why do we picture the earth as the northern hemisphere facing upwards rather than downwards?
Generally, the most powerful nations in the world have been in the northern hemisphere. They made the maps so they put themselves at the top.
