Everyday Life
Exploring "Why" questions about Everyday Life
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Why does it seem like soap operas are filmed with different cameras than regular shows?
Soap operas tend to be filmed on video with no post-processing to speak of, so the feeling is similar to news shows, reality shows, etc. They are also filmed in higher frame rates which, as it turns o
Why did I have to throw away the lid from my water bottle going into a stadium in Hamburg?
Removing the lid hampers the bottles ability to be used for other nefarious-type uses. It's hard to throw water bottles at the field/other team/your brother-in-law if most of the liquid and subsequent
Why does (fire) cooked food taste better than raw food (mostly)?
> Is it an evolutionary thing so that we cook our food more? Evolution works in a kind of after the fact way. Those who cooked more survived better and thus reproduced more.
Why does ice taste bad with milk, even though it is great with every other cold beverage?
Personally I enjoy ice in my milk, I like it to be ice cold and don't mind if it'd a tad watered down at the end
Why can blank CD’s hold the same length of music at different bitrates?
> why can a CD that can hold 80 minutes of 320 kbps not otherwise hold 200 minutes of 128 kbps? Because CD audio doesn't have a bitrate the way MP3s do. It's raw, uncompressed audio (essentially th
Why do different foods of the same mass have different amounts of calories?
Your body isn't converting all the mass of a burger into energy lol. Only some of the energy bound up in food is utilized by your body, and **none** of it comes from converting mass into energy. Your
Why we get the sudden urge to pee when our body comes in contact with water, eg swimming pools, shower.
When you come in contact with water, or even when you see some nice amount of water, your brain automatically thinks you are somehow going to ingest that water, and it cuts the supply of a certain hor
Why do Americans dye their cheese orange?
What color is cheddar cheese where you come from? All cheese is naturally white, or off white, or even a golden yellow, depending on the type of milk used. But you'll never find a cow that gives orang
Why is cheese sometimes crunchy/gritty? And what causes that texture?
The crunchiness is caused by crystals of various substances that form as the cheese dries. They start out dissolved in water in the cheese, but as the water evaporates, they start to crystallize. Usua
Why is it that some parents children look extremley alike, and other parents children don’t even look related?
recessive genes my friend. My dad is 5'9", white, green eyes and brown hair, my mom is 5'5", black, hazel eyes and "burgundy" hair. I am 6'1" white blonde hair blue eyes.