Everyday Life
Exploring "Why" questions about Everyday Life
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why do younger people start off enjoying very sweet food, but as we age, very bitter, tangy foods become more preferable?
Taste buds numb over time. You'll notice grandma salts the shit out of her food. Kids' tastebuds are over sensitive so acidic and spicy foods are like loud music for their tongues.
why do some bottles of alcohol have flow regulators/fun stoppers/plastic thingy at the tip of the bottle? And some don’t?
ITT: People who think the OP is asking about those add-on pour spouts that bartenders use. We are talking about the plastic filter/screen thingy that is *inside* the top of the bottle, *underneath* th
Why would a British Candy bar have different nutrition facts when sold in the USA on the exact same bar?
1: they aren't the same bar, just because they're called the same thing. 2: different regulatory requirements for what needs to be listed and how accurate it needs to be. Maybe the US doesn't require
why drinking alcohol would/wouldn’t help with food poisoning or other type of infection in the GI tract.
If you were drinking enough alcohol to sterilize your GI tract you'd probably have other problems more serious than gastroenteritis or whatever you had.
Why did Google Fiber’s replacement “Google Wireless Broadband” fail to expand/develop more?
Google probably realized that it wasn't going to be as profitable as they expected and decided to stop dealing with the hassle that is being an ISP with physical lines to maintain
Why can’t people drink the water in Mexico but fruit that was grown in Mexico and watered with non filtered water is ok to eat?
The water is a problem because of bacteria. Bacteria will not survive being absorbed by the roots of a plant and turned into fruit. Water sprayed on the surface of fruit could potentially be a problem
Why is it when someone drinks a cup of coffee they might get sleepy but the same doesn’t happen with energy drinks?
It sometimes does, especially in people with atypical responses to caffeine, such as those with ADHD. Some folks with ADHD self medicate with energy drinks rather than taking a prescription stimulant
Why do roads have unnecessary bends?
I think the premise is false - just because it seems unnecessary, it's highly unlikely anybody is going to build needlessly curvy roads. Obvious factors would be geography (Sometimes cheaper to simply
Why does heating the house to 70 degrees feel so different from cooling the house to 70 degrees?
Because it's impossible to maintain the room's temperature at exactly 70°F (for a system that switches on and off periodically). In reality, when heating you heat the room to around 73°F, and when coo
Why is it bad to remove a flash drive without ejecting it first?
It's actually not really bad usually. But when its in the process of writing something on it and you interrupt it you can corrupt the data and the ultimate worst case scenario would be that the flash