Everyday Life
Exploring "Why" questions about Everyday Life
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Why are all of my dishes dry after running the dishwasher, except my Tupperware?
Heat. Ceramic and metal items get and stay hot enough in the dry cycle for the water to evaporate.
Why are our eyes extremely sensitive to foreign objects? (Shampoo, eyelashes, poolwater, etc.)
Because your eyes are really important, they need to be hyper aware of when things threaten them, and they tear up to remove whatever is in them
Why do large semis shake your car when you drive past them?
[Vortex shedding](_URL_0_) Because semi's are not very streamlined the air rushing past them ends up in a series of vortices. As these vortices pass you, your car is alternately sucked toward and blow
Why is salt added to boiling vegetables?
I'm pretty sure salt is added to boiling vegetables just for flavour rather than for some reason like this. If you boil something it *is* going to lose flavour into the water (you'd be making very wea
Why do some countries have toilet bowls with more water than others?
Have you seen a map of your country? It's mostly a desert in the middle and all the settlements are around the coast. You don't have much fresh water.
Why are salt and pepper such ubiquitous ingredients in cooking?
The human sense of taste has evolved to enjoy salt, because salt is important for your body to keep functioning. But that's not the only cool thing it does, it also seems to suppress our perception of
Why do the majority of Americans drive automatic cars as opposed to manual (stick shift) cars?
European here. The question is, why does the majority of us still prefer manual cars? I had a manual car, because it's the norm.
Why do Canadian car models use slightly different icons than the other NA country counterparts?
it is the other way around, there are standardized universal symbols/icons for stuff in a car used by car manufacturers in almost all their cars. but America require them to be written in English, i t
Why are there so many different forms of pasta? Isn’t it all the same stuff? What’s the difference?
Different shapes are intended to work [together with different sauces](_URL_0_) to improve flavour, supposedly. Also there's a lot of different pasta with stuffing inside and some types with unusual i
Why don’t they fill my drinks up all the way at drive-throughs?
Speed. It takes minute sometimes for the suds to subside in your Coke. A minute that people sit and fuss about and corporate takes notice