General Knowledge
Exploring "Why" questions about General Knowledge
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Why is it acceptable for smokers to take additional breaks at work?
It isnt! I found out that as a non-smoker, if you start hanging out with the smokers during their "breaks", it will cast a negative light on their excessive breaks and bring about enforcement of estab
Why hasn’t there been a viable 3rd Party in American politics to date?
It's because of the "first past the post" method of determining the winner. Whoever gets the most votes wins, rather than the candidate having to secure a simple majority of 50% plus one. Third partie
Why are Canada Geese called such instead of Canadian Geese?
Because it's their name, not their nationality. If I live in New York, and my name is Bob France, you wouldn't call me French.
why is human excrement brown?
There are a number of reason it's brown but the biggest contributor would be the presence of bilirubin. Bilirubin is a chemical that comes out of dead red blood cells. Basically, your poo includes exp
Why do tickets dispensed by arcade machines always seem to arrange themselves into neat piles?
One of the ways tickets can come from the factory is in accordion-folded stacks. (The other is on spools.) After they're fed out of the machine, the tend to fold back the way they were.
Why do planes need to be pressurized?
At high altitudes the atmospheric pressure is very low - there's less air than there is down at the surface. If the plane wasn't pressurized there wouldn't be enough air to breathe.
Why did society’s view of ‘The Future’ change from being classically futuristic to being post-apocalyptic?
Probably the Cold War if it had to be ONE AND ONLY ONE thing, may be more accurate to just say nuclear weapons in general. Also I think the upheaval and social restructuring that went on in the 60's,
Why do people’s voices get super deep/groggy in the mornings?
I looked this up because I was curious. Basically it's gunk (phlegm?) that builds up in your throat overnight from your horizontal position, then goes away once you're upright.
Why is the west aligned Shia Islam, but support Sunni Islam?
Whether they are Sunni, Shia, or any other religious denomination is purely incidental. The US Government does not lend support based on compatibility with western value systems. Foreign relations is
Why do people get drunk quicker / easier in high altitudes? (Colorado, etc)
[You don't](_URL_0_). > In a series of studies for the Federal Aviation Administration, scientists simulated the effects of altitude, performing blood alcohol tests on groups of subjects who drank