General Knowledge
Exploring "Why" questions about General Knowledge
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Why is a smart and dumb friendship duo of two people always portrayed on TV?
At least in TV land, usually the "dumb" person is the audience stand in. They ask questions the audience night want to know the answers to which gives the smart person a reason to explain what they're
Why does it seem like bees are attracted to plastic children playgrounds?
Probably because bees are attracted to bright coloured flowers, therefore also attracted the bright colours of the plastic.
Why are there no gray people?
There are in-between colored people; they’re brown, not grey. White people aren’t ivory white, and black people aren’t ebony black; we’ve got some reddish hue that shows through our skin. Black people
Why does my stationary leg hurt when I ride a skateboard?
More to the point, it is almost like doing a one legged squat. In addition to holding all your weight up, you are lowering yourself several inches (with one leg) each time you kick/push with the other
Why do Americans use ‘mom’ and not mum also change other words?
For the same reason you don't use Ye Old English like you read in Shakespeare's plays, or even the most obscure English from way before that. Language change, and that's fleek, it's lit, it's groovy,
Why does it always seem like the world is falling apart?
Information isn't just at your fingertips, it's being shotgun blasted into your retinas. Your attention span is a hot commodity, so everyone with something to say is going to radicalize it so you take
Why do colors combine to make other colors?
Colors are a response your brain makes to picking up certain wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation striking receptor cells in your brain. When this happens, those cells send signals to your brain,
Why do vehicles that carry a lot of people not require seatbelts?
I asked a school-bus driver once about this, and he replied that kids would use the seat belts as weapons. I, for one, could definitely see my teenage self smacking my seatmate with a seatbelt.
Why is longitude measured in non-parallel lines coming from the poles instead of in parallel circles emanating from the Prime Meridian and IDL?
One of these ways is really easy and convenient for plotting a map and navigating. The other is really, really, really annoying. If you plotted the parallel circles on a flat map, you would get two se
Why is Obamacare/Affordable Care Act so harshly criticized?
Some people are against the philosophy of it, i.e. having the government involved in their health. Others have practical issues with introducing a new bureaucracy to our ever-growing government/defici