General Knowledge
Exploring "Why" questions about General Knowledge
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Why don’t people questioned by ISIS pretend to be Sunni?
Sometimes they can determine likely sect-membership by names and/or addresses/neighborhoods/towns and/or even jobs. But, with more certainty, they ask detailed and possibly obscure questions about rel
Why do movies and shows have to blur out or block out company names on products?
In addition to product placement fees, there's also the reverse that if it isn't blocked out and the product is featured and doesnt like it, then they could always sue.
Why are we grossed out by the thought of our family members having sex or masturbating?
For sexually reproducing species, incest is often problematic because closely related family members are likely to share genetic problems with you that are then exacerbated in the children of incestuo
Why do doctors stop applying a defibrillator after a couple of tries?
Same reason you don't keep turning the ignition key for hours in your car when it won't start -- there's no point in doing it, it won't get better.
why is it woman and children first during natural disasters
For women: Women are needed for reproduction and rebuilding of the human race. One male can impregnate a lot of females to ensure that life goes on. If there is only one female and hundreds of males,
Why does a broken mirror show many tiny images instead of one image with lots of cracks?
The glass is all pointing in slightly different directions, and so the light reflected off of each little surface is coming from a different place before being reflected to your eye.
Why do most porn sites not use HTTPS?
If you were to submit your credit card information on the internet, the information needs to go from your computer to the server. What hackers can do is to "sniff" the traffic, and decode the informat
Why do we make the sound “Ow!” when we get hurt as opposed to any other noise?
Because that's what we observed our surroundings do when we were babies. It's culture. Like how many cultures have different ways to articulate animal sounds.
Why do Jehovah Witnesses not celebrate Holidays?
exJW here. We avoided Easter because we celebrate the last supper in form of The Memorial, instead of Jesus' resurrection. As for the rest of the main holidays, we avoided Christmas due to its roots i
why does the quick-E-mart on the corner sell copper scrubbers with the drug paraphernalia?
Copper scrubbers are an essential part of a homemade crack pipe. You buy one of those little roses in a glass tube, take the ends off, toss the rose, shove a little copper scrubber in, insert crack, a