General Knowledge
Exploring "Why" questions about General Knowledge
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Why do drums hold 55 gallons?
A standard drum is actually designed to hold 200 litres (a nice round number) with a little air space on top. That works out to about 55 gallons.
why are YouTube videos not available to My country (u.s)
Copyright issues. One company might have copyright laws registered in the US, but not in, say, Russia. So Youtube might block that video in the US because the company can sue them for hosting the vide
Why Do Some Sites Require Credit Card CCV Numbers, and Others (like Amazon) Do Not?
The CVV2 number isn't *required* to charge the card, but it reduces the risk of fraud. If the transaction is fraudulent, the merchant might end up having to pay fees or fines to their payment processo
Why do people say “What is —–” on jeopardy
The guy who invented jeopardy was on the daily show once, and he explained it as follows. He said that jeopardy was one of the first attempts to have a real quiz show after the big quiz show scandals
Why are the insides of Ovens Dark and Not Metallic or Mirror Like?
How often do you polish the inside of your oven? I suspect a big reason would be just to keep the interior from quickly looking horrible.
Why do we pronounce “colonel” as “curnel/kernal?”
The same reason we in Britain pronounce "Lieutenant" as "Leftenant". That's the way the word was said when we stole it off the French.
Why does the USA have CIA,NSA,FBI?
FBI is internal, CIA is external, and NSA is oriented more toward signals intelligence than spies. Each has their own role but conceptually there is a lot of overlap and sharing of resources.
why are transgender issues suddenly all over the place?
Causes are fashion for many people. And transgender issues are currently the most fashionable. I say this as someone who fully believes that trans people deserve equality and freedom from persecution,
Why can’t Mexico do anything to stop the drug cartels?
The cartels have tons of money, local support in some areas, and a small army worth of mercenaries. Mexico is up against a very difficult task. America's hunger for drugs is what finances the cartels,
Why it’s so difficult to make Xbox 360/PS3 emulators for PC.
Well first off an Emulator for a game console is a software that is replicating the hardware that is being used in the console and its operating system. Old machines we're easy to do this with such as