General Knowledge
Exploring "Why" questions about General Knowledge
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Why Gluten-Free diets are so popular now
Eating a gluten-free diet is both extremely strict and generally devoid of foods that the average American binge eats. Most of the success of the diet isn't specifically due to the absence of gluten,
Why do fan power knobs go 0-3-2-1
Things like well pumps have electric motors like fans do. They require a capacitor to get the motor going and then the normal current can sustain it. Like how you can't start in 5th gear but you can d
Why drug treatment seems to be so popular in US for various psychological disorders ?
Because it makes people money, and it's the answer people want to hear. Most people don't want to be told that dealing with certain problems is going to take an immense amount of work and time, that t
Why is Meth more pervasive in suburbs/rural communities and Heroin in more urban ones?
I do not know if that is true, but I do know making meth stinks up to high heavens, so areas with low population densities are easier for hiding its production. Heroin needs to be shipped from more or
why aren’t AK47’s an “accurate” rifle
1. AK-47's distance between the sight and post is very short which makes it so that for longer ranges, it is extremely difficult to line up an accurate shot as you are more likely to be misaligned wit
Why intervention is Libya considered a failure despite successfully saving human lives and toppling a brutal dictatorship?
Critics point to the emergence of a largely lawless Libya which is in the control of various militias. This had led to the state becoming a prime breeding ground for radical groups to base themselves
Why are circuit lines sometimes squiggly?
It is so that every lane takes the same time as the others. They are squiggly because those memory components have a shorter distance than others and to have them all run at the same speed, so to get
Why is the Word “Character” Pronounced as “Ka” racter and not “Cha”racter ?
Character and chameleon come from Greek root words. When the Greek word was adopted into our alphabet the "ka" sound was written as "ch". Champion and Chalk came from Latin and over time were pronounc
Why do the front wheels of big trucks have such big convex hubcaps and lugnuts?
The commonality across all those big trucks having a doubled rear wheel. On a doubled wheel, you need to be able to bolt the two wheels together to be secure them. The rims budge out so they can touch
Why do we have two small nostrils and not one larger nostril?
It's usually not noticeable unless you sniff harshly, but one nostril is usually more open and free-flowing than the other. The nostril that's closed usually swaps back and forth after several hours t