General Knowledge
Exploring "Why" questions about General Knowledge
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Why are most television shows made to censor curse words and other possible offensive vocabulary, but are allowed to show the visual representation of things along the same lines as the omitted/edi…
because children who don't always necessarily understand whats going on under the covers it could go over their heads and they wont realize it was a rude scene but if its swearing or talking about sex
Why do senators and representatives rarely represent the state that they are born in?
Americans tend to move quite a bit. This puts us in the position of being able to choose where we want to run for office from. A politician may not have views that align exactly with their "home" stat
Why does nothing grow in the sand at the beach?
First of all, [they do]( _URL_0_). The main reason beaches don't get a lot of plant growth is twofold: erosion and salinity. The constant battering of the waves and the tides means the sand of beaches
Why are some pages “intentionally left blank” in some books?
Look at a book from the top of the spine sometime - you will see that the paper is glued in bundles - 8 sheet/16 pages per bundle. It is very cheap to make books with these bundles, so almost all book
Why are some apples crisp and some mushy, even within the same variety?
Because all apples are inferior to honey crisp! But probably age picked. They all just get jumbled up together so you could have apples picked one time, and apples from two months earlier in the same
Why do most promotions say “Purchase Not Necessary”?
If a purchase is necessary to enter the game of chance the promotion is classified as a lottery. Some governments, such as the US and the UK, deem as illegal. You should be able to get a piece for fre
Why aren’t countries referred to by the native word for them by the other countries?
Many languages have sounds that other languages don't. It's why many people with the same first language have similar accents in a second language (ex: asians and 'L' sound). If the sound or technique
Why do guitars have 6 strings? Wouldn’t it be better if they had 5 because we have 5 fingers?
It has nothing to do with number of Fingers, you can use different methods of strumming and picking that are way more efficient than assigning one string to each finger. Its more a matter of Sound, th
Why is it that pretty much everyone enjoys music?
I used to work on an assembly line and we were allowed to have small radios on our benches while we worked. My supervisor was a really cranky old lady that just never seemed happy about anything. I wa
Why do people say the alarm goes “off” when really it comes “on”?
The alarm is always "on" looking for a certain stimulus. When it sees that stimulus, it turns "off".