History
Exploring "Why" questions about History
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Why does smoking cigarettes make my hangover seem a thousand times worse?
You need water and salt to replace what you lost metabolizing alcohol, instead you put nicotine in your system, further dehydrating you and causing your metabolism to kick in to high gear again. Eat s
Why is cooking live lobster or crab not considered animal cruelty?
If boiling a lobster alive was animal cruelty, then poisoning cockroaches would also be animal cruelty. Why do people care about lobsters, but not other arthropods with practically identical nervous s
Why is the Nanking massacre so controversial among the Chinese and Japanese? Which is correct?
considering there are living witnesses to some of the atrocities, it's hard to deny atrocities happened. the Japanese story says there was no high level orders. and whatever stories of individual sold
Why is it that when I watch American police shows, they always get people to perform sobriety tests like ‘walking the line.’ In Australia we use a breathalyser, surely this is easier?
Typically, a cop in the US will do both for several reasons. 1) Breathalyzer results aren't always permissible in court 2) Some people become incapable of driving at less than the .08 BAC threshold. U
Why cracking knuckles has a cooldown timer.
The crashing sound is a result of dissolved gasses in your cartilage escaping. Since these gasses have already escaped, and they're was no time for more to dissolve, it results in a "cooldown" period.
Why, when I scroll back 10 seconds on Netflix / Youtube, does the whole freaking film have to reload?
It's because the video is only loaded into temporary memory. As soon as its been read, it is discarded to make way for the following segment.
Why do we all have unique voices and sound different when talking?
A have a follow up question. How come a female can have a deeper tone than a male but i can still tell which is female and male most of the time
Why do schools read classic books like, The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, and War and Peace, but don’t watch classic movies like Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, or Citizen Kane?
It has to do with the way the education system evolved. The biggest goal of the early public education system was literacy. Most citizens were illiterate, and this was bad for the citizens and bad for
Why is it that anytime I’m interested/thinking about a certain thing, I find references to them in real life?
Basically you weren't looking for it before, but now that its in your subconscious, you notice and process it, giving the illusion of frequency. This is called the [Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon](_URL_0_)
why do British people sound British while talking, but sound like they are from America when singing?
When people sing, they tend to enunciate more clearly. This could explain why British people sound more understandable to you when singing. However, there are many British singers who DO use their typ