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32wvn8 | what's the difference between a forest and a wood? | explainlikeimfive | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/32wvn8/eli5_whats_the_difference_between_a_forest_and_a/ | {
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1yc9zg | Are there any good source material on the Warsaw Ghetto to be had online? | Hi guys, I have a project I'm working on which requires unbiased primary sources on the Warsaw ghetto (demographics, population density, supplies, mortality rates, etc.). I've been scouring the net and my library for information about it, but I mostly seem to find holocaust denialist websites and websites referring to ... | AskHistorians | http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1yc9zg/are_there_any_good_source_material_on_the_warsaw/ | {
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elzx1n | we do we instinctively grab a part of our body after it is hurt? | I just tweaked my wrist and my immediate reaction was to grasp it. I have no idea if grabbing it actually does anything, but it seems to be a natural reaction for most people when a body part hurts. Why is that? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/elzx1n/eli5_we_do_we_instinctively_grab_a_part_of_our/ | {
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1j7pwx | Following the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment, were there any cases of slave-owners attempting to continue the practice illegally? | I'm curious as to whether there were any remote corners of The South where slaveowners evaded the government and continued to hold slaves for a few months or even years after the Thirteenth Amendment was passed. Black workers were still treated terribly of course, and human trafficking via criminal organisations persis... | AskHistorians | http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1j7pwx/following_the_passing_of_the_thirteenth_amendment/ | {
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3qr7uu | In medieval and pre-modern times, political entities made marriage pacts between heirs in order to secure peace. Often times, this didn't last for more than 20 years, if not even less. Why did they even bother? | this peace didn't last*... | AskHistorians | https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3qr7uu/in_medieval_and_premodern_times_political/ | {
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fvbxhi | What happened to German and Italian volunteers in the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War after they were disbanded in 1938? | AskHistorians | https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/fvbxhi/what_happened_to_german_and_italian_volunteers_in/ | {
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31qce9 | What (if anything) did Native Americans think lay beyond the Pacific and Atlantic oceans? | Were there any religious or cultural assumptions about it being the edge of the world? Was there any speculation about there being other continents and civilizations? Mostly thinking of North America but if Central and South Americans had any ideas then I'd be interested to hear those too. | AskHistorians | http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/31qce9/what_if_anything_did_native_americans_think_lay/ | {
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11j8u0 | Is it possible that in the distant future, an organism that exists right now on Earth, will evolve to the point that it can be considered intelligent life? Which animal comes the closest? | askscience | http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/11j8u0/is_it_possible_that_in_the_distant_future_an/ | {
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1qfda2 | How much can you learn from someone's genome? | I've heard you can learn id someone by looking at their DNA, but what else can you learn if you know what to look for? | askscience | http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1qfda2/how_much_can_you_learn_from_someones_genome/ | {
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3s6g1h | why are hispanics included as whites in statistical polls instead of being considered their own independent demographic like blacks or native americans? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3s6g1h/eli5_why_are_hispanics_included_as_whites_in/ | {
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3lv8jv | what causes "flashing lights", or blurry vision after strenuous physical activity? | Had this happen to my younger brother. My parents are convinced he has a concussion and are having him see multiple doctors and are preventing him from doing any physical activity until further notice, as well as most-likely inhibiting him from joining the wrestling team for his high school. I don't want this to happe... | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3lv8jv/eli5_what_causes_flashing_lights_or_blurry_vision/ | {
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1rwxa7 | if an ambulance on its way to a call witnesses an accident, what do they do? | explainlikeimfive | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1rwxa7/eli5_if_an_ambulance_on_its_way_to_a_call/ | {
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272ed8 | how do i know that i don't have depth perception? | Could I lack depth perception and just not know it? | explainlikeimfive | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/272ed8/eli5_how_do_i_know_that_i_dont_have_depth/ | {
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8oarq7 | since oil & water don't mix, how are essential oil soaks helpful? | Doesn't the oil just sit on the surface, like it looks, reaching the intended body parts only in the small area that intersects with the top of the water? Or does it slowly mix with the water? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/8oarq7/eli5_since_oil_water_dont_mix_how_are_essential/ | {
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75t27i | if a nuclear bomb is dropped on other nuclear bombs that are idle on the ground, will it create a double explosion or do these weapons need to become 'activated' in order for them to be able to detonate? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/75t27i/eli5_if_a_nuclear_bomb_is_dropped_on_other/ | {
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7wy34p | why do bottles of liquid have a dent/semi circle at the bottom of them? | My brother told me a while ago that it prevents it from exploding or something. Is there an act | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/7wy34p/eli5_why_do_bottles_of_liquid_have_a_dentsemi/ | {
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5by6yg | the dow futures is reported to have dropped 700 points already. what does that mean for retirement funds, the market in general, etc...? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/5by6yg/eli5_the_dow_futures_is_reported_to_have_dropped/ | {
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1nfs65 | During the Cold War period, was Able Archer and The Cuban Missle Crisis the peak of tensions? | Were there any events that normal citizens wouldn't know about that would be even more tense than those moments? | AskHistorians | http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1nfs65/during_the_cold_war_period_was_able_archer_and/ | {
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3cnjdg | what's in artificial food coloring that makes it so toxic to consume? | explainlikeimfive | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3cnjdg/eli5_whats_in_artificial_food_coloring_that_makes/ | {
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65gxj9 | why does it feel like your stomach drops when your adrenaline kicks in? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/65gxj9/eli5_why_does_it_feel_like_your_stomach_drops/ | {
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33eu1y | what happens to someone convicted of a felony that is going to die soon? | I'm curious to know, if someone is convicted of a felony and found guilty but is going to die soon, how does the justice system deal with it? I'm thinking of something like a person whom has cancer or some other non-contagious illness that will lead to their death in a foreseeable amount of time. Are there special pris... | explainlikeimfive | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/33eu1y/eli5_what_happens_to_someone_convicted_of_a/ | {
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3imr6u | Why can a person safely receive platelets donated by anyone, but can only receive a particular type of whole blood? | askscience | https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3imr6u/why_can_a_person_safely_receive_platelets_donated/ | {
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41k6y7 | why don't people get tolerance from orgasms like they do from drugs? | [deleted] | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/41k6y7/eli5_why_dont_people_get_tolerance_from_orgasms/ | {
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230tie | Is the shield wall fighting depicted on the show "Vikings" historically accurate? | It seems like they have made an effort to depict something other than usual hollywood 1v1 fighting but is it accurate for the times with them pushing as a group and occasionally creating gaps for people behind to stab/shoot? | AskHistorians | http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/230tie/is_the_shield_wall_fighting_depicted_on_the_show/ | {
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db5xd6 | what is the difference between inches, millimeters and caliber when talking about guns? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/db5xd6/eli5_what_is_the_difference_between_inches/ | {
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ca8tzl | why is hydrogen so common on earth and helium quite rare? | They are the two lightest elements and one atomic number apart. | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/ca8tzl/eli5_why_is_hydrogen_so_common_on_earth_and/ | {
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pmni3 | Why do the Russian scientists have to wait till December to study the water they took from Lake Vostok? (Lake under Antartica) | askscience | http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/pmni3/why_do_the_russian_scientists_have_to_wait_till/ | {
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1cpgy5 | I hear a lot about rape from the Red Army in Berlin during WWII. Did the German army (and SS) rape women too? If so, why isn't it talked about as much? | Particularly in their occupation of the Soviet Union, but in the rest of occupied Europe as well. I was just kind of shocked when I searched 'rape WWII Soviet women' on google and all that came up were articles about Soviet soldiers rapes. | AskHistorians | http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1cpgy5/i_hear_a_lot_about_rape_from_the_red_army_in/ | {
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7a7jmi | why is the greek language used in science so much? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/7a7jmi/eli5_why_is_the_greek_language_used_in_science_so/ | {
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1ukppx | Just finished watching "12 Years a Slave": Was life for slaves in the southern U.S. during the 1800's really as bad as these movies depict? What was the average life like for an average slave on an average plantation? | Believe me, not trying to undermine the abhorrence of slavery but these plantations in these slavery movies (Django, 12 Years...etc.) are always depicted so horribly, where the slave masters are literally the second coming of Hitler/Satan. I wonder if this done for effect because these are movies. I find it a bit hard ... | AskHistorians | http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1ukppx/just_finished_watching_12_years_a_slave_was_life/ | {
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5resu2 | why does sunset time sometimes decrease or increase by 2 minutes instead of 1? | it can get clogged and then decrease by 2 minutes
how is this so? if the earth spins once a day | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/5resu2/eli5_why_does_sunset_time_sometimes_decrease_or/ | {
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3ph28l | why do humans have fetishes and animals appear to do not? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3ph28l/eli5_why_do_humans_have_fetishes_and_animals/ | {
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7o45zk | Can you transmit the flu through semen? What about sweat? | Got into an interesting discussion with the wife about whether she could get my flu from a little WHOOPEE. Then I went to play hoops with friends and was wondering if my sweat could transmit it as well? | askscience | https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/7o45zk/can_you_transmit_the_flu_through_semen_what_about/ | {
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2qrl9b | Why are pipe organs used to play songs or jingles at hockey games? | AskHistorians | http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2qrl9b/why_are_pipe_organs_used_to_play_songs_or_jingles/ | {
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efpfyw | What was the Roman Empire's opinion of the crusades, and how did they feel about the outcomes? | AskHistorians | https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/efpfyw/what_was_the_roman_empires_opinion_of_the/ | {
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6szlkx | how are you assigned to classes in college? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6szlkx/eli5_how_are_you_assigned_to_classes_in_college/ | {
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9535js | why does throwing an extremely light object, for example a golf ball, strain the arm as opposed to a baseball that is relative in mass? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/9535js/eli5_why_does_throwing_an_extremely_light_object/ | {
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10p2r8 | Why is there so much Carbon-14 in these fossils? | I searched this sub for similar posts. There were some close matches but nothing regarding fossils with such a high concentration of C14.
Here is the article: _URL_0_
This topic was discussed over in /r/DebateAChristian, and I was asked to pose this question to the experts.
Thanks in advance.
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4tob1b | As the needle approaches the centre of a record, its speed increases, right? Are the grooves cut differently towards the middle of a record to account for this? | Is it magic or is it science?
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2p89e4 | In a chemical reaction, if the product has a lower energy than the reactant, why doesn't all reactant convert to product? | If there is a reaction: A-- > B and B is more stable or has a lower energy than A, then the equilibrium position will typically be more B than A. But, why doesn't all A convert to B if B has lower energy? | askscience | http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2p89e4/in_a_chemical_reaction_if_the_product_has_a_lower/ | {
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60avpy | Why is there such a thing as "critical mass" for a radioactive material? Why couldn't the chain reaction sustain itself with less mass than the critical amount? How is this mass calculated? | askscience | https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/60avpy/why_is_there_such_a_thing_as_critical_mass_for_a/ | {
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5uk349 | how do hackers hack a web cam? | And is it possible for them to record without the indicator light turning on?
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35ej48 | Do Historians studying Colonial America *need* to be fluent in Native American Languages? | I'm an undergraduate History student interested in studying Colonial America (and more specifically, relations between Europeans and Natives) as a graduate student. All programs I've looked into require reading proficiency in only one language (I'm learning French).
I've had it mentioned to me that as a Historian of ... | AskHistorians | http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/35ej48/do_historians_studying_colonial_america_need_to/ | {
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144z2t | Will Solar Energy Ever Surpass the Efficiency of Fossil Fuels and Will it be a Viable Source of Energy for the Future? | I read [here](_URL_0_) that photovoltaic cells are ~13-16% efficient (not sure how accurate that is). It got me thinking because I watched [this](_URL_1_) and I was put under the impression that fossil fuels are extremely efficient. Is the efficiency of a photovoltaic cell and/or battery holding us back from a solar en... | askscience | http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/144z2t/will_solar_energy_ever_surpass_the_efficiency_of/ | {
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3bn75c | why do marathoners and triathletes tend to have small body frames? | explainlikeimfive | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3bn75c/eli5why_do_marathoners_and_triathletes_tend_to/ | {
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3oux22 | How is the primality of extremely large numbers tested/proven? | There are know primes with few million digits. How do we actually know this numbers are indeed prime? | askscience | https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3oux22/how_is_the_primality_of_extremely_large_numbers/ | {
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kb7n7 | Is MDMA really harmless? | I keep hearing that it is. Then there's [this picture](_URL_0_) from The Lancet.
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fs4px3 | what is economic contagion? | Don't want to bring any recent news, but I hear about this phrase called "Economic Contagion".
Could somebody please explain to me what this means and why does it have to do with a global economic crisis? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/fs4px3/eli5_what_is_economic_contagion/ | {
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25psxq | Why is there such a hard cut-off in the glacial lakes in Canada and northern US? | I'm from north eastern Indiana, and there are still a sort of large number of lakes around where I'm from. I go to (went to) school at Purdue, and there are no lakes, but there is the Wabash River. If you keep going north, it is lakes all day, all the way up to the north pole, with ever increasing frequency.
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2c16kp | How can fish swim their entire lives? | I know that not all fish need to keep moving in order to prevent suffocation, but that some fish do. For the ones who do - how are they able to swim their entire lives? I realise that fish are perfectly adapted for life in the water, and that they probably use very little energy by swimming, but surely even then their ... | askscience | http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2c16kp/how_can_fish_swim_their_entire_lives/ | {
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3j5hm7 | What role did pike phalanxes play in late 16th and 17th century warfare? | With the prevalence of firearms and artillery, it seems to me like dense formations of pikemen would be slaughtered on a battlefield in the late 1600's. My question is: How would a typical commander of the time deploy and utilize his pike infantry effectively? | AskHistorians | https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3j5hm7/what_role_did_pike_phalanxes_play_in_late_16th/ | {
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3tu0f3 | how someone like marvel can copyright something like thor and loki? | These are creations/myths that are centuries old. How can you just lay claim to them? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3tu0f3/eli5how_someone_like_marvel_can_copyright/ | {
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216k2t | appears to be water on the road ahead. | When you're driving on a flat road and it appears to be covered in water only to disappear as you move closer. | explainlikeimfive | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/216k2t/eli5_appears_to_be_water_on_the_road_ahead/ | {
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ikjza | If deaf people put their fingers against the diaphragm on a speaker, could they "feel" the music? | [Diaphragm](_URL_0_) | askscience | http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/ikjza/if_deaf_people_put_their_fingers_against_the/ | {
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43769n | why do only some animals have recreational sex, while other animals only have sex purely with the intent of reproduction? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/43769n/eli5_why_do_only_some_animals_have_recreational/ | {
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hu6z3 | Is it really possible to colonize other planets considering the laws of special/general relativity? | When I was in high school I read Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe" and I remember it crushing my dreams of an intergalactic future. Specifically, even if we could somehow create spaceships that flew fast enough to move between solar systems or galaxies, the time paradox (or whatever) would mean that by the time I l... | askscience | http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/hu6z3/is_it_really_possible_to_colonize_other_planets/ | {
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e7ptdq | why don’t all phone services send texts over the internet (like apple’s imessage does)? | explainlikeimfive | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/e7ptdq/eli5_why_dont_all_phone_services_send_texts_over/ | {
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2vmvdt | Did fighting cease at night during the Battle of Stalingrad, or did soldiers fight 24 hours a day? | AskHistorians | http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2vmvdt/did_fighting_cease_at_night_during_the_battle_of/ | {
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1zlnw6 | Why does water form the shape it does when poured? | I was just pouring water from my cup into the sink after dinner and I thought it was interesting why the water formed the shape it did when falling from the cup. I can best describe it as perpendicularly 3d sin graphs with the same x-axis, if that helps. First things first - is there a name for this formation? But to a... | askscience | http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1zlnw6/why_does_water_form_the_shape_it_does_when_poured/ | {
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2f9qyi | If island chains like Hawai'i were formed by the continuous movement of a plate over a magma plume in the mantle, why do they take the form of separate islands rather than a continuous ridge? | askscience | http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2f9qyi/if_island_chains_like_hawaii_were_formed_by_the/ | {
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364ctn | why do brownie corners taste better than brownie centers? | explainlikeimfive | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/364ctn/eli5_why_do_brownie_corners_taste_better_than/ | {
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eow4ic | In curling, how do sweepers influence the path of the rock? | askscience | https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/eow4ic/in_curling_how_do_sweepers_influence_the_path_of/ | {
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