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Why wouldn't the part of the Earth facing the Sun half year before facing away from it now at noon?

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Why is counting election totals more difficult than lottery administration?

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Why do people repeatedly hit the phone hook switch when disconnected?

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Why is it hard to take a high quality image of far away objects (like Pluto) using a high-tech space telescope?

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Why does the Earth follow an elliptical trajectory rather than a parabolic one?

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Why is ascending some stairs more exhausting than descending?

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Why does hot air rise in a column instead of cold air pressing down?

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Why don't we hear sound reflecting from buildings, mirrors, etcetera?

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How do ISS astronauts “get their stripes”?

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How can interstellar space have a temperature of 2-3K?

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Why does a car's steering wheel get lighter with increasing speed

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Why doesn't this magnetic perpetual motion machine work?

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How do hot air balloon pilots avoid collisions?

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What does the “bagel” setting on toasters do?

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Why do atoms (iron eg) glow with all frequencies of light when exposed to enough thermal radiation?

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Do Penn and Teller learn how a trick works after the show?

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To what extent do (man made) generators of heat from internal sources in earth's system cause climate change?

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Is Avogadro's law applicable for atoms or just for molecules?

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How far out from the Sun is visible light still sufficient to read a book?

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Conservation of Mass and Energy

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How does GPS receiver synchronize time with GPS satellites?

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How flat does a runway need to be?

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If angular momentum is conserved, what's wrong with this scenario?

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How does an ordinary object become radioactive?

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Why is water-contaminated fuel bad, but water-injection is not?

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Aircraft emergency oxygen: how hard do I pull on the mask?

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Why would the Pakistan airspace closure cancel flights not headed to Pakistan itself?

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Why is the inode table usually not resizable?

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How do astronauts take pictures from outside the ISS?

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What do the dashes close to each other near French freeway exits mean?

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