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In the west, the traditional three-course meal is a small savoury starter, a larger savoury main, and a final sweet. Are there any other cultures that have notably different meals?

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Is it possible to mimic weightlifting just by consciously contracting your muscles?

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How far does the ice at the North Pole drift?

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Why do we sometimes not notice we're hungry until after we've finished eating?

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If a 12-year-old child can have two paracetamols, then is it fine/beneficial for a grown man to have three or four?

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On spacecrafts such as New Horizons and Voyager, how much does the solar wind help to maintain their speed?

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If we terraform and colonise Mars, how much time would it buy us to live there once the Earth becomes uninhabitable due to the dying sun?

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Why did we evolve to have five digits per limb?

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To piggyback on a thread from yesterday: what's the hypothetical highest we could reach in a balloon given today's technology?

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What would happen if someone took 1,000 doses of LSD?

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In the west, the traditional three-course meal is a small savoury starter, a larger savoury main, and a final sweet. Are there any other cultures that have notably different meals?	1
Is it possible to mimic weightlifting just by consciously contracting your muscles?	1
How far does the ice at the North Pole drift?	1
Why do we sometimes not notice we're hungry until after we've finished eating?	1
If a 12-year-old child can have two paracetamols, then is it fine/beneficial for a grown man to have three or four?	1
On spacecrafts such as New Horizons and Voyager, how much does the solar wind help to maintain their speed?	1
If we terraform and colonise Mars, how much time would it buy us to live there once the Earth becomes uninhabitable due to the dying sun?	1
Why did we evolve to have five digits per limb?	1
To piggyback on a thread from yesterday: what's the hypothetical highest we could reach in a balloon given today's technology?	0
What would happen if someone took 1,000 doses of LSD?	0