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Why is it that many cultures use the decimal system but a pattern in the names starts emerging from the number 20 instead of 10? (E.g. Twenty-one, Twenty-two, but Eleven, Twelve instead of Ten-one, Ten-two)?

3641 upvotes • r/askscience

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How is it possible for our brain to wake us up around a certain time, no matter when we went to sleep the previous night? How does it know how much time has passed?

49 upvotes • r/askscience

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Is there a science behind Origami, or do different shapes get discovered simply by trial and error?

33 upvotes • r/askscience

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Did people care about archaeological sites in the past? I see a lot of houses in Italy from the 18th century that were built basically on top of archaeological sites. Plus from lots of old engravings even the Coliseum looked abandoned in mid 1700s. Did we not care about the past before 19th century?

32 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[AMA Request] Abigail-Brittany Hensel, conjoined twins.

17 upvotes • r/IAmA

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[WP] The Moon is inhabited by another civilization and is so close to Earth that our ancestors could see each other through the lights of the cities built. We saw the wars fought on the Moon, we saw civilizations rise and fall. And over centuries, we looked for a way to communicate with each other.

14 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP] Voyager 1 is travelling through space, outside the solar system, when suddenly the signal is lost. The on-board instruments transmit the last information: it crashed against something invisible in front of it.

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How can animals of the same species show the exact same behaviours even though they never had the chance to communicate? Is there something similar for humans?

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Is it theoretically possible to trap a beam of light between two mirrors facing each other? If so, would the beam slowly fade away/disappear or would it keep bouncing forever?

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If an object the size of the moon came towards Earth, would the waters and everything else start levitating as it came closer and closer? What would we see before the impact?

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Why is it that many cultures use the decimal system but a pattern in the names starts emerging from the number 20 instead of 10? (E.g. Twenty-one, Twenty-two, but Eleven, Twelve instead of Ten-one, Ten-two)?	3641	askscience
How is it possible for our brain to wake us up around a certain time, no matter when we went to sleep the previous night? How does it know how much time has passed?	49	askscience
Is there a science behind Origami, or do different shapes get discovered simply by trial and error?	33	askscience
Did people care about archaeological sites in the past? I see a lot of houses in Italy from the 18th century that were built basically on top of archaeological sites. Plus from lots of old engravings even the Coliseum looked abandoned in mid 1700s. Did we not care about the past before 19th century?	32	AskHistorians
[AMA Request] Abigail-Brittany Hensel, conjoined twins.	17	IAmA
[WP] The Moon is inhabited by another civilization and is so close to Earth that our ancestors could see each other through the lights of the cities built. We saw the wars fought on the Moon, we saw civilizations rise and fall. And over centuries, we looked for a way to communicate with each other.	14	WritingPrompts
[WP] Voyager 1 is travelling through space, outside the solar system, when suddenly the signal is lost. The on-board instruments transmit the last information: it crashed against something invisible in front of it.	11	WritingPrompts
How can animals of the same species show the exact same behaviours even though they never had the chance to communicate? Is there something similar for humans?	1	askscience
Is it theoretically possible to trap a beam of light between two mirrors facing each other? If so, would the beam slowly fade away/disappear or would it keep bouncing forever?	1	askscience
If an object the size of the moon came towards Earth, would the waters and everything else start levitating as it came closer and closer? What would we see before the impact?	1	askscience