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How can medicines like ibuprofen and acetaminophen work on a number of (seemingly) unrelated symptoms (reducing fevers, joint pain, muscle pain, headaches, toothaches, etc.)? Do they do just one thing that affects all of these processes or do they do lots of different things at once?

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What kind of distances would you need in order to show that on a sphere, three 90 deg turns make a triangle?

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What exactly is dandruff and how does pyrithione zinc in shampoo prevent it?

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Do the mantle, inner, or outer cores experience tidal effects? If not, why not? And, if so, why don't we constant volcanic eruptions?

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Why don’t these percentages on the CDC’s website make any sense?

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What scientist(s) alive today is/are the closest to Einstein in terms of brilliance and impact to their respective scientific fields?

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How can medicines like ibuprofen and acetaminophen work on a number of (seemingly) unrelated symptoms (reducing fevers, joint pain, muscle pain, headaches, toothaches, etc.)? Do they do just one thing that affects all of these processes or do they do lots of different things at once?	8469
What kind of distances would you need in order to show that on a sphere, three 90 deg turns make a triangle?	32
What exactly is dandruff and how does pyrithione zinc in shampoo prevent it?	4
Do the mantle, inner, or outer cores experience tidal effects? If not, why not? And, if so, why don't we constant volcanic eruptions?	4
Why don’t these percentages on the CDC’s website make any sense?	1
What scientist(s) alive today is/are the closest to Einstein in terms of brilliance and impact to their respective scientific fields?	1