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How do chemicals like capsaicin and menthol trick the tongue into feeling hot or cold?

848 upvotes • r/askscience

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How long could your average person live on nothing but water and daily multivitamin supplements? How much of a difference would it make compared to water alone?

308 upvotes • r/askscience

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If you had two scales sensitive enough to measure the inertial force of light, one with a mirrored surface and one with a black surface, and you shine a lamp on both, would one register more weight than the other?

277 upvotes • r/askscience

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Two men in the forest

164 upvotes • r/LetsNotMeet

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Back when schools were segregated for blacks and whites, which schools did other races go to?

142 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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I have Actinic Prurigo. Essentially I'm allergic to sunlight. AMA

23 upvotes • r/IAmA

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Could a sufficiently cold planet have real, flowing, liquid rivers of matter that is usually gaseous on our planet, such as nitrogen?

14 upvotes • r/askscience

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Why can we only see light after it bounces off something or when it is at the source of the light? Why don't we see light energy as a sort of mist?

6 upvotes • r/askscience

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It seems like most male animals are driven to reproduce as much as possible, so why are human males so commonly unable to orgasm more than once in a (relative) while?

5 upvotes • r/askscience

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I know how eyes get their color, but why do they have color? Are there any specific evolutionary advantages of having one color over another?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How do chemicals like capsaicin and menthol trick the tongue into feeling hot or cold?	848	askscience
How long could your average person live on nothing but water and daily multivitamin supplements? How much of a difference would it make compared to water alone?	308	askscience
If you had two scales sensitive enough to measure the inertial force of light, one with a mirrored surface and one with a black surface, and you shine a lamp on both, would one register more weight than the other?	277	askscience
Two men in the forest	164	LetsNotMeet
Back when schools were segregated for blacks and whites, which schools did other races go to?	142	AskHistorians
I have Actinic Prurigo. Essentially I'm allergic to sunlight. AMA	23	IAmA
Could a sufficiently cold planet have real, flowing, liquid rivers of matter that is usually gaseous on our planet, such as nitrogen?	14	askscience
Why can we only see light after it bounces off something or when it is at the source of the light? Why don't we see light energy as a sort of mist?	6	askscience
It seems like most male animals are driven to reproduce as much as possible, so why are human males so commonly unable to orgasm more than once in a (relative) while?	5	askscience
I know how eyes get their color, but why do they have color? Are there any specific evolutionary advantages of having one color over another?	4	askscience