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What are brain cells
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How can ordinary people get famous?
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How do people remember things and other people?
Alice -
How did French become a national laguange
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what is the red sea
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why does hair grow?
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Why do kids in some schools have to wear Uniforms?
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why amI here
adam -
Who do we get our last names?
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How hard is it to learn binary?
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how were humans made???????????????????
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what is the meaning of life the universe and everything
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WHY ARE THERE DIFFERENT CLEFS FOR DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS IN MUSIC?
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What are opposable thumbs?
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who was the first person to drive a truck?
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who was the first person to make whiteboards
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Why do dogs bark?
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Do aliens really exist?
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why do you call you mom mom
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How old is the oldest person on earth
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What is the Illuminati?
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whatis a chinchilla
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what was the first ever kind of dinosaur?
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who came up with dragon ball Z
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Why is the world flat?
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why do animals have tails and humans don't
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Who made Pugs?
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why do people get stressed?
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Why is the sky blue?
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How do you solve a Rubix Cube?
lorelai
Top Nominated Wonder Questions:
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Do girls remember their dreams more often than boys and if yes, why?
Lance — Louisville, KY
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how was water created
Chiamaka
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Can you mix water and air completly?
AL
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+58
Why do Olympians bite their medals?
Sam — Glen Allen, VA
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+50
What causes blindness?
Katherine — Owatonna, MN
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+46
How does weeds grow?
Rafiul — Sydney, AL
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