Factual Questions

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Reminder: Keep politics out of Factual Questions There are currently a great many political things happening in the news. There are many factual issues which are relevant to those political happenings. As always, discussion of such factual issues are appropriate and …	1	343	June 11, 2025
About the Factual Questions category	1	6085	July 8, 2020
Factual Questions Rules & FAQs	4	126430	November 3, 2021
Why are European apartment doors built like bank vaults?	5	66	October 2, 2025
What's the purpose of the double flap on a dog's ear?	7	27395	October 2, 2025
Educate me on these LEDs	8	114	October 2, 2025
WWI Question: Could Hungary hsve refused to go to war in 1914?	3	77	October 2, 2025
Can fired military officers be re-hired?	10	359	October 2, 2025
Neil Degrasse Tyson disproves flat earth	20	480	October 2, 2025
If gravity is not a force, why do things move?	15	608	October 2, 2025
Package delivery service tracking	28	395	October 2, 2025
When, in human history, did the concept of paid, sustained (not contractual, not ad hoc) employment become a thing?	28	429	October 2, 2025
Why are Marines (US) not "soldiers"?	176	1347	October 1, 2025
Lost Weight: Pants altering needed	13	115	October 1, 2025
Why is a spinning Black Hole distinct from one that doesn't? How does a Black Hole even spin? Why is it important? science-math	73	791	October 1, 2025
'Honky donkey', or 'Hunky dunky'?	19	1095	October 1, 2025
Did jet airliners fly faster in the past?	49	4706	October 1, 2025
Until the 1970s, Contac (an OTC cold remedy) contained a small amount of atropine (belladonna). What was its purpose?	55	5886	October 1, 2025
1960s drugstore smell - what is it?	43	12667	October 1, 2025
What happens if there isn't enough money to satisfy a will's provision?	8	305	October 1, 2025
Nine Billion Names of God– combinatorics question	14	234	October 1, 2025
Can I still use CAT5 in the house after upgrading my service to Fiber?	25	293	October 1, 2025
Is professor Neil Degrasse Tyson ignorant of Newton's laws? (motion of a football)	48	625	September 30, 2025
The mathematics of McDonald’s Monopoly	71	1485	September 30, 2025
Can the laws of physics allow something that's never happened in our universe?	17	364	September 30, 2025
Amelia Earhart's plane found on the sea floor?	199	15880	September 30, 2025
What would happen if I plugged my 220 -> 110 transformer into a 110 plug? tools-electric-diy	17	335	September 29, 2025
Lincoln - "oln" pronounced "en"?	72	965	September 29, 2025
A FQ about the Comey indictment factual	21	524	September 29, 2025
Is old bottled whisky still good? liquor-alcohol	59	1096	September 29, 2025

Reminder: Keep politics out of Factual Questions

There are currently a great many political things happening in the news. There are many factual issues which are relevant to those political happenings. As always, discussion of such factual issues are appropriate and …