# Factual Questions **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/factual-questions/9.md?page=111 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 112 --- ## [Is there anyone who knows how to find the product key on an Office 365 account?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-who-knows-how-to-find-the-product-key-on-an-office-365-account/994023)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-who-knows-how-to-find-the-product-key-on-an-office-365-account/994023 "2023-12-03T16:00:09Z")
Got a new computer and have spent 45 minutes following bad instructions after bad instructions. Turning to the Dope for help. Thanks! --- ## [Technical question about "app passwords"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-question-about-app-passwords/993895)
**Author:** [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2023, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-question-about-app-passwords/993895 "2023-12-03T05:05:33Z")
The reason for this question is the convoluted paradox of device-specific email app passwords being required for devices/applications that don’t support advanced authentication technologies like OAuth2, and simultaneousl… --- ## [Opening a frozen lock](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-a-frozen-lock/993973)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-a-frozen-lock/993973 "2023-12-01T23:04:29Z")
My 1994 Yamaha XJ600 Seca II was stolen a few years ago, and it was trashed when it was recovered. I’ve been gathering parts and, with the YZF-R1’s resurrection imminent, I’m in a position where I can (I hope) begin res… --- ## [How was usury practiced by Christians punished by the Catholic Church in medieval times?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-usury-practiced-by-christians-punished-by-the-catholic-church-in-medieval-times/990479)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-usury-practiced-by-christians-punished-by-the-catholic-church-in-medieval-times/990479 "2023-12-01T21:02:42Z")
If a Christian in medieval times were punished for practicing usury how would they be punished? Would they be denied the sacrements ? Does Canon Law mention any punishment that could be meted out to a n offender? --- ## [Facebook/Download Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-download-question/993939)
**Author:** [@19USMC69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/19USMC69)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2023, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-download-question/993939 "2023-12-01T13:34:17Z")
Downloading most pictures is pretty straightforward. Not so much videos. Is it possible? --- ## [Physics/optics: why does angle of incidence = angle of reflection?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physics-optics-why-does-angle-of-incidence-angle-of-reflection/993248)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2023, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physics-optics-why-does-angle-of-incidence-angle-of-reflection/993248 "2023-12-01T11:33:02Z")
If you create a smooth enough surface - whether it’s the free surface of a liquid, or the polished surface of a hard solid material - you can achieve specular reflection, i.e. what most people know as a mirror. The defi… --- ## [Is Biodiesel Kosher and/or Halal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-biodiesel-kosher-and-or-halal/993831)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-biodiesel-kosher-and-or-halal/993831 "2023-11-30T21:21:04Z")
Biodiesel is a renewable resource made from trans-esterizing/de-glycerizing plant-derived shortening and animal-derived fat. This includes pork grease. Given that observant Jews and Muslims eschew the eating of pig fle… --- ## [Realestate Apps for other countries](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882)
**Author:** [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882 "2023-11-30T18:01:24Z")
The US had Zillow and Redfin and realtor\[dot\]com so when you see some random house of interest, you can get an idea of how expensive it (and the market) is for that area. It’s a good passtime the wife and I have…while r… --- ## [Philip Morris cigarette additive - Di-GL?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-morris-cigarette-additive-di-gl/993820)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-morris-cigarette-additive-di-gl/993820 "2023-11-30T14:36:17Z")
In a 1953 ad Philip Morris claimed their exclusive additive, Di-Gl would remove the “irritating vapors” in all the other cigarettes. Heck, they were so clean they did not need “…gadgets or filters.” Any idea what that ma… --- ## [Donating blood after a heart attack](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donating-blood-after-a-heart-attack/993743)
**Author:** [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2023, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donating-blood-after-a-heart-attack/993743 "2023-11-30T06:45:11Z")
Okay, it’s been a while since I last posted, but I have a question: Let’s say I have a heart attack, but it’s a mild one and I think it’s muscle pain in my arm - something like that. It’s my understanding that such thing… --- ## [Which felonies require a complainant to prosecute?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-felonies-require-a-complainant-to-prosecute/992056)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-felonies-require-a-complainant-to-prosecute/992056 "2023-11-30T00:59:30Z")
Typically in USA law, which felonies are considered offenses against the state, and which require that some citizen complain that they have been the victim of a crime? In the former case, if a prime witness would be a pe… --- ## [Adding quikrete to paver base](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-quikrete-to-paver-base/993295)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-quikrete-to-paver-base/993295 "2023-11-29T19:23:39Z")
I have some quikrete left over and I am putting in a pathway along the side of the house. I plan on laying a couple inches of paver base and then sand over it to fill in the gaps before laying the paver themselves. Th… --- ## [Legal distinction between militia and troops in late 18th century USA?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-distinction-between-militia-and-troops-in-late-18th-century-usa/993752)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-distinction-between-militia-and-troops-in-late-18th-century-usa/993752 "2023-11-29T17:29:30Z")
Or more precisely, what exactly at the time legally distinguished USA militia who were summoned to duty from conscripts pressed into an army? The latter was of course near universal in Europe during the French/Napoleonic… --- ## [Does claustrophobia disqualify you from being a cop?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-claustrophobia-disqualify-you-from-being-a-cop/993787)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-claustrophobia-disqualify-you-from-being-a-cop/993787 "2023-11-29T17:20:21Z")
Not that it should, mind. But I could imagine it causing problems and not being a good explanation for an officer’s response to a situation in a tight space. --- ## [Uploading pics from phone to Google Slides](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-pics-from-phone-to-google-slides/993860)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-pics-from-phone-to-google-slides/993860 "2023-11-29T15:27:09Z")
I have looked it up online and most techniques for uploading a picture from your phone to a Google Drive app involved downloading Google Drive or the App (in this case Slides) on your phone. Everyone that I will be work… --- ## [Why are rice cookers asymmetric?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-rice-cookers-asymmetric/992826)
**Author:** [@longtry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/longtry)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-rice-cookers-asymmetric/992826 "2023-11-29T14:57:53Z")
Living in Asia, I’ve seen a few rice cookers that have the thickness of 1 side very significantly different from the opposite side, despite the fact that both the inner pot & the outer case are round. Do you also have th… --- ## [Extreme polygamy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-polygamy/990020)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 138\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-polygamy/990020 "2023-11-29T02:08:42Z")
The kind associated with Middle Eastern or Asian potentates\*; or for a modern example, Hugh Hefner. A guy who has scores or even hundreds of women available for sex. So just how does a mere mortal practically handle this… --- ## [Math Q: Who invented the Order of Operations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/math-q-who-invented-the-order-of-operations/991061)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/math-q-who-invented-the-order-of-operations/991061 "2023-11-29T01:18:48Z")
And why? is there an explanation for how it came to be? Looking to you, @Hari\_Seldon :wink: --- ## [Israeli English accents](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israeli-english-accents/993019)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2023, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israeli-english-accents/993019 "2023-11-29T00:48:18Z")
ISTM that the majority of Israelis that appear in English speaking TV interviews have what sounds an American accent. Have most of them been educated in America? Or does an Israeli accent just happened to sound similar t… --- ## [How stable is a "generation"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stable-is-a-generation/993282)
**Author:** [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stable-is-a-generation/993282 "2023-11-28T21:30:46Z")
Have we lit upon a definition of “a generation” that is stable over time? It seems to me that the average age that a parent (of either sex) has his or her children constitutes a generation, no? Is this an acceptable mea… --- ## [Asiana flight 8124: how was this door opened in flight?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asiana-flight-8124-how-was-this-door-opened-in-flight/984630)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asiana-flight-8124-how-was-this-door-opened-in-flight/984630 "2023-11-28T16:30:21Z")
A passenger on an Asiana Airlines flight in South Korea managed to open an exit door a few minutes before the plane landed: The obvious question: how was this possible? Previous discussions have indicated that when a… --- ## [Do people who have never been high/elevated have a fear of heights?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-who-have-never-been-high-elevated-have-a-fear-of-heights/993671)
**Author:** [@Saffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saffer)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2023, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-who-have-never-been-high-elevated-have-a-fear-of-heights/993671 "2023-11-28T04:30:51Z")
This is not a question about being high on drugs. I am wondering about someone who has lived their whole life in a place with no cliffs, no tall trees, no tall buildings etc. would they have any kind of interesting reac… --- ## [Preserving vitamin C](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preserving-vitamin-c/993674)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preserving-vitamin-c/993674 "2023-11-27T20:09:47Z")
There’s an SF subgenre about a person from the present somehow being transported to the past. They then usually rely on their knowledge of some more advanced technology that they introduce to whatever era to make money a… --- ## [Is X (Twitter) down right now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-x-twitter-down-right-now/993773)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-x-twitter-down-right-now/993773 "2023-11-27T17:46:37Z")
I tried to read a tweet a friend posted, and the page said ‘Something went wrong. Try reloading. \[Retry\]’. I tried going to twitter dot com, and got the same message. Downdetector says there are no current problems. --- ## [Driving me crazy...I need help with a word](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-me-crazy-i-need-help-with-a-word/993662)
**Author:** [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2023, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-me-crazy-i-need-help-with-a-word/993662 "2023-11-27T04:58:35Z")
There is a word used commonly these days to refer to when someone changes the facts when relating a past event to make them look better. Revisionism fits, but it isn’t the word I’m looking for. I often hear the word use… --- ## [Definition: Sinister --- "On the left?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/definition-sinister-on-the-left/993649)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/definition-sinister-on-the-left/993649 "2023-11-26T21:03:08Z")
I was writing someone and was going to use the word “sinister” but I thought, to be careful, I should check the definition. I found this (part of the definition): 4 a : of, relating to, or situated to the left or on t… --- ## [What do I do to get a video to play on my Chromebook?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-i-do-to-get-a-video-to-play-on-my-chromebook/991764)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-i-do-to-get-a-video-to-play-on-my-chromebook/991764 "2023-11-26T18:39:50Z")
Never mind what kind of video (heh heh). I have a link to it that allows me to see it on my phone or on my laptop. But when it gets to the 55 second mark on my Chromebook, it locks up and doesn’t go further. I’ve dis… --- ## [Loudspeakers and electricity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loudspeakers-and-electricity/993691)
**Author:** [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2023, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loudspeakers-and-electricity/993691 "2023-11-26T12:19:49Z")
Hi there, I am a life-long hifi aficionado, listening to music on my hifi-set right now and wondered: what range of voltage “goes” into a loudspeaker (assume 8ohm) at moderate listening volumes? (1, 5, 10, 50 or 100+V… --- ## [Help me diagnose an electrical problem](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-diagnose-an-electrical-problem/993551)
**Author:** [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-diagnose-an-electrical-problem/993551 "2023-11-26T03:14:29Z")
I think we had a power surge last night. My wife said that at around 5:30 the lights went out in some of our rooms,and when my wife looked out across the neighborhood the street lights were out and none of the house had… --- ## [Who first said "you don't pay a prostitute for sex..."](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-first-said-you-dont-pay-a-prostitute-for-sex/675273)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-first-said-you-dont-pay-a-prostitute-for-sex/675273 "2023-11-25T22:04:00Z")
“… You pay her to leave afterward”? Inspired by this thread, of course. Charlie Sheen said it during his trial, but he’s most likely not the originator. Some remember it as being said by Errol Flynn. The TV show Crim… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/factual-questions/9.md?page=110) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/factual-questions/9.md?page=112)