# Factual Questions **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/factual-questions/9.md?page=599 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 600 --- ## [Can someone tell me how to get Adblock turned back on now that I've drunk the Chrome koolaid?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-tell-me-how-to-get-adblock-turned-back-on-now-that-ive-drunk-the-chrome-koolaid/520805)
**Author:** [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2018, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-tell-me-how-to-get-adblock-turned-back-on-now-that-ive-drunk-the-chrome-koolaid/520805 "2018-04-07T09:07:01Z")
I followed the instructions here, and I still get an “Extensions are not enabled” error when I go here to download Adblock. Clue? Anyone? (Windows XP) --- ## [What size of chain (width) fits a traditional single speed bike?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-size-of-chain-width-fits-a-traditional-single-speed-bike/811847)
**Author:** [@Radiatedmocha27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Radiatedmocha27)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2018, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-size-of-chain-width-fits-a-traditional-single-speed-bike/811847 "2018-04-07T06:58:43Z")
The question is the topic, I’m mounting a 79cc predator engine to my longboard, I have both trucks moved and placed in the front of the board for stability and weight( turns like a beauty, only I replaced the back end of… --- ## [Towing trash container with car - hitch needed? What does minimal hitch entail?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/towing-trash-container-with-car-hitch-needed-what-does-minimal-hitch-entail/804816)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/towing-trash-container-with-car-hitch-needed-what-does-minimal-hitch-entail/804816 "2018-04-07T03:18:48Z")
My driveway is long and steep, and difficult to walk in snow and ice. The rolling trash and recycling containers are getting too difficult to manage in winter. But my Subaru Forester goes up and down just fine. What woul… --- ## [Grow Bulbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-bulbs/811904)
**Author:** [@Stinky\_Pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinky_Pete)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-bulbs/811904 "2018-04-07T01:18:51Z")
I would like to have an indoors garden and have florescent light fixtures already installed. What type of bulbs can I replace the florescent bulbs with that will give the kind of light to make plants flourish? --- ## [How much would ancient peoples have understood about the transference of plague 2000 years ago?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-would-ancient-peoples-have-understood-about-the-transference-of-plague-2000-years-ago/811864)
**Author:** [@davidmich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidmich)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2018, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-would-ancient-peoples-have-understood-about-the-transference-of-plague-2000-years-ago/811864 "2018-04-07T00:18:21Z")
Hi Nothing I’ve read so far indicates that people 2000 years ago really understood the transfer mechanism of plague or how to protect oneself against it. Nonetheless they engaged in what we would call biological warfa… --- ## [Is there wheelchair accessible transportation in Tahiti?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-wheelchair-accessible-transportation-in-tahiti/811892)
**Author:** [@copperwindow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/copperwindow)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-wheelchair-accessible-transportation-in-tahiti/811892 "2018-04-06T23:56:21Z")
I’m interested in visiting Tahiti and I’m disabled and use a 300 lb wheelchair to get around. I need to get from the airport to the resort, but I don’t know how I’m going to do it. Th ere are no buses, and all of the… --- ## [Which skechers shoe is like a house slipper?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-skechers-shoe-is-like-a-house-slipper/811915)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-skechers-shoe-is-like-a-house-slipper/811915 "2018-04-06T23:02:29Z")
My mom is in rehab at a nursing home. She’s seen people wearing skechers. They have an elastic, stretchy fit. Like a house slipper. But, they have fake laces on front to make it look more formal. Mom wants me to order … --- ## [Can women spontaneously grow larger breasts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-women-spontaneously-grow-larger-breasts/397040)
**Author:** [@Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roboto)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-women-spontaneously-grow-larger-breasts/397040 "2018-04-06T22:28:34Z")
Pregnancy and significant weight gain aside, do women well beyond the age of puberty ever suddenly grow significantly larger breasts? The reason I ask is because my girlfriend has really small breasts (not complaining, … --- ## [Any Missouri Lawyers In The House? (Not Seeking Legal Advice, Don't Need Answer Fast)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-missouri-lawyers-in-the-house-not-seeking-legal-advice-dont-need-answer-fast/811934)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-missouri-lawyers-in-the-house-not-seeking-legal-advice-dont-need-answer-fast/811934 "2018-04-06T21:35:55Z")
This is an academic question about Missouri law. I am not seeking legal advice, you are not my lawyer, I am not your client. I’ve noticed that, excluding St. Louis and the burbs, head shops and sex-toy shops in Missouri… --- ## [Animals with separate teats rather than udders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-with-separate-teats-rather-than-udders/811894)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-with-separate-teats-rather-than-udders/811894 "2018-04-06T21:31:59Z")
City boy here. I saw a photo today of a nursing sow (it should be hereif NPR doesn’t change the photo). Piglets are suckling, and some of the teats are unattended at least at the moment. Some of the areas behind the teat… --- ## [Tree Identification Help](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-identification-help/811836)
**Author:** [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-identification-help/811836 "2018-04-06T20:18:00Z")
The pictures linked here are of the leaves and the trunk of a tree in our back yard, in the Austin TX area. We have two of these, and would love to know what they are so we could treat them right. We have gotten a vari… --- ## [Why Doesn't My Experiment (in Quantum Physics) Work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-my-experiment-in-quantum-physics-work/811823)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-my-experiment-in-quantum-physics-work/811823 "2018-04-06T19:33:08Z")
IANAPhysicist. So I may not fully understand quantum physics. But as I understand it, according to QP, the world exists in multiple realities, until a human observes or “measures” it. That in fact is what that experiment… --- ## [Why "working class"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-working-class/811291)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-working-class/811291 "2018-04-06T19:26:04Z")
I have a white-collar professional job but I go to work every day. Where did the term “working class” come from? --- ## [pension plan management - how much is too much](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pension-plan-management-how-much-is-too-much/811879)
**Author:** [@blood63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blood63)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pension-plan-management-how-much-is-too-much/811879 "2018-04-06T18:34:07Z")
I am lucky to be a teacher in Ontario because we have one of the most successful pension plans in existence. As of last week, the Ontario teacher’s pension plan had assets of 190 billion dollars. This is an increase of… --- ## [undecidable statement in QFT](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/undecidable-statement-in-qft/811873)
**Author:** [@Jim\_Peebles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_Peebles)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/undecidable-statement-in-qft/811873 "2018-04-06T17:51:32Z")
Wikipedia says there are some axiomatic systems for Quantum Field Theory. I bet it is complex enough to have an undecidable statement (invoking Godel). What would be an example of such a statement? Is it anything you cou… --- ## [What does the Christian tradition, and other monotheistic religions, have to say about the Sun?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-the-christian-tradition-and-other-monotheistic-religions-have-to-say-about-the-sun/811737)
**Author:** [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-the-christian-tradition-and-other-monotheistic-religions-have-to-say-about-the-sun/811737 "2018-04-06T17:33:50Z")
The Sun is pretty magical, and demonstrably so. It gives life to plants, something that ancient agriculturalists would presumably have understood when plants in shaded areas grew less well or not at all. It’s awesomely p… --- ## [Looking for any evidence of ancient Chinese microcredit/micro-financing (Song Dynasty)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-any-evidence-of-ancient-chinese-microcredit-micro-financing-song-dynasty/811139)
**Author:** [@davidmich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidmich)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-any-evidence-of-ancient-chinese-microcredit-micro-financing-song-dynasty/811139 "2018-04-06T15:23:44Z")
Hi I’m looking for any evidence of ancient Chinese microcredit/micro-financing, in particular during the Song Dynasty. I couldn’t find any evidence of it. I thought it was a modern concept. I look forward to your feedba… --- ## [What do you call the process of using an enzyme?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-process-of-using-an-enzyme/811834)
**Author:** [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-process-of-using-an-enzyme/811834 "2018-04-06T15:16:43Z")
There are three things I can have done to my milk: pasteurization, homogenization, and the process of exposing the milk to the lactase enzyme, which causes the lactose to spontaneously break down into simpler sugars. Is… --- ## [Does an induction stove use less power than a standard electric stove?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-an-induction-stove-use-less-power-than-a-standard-electric-stove/811875)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-an-induction-stove-use-less-power-than-a-standard-electric-stove/811875 "2018-04-06T13:34:38Z")
I am having a hard time finding an answer on this. I get that heating a liter of water takes a very well defined amount of energy and that does not change regardless of the method used to heat it. That said is an induc… --- ## [Return of the Techno-Peasant! MS-Word Question, No. Whatever](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/return-of-the-techno-peasant-ms-word-question-no-whatever/810469)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/return-of-the-techno-peasant-ms-word-question-no-whatever/810469 "2018-04-06T13:28:37Z")
I have yet another MS-Word question. Quite simple I would think, but extensive Googling hasn’t helped. It’s the auto-date feature. You know, you start typing “March…” and Word fills in the date: “March 13, 2018.” Excep… --- ## [Can I control a android TV over a PC?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-control-a-android-tv-over-a-pc/811920)
**Author:** [@JakeRS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JakeRS)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-control-a-android-tv-over-a-pc/811920 "2018-04-06T13:20:25Z")
It takes almost a entire minute for me to write a 2, 3 word sentence using my smart TV’s remote, so browsing internet over it is almost useless, an alternative to the remote is to do it over a smartphone (remote tv app’s… --- ## [Do tall people get injured more from falls?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-tall-people-get-injured-more-from-falls/811883)
**Author:** [@Contemplation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contemplation)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-tall-people-get-injured-more-from-falls/811883 "2018-04-06T12:56:04Z")
“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” is a common saying, but are tall people actually more likely to get injured from falling than short people? Of course being tall means that you fall from a greater distance … --- ## [Light through gases at pressure.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/light-through-gases-at-pressure/811855)
**Author:** [@Kedikat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kedikat)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/light-through-gases-at-pressure/811855 "2018-04-06T06:12:32Z")
A hydraulic cylinder type setup. At cylinder end is a detector. On the end of the piston is a precise frequency laser emitter. A pure gas is in the piston. As you drive the piston to compress the gas, does it cause chang… --- ## [Why no trash bags between 13 & 30 gallon sizes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-trash-bags-between-13-30-gallon-sizes/811891)
**Author:** [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-trash-bags-between-13-30-gallon-sizes/811891 "2018-04-05T23:38:35Z")
There are several sizes smaller than 13 gallon, and many sizes larger than 30 gallon, but I’ve never seen any sizes in between those. How come? Or if they do exist, who sells them? --- ## [ATM logic puzzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atm-logic-puzzle/811888)
**Author:** [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atm-logic-puzzle/811888 "2018-04-05T23:31:29Z")
I’ll start by saying I believe this particular puzzle is not possible to solve, but it would be nice if I had proof it’s not possible, so here we go: Say you’ve been given an ATM card and its PIN. You have to go up to… --- ## [Lactose free yogurt?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lactose-free-yogurt/811833)
**Author:** [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lactose-free-yogurt/811833 "2018-04-05T21:51:50Z")
Just saw a big advertising poster with a picture of a smiling (female) child and the message “Now I can eat my yogurt”. Advertising “lactose free” yogurt. WTF? When I was young, dad made yogurt by allowing a culture to… --- ## [Heroin use](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroin-use/811725)
**Author:** [@ZurBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZurBob)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroin-use/811725 "2018-04-05T20:59:48Z")
I’ve been reading an interesting book “Dream Land” by Sam Quinones, that chronicles the recent history of opiate use in the US. Much (so far) focuses on black-tar heroin abuse, and it causes me to wonder: Based upon my l… --- ## [Is this possible? \[filtering oxygen from water to breathe\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-possible-filtering-oxygen-from-water-to-breathe/811667)
**Author:** [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-possible-filtering-oxygen-from-water-to-breathe/811667 "2018-04-05T14:02:21Z")
Hi. My daughter loves scuba diving, and asked me if it would be possible to “filter-out” the dissolved Oxygen in seawater to allow tank-less diving, just like something she saw on the internet. Some further googling as… --- ## ["Add" number on multifocal eyeglass prescription - how does it work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-number-on-multifocal-eyeglass-prescription-how-does-it-work/811761)
**Author:** [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-number-on-multifocal-eyeglass-prescription-how-does-it-work/811761 "2018-04-05T06:52:05Z")
I’ve worn single vision prescription eyeglasses for nearsightedness for many years, but can’t comfortably read or see close-up with them on any more - I posted here a few months back asking for opinions about bifocal/pro… --- ## [A piece of the Netherlands becomes a piece of Germany in the mid 60's. Why and how?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-piece-of-the-netherlands-becomes-a-piece-of-germany-in-the-mid-60s-why-and-how/811603)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-piece-of-the-netherlands-becomes-a-piece-of-germany-in-the-mid-60s-why-and-how/811603 "2018-04-04T22:10:16Z")
This bit of land at 51°49’57.4"N 6°21’49.5"E used to belong to the Netherlands; at least my old atlases and online older maps of the region show it so, up until the mid 1960’s. (You can find it in Dutch hands on this hi… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/factual-questions/9.md?page=598) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/factual-questions/9.md?page=600)