When Do Fish Sleep? (2 page)
Why
Don’t Queen-Sized Sheets Fit My Queen-Sized Bed?
Do
the Digits in a Social Security Number Have Any Particular Meaning?
Why
Do the Light Bulbs in My Lamps Loosen After I’ve Put Them in Place?
How
Are Olives Pitted? How Do They Stuff Olives?
Why
Is One Side of a Halibut Dark and the Other Side Light?
What
Is the Difference Between a “Mountain” and a “Hill”?
Why
Aren’t There License Plates on the Back of Many Big Trucks on the Highway?
Why
Do Mayors Hand Out Keys to Their City?
What
Is the Purpose of the Beard on a Turkey?
WHY
Are Banking Hours So Short?
Why
Does Granulated Sugar Tend to Clump Together?
Why
Do Two Horses in an Open Field Always Seem to Stand Head to Tail?
Why
Does Your Whole Body Ache When You Get a Cold or Flu?
Why
Do Some Ice Cubes Come Out Cloudy and Others Come Out Clear?
Why
Are Most Pencils Painted Yellow?
Why
Do Fish Eat Earthworms? Do They Crave Worms or Will Fish Eat Anything that Is Thrust upon Them?
Why
Are Stock Prices Generally Quoted in Eighths?
Why
Are There No A-or B-Sized Batteries?
Why
Does Starch Make Our Shirts Stiff?
What
Is the Purpose of Corn Silk?
Why
Is Prepackaged Chocolate Milk Thicker in Consistency than the Chocolate Milk You Make at Home?
Why
Do Fingernails Grow Faster than Toenails?
Why
Do We Dream More Profusely When We Nap than We Do Overnight?
How
Does a Gas Pump “Know” When to Shut Off When the Fuel Tank Is Full?
What
Is the Purpose of that Piece of Skin Hanging from the Back of Our Throat?
Why
Don’t Birds Tip Over When They Sleep on a Telephone Wire?
Why
Is It Sometimes Necessary to Stroke a Fluorescent Lamp to Get It to Light?
Why
Is There an Expiration Date on Sour Cream? What’s the Matter, Is It Going to Get More Sour?
Why
Do Roaches Always Die on Their Backs?
Why
Does Warmth Alleviate Pain?
Why
Can’t We Use Both Sides of a Videotape like We Do with an Audio Tape?
Why
Are the Toilet Seats in Public Restrooms Usually Split Open in the Front?
How
Are the First Days of Winter and Summer Chosen?
What’s
the Difference Between Popcorn and Other Corn? Can Regular Corn Be Popped?
What
Does It Mean When We Have 20-20 or 20-40 Vision?
How
Does Yeast Make Bread Rise? Why Do We Need to Knead Most Breads?
Why
Do Doctors Tap on Our Backs During Physical Exams?
Why
Do Military Personnel Salute One Another?
Where
Is Donald Duck’s Brother?
What
causes Bags Under the Eyes?
How
Do Blind People Discriminate Between Different Denominations of Paper Money?
When
Not Flying, Why Do Some Birds Walk and Others Hop?
Why
Does String Cheese “String” When Torn Apart?
Why
Are Tattoos Usually Blue (With an Occasional Touch of Red)?
Why
Is the Width of Standard Gauge Railroads Four Feet Eight-and-One-Half Inches?
Do
Fish Sleep? If So, When Do Fish Sleep?
Why
Do We Seem to Feel Worse at Night When We Have a Cold?
Why
Do Kellogg’s Rice Krispies “Snap! Crackle! and Pop!”?
Why
Do So Many Cough Medicines Contain Alcohol?
Why
Isn’t There a Holiday to Commemorate the End of the Civil War?
Is
It True that Permanents Don’t Work Effectively on Pregnant Women?
Why
Do Some Escalator Rails Run at a Different Speed from the Steps Alongside Them?
Why
Are There Lights Underneath the Bottom Steps of Escalators and Why Are They Green?
Why
Are Rented Bowling Shoes So Ugly?
What’s
the Difference Between Virgin Olive Oil and
Extra
Virgin Olive Oil?