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To be, or not to be? is the opening phrase of a soliloquy from Prince Hamlet of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet and also one of the most famous passages in English literature. However, this is not the only question left unanswered both in Shakespeare's play and in real life. In reality, there are more questions left unanswered than there are answers.

Although it may seem that the older we get, the more answers we gain, the truth is that we only grow to understand how much we yet don't know and how many hard questions are left unanswered. And possibly never will be. While many hard to answer questions can be scientifically explained and given an answer to, there are many confusing questions that even science can't provide a solution to.

Despite humans being the only (yet discovered) most intelligent species, some facts are so challenging to uncover that they escape the grasp of human logic. Not everything can be explained at this stage in our lives, and the many unanswered questions stem from this. For now, the only option is to refer to those questions with no answers as philosophical and hope that perhaps we will find the explanations to all seemingly unanswerable questions in the future.

Below, we've compiled some very impossibly hard questions to answer that go beyond the human brain's abilities. So if you are looking for an easy way to make your brain hurt, the many questions below will do the trick. Do you know of any more confusing questions to ask? Let us know!

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt How important do you have to be to be considered assassinated and not just murdered?

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#2

How do you know that you see colors the same way that another person sees them? For instance, what if what’s red to you is blue to them, but they still call it red?

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#3

If life is so short, why do we do things that we don’t like and like so many things that we don’t do?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Why is the objective of golf to play the least amount of golf?

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#5

Isn’t the word ‘queue’ just the letter Q followed by four silent letters?

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#6

How far up do bald people go when they wash their face?

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#7

If a vampire bites a zombie, does the zombie become a vampire or does the vampire become a zombie?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt How do you know you’re not crazy and just hallucinating your whole life?

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#9

How did the person who invented the calendar know what day it was?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt What would happen if Pinocchio said ‘My nose will grow now’?

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#11

If you had fun while you were wasting time, can you still say that you wasted time?

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#12

Do caterpillars know that they’re going to be butterflies or do they build the cocoon not knowing what will happen?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?

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#14

Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?

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#15

When they say that something is ‘new and improved’, how can it be improved if it’s new? What is it improving on?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Why do people say that they ‘slept like a baby’ if they slept through the night when babies are known for not sleeping?

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#17

Why did we decide to give February just 28 days when lots of other months have 31 days? Couldn’t we have just taken some of the 31st days from other months and added them to February?

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#18

Where do they put the bible in libraries – fiction or non-fiction section?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Who decided what’s right and wrong?

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#20

Why is Goofy considered a person and Pluto considered a pet when they’re both dogs anyway?

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#21

If you had a dream that none of your dreams would come true, and you woke up and had none of your real-life dreams come true, would that be a dream come true?

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#22

If you told someone to ‘be a leader and not a follower’, wouldn’t they become a follower by following your advice?

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#23

Why do they say that you have a cold when your temperature goes up?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Why are they called buildings if they’re already built?

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#25

How do we know that a new dogfood has an “improved taste”?

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#26

If you punch yourself and it hurts, are you weak or are you strong?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If tomatoes are a fruit, is ketchup considered a smoothie?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt What do people who are born deaf hear when they think?

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#29

If the early bird gets the worm, why do good things come to those who wait?

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#30

Is the opposite of opposite the same or opposite?

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#31

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Is it really possible to experience anything objectively?

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#32

What makes you, you?

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#33

Why do we hit our hands together (clapping) when we like something?

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#34

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If you’re trying to fail and you succeed, did you fail or did you succeed?

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#35

If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, will we ever know it?

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#36

If the fountain of youth can make you live forever, can you drown in it and still die?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If Cinderella’s shoe fit her perfectly, then why did it fall off?

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#38

Why is there a fridge light but no freezer light?

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#39

If a cyclops were to close its eye, is it winking or blinking?

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#40

Why do we cook bacon and bake cookies?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt What was the first man to milk a cow trying to do?

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#42

How long will you be remembered after the day that you die?

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#43

If you expect the unexpected, doesn’t that make the unexpected expected?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt When you get to heaven, do you look as you do at the age that you die?

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Duesvolent90
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That'd be cool. "What age shall you present yourself henceforth?" uhhh let's do 18 NO 22!

Henry Cheves
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always wondered how in Coco, Miguel's great great grandparents looked like they were in their 30's, but Coco looked like she did at he age of death.

Enothor
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If there’s an afterlife and the universe ends and all atomic structures are gone, does heaven still exist? Would it be part of the universe?

2763MilesAway
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hope not! If I go to heaven, I'm making myself a child so I can have that nice energy

Valerie G.
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

no, people look like they are in their early thirties, according to some who had near death experiences.

Rocky
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How do you know you had a near death experience? Couldn't it have been a dream?

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#45

How do you grow a seedless fruit?

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#46

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If you hate haters, does that make you a hater and will you hate yourself?

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#47

If the number 2 pencil is the most popular, why is it number 2?

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#48

If revenge is a dish that’s best served cold, and revenge is sweet, then is revenge ice cream?

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#49

If you are halfway from your destination, is it from the beginning or the end?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Why does “slim chance” and “fat chance” have the same meaning?

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#51

Do coffins have lifetime guarantees?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If a bunch of cats jump on top of each other, is it still called a dog pile?

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#53

Is there life after death?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If you describe something as indescribable, haven’t you already described it?

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#55

Do sheep get static cling when they rub against one another?

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#56

Is it possible to know what is truly good and what is evil?

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#57

Do you ever really do anything out of your own conscious choice, or are we always controlled by some external stimulation or motive?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If you took a ship and replaced all of its parts until none of the original parts are intact anymore, is it the same ship or a completely different ship?

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#59

How is it possible that the world is in debt?

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#60

Why is the alphabetical order that way? Who said that that’s the order that it had to be?

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#61

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Can blind people dream?

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#62

In the word ‘scent’, which letter is silent? S or C?

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#63

What would a room made of mirrors look like if there was nothing inside that room to create a reflection?

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#64

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Was there ever a time when nothing existed or has something always been in existence?

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#65

Which arm rest is yours in the movie theater?

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#66

If you decide to be indecisive, which are you?

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#67

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Is it okay for an endangered animal to eat an endangered plant?

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#68

Do prison buses have emergency exits?

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#69

Is there a time limit on fortune cookie predictions?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Do we have free will or is everything predestined?

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#71

Which orange came first – the fruit or the color?

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#72

What is freedom and does it really exist?

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#73

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If God created Adam and Eve, did they have belly buttons?

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#74

When does it stop being partly sunny and start to become partly cloudy?

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#75

Isn’t it that when you wait for the waiter to come back with your order, you become the waiter in the process?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If we learn and improve from our mistakes, why are we so afraid to make mistakes?

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#77

Isn’t good health just a slower rate at which to die?

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#78

If a baby’s bum pops out of its mother at 11:59 PM, and the head comes out at 12:01 AM, what day will the baby be declared to be born on?

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#79

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

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#80

Is your answer to this question ‘no’?

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#81

What is the color of a mirror?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt What would happen to the world’s oceans if every person on Earth jumped into the water at the same time?

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#83

Why is vanilla ice cream color white when vanilla itself is color brown?

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#84

Who taught the first ever teacher?

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#85

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If nothing is impossible, then would it be possible for something to be impossible?

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#86

Why do noses run but feet smell?

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#87

Will tomorrow ever come?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Would time continue if everything in the world was frozen?

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#89

What would the water look like if the sky didn’t exist?

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#90

Can a homeless kid ever be given homework?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If a guy that was about to die in the electric chair had a heart attack should they save him?

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#92

Do cannibals think clowns taste funny?

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#93

When did time begin?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Did we invent math or did we discover it?

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#95

What is the goal of humanity?

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#96

What is ‘god’?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Did you arrive at this point in your life because you willed it or because you were destined to be here?

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#98

What shape is your field of vision?

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#99

Are we living or slowly dying?

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#100

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Is a body transplant just the same as a brain transplant?

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#101

How far east do you have to go before you start going west?

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#102

Are children who act in R-rated movies allowed to watch the film when it’s done?

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#103

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Do you consider eyebrows facial hair?

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#104

Do they bury people with their braces still on or do they remove them?

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#105

If everyone says that life is unfair, doesn’t that mean that life is fair?

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#106

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If you drop your soap on the floor, does the floor become clean or does the soap become dirty?

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#107

Why are caregivers and caretakers the same thing?

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#108

Is the Earth alive?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Why do people have to die?

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#110

If killing people is wrong, then why do we kill people that kill people?

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#111

Why do we base our age off of the number of times we went around a burning ball of gas?

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#112

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If you were to dig a hole that went through the center of the Earth and you jumped through, would you be falling or floating upwards?

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#113

What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force?

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#114

What hair color do they put in bald people’s driver’s licenses?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Can you stand backwards on a flight of stairs?

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#116

Why did they put the word ‘dictionary’ in the dictionary?

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#117

What do you call a fly without its wings?

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#118

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If God sneezed, what would you say?

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#119

When all is said and done, would you have said more than you have done?

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#120

Will you exist in the future if you can’t ever go there?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If, in an instant, a moving object looks the same as an unmoving object, is movement possible?

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#122

What are dreams?

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#123

What is the purpose of setting goals if we all die anyway?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt What age should a person be considered old enough to die of old age?

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#125

To what degree have you been able to control the course that your life has taken?

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#126

Why are you here at this very moment in your life?

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#127

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If we need to follow rules at all costs, then why do we make exceptions to these rules?

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#128

Why does anything exist?

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#129

What is the purpose and meaning of time?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Do our human accomplishments have a long-term, universal significance, or when the world ends, do we all end with it, including what we’ve achieved?

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#131

If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?

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#132

Why is a “manhole” round?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Can you yawn when you are asleep?

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#134

If we could fly, would we still say we are traveling somewhere?

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#135

Can a fish get seasick?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Which came first – the chicken or the egg?

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#137

Are soul mates a real thing?

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#138

What do they call french kissing in France?

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#139

145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt Do dentists go to other dentists or do they treat their own dental care problems?

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#140

If you were shorter than someone, would it be possible to talk down to them?

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#141

When you buy something that’s made in China while you’re in China, does it still have the made in China tag?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If a tree fell in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

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#143

Which came first: the Sun or the Earth?

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#144

Can you have a daydream at night-time?

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145 Confusing Questions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt If a person dies at sea and only their arm is recovered, how would he be displayed in a casket? Does it need to be a full sized casket?

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