Jarvitä
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Because it's water? :uhh:
People dread these questions because they dread their children (who often rely on them for information about the world) asking them a question they cannot answer. I think it's more an issue of failing to perform as a parent more than anything else.
Not everyone needs to know things like the mass of the Earth offhand.
Most of the other questions should be pretty easy to answer in simple terms though, even if the explanation given by most would be highly simplistic...
Not knowing the mass of the Earth doesn't mean you fail as a parent. Being unwilling to look it up, or being afraid of your children's healthy curiosity means you fail as a parent.