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ELI5: On a micro level, how does the government monitor people's bank accounts, stock exchanges, and other such financial information? | yg9upb | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow) | [removed] |
ELI5: Theoretically could you see time pass by quickly if you were moving towards that location? | ygczbc | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Hypothetical) | [removed] |
eli5: Panama canal | ygrfu8 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why did the turkish Lira crash? | r0z1jf | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Recent/Current Events) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why are planets round and how is gravity created? Why does said gravity have an effective range? | r12afs | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: Why can't TV's/Soundbars play a consistent volume | r163yf | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
ELI5 How does insurance work? | r1ahql | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Whole topic) | [removed] |
Eli5, How did they figure that out? | r1bwzc | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: How someone is guilty of Malice murder, Aggravated assault, Felony murder, Felony murder, Felony murder, Criminal attempt to commit a felony, if there is only one Defendant? | r1f0sv | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Legal) | [removed] |
Eli5: Why are there galaxies farther away than the age of the universe appears to allow? | r1imx3 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
Eli5 how are birds so smart since most they eat are just seeds? | r1j8vh | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5 : How was the was the ice sheet that is kilometre or more thick formed in Antarctica? | r1lrhz | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: Does Mars (the planet) have a detectable smell? | r1n63x | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5 Why do we mimic other people way of speaking? | r1qwgc | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why is there an energy crisis in Europe at the moment? | r1s02n | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Recent/Current Events) | [removed] |
ELI5: What is the environmental reason for not developing more desert regions as cities. | vpk0id | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [deleted] |
ELI5: How is it that the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in the 1940s and 50s could force people to appear and jail them but the Jan 6th Committee allows people to only appear if they feel like it and won't penalize anyone? | vpqnnb | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Recent/Current Events) | [removed] |
ELI5 : On a motorcycle, why is neutral between 1st and 2nd (when it seems it would be easier to find neutral by downshifting from 1st) ? | vpsvu0 | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5 - If all of Earth’s water is part of the water cycle… Where is the water going? | vpsyfx | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5 - If all of Earth’s water is part of the water cycle… Where is the water going? | vpsymd | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: Why is it that when you try to sleep, your brain begins to remember situations in which you felt uncomfortable, begins to remember people with whom you would not want to see again, etc.? | vpve2i | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: It seems like no one who visited Jeffery Epstein's island, has been arrested or charged with any crimes. Why is this? | vq0q8r | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Legal) | [removed] |
ELi5: If the summer Solstice is on June 21, why does it continue to get “more hot” and not start to cool until late August/September? | vq3zak | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
eli5: What does a lawyer do? What's the difference between a good one and a bad one? | vq7n1e | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Whole topic) | [removed] |
eli5 if electromagnetic force is stronger than gravitational force, how do black holes absorb light? | vqe484 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
Eli5 How maps were made a 1000 years ago | geg6w7 | false | explainlikeimfive | Geology | Eli5 how maps were so accurate (or close to accurate) without GPS and other satellite technologies a 1000 years ago. |
ELI5 Why does it feel like time goes by faster while one is having fun? | geky1f | false | explainlikeimfive | Psychology | [removed] |
ELI5: What makes a rainbow a single large rainbow? If raindrops act as prisms wouldn't that make up millions of little rainbows and the colours would line up? | o4jzov | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | The sun is a single light source, and the back of my eye is a single reference but if i had 2 prisms near me i can make two rainbows. |
ELI5: How does lightning not strike homes more often? Houses and apartments are everywhere , surely some stray lighting strikes should hit them and cause them to burn up. Even if they're not the most conductive objects in the area, shouldn't at least more be struck? | o4p3zc | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | null |
ELI5: Is it possible for cell phones to emit radiation when turned all the way off? | o3v8t3 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why dose the inside of a spoon make you look upside down? | o3wo6f | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: If wealthy don't have income, how do they cover living expenses if all their assets are tied in things like stocks and real estate? | o3ylte | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why is the real number between 0 and 1 bigger than the total of Natural numbers? | o3z3lp | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why did the Democratic and Republican parties switch platforms? | o47k58 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Religion/Politics) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why is evidence in criminal prosecutions invalid after each trial? | o48q48 | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
ELI5: Roth IRA vs traditional IRA | o49yqh | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: How does evaporation occur naturally at lower temperatures than water’s boiling point? | o4a9tu | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: If horses are able to run around in the wild without horseshoes, why do we put horseshoes on them when we keep them as pets. | o4d6sn | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why can't paint stores create a color with an RGB value code? | o4dya0 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do the videos on PornHub have low ratings compared to the videos on other sites, which rarely go below 95%? | o4grck | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: What does it mean when a movie is "Directors Cut"? | o4gs2r | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
Eli5: How do whales and other marine mammals like dolphins never choke, or allow water to enter their blowhole? | o4icia | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: What is thunder, and how is it so loud? | o4jkpf | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: Having white noise in the background when trying to sleep seems to block voices, the sound of television, etc, but not the clanging of silverware dishes. Why? | o4ki7k | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
Eli5 plastic in the oceans | o4o3i4 | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
eli5: why is the moon sometimes out during the day? | o4oepr | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: How do we figure out the structure of a chemical compound? | o4owv9 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Whole topic) | [removed] |
ELI5: The Israel - Palestine conflict, and why its so controversial? | im1gyc | false | explainlikeimfive | Geology | [removed] |
Eli5 When ice fishing what is that sound the iced lake makes and why does it do that? To try and explain the sound better it sounds like a deep "doo woo" | kgymfk | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | null |
ELI5 Why does not having caffeine for a day (I usually have Pepsi Max everyday), result in having a major headache? I'd love to quit, but this reason stops me. | kg8sgt | false | explainlikeimfive | Does Not Belong Here | [removed] |
ELI5: If you drop someone from double their height, let’s say someone is 3ft tall (6ft drop) and someone is 7ft tall (14ft drop) would you expect to see the same damage ? | kga27e | false | explainlikeimfive | Does Not Belong Here | [removed] |
ELI5 What is the composition of the 'air' inside a bell pepper? | kgitcg | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do we still wash clothes with water and not in some scientific way like using ultrasonic cleaning? | kgm29e | false | explainlikeimfive | Does Not Belong Here | [removed] |
Eli5: Why do all planets appear to be perfectly round, but the terrains are varying and uneven? | kgut2g | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: What are the main amendments to the US constitution? What does each individual amendment deal with? | n03hgu | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Religion/Politics) | [removed] |
ELI5: What stops people in the US from checking into mental wards saying they're going to hurt themselves or others and continuing to say that for the free room and board? | n04oea | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
eli5 What are all of those colored squares on the edges of boxed food? | n04yr8 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5:Why do words don't make any sense when you say it over and over? | n085g3 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: The difference between Democratic and Republic countries. | n0ax2j | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Religion/Politics) | [removed] |
Eli5 How do rich people pay little to no taxes on their income? | n0buao | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5 what does "Host State/country" mean? | n0dpjj | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why is the letter 'x' the most common pronumeral in algebra? | n0eu3c | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straigthtforward) | [removed] |
eli5: why would the earth get extremely cold if the sun disappeared? | n0ev44 | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: What's the science behind someone being a "light sleeper"? | n0ey3q | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why were we thought in schools that Edison invented the lightbulb when Humphry Davy invented it long before him? | n0j512 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELi5 What would happen if all friction throughtout the universe was suddenly turned off? | n0kzwj | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Hypothetical) | [removed] |
[eli5] What determines if it will rain? How do meteorologist forecast this? | v7wrcc | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | What determines if it will rain? How do meteorologist forecast this? |
ELI5: I turned 30 today. And the ten years from 20-30 felt substantially faster than the 10 years from 10-20. Why is this? | v7thoo | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: How does meat rise in temperature as it rests? It's been removed from the heat source, so where is this energy increase coming from? | v7ubxr | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: How do people stay hospitalized in a coma for months to years without paying millions to stay on the life support machines? | v7x1ro | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5 at what point is something going "relativistic" speeds? | v7zybf | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELi5 What is the difference between shampoo and body soap? | v87dyx | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow) | [removed] |
ELI5: If everyone hates youtube so much (especially with its many crappy decisions), why haven't we made or started to use an existing alternative to it? | v8h9r4 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5 Why do people perceive music as sad/happy/...? How can something that feels so subjectively like music be so objectively? | v8jg7r | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5 - Do UV rays move with the wind? | vllb3w | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | My sunburned sensitive skin feels better when a breeze comes on a summer afternoon. Do these harmful UV waves move from the wind, and defer their harm temporarily? Or does the wind just feel better compared to the strong sun beating on me. |
ELI5: why are fish able to breathe the oxygen in H2O, but they can't breathe air? Do they separate the oxygen from the H2O? if so, what happens to the other hydrogen? | vll076 | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do my shins "ache" when someone tells me some sort of physically painful experience they had? | vluok7 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
eli5, what would it take for the US to codify R vs W? Is that even possible? | vlv5bq | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Legal) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do our brains have a "lazy" mechanism even though the brain knows that doing that 5 min chore right now is much easier and will leave you (therefore the brain itself) feeling good? | vlwt3l | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5.What does the US Space Force and enlisted guardians do? | vlxg8d | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: What are all of the payments that go into house payments | vlzig8 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: what is the point of period apps? | vm0f1n | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Where do infectious diseases come from? | vm0fj8 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Whole topic) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why is separation of church and state mentioned in the constitution, but disregarded as a whole? | vm21d6 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Religion/Politics) | [removed] |
ELI5: How does space turbulence differ from Earth's turbulence? Bonus question(!): What does it feel like? | wohk07 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [deleted] |
ELI5: why are there 2 types of "Aryans"? | woihce | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow) | [removed] |
ELI5: why does cheap jewelry make your skin turn green? | woiydz | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: Will hospitals in the US ever refuse life-saving treatment if the patient cannot pay or is uninsured? | wojskr | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why is your political system the best and why are you so certain the other party/ideology isn't right? | wojyf8 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Religion/Politics) | [removed] |
ELI5: If matter can neither be created nor be destroyed, how is our universe 13.7 billion years old? | woshor | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: why do fat people float better in water? | woz34n | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why are health insurance companies posting record profits (UnitedHealth Group, Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Humana, Medica) while health care systems are posting losses? | wp0mp0 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Whole topic) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why is there lots of droughts if global warming is melting glaciers and presumably adding more water into the weather system? | wp10vw | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: Why did all archaic humans go extinct? Why didn't they survive as a subspecies of humans, given that some of them had existed at the same time as modern humans? | wp3kh4 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: Is a plea bargain possible for this horrendous of a crime? | wot28t | true | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Legal) | [removed] |
ELI5: How is the weight of the planet Earth calculated? | nbculz | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | null |
ELI5: Why does "turn it off and on again" work (and so often at that)? | nbd4af | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: How does wind work? | nbixbg | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: What exactly are Indian Reserves? | nbjso0 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Religion/Politics) | [removed] |
ELI5: If the Sun has a very strong gravitational pull, why does it only pull the planets in our solar system around it instead of to it? | nblomd | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |