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ELI5: can someone help me understand this company description? | uh33ba | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow) | [removed] |
eli5, How does quicksand work? | uh69zr | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do we sometimes wake up and not remember it? | uh6xm7 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why can products like drinks and sauces be left out but have to be refrigerated after being opened? | uh97bp | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: How does the world get richer? | uhaqvn | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do fruits likes strawberries and raspberries go off so quickly after being picked compared to apples, oranges and bananas which can last weeks? | uhbte4 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5 How is Good Cop/Bad Cop effective? | jcixu5 | false | explainlikeimfive | Psychology | What does it do to the suspect psychologically? |
ELI5: What threats does the natural world face without human beings ? | jcdj82 | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
Eli5 How do archaeology finds end up under ground the the first place? | jclkf0 | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
Eli5 Space debris | jcubgi | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5 Why do people thing the Earth is flat | jd1pu7 | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: How does the map of Pangea even slightly esemble the current shapes of all the continents? | kzv06m | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | Is it just a visual representation? I mean It's not like a piece of land broke off and floated away? |
ELI5 Why did land masses form as a single giant continent that then split without other lands scattered around the globe? | kzmjpu | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | null |
ELI5 Where does the money spent in a video game development and production go? | kzmv9d | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straigthtforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why did the US government care so much about the civil war in Nicaragua that it was willing to allow cocaine to be smuggled into the country? | kzmyec | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Religion/Politics) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do we even have streetlights on highways? | kzqc37 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straigthtforward) | [removed] |
eli5: What does the term "Tax the Rich" mean? | kzqtxb | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: In the UK, what is a council? What is a council housing estate? | kzqu7d | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why does stuff wash off easier with hot water than with cold? | kzsate | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5 : in prehistory were there any animal that hunted humans or ate mainly humans? | kzwbgx | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: why do mobile game apps advertise a product that is nothing at all like the game itself? | kzzns4 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
Eli5: how does YouTube fair usage policy work? | l02uhy | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Legal) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why are rivers that originate from the sea or the ocean freshwater? | l03yt2 | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: Why was architecture + furniture so ornate and intricately detailed in the past, when there were less machines and processes available, but now we have tools available that would surely make these designs much easier, you never see them in modern designs. | l0752y | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5 how did water appear in Earth and how did we end up with such vast amount of it? | m8xtjl | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | null |
ELI5: Would plasma be considered wet, dry, or something completely else? | m9ax1v | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [deleted] |
ELI5- How do you do quadratics? | m8y1xz | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straigthtforward) | [removed] |
ELI5 What causes scars? | m8ywtt | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why are zoom court proceedings being live-streamed on YouTube? | m92i7x | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do we yawn when we see someone else do it? | m97ur5 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
eli5 How many possible songs can there be? | m9j706 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: What is the difference between hamburger and sausage ? | m9l4rw | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straigthtforward) | [removed] |
[ELI5] If the Earth was not tilted on an axis, would any time zone be able to be more than 24 hours ahead of another? | m9lmpx | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: What stops banks from claiming they control more money then they actually do? | m9s7yg | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Legal) | [removed] |
Eli5 why do domino brics have sove holes on them? | m9syne | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
[ELI5] How do archaeologists know that what they found was an actual 1.3 million year old axe and not just a weird shaped rock? | ouq5ky | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | Prompted by this article https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/archaeologists-in-morocco-announce-major-stone-age-find |
ELI5: How are sloths not extinct? | ov8uv4 | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | They’re literally the slowest mammal on the planet. You’d think predators would just eliminate them so easily. |
ELI5: How do some African countries get red soil? | ov9onu | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | null |
ELI5: What is day trading, how do you do it, is it risky, how might one learn to day trade? | oum6a1 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
Eli5:Does your body have trouble or experience something new when you try a food that you have to never tried before. I’m not talking about a meal, but a food product unknown to your organism | ouwo4v | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: How do Olympic athletes always set new records every games? | ov58nh | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: What would happen to the human body if they took a helmet off in space? | ov64h1 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Hypothetical) | [removed] |
Eli5 Why are people so anti Vax? | ov8m6l | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
Eli5 Why do whales seem to know what humans are? | ovd6x3 | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
eli5 how do women lose so much blood for 5-10 days each month and not die? | ovfkwh | true | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
Eli5: why did space skydiver not slow down after jumping out? | ohwfde | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | I watched Felix Baumgartner jump from space and hit speed of sound, why did he speed up if atmosphere is layer of gases that slow things down as object come into the atmosphere? Thanks in advance. |
Eli5: Why do most (stratus) clouds seem to start and end at the same altitude? And why do some clouds get to be higher or lower than others? | ohhzee | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | null |
ELI5- How does college, and major and minor degrees work? | oh1081 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
eli5 Human population increase | oh25f1 | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: how exactly is the golf of Mexico on fire? | oh348k | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: In the context of student loans, what does "forgiveness amount" mean? | oh4562 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5 What would the impact on global population be if no children were born for, say, 5 years? | oh6b6o | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: The functional difference between R and NC-17 content ratings (or M and AO) | oh6lwv | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
Eli5: why do we give tax breaks to billionaires? | ohb7p8 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Religion/Politics) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why does filtered water taste bad after a day or two of not drinking it? | ohbdu2 | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5 How did people originally solve the Call of Duty Zombies Easter eggs? | ohc29r | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: what the heck is the walten files about?? | ohq7le | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Fiction) | [removed] |
ELI5: What happens if you don't pay for the parking tickets? Do they just track you down? | ohrgqc | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
Eli5 How come we have only explored 5% of the ocean? | ohuvtm | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: how do we know we are not orbiting around the moon? | wmycod | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [deleted] |
eli5 How is paper made? | wmjq7k | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: How are there stripes on toothpaste? | wml1t6 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why is the typing keyboard arranged like that? | wmlxr6 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5 : How can a product be both Non-Dairy, and contain milk? UHT? | wmqau1 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Legal) | [removed] |
ELI5 During a a drought where does the water go? | wmqjto | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: Why does everybody’s nose run when eating hot food. Especially soup! | wmtsj1 | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: What did Michelle Obama do to school lunches in the USA? | wmzgro | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow) | [removed] |
ELI5 How come some engines can last for 300,000+ miles and others don’t last 100,000 miles? | wn2qwk | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why is Salmon Rushdie so controversial? | wncex2 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: How can humans sometimes just ‘tell’ when someone is there? | pxxbe0 | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
ELI5: can someone explain the reasoning behind intentionally getting loud/Smokey vehicles? | pxyp6k | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
ELI5: How does the Prescription Drug User Fee Act work? | pxzfvp | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Legal) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why does our face get puffy when sad crying but not from laughter tears? | py2m2w | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: What does the US running out of money mean? | pybitf | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Recent/Current Events) | [removed] |
ELI5: What keeps humans from finding a way to permanently stop bacteria from disolving teeth? | pye2ox | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
ELI5; If sex feels good because it encourages reproduction, why does pregnacy have such side effects, and actually getting the child out hurt like hell? | pyiphq | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
eli5 What makes Tier 1 Operators so much “better” than regular soldiers | pynn6z | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: what does 'meta' mean in terms of gaming? | pyo0f2 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why is seawater salty, when water from the lake isn’t? | lr1atw | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | null |
ELI5: We handle homophones fine when speaking why do we need to spell There, Their and They're differently can't we just figure it out by context the same we do verbally.? | lqbg09 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5, Amortization, paying your "down payment" as second payment? | lqdaox | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5 what is a “lay client” in law? | lqgn24 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: How does the earth's magnetic field rotate and flip every once in a couple of thousand/million years? | lqk7kt | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
Eli5: the circumstances of the death of Micheal Jordan’s Dad. | xnrtpp | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: How long does it take for a language to be formed after migration to a new area? How are dialects formed and diverted from an original language? | xnsk3x | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
eli5: Porting video games | xnvjhd | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why is this Stuart Broad incident being brought up in the current cricket debate? | xnzgoe | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Recent/Current Events) | [removed] |
ELI5: Salad dressing mixed from a packet tastes vastly different (better, imho) from the same style/brand sold in a bottle. Chemically, exactly what makes it so hard to produce a shelf-stable dressing that tastes like a freshly mixed one? | xo1our | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
Eli5 I went to the beach and saw brown rocks and broke apart rocks, they were brown and easily broken apart but held the same weight | xo4i3k | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5 Why are Automobiles and Trucks getting so big? | xo7319 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
Eli5 how do you decide which sports team to pick? | xo9240 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: What are the individual definitions of and relationships between voltage, amperage, and wattage? | xo9ifl | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5 What is the point of marriage/relationships? | 114dwah | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | null |
ELI5: Why do car wheels (and other spinning circles) seem to change the direction of rotation when going very fast, but then switch as they slow? | 114fiws | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | null |
eli5 how do satellites work | 114tiw3 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Questions must seek objective explanations) | null |
ELI5 Would predator population explode from all the factory livestock animals if they escaped into the wild? | 114wzuj | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Hypothetical) | null |
ELI5: Why do we have different designs of power plugs across different countries? | 114h9ox | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
Eli5: Why do we need the negative charge of thunderstorms? | 114vu3z | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
ELI5 Why do people put an open jar of pickles in the fridge? They’re literally in vinegar brine. | 114ymsl | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded) | [removed] |
ELI5: What is 'en passant' and why is it everywhere now | 1150xg3 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Questions must seek objective explanations) | [removed] |