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ELI5: What about looking at someone smile makes involuntary smiling of one’s self?
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explainlikeimfive
Psychology
I’ve always been someone to have a serious resting face while doing anything. My day was stressful and long, so I had virtually nothing I could think of to smile about. Once home from work, I turned the tv on for background noise as I cleaned. While I was up doing so, I glanced at the tv and there was a particular scene that made the camera linger on a character smiling, and cause me to involuntary smile until the scene changed. What caused that to happen? I truly caught myself and was sort of shocked afterwards.
ELI5 - why is it that people prefer number divisible by 5 for things like volume or setting an alarm?
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false
explainlikeimfive
Psychology
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eli5: If ozone depleting molecules such as CFCs break down ozone molecules into oxygen molecules, and ozone is produced when oxygen molecules react with UV light, how is the ozone layer being destroyed?
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false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
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ELI5: why do modern religions not care that other religions have existed and died
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Religion/Politics)
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Eli5 why doesn’t California get more water from desalination plants?
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false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
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eli5: why do high school coaches care about winning games and making it to state? Are they financially motivated?
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false
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R2 (Narrow/Personal)
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ELI5: Why can't US electiones just count individual votes?
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false
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R7 (Search First)
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ELI5: If we are made of atoms and so are non living things, what makes us 'alive' ?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Subjective/Speculative)
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Eli5: How is there enough water for 7+billion people?
gjdy25
false
explainlikeimfive
Geology
It seems like for most of humanity, access to clean fresh water was severely limited. And back then, the population was significantly smaller. So how are we pulling it off?
ELI5 Why do humans feel love for animals such as pets?
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false
explainlikeimfive
Psychology
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ELI5 - Why does Canada continue to construct large dams (site C) but USA has not? Eli5
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explainlikeimfive
R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation)
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ELI5: what is escrow?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Straightforward)
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ELI5: how Makey Makey works
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Narrow/Personal)
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Eli5: Where does the sea and oceans wave power come from?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R7 (Search First)
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eli5 if we can't wear white clothes after labor day why do they still make white clothes?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R6 (Loaded/False Premise)
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Eli5: What's in petri dishes, why are there different colors and what happens after they've been used?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Straightforward)
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ELI5— what is the main substance of soil really. I know plant matter and bodies decompose and make dirt. But what am I really looking at when I grab a cold of dirt?
gmysoq
false
explainlikeimfive
Geology
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ELI5— what are the main substances of soil really? I know plant matter and bodies decompose to make soil, but when I grab a clod of dirt, what am I looking at?
gmyveq
false
explainlikeimfive
Geology
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ELI5: How is it that axolotls are listed as “critically endangered” species, but they are allowed to be pets that don’t even sell for more that much?
umcyab
false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
Apparently there are breeders making Axolotls and they only go for a few hundred bucks at most. How is this possible? And how are so many people able to own them as pets if they are very close to extinction?
ELI5: what is the least squares method of Gauss? What application does it have in astronom?
ulnlji
false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
null
ELI5 why do people still believe in an invisible man in the sky?
ullky7
false
explainlikeimfive
R6 (Loaded/False Premise)
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ELI5 : What is Space-Time?
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false
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R7 (Search First)
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Eli5: Why are some businesses allowed to charge a fee when using a credit card/Debit card?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Legal)
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ELI5 how we are not running out of aluminum and other metals?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Straightforward)
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Eli5 screen tear during credits and tradition of movie what causes it
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Narrow/Personal)
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ELI5: The difference between the FBI, CIA, and NSA.
um65qf
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Whole topic)
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ELI5 Why Smart phones focus so much on Camera Quality?
um75k1
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation)
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[eli5] How did a stablecoin like UST depeg and is it possible for its cousins (USDT, USDC) to do the same?
umal6q
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Recent/Current Events)
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ELI5: Why Is The Ocean So Undiscovered?
umbg5z
false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
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eli5: Could CMBR actually be starlight from extremely far off galaxies that has been extremely red shifted into that particular portion of the light spectrum?
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false
explainlikeimfive
Does Not Belong Here
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Eli5: Where did people learn the exact methods to prepare otherwise poisonous foods?
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false
explainlikeimfive
Does Not Belong Here
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ELI5: Do corrections officers know what the convicts were convicted for?
kjg7jo
false
explainlikeimfive
Does Not Belong Here
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Eli5 what makes a star a star, a planet a planet, a moon a moon, a meteorite a meteorite, and an asteroid an astroid?
kji1bn
false
explainlikeimfive
Earth Science
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ELI5: What is the difference between second and third degree murder?
kjk5u3
false
explainlikeimfive
Does Not Belong Here
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ELI5: Why does Sprite taste “sharp”?
kjlo5x
false
explainlikeimfive
Does Not Belong Here
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ELI5: When you imagine images or music, how can you "see" or "hear" them in your mind?
kjmrmi
false
explainlikeimfive
Did Not Search
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ELI5: When a TV cartoon series gets a full-length movie made of it, the animation is so much better than the TV content. What do animators do to make the animation “better” and why isn’t the cartoon made like that to begin with?
kjnfmm
false
explainlikeimfive
Does Not Belong Here
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ELI5: Why do we use 360 degrees?
kjnjv9
false
explainlikeimfive
Does Not Belong Here
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ELI5: what is that tingling feeling you get in your nose sometimes ?
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false
explainlikeimfive
Does Not Belong Here
[removed]
ELI5: Is it possible for somebody to get a mood disorder without any genetic or environmental influences?
f1d9l4
false
explainlikeimfive
Psychology
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ELI5: Why do we as people feel such satisfaction from watching mundane things like when the DVD graphic hits the corner perfectly or watching film getting peeled right to the end but we feel horrible when these things don't happen as we want or if someone ruins it just before the end?
gh1w35
false
explainlikeimfive
Psychology
null
ELI5: Why can't we dispose of trash from landfills in volcanoes?
gggtsq
false
explainlikeimfive
Geology
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ELI5: Why can't I see the ice around the north pole on Google Maps?
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false
explainlikeimfive
Geology
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Eli5 why hasn’t the left given the right a taste of their own medicine?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R6 (Loaded/False Premise)
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ELI5- how is it possible to have more debt than money in circulation?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R7 (Search First)
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ELI5: How do animals understand that they need to drink water? As opposed to urine or muddy puddles?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Subjective/Speculative)
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ELI5: If I could leave the Earth’s atmosphere and hover above it for 12 hours before returning straight back down, would I end up on the opposite side of the planet?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Hypothetical)
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ELI5: Why all of a sudden without any apparent reason I remembered an old song from many years ago and start singing it?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Personal)
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ELI5: When a small food particle gets unstuck from the teeth, why do we eat it before swallowing it, instead of simply swallowing it whole?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Narrow/Personal)
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eli5: What is the Met Gala?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Straightforward)
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ELI5: is every function of the universe derived from the fundamental forces?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Subjective/Speculative)
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ELI5: American football rules.
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Whole topic)
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ELI5 Help me understand tech degrees, jobs and its specialities
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Whole topic)
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ELI5: Regarding TMS therapy, what is the difference between a bilateral approach vs a Dorsal Medial Unilateral approach?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Personal)
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ELI5 - 13th amendment; Could you have an auction selling off convicted criminals?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Legal)
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ELI5: When Scuba Diving, is it uncomfortable having that part in your mouth? Do you get tired from biting down on it?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Narrow/Personal)
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ELI5 — what does it mean when the pressure of a hurricane drops? is this a good thing right now for people in Tampa???
xpptkx
false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
From the National Hurricane Center: 3 PM EDT Sep 27 position update of Hurricane #Ian. Data from an Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate the minimum pressure has decreased to 952 millibars. that’s what they posted just now, but what does this data translate into? is this a good thing or a bad thing if you have a friend in Tampa? https://twitter.com/nhc_atlantic/status/1574836944856649741?s=46&t=o5h5PylUQn71_2W4Kx5XKw
ELI5: Why some ISPs you can play games while people download/stream with no lag, but others you cant?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Narrow/Personal)
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Eli5: How is yen is weakened?
xp8cio
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Recent/Current Events)
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ELI5: Why Everyone Said DRAMless SATA SSD is Perfectly Fine for Game Drive/Storage
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation)
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ELI5 an Internet blockage from a Government? Do they cut the whole internet or just block some IPs?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Subjective/Speculative)
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ELI5: Why on the Moon you can see other planets in the solar system but on Earth we only see it from the sky?
xpes70
false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
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ELI5: Why do temperatures in houses feel so different?
xpfs8k
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Narrow/Personal)
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ELI5 : Why do planes load passengers front-to-back instead of back-to-front?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation)
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ELI5: Why looking up while being on top of tall things makes you dizzy?
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false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Narrow/Personal)
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ELI5 why no drug has been invented to stop you feeling hungry.
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false
explainlikeimfive
R6 (Loaded)
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ELI5:What are a spaceship's energy options as solar power is reduced as it distances itself from the sun?
xpw3u1
false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
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ELI5: Why do OLED TVs have tons of settings to get the most accurate picture but OLED phones (iPhone, Galaxy, etc) don’t have any of that?
xpwb32
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation)
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ELI5: Why did the Sahara turn into a desert?
upov64
false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
Why does fertile land turn into sand and how exactly did this fertile land form in the first place?
ELI5: Why do most pickup trucks have 4 doors now ?
uow4wd
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation)
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ELI5: What is wind at its most basic form made of?
up5o67
false
explainlikeimfive
R7 (Search First)
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ELI5:why does the American Judicial System Respect The Seal Of Confession?
up7g93
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Legal)
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Eli5: why is blackrock's founder Larry fink net worth just 1 billion dollar when his company almost owns the world?
up98ba
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Straightforward)
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Eli5 How are ideologies created, who, why and how does someone take a thought and turn it into a system, school of thought or movement.
up9ef3
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Whole topic)
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ELI5: why do we sweat sitting on certain surfaces wearing sweats or pajamas but not when we are wearing jeans?
upbp9h
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Narrow/Personal)
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ELI5: When airlines overbook flights, why do they kick off passengers already seated? It's horrible optics, and seems much harder than simply telling passengers still in the terminal that they can't board.
upcu5t
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation)
[removed]
eli5: If nothing can travel faster than light, why are there galaxies that are beyond our reach even if we can travel at light speed?
upe8q7
false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
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ELI5: It is said that a constant but small Inflation rate is good. But this would eventually still lead to huge Inflation, so this can't go on forever. Why is it good then?
upgs44
false
explainlikeimfive
R7 (Search First)
[removed]
ELI5: Why do people write numbers and their written form in a parenthesis sometimes?
upjlfe
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation)
[removed]
ELI5 what makes Norse stuff so attractive to white supremacists?
v7b9yg
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Subjective/Speculative)
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ELI5 What Exactly Radiation Is
v7bquv
false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
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ELI5: How is the pension system not a (literal) pyramid scheme?
v7erte
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Straightforward)
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ELI5: Why have we not developed a space elevator yet?
tlzkl6
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Subjective/Speculative)
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ELI5: Electric powered cars are known to be eco-friendly. Is it a fact or bluff?
tm13y1
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Straightforward)
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ELI5: What is the difference between a County Public Health Clinic vs. a hospital clinic? Do they collaborate/coincide in anyway?
tmwp0t
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Narrow/Personal)
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Eli5 those really painful tiny bumps that appear on your tongue? They’re tiny but hurt so bad.
tmye3v
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Straightforward)
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ELI5: what happens when food “goes straight through you”?
tn7hyt
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Narrow/Personal)
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ELI5: How do we know radiometric dating works?
k6zxwt
false
explainlikeimfive
Earth Science
ELI5: How do we know radiometric dating works? I understand the mechanisms, ive watched a lot of videos about it. My only concern is, how do we know how much of the parent element was orignially in the sample when it was first composed, or that it wasnt just a rock made up of a lot of the daughter element? Its probably dumb. But im confused
ELI5 how far above the ground does the sky begin?
k746rf
false
explainlikeimfive
Earth Science
null
ELI5: Why does plants grow with water, sunlight and must be under the dirt?
k79jw3
false
explainlikeimfive
Earth Science
null
eli5: When it rains, is there a point that you could go to that the rain would fully stop? Could you stand a few yards away from an area covered in rain and watch it? How does that sort of thing work?
l7mzfo
false
explainlikeimfive
Earth Science
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Eli5 Why are different galaxies different colors?
vx24ts
false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
I understand how different stars are different colors, and planets, and so-forth. But my thought process assumes the “law of averages” would make most galaxies at least close to the same overall color…..why aren’t they?
ELI5: Why is the night sky not completely white ?
vwiwgf
false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
null
eli5: If the earth surface is over 70% water then why are there still water shortages in many places around the world?
vx6m8f
false
explainlikeimfive
Planetary Science
null
ELI5: In boxing, why do refs rub the gloves of a KD'd boxer against their shirt?
vwipj5
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Straightforward)
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ELI5: why is dietary fiber important?
vwj46v
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Straightforward)
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ELI5: how do taps work?
vwjibk
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Straightforward)
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ELI5:Can actress Gal Gadot beat the wild cassowary?
vwlk4r
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Hypothetical)
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ELI5: why water is essential to life
vwmdn5
false
explainlikeimfive
R7 (Search First)
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ELI5: How is a multi-vitamin tablet the same physical size as a singular vitamin tablet?
vwrhw4
false
explainlikeimfive
R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation)
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