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ELI5: How do exchange rates work and how can one predict their increase and decrease? | vwrowt | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Whole topic) | [removed] |
Eli5: What makes a credit card company decide you qualify for their credit card? | vwubli | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
Eli5: how can Google Maps tell the difference between a traffic jam, and a bunch of people hanging about? | vwzb3w | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5 How do telescopes see into the past? | vx07w2 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
Eli5: What is the significance of the new James Webb telescope? | vx1x82 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: What is stopping all the water in the oceans from soaking into the earths crust and disappearing from the surface? | vx388g | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5 what is gerrymandering | vx58k0 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: what exactly are we looking at in the James Webb telescope picture? | vx5wof | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
Eli5: How are natural disasters (floods, droughts etc.) connected to the use of fossil fuels? | vx7fc1 | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
ELI5: I've just seen a video where lava (supposed) was placed onto ice and it did not melt through. Why is this the case, or is the video rubbish? | vx8fvf | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow) | [removed] |
Eli5 How can I best explain how the fundamental harmonies of music, translate into a material world of geometry? Without using too many musical terms, pitch names, or interval names? | vxaa4y | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: How do space telescopes like James Webb work? | vxadso | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5 whats happening in your body when you crack your neck? | vxbz7a | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
Eli5: What does CC mean in terms of motorcycles? | vxcgww | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: How do lakes refill after a flood? | goso70 | false | explainlikeimfive | Geology | [deleted] |
ELI5 What did Admiral Richard E Byrd actually discover and was there any further investigations regarding "the land beyond the pole"? | gom1q1 | false | explainlikeimfive | Geology | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do houses need fresh air but submarines do not? | w8sg6o | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do all large planets move on a perfect orbit and do not whirl like meteorites in the universe? | w8w9gk | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: How much toilet paper do I use in a year? How much do people worldwide use in a day? | w8wih5 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
Eli5 coughing up phlegm | w95bce | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Medical) | [removed] |
[ELI5] Why does our vision turn black and white after some time sunbathing with our eyes closed? | w9dvsp | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: How do potholes develop in paved roads? | w9eroe | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: Nevada, why are schools so broke when we have millions from the marijuana tax supposedly rolling in? | w9evrg | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why are some days hotter than others? | vebqdi | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | So it's hotter than usual in the UK today, maybe too hot, and it's got me wondering why some days are hotter than others. I thought it might have been affected by the wind, but it's windier today than yesterday. I also thought it may be clouds, but it's cloudier today too. I thought the sun may change somehow, but then I thought this was stupid. I'm no meteorologist, so could somebody please ELI5? |
ELI5: How do they measure distances in outer space? | vdpxr6 | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
eli5: why are there no moderately sugary beverages? | vdrvqs | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
eli5: Why is it socially acceptable to be provided for by a rich husband, but not by 5 rich boyfriends (provided they all know it's not exclusive)? | vds1n8 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
Eli5: if the Big Bang blew everything outward, why is there meteors flying in all different directions? | ve5m40 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: why is it standard for women to regularly visit gynaecologists throughout their lives and uncommon for men to visit urologists in the same way? | vebv5m | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: How do consoles still work when modders cut them to fit custom shells? They cut through traces and remove components but still works? How? | vefxs4 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELi5: How to reach the IRS - help, they have my money! | veh34k | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: I was always taught that Earth spins "really really fast, but you can't feel it". Is Earth so big that this speed is both "really fast" and also 'slow' enough to create day and night, or is there something else going on here? | veirme | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5 : If atoms never touch eachother, how can i feel texture since we are all made of atoms. | vejobs | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do clouds turn darker when it’s about to rain? | r45seq | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | null |
ELi5: What is the theory of plate tectonic? | r47yk9 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | null |
Eli5: if you have a cold (sneezing an runny nose) and you go to bed, why does it take a while for the symptoms to come back in the morning? | r4351q | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: How Do Solar Panels Work? | r43oa6 | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
Eli5: credit card cash back vs low utilization rate. | r49k6h | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
eli5: Coming to the end of 2021, what's the overall consensus with the current sweeteners used in diet foods; Coke Zero being the main point of discussion. | r4cdux | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Whole topic) | [removed] |
ELI5 Why are v💻iruses not a concern on Linux? | r4ngis | false | explainlikeimfive | R9 (Bot Evasion) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why are kids OK with highly stylized images of animals and other things? | r4uohz | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why wasn't Hitler tried in absentia at Nuremberg? | r4xp83 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: why people with mental illnesses usually don't notice that there is something wrong with them? | giief2 | false | explainlikeimfive | Psychology | null |
ELI5: Why do songs or thoughts pop into our heads randomly even though we haven't been thinking/listening to them in years? | gfh6ky | false | explainlikeimfive | Psychology | [removed] |
Eli5. Mountain Prominence 🏔 ⛰ | v0n3kw | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | I don’t really understand, I always thought it mean from like the base of the mountain to the peak. I just read it’s to the tallest ridge’s saddle to the lowest peak or something? Is from the base to the peak a different number? |
Eli5 What is population collapse? is it really a thing that can occur within couple of decades? if so how? | v16v0z | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [deleted] |
ELI5: Why does going 200 km/h In A Racing Game Look Like Going 100 km/h In Real Life? | v0g2kc | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow) | [removed] |
ELI5: How the sea rises when ice caps melt | v0wf08 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: what are first aiders ? | v0y9nt | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why does adding heat to the liquid form of eggs make them solid? | v0ye6f | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5 How the rich avoid tax by donating to charities? | v0z4yt | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
Eli5: How does the difference in time zones change during the year? | v0zlp9 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do people like buying Nissans? | v14gza | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why was Uncle Bens considered racist ? | v16z3j | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Does the extraction of fossil water contribute to the sea level rise? | v194gn | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: why does Africa have problems with clean water? | vwet5u | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | Can't they just dig wells? |
ELI5: why is the ocean salty? | vvr40t | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | null |
ELI5: Who was J Robert Oppenheimer? | vvpjnz | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
Eli5: Why are houses in western countries built using wood? | vvqtrx | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why can't digital computers do anything an analog system can do? | vw0iir | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
ELI5 How much does the government watch you when you google illegal stuff? | vw0v7z | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why are most finance companies located in city centers and most IT companies in the outskirts of cities? | vw383z | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow) | [removed] |
ELI5 Why are some mirrors higher quality than others? | vwbh9y | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow) | [removed] |
ELI5 : How are humans effected by the different rays from the sun? | mxji0h | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | I know you can check the UV index on any weather app and too me that just means the higher the UV the stronger the sun and quicker to get sun burn. But does UV index correlate to all the other rays coming from the sun (I’m just assuming UV is not the only kind)? Are things like getting vitamin D from the sun lower when the uv index is lower? |
ELI5 Why do clouds move? | my54tq | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [deleted] |
ELI5 Why do hamsters like to run in hamster wheels? | mxfxvo | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do some Africans that need to go to a well to pick up water live so far away from the well and don't just move closer? | mxr0cj | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
ELI5 why are women hornier at weddings and possibly funerals? | mxuhty | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
ELI5 : Fish & Gish | mxw4y5 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do so many medications require a prescription from a doctor? | my273k | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Medical) | [removed] |
ELI5 why do people some stop being friends as they get older? | my3zpm | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5 : why female is more attractive than male in humans,but vice versa in other animal groups. | my45uu | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: Immediately after the leg breaking kick of Chris Weidman at UFC261, what would have happened? | my7a5p | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELi5: how does allergies work? | my85xw | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
Eli5 What is the stuff that you see on concrete | sclb54 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5 Who was Cicero and why is he important? | scm5dg | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Whole topic) | [removed] |
eli5: how does the james webb telescope look into the past? | sco53v | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
Eli5 flat earth conspiracy | sctrbz | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
Eli5 What would happen if I peed on a electric fence | scvm2w | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Hypothetical) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why was a huge amount of data(5 petabytes) required for the first picture of the black hole | scvmsz | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5 Who does Taiwan actually belong to? Or is she independent? | scvv9o | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Religion/Politics) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why is everything so much funnier when I'm tired? | scwto7 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: What is the meaning of debit and credit and how are they different, like in some type of accounts when there is increase then it is called debit while in some it is c/a credit .. Quite confusing | sda6al | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: how did crocodiles survive the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs? | sdaq49 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
Eli5: How did cartographers (map makers) precisely draw the continents before clear images of the earth from space? | gq0pj6 | false | explainlikeimfive | Geology | [removed] |
eli5 What does this mean? How can a black hole emit something? | zb8swr | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | Black hole sending blast of energy straight at Earth after eating a star, say scientists A supermassive black hole is pointing at Earth, sending an intense blast of visible light straight towards us, experts said. Scientists believe the light burst happened when a black hole suddenly started eating a nearby star. Experts first spotted the burst of light in February. It appeared to emit more light than 1,000 trillion suns. |
ELI5: If gas giants have a solid core, does that make the core the "planet" and the rest of the gas the "atmosphere" ? | zbe7v4 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | null |
Eli5: Why does our nutsacks have something like a stitch line in the middle? | zbi8sj | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | null |
ELI5 every detail about I bonds. | zbogo0 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Whole topic) | null |
ELI5: What is money laundering? | zbw10v | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | null |
eli5: Why do some girls make some kind of whining noise when they gasp? | zc5e65 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | null |
Eli5 - Does everyone in the Caribbean, including locals, have Hepatitis? People say it's in the water, so does the entire population have it? | zbxyz7 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
eli5: Railway workers and no sick leave | zby17d | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Recent/Current Events) | [removed] |
Eli5:What are the societal implications of genetically modifying human embryos to enhance certain traits or characteristics? | zc03tl | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Hypothetical) | [removed] |
ELI5 Why when we squeeze our eyes closed we start to see weird colours and flashes? | m9xxl2 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Medical) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do the world's biggest corporations and wealthiest countries get the right to deplete & overexploitate the Earth's natural resources? | ma3nf6 | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5 why do things bubble when you fry them? | ma4kza | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: How do weather apps predict dust & dander for the week? I can understand pollen but D&D? | ma53r1 | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
eli5: Why doesn't the water on the surface of the Earth get absorbed into the Earth to the core? | ma5f2v | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: What causes the differences in the intensity of sex drive in men & woman ? | ma7i4d | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |