- ELI5: When a nearsighted person looks in a mirror, why is the reflection still blurry even when they're close to the mirror? - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that we can get so burnt out on some flavors/meals, but never get burnt out on others? - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why do tangy and sour foods cause that tight, sharp feeling right behind the earlobes? - 2 hours
- ELI5: If we block robo-caller and spam callers that show spoofed phone numbers, are we blocking people's real phone numbers that we might actually - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why do ions in for example a bathtub full of H2O enable electricity to pass through; why can't it pass through destilled water? - 2 hours
- ELI5: What are concrete benefits to nose-breathing and are humans designed to mainly nose-breathe instead of mouth-breathing? - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why are blue coloured lights so hard to see and read? - 3 hours
- ELI5: If hail is ice, what causes rain to become hail instead of snow? - 3 hours
- ELI5: what actually happens when your erase pencil from paper ? - 3 hours
- ELI5: How does the video game world work, and how are games made? - 3 hours
- ELI5 How long does your body take to stsrt using the carbohydrates you consume for energy? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Who is Gallowboob and why does everybody hate him? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Why do developing countries have such massive populations when the living conditions there are not very conducive? - 4 hours
- ELI5: What happens aerodynamically when an airplane goes from subsonic to supersonic? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Everyday we breathe CO2, and it's everywhere on our lives, but if you take away an Oxygen molecule and get CO, it becomes poisonous (Carbon - 4 hours
- ELI5 : What is the difference between bibliography and reference? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Considering how far science has progressed, why are we still unable to communicate with or perfectly understand animals? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Who decided where continents split up? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Why are group texts sent through MMS protocol instead of SMS? - 5 hours
- ELI5: In a cold environment, why does pain seem to be amplified as opposed if I get hurt when it's warmer? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Why can we not instantly cook food? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Why do all living organisms requiere water, even though it doesn't contain any calories or nutrients? - 5 hours
- ELI5: how does curing meat with salt work? - 5 hours
- ELI5: what is the science behind food pairing? - 5 hours
- ELI5: How does tcp work? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Fur on coat hoods? - 6 hours
- ELI5: Whats with the super blood wolf snow moons? - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why do people say toasting your bread makes it unhealthier? - 6 hours
- ELI5: What is in illegal drugs, cocaine etc, that makes them deadly? Whats typically the cause of death behind these drugs? - 6 hours
- [ELI5] What is impedance and ohms and why is it so important to audio? - 6 hours
- ELI5: How can Rome have a 5°C warmer avarege temperature than New York, if it is approximately 130km more to the north? - 6 hours
- ELI5: How does optical zoom work to magnify things? - 6 hours
- ELI5: How the hell does using a butt plug help with lifting (ie. squatting)? - 6 hours
- ELI5: What is the potassium cycle? - 6 hours
- ELI5: How did the van Hall brothers use government bonds to operate the underground bank used to finance the Dutch resistance in WWII (see the - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why is gently rocking so soothing, even into adulthood? - 6 hours
- ELI5: why do lithium ion batteries spark and catch on fire if you stab them? - 7 hours
- ELI5: What is the difference between a strategy space, strategy profile, and profile space? - 7 hours
- ELI5: How did Somalia become stateless and has it made things more chaotic or been an improvement? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why does the birth control pill work properly through the seven day placebo pills, but one missed day of the regular pills is cause for extra - 7 hours
- ELI5: why do girls' body (i.e boobs, stomach, etc) start hurting or get extra sensitive when they're about to get their period? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that pretty much everything in today’s world can be explained with data? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why people don't like putting miles on their new cars. - 7 hours
- ELI5: How were ancient civilizations able to communicate with each other when neither knew their language? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why do people tend to be nicer in some areas(like the midwest) then in other areas(like New Jersey) - 7 hours
- ELI5: How is it that some molecules can reflect light so well (mirrors) and some just don’t reflect them at all (matte black/vanta black) if - 9 hours
- ELI5: How does a couple inches of rain fill up a 5 gallon bucket? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How does a nuclear weapon work? - 9 hours
- ELI5: Why do objects in dim light appear to move slower? - 9 hours
- ELI5: Why do so many people seem to get ill around exam times? - 9 hours
- ELI5: When mouthwash says it kills 99% of germs, is that not just breeding super-bacteria in your mouth? - 9 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that sites like YouTube have dramatic differences between volumes on videos. Can't streaming services output a consistent volume - 10 hours
- ELI5: How do fuel automatic shut off handles work? - 10 hours
- ELI5: Why do electrical high voltage power cables buzz? - 11 hours
- ELI5: Does your stomach "digest" water? - 11 hours
- ELI5 - how were stone lighthouses and bridge supports built underwater - 11 hours
- ELI5: Why do big companies have layoffs and increase prices on their products etc. when they make less money but still have massive profits, far - 11 hours
- ELI5: Why are people in northern Europe more distant from each other than people in southern Europe? - 12 hours
- ELI5 how sound and light are perceived at high speeds. - 12 hours
- ELI5: When somebody sued somebody else for a large sum (hundreds of thousands) but that person doesn’t have the money to pay - what happens? - 12 hours
- ELI5: Can someone explain how scientists make approximations about the speed of our galaxy moving through space? - 13 hours
- ELI5: Why does your batteries performance drop if you leave it on charge while it is already fully charged? - 13 hours
- ELI5: How does data compression work? - 13 hours
- ELI5: What's the difference in power between a peace officer and a police officer? - 14 hours
- ELI5: What are “mysteries” when mentioned in the context of mythology? - 14 hours
- ELI5: How was code written on the very first computers? - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why are predatory birds called "birds of prey?" Shouldn't it be "birds of predators?" - 15 hours
- ELI5: When you have a cold and are congested, why does it sometimes feel/sound like you have water stuck in your ear(s)? - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why do you need a permit to start a business but not to sell things privately over Craigslist, etc? - 15 hours
- ELI5: If occupied land splits/moves/submerges along a fault, are the state/country borders adjusted? - 15 hours
- ELI5: How do you control prosthetic arms and how does the prosthetic know what to do? - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why aren’t we allowed to lower the salaries of politicians? So that we can be sure that they are running not for money but because they really - 15 hours
- ELI5: why do so many adult men in power (political or celebrities) seem to have a desire to have sexual interactions with females under 18? - 15 hours
- ELI5: How to weight a helium ballon? - 15 hours
- ELI5 Why is it when we get older we lose our craving for sweets? - 17 hours
- ELI5: What are the benefits of combining opioids with regular pain killers like in Percocet - 17 hours
- ELI5: How do bluelight filters on phones work? - 17 hours
- ELI5: Why are bunnies and eggs associated with Easter? - 17 hours
- ELI5: What are Lie Algebras and Lie groups? - 17 hours
- ELI5: How can you bake cookies with eggs and not have to refrigerate what you've baked? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Why does water taste amazing when you're dehydrated and okay when you're hydrated? - 18 hours
- ELI5 How does my phone choose what songs to play during shuffle? I find it’s consistently either all songs I don’t like and usually skip, or all - 18 hours
- ELI5: Why does the area I had a bruise in hurt months after it's gone? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Universal currency - 18 hours
- ELI5: Does sleeping with one leg under the covers and one out help with regulating your body temperature or is it all mental? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Why is vasectomy temporary instead of permanent? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Where did the saying ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’ come from? - 18 hours
- ELI5: How does bleach actually work to kill bacteria and germs? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Protestants and Catholic hating each other? - 18 hours
- ELI5: What is “bonus” in basketball? Is it good or bad to be in bonus? - 19 hours
- ELI5: What is the purpose of colored dots on the backs of plastic packaging? - 19 hours
- ELI5: how does salt water help toothaches? - 20 hours
- ELI5 how mobile finger scanner works? - 20 hours
- ELI5:How do economies of scale make things cheaper? - 20 hours
- ELI5: What is plasma? (as a state of matter) - 20 hours
- ELI5: Why is blood at grocery stores a liquid? Why hasn't it coagulated? - 21 hours
- ELI5: How did 200 year old cities modernise to what they are today? - 21 hours
- ELI5: How is Netflix able to provide seemingly perfect subtitles to basically every show/movie on their platform and what allows them to do this so - 21 hours
- ELI5: Why does "getting up too quickly" make you dizzy and blur your vision? What can be done to prevent this? - 21 hours
- ELI5: Why do the tip of some pencils completely fall right out after sharpening it? - 21 hours
- ELI5: Why is our dishwasher unable to remove raw protein from dishes? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How do marker caps keep them from drying out, even with holes? - 22 hours
- ELI5: why is it dangerous to thaw foods then freeze/cool them again? - 22 hours
- [ELI5]Why does turning a computer off and back on again fix the issue? Like doesn't it indicate a problem that will happen in the future? - 24 hours
- ELI5: How do doctors measure the error of the vision of a baby? - 24 hours
- ELI5: why are boys always hungry? and why do they eat so much? - 24 hours
- ELI5: What does it mean to plea “no contest?” - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why aren’t the bottoms of people’s feet the smoothest skin on their body? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why do headphones get so tangled up so easily? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why do prion diseases only affect the brain/nervous system? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Given that a person washes themselves thoroughly when they shower, how does a clean towel ever get dirty why drying off our clean bodies? - 25 hours
- ELI5: How to skateboarders keep the board "stuck" to their feet when doing tricks? - 25 hours
- ELI5: How is using a password manager considered safe if you are throwing all your eggs in one basket? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Is "catching up" on sleep a real thing? How does your body "store" or "keep track" of sleep, and over what amount - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why in movies and series they sometimes make character's voices start at the end of one scene, before the scene where they speak actually - 26 hours
- ELI5: What exactly is GDP in economics and how does it affect nations and their economies? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why Wi-Fi signals are much weaker through walls, when compared to Cellular 4G and LTE. Also wouldn't it be better to use use Cellular - 26 hours
- ELI5: About 17%-35% of the population experience Photic Sneeze Reflex (Sneezing when exposed to bright light). What Causes this? - 27 hours
- ELI5: How do we know in what order the radiation era epochs occurred and how long they lasted? - 27 hours
- ELI5 how hot oil and water can have such an explosive reaction, but not regular temperature oil? - 27 hours
- ELI5: Funny walking pets - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why does water stay stationary in a bowl? - 27 hours
- ELI5: What is entropy? - 27 hours
- ELI5: I found some white brownish substance under my foreskin but I have no idea what it is... - 27 hours
- ELI5: What is the relationship between resolution, frame height and width, data rate and file size? - 28 hours
- ELI5 what major depressive disorder reoccurring, severe (HCC) means. - 28 hours
- ELI5: why "organic" labeled food costs more? - 28 hours
- ELI5: What happens to volume and surface area of spheres in n-dimensions? - 28 hours
- ELI5 How does flash photography degrade paintings/artwork? - 28 hours
- ELI5: how do ZWJ and VS16 work regarding emojis? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Gold leaf. How do you get real gold so thin - 28 hours
- ELI5: How was it decided that wireless mouse drivers need to weigh in at hundreds of megabytes? - 28 hours
- ELI5: when you're hit in the head, how does your body determine if its hard enough for you to pass out or not? - 28 hours
- ELI5: How do you prove you not crazy? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why are certain haircolors from the drug store permanent and others not? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Most of the we renowned paintings from history are oil paintings (and not watercolor). Why is that? - 28 hours
- ELI5: how does it snow during the day then at night it would rain even though it’s a lower temperature? - 29 hours
- ELI5: Why do oil changes come with a length of time along with the mileage (ex. 3 months/3000 miles)? - 29 hours
- ELI5: How are negative temperatures measured/calculated? Thermometers (at least mercury ones) bottom out at zero don't they? - 29 hours
- ELI5: How does Electrostatic spaying wrap around a surface? - 29 hours
- ELI5 why do so many cities' downtowns have one way streets? - 29 hours
- ELI5: How are there Damascus steel knives if we don’t know how to make it? - 29 hours
- ELI5: What makes a vowel a vowel, and a consonant a consonant? - 29 hours
- ELI5: Why is that we can't see similar phenomenon like the Northern and Southern lights near the equator. - 29 hours
- ELI5: why do you have no service/internet access when you are in the middle of a phone call on your cell phone? - 29 hours
- ELI5: Why is the Rhein II photo worth so much money? - 29 hours
- ELI5 Why are there multicolored feathers and skin in nature (e.g. green & blue in reptiles, birds) but not fur? - 29 hours
- ELI5 Why is the north pole determined to be the north and the south pole determined to be the south? - 31 hours
- ELI5: When my stomach feels terrible, why does exhaling seem to make me feel better? - 31 hours
- ELI5 what are electrolytes, why do they keep us hydrated and how do they add more to sports beverages? - 32 hours
- ELI5: How filming shows like Moonshiners doesn't get the people in trouble or arrested? - 32 hours
- ELI5: At the pharmacy, there's a $1 pregnancy test. Right next to it is a $50 pregnancy test. Are they the same? What is the difference? - 32 hours
- ELI5 :Why does soap make water bubbly? - 32 hours
- ELI5: Why is having perfect vision called "20-20 vision"? - 32 hours
- ELI5: When you take your vehicle in to have the alignment adjusted what are they adjusting? - 32 hours
- ELI5: How do clouds keep together? - 32 hours
- ELI5: How does 'targeted' pain relief work? - 33 hours
- ELI5: What are several success stories of terra transforming an environment? - 33 hours
- ELI5: How come that I see some of my earliest memories from another angle than my eyes? - 33 hours
- ELI5: How come games that come out at the end of a console's life cycle have much better graphics than games released at the beginning? - 33 hours
- ELI5: Why does it matter how you charge a battery with respect to long-term life? - 33 hours
- ELI5: How can all household electronics be powered by the same outlet? - 33 hours
- ELI5: What happens to the eyelashes i don't get out of my eye? - 33 hours
- ELI5: There is a lot of information on the internet about how the Federal Reserve is bad. What is the well-intentioned argument in favor of the - 34 hours
- ELI5: How does stress cause a person to actually wake up in the middle of the night? - 35 hours
- ELI5: How is it possible for more Youtube and social media users to make over $10k a month? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why is a male contraceptive pill not yet available? - 35 hours
- ELI5: how does internet work really ? where do all those fiber optic cables connect ? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Why do some experaince chest pain due to anxiety but when you get a ECG // Blood pressure its fine like there's no reason for the pain but - 36 hours
- ELI5: Why are we often waking up one minute before the alarm? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Who hires celebrity makeup artists? - 36 hours
- ELI5:Pyramid schemes. - 36 hours
- ELI5: why are big lumps of coal left as memorials to mining not a fire risk? - 36 hours
- ELI5: How come recycling is praised by nearly everybody, yet they use electricity/fossil fuels like everything else? - 36 hours
- ELI5: How does an atomic bomb work? - 37 hours
- ELI5: What are personal values and are the important to articulate? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How do owls heads turn so far, what are their bone structures like? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How and Why so many men go Bald? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why do dancers count by 8? - 37 hours
- ELI5: What is 'FDI' and what effect does it have on a country? - 37 hours
- ELI5: what is the riehmann hypothesis and what is its importance. I do not know anything past basic math - 38 hours
- ELI5: How do different preferences in taste form in different people? - 38 hours
- ELI5: Why do planes have doors to their left? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Why does it physically hurt to hold in tears when you’re sad? - 40 hours
- ELI5: How do machines that separate ripe fruits from raw ones work? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Do they keep foods heated instead of refrigerated in colder climates? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Why is the drinking age 21 in the United States? - 40 hours
- ELI5: How do works selected for preservation by the Library of Congress actually function? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why is it cars rapidly depreciate in value while trucks maintain their value for 10-20 years? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why does bath water seems so hot when it’s usually body temp? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why do drinks taste better in a glass cup? - 41 hours
- ELI5: How can 10¢ feed a child? - 41 hours
- ELI5: why do people get random long white hairs, that are easy to pull, and that are only noticed once they're 2 inches long, in strange spots on - 41 hours
- ELI5: How long does pupil constriction last with opioid use? - 41 hours
- ELI5: What is a movie producer and what exactly do they do? - 42 hours
- ELI5: Legality on kissing/sexual scenes in TV shows - 42 hours
- ELI5: Why was the prohibition introduced as an amendment to the constitution, not as a regular old law? - 42 hours
- ELI5: Why 10-4? - 42 hours
- ELI5: How do speed radar work and how do they exactly focus on your license plate and send you a ticket home? - 42 hours
- ELI5: what causes airplane turbulence? - 42 hours
- ELI5: Why do professional painters wear white? - 42 hours
- ELI5: What does it mean to "decode the genome", how does it work, what does it tell us? - 43 hours
- ELI5: What exactly happens to the body when someone goes through anaphylactic shock? - 43 hours
- ELI5: 4K and 8k. How many K’s could we go to? Is there a point we couldn’t distinguish between K’s? - 43 hours
- ELI5: what is a subnet mask and its use? - 43 hours
- ELI5: Are there long term consequences to having "one too many bumps on the head"? - 43 hours
- ELIF: How do airlines determine the collective weight of passengers on board any given flight? - 43 hours
- ELI5: How do fire engines change traffic lights when they hit red? - 43 hours
- ELI5: What are Carbon Credits and how do companies use them to offset their carbon footprint? - 43 hours
- ELI5: Why are we using slot drive and cross headed screws when slot drive screwdriver fits both? - 44 hours
- ELI5: golf handicap - 44 hours
- Eli5: why are diamonds so tough? - 44 hours
- ELI5: How do most people still get their daily suggested micros when most food labels show a very low percentage of them (except a few like C)? - 44 hours
- ELI5: If it takes about 8 minutes for sunlight to reach earth doesn’t that mean that it’s true position in the sky is 8 minutes ahead? - 44 hours
- ELI5: Why do people enjoy "ruining" popular things? - 44 hours
- ELI5: Why can't a phone connect to multiple speakers via bluetooth? - 45 hours
- ELI5: How come some games have great aiming or sluggish aiming and in a similar fashion, how come input lag is a thing? - 45 hours
- ELI5: What really causes airplane turbulence and is it combated by the pilots ability? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why is it called Alternating Current and Direct Current instead of Alternating Voltage and Direct Voltage? - 47 hours
- ELI5:Why is counting by 5's or 10's fast and easier than other numbers? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How does the Nintendo Switch record the last 30 seconds of gameplay after you hold down the screenshot button? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How does diabetes work on a cellular level? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How do pimples form? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How Flightradar24 works? - 48 hours
- ELI5: How are original soundtracks from multiple artists created? - 48 hours
- ELI5: Apart from "building credit" what are advantages for credit cards? - 48 hours
- Eli5: How can a chicken's head stay in the same position when the rest of the body is moved around - 48 hours
- ELI5: Why is hot water from a tap cloudy/white while cold water is clear? - 48 hours
- ELI5: Why do some foods (looking at you, spaghetti) permanently stain Tupperware while others seemingly don’t? - 48 hours
- ELI5: What makes a gene recessive or dominant? - 48 hours
- ELI5 What exactly is 4chan? I know that it’s a forum board but all my friends say that i am too “sweet or pure” to go there. What is it about - 48 hours
- ELI5: Why is AOC criticized for the Amazon pull out? - 48 hours