- ELI5. How does those undeground turkish barbecues work? Wont the lack of oxygen put out the fire? - 2 hours
- ELI5 the CTMU theory? - 2 hours
- ELI5 why is this sub full of people giving very detailed analysis’ of questions when the subs title is literally “Explain Like I’m FIVE”? - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why does inflation happen? Does inflation ever go down? - 2 hours
- ELI5: why does ham and bacon cook brown/red, but pork loins cook white? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Why do fizzy things go flat when heated? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Does a sudden increase in a countries population create a better economy, and better living? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Why do some women have a bloated stomach post-pregnancy? Like the baby got out, isn't it supposed to flatten? - 3 hours
- ELI5: what are some of the causes of people getting hunchbacks? Am I right or wrong in thinking that there are going to be a lot more people with - 3 hours
- ELI5: Why is everybody's fingerprint unique? it's not like there's a database with the used fingerprints to avoid reputation, so - 3 hours
- ELI5: why rail tracks seem like jelly worms, when they are being placed/lifted by a crane? - 4 hours
- ELI5: How does the Meselson-Stahl experiment prove that DNA replication isn't dispersive? - 4 hours
- ELI5: How does a infrared thermometer also measure humidity? - 4 hours
- ELI5: why are older movies (that are based on books) more accurate than newer ones? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Why does sleep deprivation make me nauseas and lightheaded? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Infinite Density part of Big Bang Theory - 4 hours
- ELI5: Why are some keyboards able to register three inputs at once, while others can only manage two? - 5 hours
- ELI5: What is a military security clearance in the US, why is it beneficial to potential employees, and how do you get it? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Why does faster flow in a hose cause more pressure, given Bernoulli's Principle? - 6 hours
- ELI5: how can we use zener diode as a voltage regulator. - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why are not all gloves touch screen friendly? - 7 hours
- ELI5: How come vegetables generally taste bad to the tongue compared to sweets and fatty foods, despite them being healthy and good for you. Is this - 7 hours
- ELI5: How does radioactive decontamination work and why can't this be applied to nuclear waste? - 7 hours
- ELI5: How does private insurance work in countries with Universal Health Care? - 9 hours
- ELI5 How can micro SD cards range from 1 gig to 1tb while being the exact same size? - 9 hours
- ELI5: While being sick, why is the nose mostly open while standing and closed/blocked while sitting or lying? - 9 hours
- ELI5: What are the different right of ways at uncontrolled intersections? - 9 hours
- ELI5: What/why does distance have anything to do with time? - 9 hours
- ELI5, Battery life - 9 hours
- ELI5 what it means when they say a child learns most of their vocabulary in the first three years of its life? - 9 hours
- ELI5: why do only some materials work on touchscreen, and what is in touchscreen gloves that makes them work? - 9 hours
- ELI5: What makes command prompt important ? why is it considered powerful? I know you can do a lot of stuffs using cmd, but you can also do those - 10 hours
- ELI5: Differences among Prisoners' Dilemma, Stag Hunt, and Chicken Game - 10 hours
- ELI5: With the recently made work of art using a banana taped to a white canvas being worth $100,000+ many have speculated it to be used for money - 10 hours
- ELI5: How are dams built? How do they get the water behind the dam like that? - 11 hours
- ELI5. Why do people hear a high pitched ring in their ear at random times? - 11 hours
- ELI5 why does eating too much sour candies start to irritate your tounge - 12 hours
- ELI5: where does the value of stocks come from? I mean if someone buys a stock and then sells it for a profit then where did that value come from? - 12 hours
- ELI5: What's the difference between speed and velocity? - 12 hours
- ELI5: What is the difference between an ETF, Mutual Fund, and an Index Fund? - 12 hours
- ELI5 How do they preslice hotdog buns? - 12 hours
- ELI5: If you have cancer in a certain organ (like liver cancer) why can't you just remove the infected organ and be cancerfree again? - 12 hours
- Eli5 Why are movie audio volumes so different from action scenes to talking? - 12 hours
- ELI5: YouTube's monetization system when it comes to controversial but popular YouTubers, i.e. PewDiePie. - 12 hours
- ELI5. What is the belief to warming up your car for a few mins in the morning? Are there any benefits to your vehicle, or does it cause harm? If so, - 12 hours
- ELI5 The fact that the observable universe was as small as 17cm in size. - 13 hours
- ELI5: If the goal of sneezing is to expel irritants from the nose, why does most of the air come out of the mouth during one. - 13 hours
- ELI5: How does search algorithm works? - 13 hours
- ELI5: Why are there more african americans in the NBA compared to other sports? - 13 hours
- ELI5: What makes vinegar so good at removing things? - 13 hours
- ELI5: why does butter taste sweet and creamy when its in solid but salty when it melts/liquid? - 13 hours
- ELI5: when we say increase in velocity of a liquid decreases the pressure what does it mean? - 13 hours
- ELI5: How does defragmentation work? - 14 hours
- ELI5 How do donations to a cancer research foundation go towards funding their research and ultimately helping find a cure for cancer? - 14 hours
- ELI5: how do overtones work? - 15 hours
- ELI5:Why does "highlighter yellow" appear brighter than most other colors? - 15 hours
- ELI5 why does putting pressure on a wound facilitate clotting? - 15 hours
- ELI5 why are mountains covered in snow but it’s closer to our heat source? - 15 hours
- ELI5: If colds are caused by viruses and allergic reactions, why do a lot of people get colds during cold/wet weather? - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why would a video of a still image take up less space than a video with moving frames? - 17 hours
- ELI5: Why dont we have 1000v1000 multiplayer games? - 17 hours
- ELIF: if things can be explained in more laymen terms, what is the benefit of explaining them in more complicated terms to begin with? - 18 hours
- ELI5: what's the difference between correlation and causation? - 18 hours
- ELI5: What exactly happens in our brains when we get bored? - 18 hours
- ELI5: How do sports commentators get so many facts and stats very quickly during live games? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Where do game shows get their prize money? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Why can’t we grow trees and then bury them in the ground as a method of CO2 removal and sequestering? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Do photons have no mass? - 19 hours
- ELI5 How do $1 pizza slice places in NY make money? - 19 hours
- ELI5 how do faucets not explode from the water pressure? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why is vibrato in music so pleasing to listen to? - 19 hours
- ELI5: When two TVs in TVs same house are run through the same cable service, why does one seem to always lag behind the other? - 20 hours
- ELI5 When entering a card number via keypad on a phone call, how does the recipient know which digits you entered? - 20 hours
- ELI5. Why are large passenger/cargo aircraft designed with up swept low mounted wings and large military cargo planes designed with down swept high - 20 hours
- ELI5: How does services like Xbox Game Pass and PS Now generate money for Devs? - 20 hours
- ELI5: if dryness is the absence of moisture, why do your hands get dry and crack if you wash them too much? - 21 hours
- ELI5: Why haven’t Bluetooth video projectors been invented yet? - 21 hours
- ELI5: what is going to happen when flash becomes obsolete? - 22 hours
- ELI5: Why does the weather influence our mood so much? - 22 hours
- ELI5: Why do scars not heal to the same color as your skin? - 22 hours
- ELI5 why chewing gum melts when you have chocolate at the same time - 22 hours
- ELI5: Why isn't the night sky just one big light? - 22 hours
- ELI5: What is the difference between typical capacity and rated capacity in lithium ion batteries? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How do Cuban heels in riding boots help you stay in the stirrup? - 22 hours
- ELI5: what's the difference between "www.webpage.website.com" and "www.website.com/webpage"? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How do we know and measure the mass of celestial bodies like earth or the sun, or something like Mount Everest? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How do they make dams watertight if the cement is underwater and wet? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How can a banana taped to a wall be worth $120,000? How is contemporary art valued? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How can we recall memories and imagine scenarios and see them visually, while also seeing and observing the current environment? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How is 2D digial animation created? Are there any hand drawn elements like with cels, or does it completely involve computers? - 25 hours
- ELI5 How in boxing a person can get cut when punched by someone wearing gloves? - 25 hours
- ELI5 Why mobile phones require pin after boot, even when fingerprints/irises/faces are registered? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why do very cold things feel wet? - 25 hours
- ELI5: why do people say not to post pictures of your kids on the internet? What could somebody do with the image? - 25 hours
- ELI5: What is the scientific explanation behind the 'internal resistance' you feel in the anticipation of doing mundane tasks, whereas we can - 25 hours
- ELI5: People with Parkinson’s disease has a lack of dopamin, and people with ADHD also has a lack of dopamin. Then why can’t people with ADHD get - 25 hours
- ELI5 : What causes a water stream to break up into smaller droplets? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why do trees grow like that? - 26 hours
- ELI5: why are solar panels blue? - 26 hours
- ELI5: How do you send your IELTS scores to different universities? - 26 hours
- ELI5 when you update an application, does that application then take up extra memory equal to the size of the download? - 26 hours
- ELI5 Why do we need to update the drivers in computers when the existing ones seem to be working perfectly? - 26 hours
- Eli5 how is wood moulded into flat sheets and furniture when trees are cylindrical in shape ? - 27 hours
- ELI5 Why does the volumn of gasoline change with temperature? - 27 hours
- ELI5 Why do ionic/covalent bonds matter for the boiling points of giant ionic/covalent lattices - 27 hours
- ELI5: How is it that all animals procreate copies of themselves. - 27 hours
- ELI5: why is it that the dying embers of a fire give off more smoke than alive fire? - 27 hours
- ELI5: How those drink machines that can give you a large array of drinks at fast food restaurants - 28 hours
- ELI5: How money is stored by banks and brokers? - 28 hours
- ELI5: How do technicians fix wires or systems that are buried inside walls? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why is this impressive? What did he actually do? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why can’t we remember the last moments before we fall asleep? - 28 hours
- ELI5: what is pencil tip made up of? Lead or graphite or both? Why? - 29 hours
- ELI5 where did all the energy that initiated Big Bang come from? - 29 hours
- ELI5: How does pressure on my eye affect its filter? - 29 hours
- ELI5: Could you please explain the notion of "Time is a flat circle" ? - 30 hours
- ELI5: Why is white rice cheaper than red, brown or black rice even if the other varients require less milling? - 30 hours
- ELI5: Why do cinemas use projectors on a huge wall instead of a huge screen? - 30 hours
- ELI5: How does earth attracts the air towards its center, and what is the center of mass of air in that case? - 30 hours
- ELI5 Why do some sodas like root beer and ginger ale have more fizz than other sodas like sprite or Coca Cola - 31 hours
- ELI5: Why is the first pancake always ugly? - 31 hours
- ELI5: Why do guys shudder when they pee? - 31 hours
- ELI5: How do we have Cleopatra’s family tree mapped out but can not confirm Jesus was a real person? - 31 hours
- ELI5: How do entire cities flood? - 33 hours
- ELI5: Where do black market organs end up going and why? - 33 hours
- ELI5: why don’t all phone services send texts over the internet (like apple’s iMessage does)? - 34 hours
- ELI5: How does your muscle grow stronger/thicker upon being damaged? - 34 hours
- ELI5: What is argument from ignorance (or appeal to ignorance), which is a fallacy in informal logic? - 34 hours
- ELI5 what do I need to know before traveling oversees from America, in general and specifically to Indonesia - 34 hours
- ELI5: Are HDR movies edited in HDR? - 34 hours
- ELI5 How do saltwater marine animals not die from dehydration? - 34 hours
- ELI5: Why does glass shatter but a thin paper does not when a bullet pierces them? - 34 hours
- ELI5: If atoms can be made lighter by removing neutrons from it, wouldn’t it theoretically be possible to make something as heavy as gold float? - 34 hours
- ELI5: Why do you lose strength when you laugh? - 34 hours
- ELI5: How and why do oorbeez work? - 35 hours
- ELI5 why is Exfoliating good but scratching is bad? - 35 hours
- [ELI5] What does night vision make some black clothing appear white? Additionally, why does some black clothing stay black? - 36 hours
- ELI5: How do boomerangs work? - 36 hours
- ELI5; why does asparagus work as fast as it does on our systems? - 36 hours
- ELI5:Why is it important to put severed appendages on ice as soon as possible and how does this help? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Recently I saw a video where a zebra tries to drown the offspring of a rival male. How are animals in the wild able to tell the difference - 36 hours
- ELI5: In video games, why do the feet of characters appear to "hover" over the ground slightly? - 37 hours
- ELI5: how can phone screens tell the difference between your fingerprint and something like a stick? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Before the germ theory of disease what rationale did people have for washing their hands or engaging in sanitary activities? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How does Face ID works? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why sparks from welding hurt our eyes and animal's eyes? - 38 hours
- ELI5 If dome shaped buildings/rooftops are great insulators of temperatures, can the same be said about a dome that has a less smooth and more - 38 hours
- ELI5: Does ripe just mean a point where the rotting process makes the fruit sweet? - 38 hours
- ELI5:Why is it that in humans before a competitive event or any event that makes them nervous,their brains link to their stomach and makes them need - 38 hours
- ELI5: At what point does a crime become a ‘crime against humanity’? - 38 hours
- ELI5: How is it possible that The USA spend more on healthcare per capita than the UK? - 40 hours
- ELI5: How do the different names on video cards work? - 40 hours
- ELI5: What's Forex? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Why does tip culture exist in places like the US but not in other countries? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Why does scratching an itchy spot on your body sometimes actually make it disappear? - 41 hours
- ELI5: How can large bushfires (I think called wildfires in most of the world) have their own climate systems? - 41 hours
- ELI5: how do flies find humans? It's summer in Australia and as soon as you walk outside you're swarmed by flies! How do they find us so - 41 hours
- ELI5: How does the Affordable Care Act work? - 41 hours
- ELI5: why does warm air rise while cold air sink? - 42 hours
- ELI5: How does a household coffee maker heat up the water without using the heating pad to keep the coffee warm? - 42 hours
- ELI5: Why are washing machines usually smaller than dryers? (Have way less space for clothes in them) - 42 hours
- ELI5: Where do leaves go after autumn - 42 hours
- ELI5: What is a transistor and how is it used? - 42 hours
- ELI5: What is an Escher array? - 42 hours
- ELI5: What is a sneeze? What happens when we sneeze? - 43 hours
- ELI5why can we see heat waves radiating off of grills and hot asphalt but not off of all things that radiate heat? - 43 hours
- ELI5: why does shopping make you instantly tired? - 43 hours
- ELI5: What is the "TLS handshake" protocol that runs before you connect to a website? - 43 hours
- ELI5: How do drug trafficking TV shows find gangsters willing to show their operations? - 43 hours
- ELI5:”What is mathematical object?” - 43 hours
- ELI5: Why do so many schools have a wildcats as their mascot? - 43 hours
- ELI5: Why does deleting some files take a lot of time if it isn’t really being deleted? - 44 hours
- ELI5: Why doesn’t computers overwrite the contents/values of a deleted file automatically to zero to prevent file recovery? - 44 hours
- ELI5: What is Western culture? - 44 hours
- ELI5: why does food packaging say "serves X persons" instead of "serves X people"? - 44 hours
- ELI5 Why can’t you split an atom using a knife or a hammer, if you basically hit anywhere - 45 hours
- ELI5: What does it mean when the Fed adds $70B in temp liquidity to markets? - 45 hours
- ELI5: How come we know when we're being watched? Whether it's feeling someone watching you in a crowd or if a creature (cougar for example) is - 45 hours
- ELI5 If there are pipelines that can move oil thousands of miles, why can’t the same be done to move water thousands of miles to areas that - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why do movies/series always fake phone screens? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why do all legitimate streams run almost half a minute behind their television counterparts? - 47 hours
- ELI5: What is critical thinking? - 47 hours
- ELI5: how come animals (raccoons, birds, etc) don’t get sick from eating trash/food on the ground? - 47 hours
- ELI5: why is blue cheese edible but other mouldy food isn't? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How does Google get so many results, And how many is an average? - 47 hours
- ELI5: What makes a smartphone vibrate? - 48 hours
- ELI5: Why do younger kids seem to have so much energy? - 48 hours
- ELI5: When we were cavemen, when there were no fertilizers, did we just eat fruits and vegetables partially eaten by bugs? - 48 hours
- ELI5: How do biologists discover/study cell functions such as chemical receptors when they can’t directly see the processes? - 48 hours
- ELI5: Why do traffic lights stay red when traffic is heavy but it knows to go green faster when there’s very little traffic? - 48 hours
- ELI5: What's the science behind why we feel groggy when we first wake up? - 48 hours
- ELI5 Why are there parts of the oceans called seas? - 48 hours
- ELI5: When the temperature increases, water evaporates, becomes water vapor and rises up to the sky and forms cloud then release it back to the earth - 48 hours
- ELI5: What does it mean when someone says their “woken”? - 48 hours
- ELI5 How does free/Universal healthcare work - 48 hours
- ELI5 What is the name of the hole on the back/neck of an iguana and why do they have it? - 48 hours