- eli5:How did banks work before internet? - 2 hours
- ELI5: What are cast iron pots/pans and why are they favoured by many if they are apparently harder to maintain? - 2 hours
- ELI5: How does smartphones screen touch work? - 2 hours
- Eli5: What makes the body decide to become allergic to something? - 3 hours
- ELI5: What's the difference between uninstall and delete? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Do we actually waste water if any water used ultimately goes back into the water cycle one way or another? - 3 hours
- ELI5: How does a heart attack cause a "feeling of impending doom" and how does this differ from normal anxiety? - 3 hours
- ELI5: what is the reason for being ‘jumpy’ ie being startled? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Why do you suddenly feel like "falling" when trying to sleep? - 3 hours
- ELI5: How does a global temperature average increase of just a degree or two cause such wild weather phenomena? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Why can’t our bodies digest corn? We always find it in our feces, is there any benefit to eating corn? Do we digest the nutrients and not the - 4 hours
- ELI5: How do engineers design CPU's? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Can someone clearly explain the relationship between the moon and the tides and exactly how it links to the moon’s gravity? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Being the first Blacksmith would have been hard. How did they get things from their forge before they made their first pair on tongs? - 4 hours
- ELI5: How do network televisions and radio stations know how many people watched or listened their show/station? Does it work differently for - 4 hours
- ELI5: Why does a negative times a negative make a positive - 4 hours
- ELI5: Why is it easier doing individual bicep curls than it is to do curls with both arms at the same time? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Why do joints like fingers, elbows, and knees constantly pop or crack? What exactly is causing the crack and what are the health consequences of - 5 hours
- ELI5: what’s the difference between the new moon and a lunar eclipse? - 5 hours
- ELi5: How a 12oz drink can have 0 calories but a 30oz of the same beverage have 15 calories? - 5 hours
- ELI5: how does my walmart account know what I bought in-store if I never uploaded the receipt? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Why does emptying the Cache fox most app issues? - 5 hours
- Eli5 What is “the big one” earthquake in California and what are the chances that it actually happens? - 6 hours
- ELI5: How does our brain merge the two “images” we see from our eyes? - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why do some bloodsucking insects spread diseases and others don’t? - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why does being obese make you so much more susceptible to other diseases/disorders? - 6 hours
- ELI5: How do pirates crack video games without access to the source code? Why does the method they use get rid of multiplayer capability? - 6 hours
- Eli5: What are those soft needles on the walls of tyres? - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why do funny bones give you a weird buzzing sensation when they get hit. - 7 hours
- ELI5: How do headphones can play multiple sounds? - 7 hours
- Eli5: Why is fat considered bad for health? - 7 hours
- ELI5: If our skin is porous why do we not fill up with water while swimming? - 7 hours
- ELI5: When new graphics cards get released for computers, what is different about them from older graphics cards? What gets upgraded to make them more - 7 hours
- ELI5: How does a startup works?? From start to something big... - 7 hours
- ELI5: How can a computer estimate how long a process will take (like a render, copying files, installing software, etc.) and why is it almost always - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why do courts even have judges if juries decide the verdict? - 7 hours
- ELI5: why sportsman are physically great between 20 and 30 years and then their physical performances get worse and worse rapidly? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How are Search Engines like Google and Bing made? How would you make one yourself? - 9 hours
- [ELI5] How does stress, anxiety, prescription medication, alcohol, etc. effect a man's ability to climax and orgasm during sex? - 9 hours
- ELI5 - 25 degrees (C) is a nice warm day, yet 25 degrees is a horribly cold bath by comparison, why does water at the same temperature as air feel so - 10 hours
- ELI5: How has marijuana become so mainstream in the US but other herbs with euphoric or otherwise similar effects (kava, blue lotus, kratom, etc) have - 10 hours
- ELI5: How does an electric eel make electricity? - 10 hours
- ELI5: What is the air that escapes when a ceiling tile like in this attached photo is removed? - 10 hours
- ELI5: Why, aside from cost, aren't toroidal or cylindrical space stations with spin induced artificial gravity a thing? - 10 hours
- ELI5: What causes spaghettification, rather than just tearing apart? - 10 hours
- ELI5: How do large-scale bank robberies affect the economy and the public in general? - 10 hours
- eli5: when and more importantly why did bedrooms become a thing? - 10 hours
- ELI5: What happens to fruits when they ripe? - 11 hours
- ELI5: why are music sets broken down into octets and not some other number? Is this the same in non western cultures? - 11 hours
- eli5: Why do humans seem to have an aversion to sleep? Many people suffer from insomnia and children fight it, are there any other animals that are - 11 hours
- ELI5: Why does a washer-dryer combo use twice as much water when washing and drying compared to just washing? - 11 hours
- (ELI5) How do earbuds know when they're in your ear, and then know to pause the audio when you have them off? - 11 hours
- (ELI5) Why do kittens “deactivate” when they are picked up by the skin on their neck? - 12 hours
- ELI5 What are fractals and what are they used for? - 12 hours
- ELI5: How was North Pole and South Pole become NP and SP? Is there any possibility that they could change to a random place on earth in the future? - 12 hours
- ELI5: If the reason behind the marbled meat of Wagyu cattle is genetic and it tastes so good as everyone claims, how come they aren't even close - 12 hours
- ELI5: Why is it required for Sponsorships to be declared in YouTube videos, but Product Placement in movies isn’t? - 13 hours
- Eli5: How can water be used to cut steel? - 13 hours
- ELI5: Why are some herbs perfectly good dry but some lose their flavor when dried and are preferred fresh? - 13 hours
- eli5: What happens to metal that is turned into sparks? - 13 hours
- ELI5. How does Moon phases work? - 13 hours
- ELI5 : Why does naturally occurring things like flower petals, galaxies etc are shaped in Fibonacci spiral?? - 13 hours
- Eli5 How did the middle finger suddenly become so offensive to people? - 13 hours
- ELI5: You feel a sudden sensation resembling an intense insect bite or sting on your skin, but you look and nothing is there. Wha- happen? - 13 hours
- ELI5: Why are some vehicle engines air cooled while others require liquid coolant? - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why do some cars have 1 exhaust pipe at the end and other cars have 2? Is one functionally better than the other? - 14 hours
- Eli5: How can a speed limit be "photo-enforced"? Do you know I'm speeding because my car is blurrier than the car next to mine? - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why are politicians allowed to accept "contributions" as if they aren't bribes and where and how do they draw the line? - 14 hours
- ELI5: why is it that when we stare at the nightsky it seems like more stars are appearing, the longer we stare? - 16 hours
- Eli5: What is a Brachistochrone curve? Why is it a quicker path of descent than a straight line? - 16 hours
- ELI5: Why can we see through the vast reaches of space but have no idea what's right outside our solar system? - 17 hours
- ELI5: How does shorting a stock work? Who is buying it from you?? - 17 hours
- ELI5: How come certain devices want you to wait for a while after unplugging it to restart? - 17 hours
- ELI5: Why do Japanese companies seem to all use Latin characters to spell out their name rather than Japanese characters? - 18 hours
- ELI5: What is inertia? - 18 hours
- ELI5: In MMORPGs how does the game know which to prioritize when 20x heal effects from 3 diffirent heros are in effect while tons of damage from - 18 hours
- ELI5: How does salt "enhance" the flavor of food? - 18 hours
- ELI5: How do powerline adapters work? What is the connection between powerlines and networks? - 19 hours
- Eli5: It's impossible for me to watch Movies and/or series where the camera is constantly moving, like shooting with hand held cameras. For - 19 hours
- Eli5: why does putting hot food in the fridge break the fridge? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why do eye glasses get smudges even when you don’t touch them? - 19 hours
- ELI5: What is entropy? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why do flip covers for phones and few wireless chargers have magnets, even though magnets can damage the screens of devices ? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why is it easier to peddle a bike uphill in a low gear when the weight is the same as a high gear which is much harder? - 19 hours
- ELI5: How did beef, pork, and chicken become the main meats that are farmed and consumed? - 20 hours
- ELI5: What keeps people from being able to just say they didn’t sign a legal document, that the signature isn’t theirs? - 20 hours
- ELI5: Why are ghosts so often depicted as having a sheet over them? - 20 hours
- Eli5: Is there a difference in our brains between pleasure and contentment? - 20 hours
- ELI5: Why were red LEDs so much easier to make than LEDs of any other color? - 21 hours
- ELI5: why are 8k screens not common, when all phones are 1080p? - 21 hours
- Eli5: How can it be that you are more hungry in the morning if you have eaten something in the evening before you go to sleep? - 21 hours
- ELI5: Why are mustangs notoriously known for having a bad reputation when it comes to any sort of speeding or drifting? what sets it apart from other - 21 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that we can picture something in our head yet we can't properly draw it? - 21 hours
- Eli5 Does frequent/prolonged use of a mobile or tablet have a detrimental effect on eyesight? If so how can you reduce this? - 21 hours
- ELI5: How was the moon landing aired live in 1969 with technology as primitive as it was? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Why is the middle finger considered offensive and where or when did it come about? - 23 hours
- eli5 Why do things spinning at high speeds appear to spin backwards sometimes? - 24 hours
- ELI5: How do some species (including Turritopsis dohrnii) revert back to earlier life stages? - 25 hours
- ELI5: How is data transferred through a cable, ex. USB? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why is the term “assassination” mainly reserved for high-ranking people? Wouldn’t the term “murder” suffice just as well? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why does the brain create nightmares? - 25 hours
- ELi5: Why does emotional pain physically hurt? - 26 hours
- Eli5: What is QLED and OLED Which one has the best quality picture and is there a big difference between them? Do different brands do QLED and OLED - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why does the moon's gravity only affect the ocean (to form tides)? Why not air or weather, etc? - 26 hours
- ELI5: How can sea creatures survive in salt water when salt can kill most other creatures? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that when people have a fight or flight response, some of them just "stand still"? - 26 hours
- ELI5: If the universe is full of stars, why is space completely black and not bright? - 27 hours
- ELI5 less sleep, more energy - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why are neodymium magnets so strong when neodymium is not a magnetic element? - 27 hours
- ELI5: why does resolution technology for small screens and larges screens advance at the same speed? shouldn't making a 4k phone screens be much - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why does rain fall in downpours instead of a steady drip of water like a leaky tap - 27 hours
- ELI5: How do they get water into water towers on top of buildings? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why is drinking carbonated beverages sometimes painful? - 28 hours
- ELI5: How does a phone knows when a wireless/bluetooth device paired to it (e.g. Wireless earbuds) are turned on even through the phone's - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why is it destructive to the body over time to make yourself puke even after over eating? - 28 hours
- ELI5: I understand that there are ABCDEFG chords but why aren't there any past that? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why is water vapor good at absorbing near infrared radiation? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why are number two pencils the standard for school and tests as opposed to number one pencils or pen? - 30 hours
- ELI5: Was Mathematics discovered or invented? - 30 hours
- ELI5: How does having a sunburn increase the chance of skin cancer? - 30 hours
- ELI5 Why when I'm thinking of something sour, my saliva comes out? - 30 hours
- ELI5: Why can’t we just make blood? Or better yet why can’t we make a blood replacement that is more efficient? - 30 hours
- Eli5: where do the numbers in pi come from? - 31 hours
- ELI5: How does the bidding process work for commercial contractors? Where do they bid? Can anyone? How do they find potential jobs? - 31 hours
- ELI5: Why do people get belly button lint, and why is it always blue even if I'm wearing a red top? - 31 hours
- eli5: How does carbonation work? - 31 hours
- ELI5: Is a two headed snakes considered two different animals? Or is considered one snake with two heads? - 32 hours
- ELI5: Why do Netflix libraries differ from country to country? And why do some countries have a much better selection than others? - 32 hours
- ELI5: Why do humans sometimes flip flop the first letters of two words?? - 32 hours
- ELI5: How can train engines pull so much weight? - 33 hours
- eli5: Why do we drink (and harvest?) primarily cow milk - goats as well to a lesser extent - and not other animals? Is there some sort of extra - 33 hours
- ELI5? How would a mathematical 3D model of a vortex look? - 33 hours
- Eli5: How come when you’re sprayed by a skunk you’re supposed to bathe in tomato juice? - 34 hours
- Eli5 why is Tritium radioactive? - 34 hours
- ELI5 Fire need air to propagate, but why if you blow a candle for example the fire extinguish instead of growing up - 34 hours
- ELI5: why do sometimes our body suddenly shivers when we pee? - 34 hours
- ELI5: Why oceans, seas and beaches have waves? How these waves are formed? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why does the human brain tell us to procrastinate? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why does your tummy get upset every time there is an upcoming important event? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why is there a cancer warning on edibles? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why do our eyes leak when we are upset? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that acute pain lasts so shortly even though you still have damage on your body? - 37 hours
- ELI5: why is the southern half of the Dead Sea divided into a bunch of smaller quadrants? What is the purpose of breaking the sea into smaller - 37 hours
- ELI5:. How do F1 card distinguish themselves? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How does genetic memory work? And could prebirth "programming" be done? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How do our bodies wake up? How do they decide the time at which you get up? - 38 hours
- ELI5: Why does EVERY SINGLE Object in the Galaxy orbits in the same orbital plane and even in the same direction? - 38 hours
- ELI5: Why does riding a roller coaster feel so much faster than driving in a car at a similar speed? - 38 hours
- ELI5: How do slip-resistant shoes work? - 38 hours
- ELI5: In music, why some chords sound nice, but some notes together not? I mean what makes different frequencies harmonious or not? What causes - 38 hours
- ELI5: If sugar is so bad for us, then why is the naturally occurring sugar found in things like fruit and milk fine? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why does your face look better in a mirror than in a photo? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why does Paper get transparent if you rub it with fat? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why does rocket exhaust appear to ‘pulse’ in little spheres? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why do we see "fuzz" or "TV static" when we close or eyes, or even when we have them open in a dark room? - 39 hours
- [ELI5]Why are cold pressed oils and juices better than the regular ones? - 39 hours
- Eli5: Why do some dopamine releasing activities (gambling, video games) often result in compulsive behaviour, while others (playing football) - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why are disposable razors only good for one use while something like a safety razor can be reused for multiple shaves? - 39 hours
- ELI5: What's the difference between red pigment and red light? - 39 hours
- ELI5: What is consciousness? - 40 hours
- Eli5: Why is morning sickness part of pregnancy? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Why do songs get stuck in our heads and how does it work? - 40 hours
- ELI5: What is a Problem Statement (in Practical Research) and how can I do a better one? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Why does water have a reflective surface on one side (outside the water looking in), but not on the other (inside the water looking out)? - 40 hours
- Eli5: How do animals learn to have sex? - 40 hours
- ELI5:Why do/did soap operas appear so drastically different from other forms of tv? - 40 hours
- ELI5: [ENGLISH LANG] why can't we "food a food" but can "drink a drink"? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Why do people make a particular “thinking” face. Aren’t we always thinking to some degree ? - 40 hours
- ELI5: How do pension providers project your annual pension, since they don't know when you are going to die? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why do some surfaces of a pure glass cube act like mirrors when looking at them from the "inside" from certain angles? - 41 hours
- ELI5: What is the physiological cause of that deep seated anxiety lump in our chest during stressful or disheartening experiences? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why are certain sounds satisfying to us but others not so much? - 41 hours
- Eli5: How strong does a storm need to be before it is named? Have these criteria changed over time? - 41 hours
- ELi5: Where did all the different units of measurement come from? And how did we get a uniformed decision on what is what? - 42 hours
- ELI5: If sharks are predators, why are it’s eyes on the sides of the head? - 42 hours
- eli5: More diversity within groups than between groups - 44 hours
- ELI5: Why do OLED displays show individual RGB Pixels whenever they get wet? - 44 hours
- eli5 if a conjoined twin commits a crime and the other is innocent what would happen to the innocent twin - 45 hours
- ELI5: How can gaining weight be so easily localized at our stomach when we can't target any specific body part when losing weight? - 45 hours
- ELI5: What is bruising and why does it seem like some bodies bruise easier than others? - 45 hours
- ELI5: How do recycling factories deal with the problem of people putting things in the wrong bins? - 46 hours
- ELI5 : Why are the keys on the keyboard not arranged in alphabetical order? - 46 hours
- ELI5: Why are Many Flying Insects bigger than Non-flying Insects, What's the advantage of being larger-sized as a Flying Insect? - 46 hours
- ELI5: How comes when its dark you can often see something easier by not looking directly at it? - 46 hours
- ELI5: What keeps mosquitoes from biting us when we use bug repellent? - 46 hours
- Eli5: why do people behave differently when drunk? - 47 hours
- ELI5 What is a derivative? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How do states without income tax in th US manage to survive and collect money to spend? - 47 hours
- ELI5 Why does everything feel like a rocky boat after getting off a rocky boat? - 47 hours
- ELI5: Regarding temperature, why do men generally “run hot,” while women always seem to be cold? - 47 hours
- ELI5 Can plastic surgery increase the likelihood for cancer since there will be scar tissue? - 47 hours
- ELI5: Why is your arm sore after getting a shot? - 47 hours
- ELI5: Why are South and East Asia so densely populated in comparison to other parts of the world? - 48 hours
- ELI5: How come 4K video takes up gigabytes of storage, but watching 4K videos on YouTube doesn't require downloading gigabytes of data? - 48 hours