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ELI5: Why do we need tie? what is the purpose?

Submitted by garnishtarnish_98 t3_11dnxt4 on February 27, 2023 at 9:48 PM

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eli5: What exactly does a "videogame publisher" do?

Submitted by Judge_T t3_11djy8l on February 27, 2023 at 7:09 PM

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ELI5: Why does farming equipment require such low horsepower compared to your average car?

Submitted by thetravelingsong t3_11crlqm on February 26, 2023 at 8:24 PM

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ELI5: How do cameras exactly work? Why can they see so much clearer and farther than the naked human eye?

Submitted by PapaMamaGoldilocks t3_11di5hl on February 27, 2023 at 5:58 PM

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ELI5: If food takes 6-8 hours to fully digest and make it to the small intestine, how come food you eat now affects the qualities of feces from food eaten 8 hours ago (i.e. having to use the toilet soon after eating)?

Submitted by [deleted] t3_11dee0q on February 27, 2023 at 3:21 PM

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eli5 Why are record profits followed by mass layoffs?

Submitted by -doobs t3_11dl89v on February 27, 2023 at 8:00 PM

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ELI5: Why have they been multiple big earthquakes along Türkiye and Syria? it's been 3 weeks and there are still repeated earthquakes with the latest being 5.7 - is this normal?

Submitted by mac-and-dream t3_11daz5q on February 27, 2023 at 12:43 PM

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eli5: What does military industrial complex mean?

Submitted by rustyyryan t3_11dc4r7 on February 27, 2023 at 1:42 PM

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ELI5: Why does looking through a small gap focus vision so well?

Submitted by longtermbrit t3_11cyueo on February 27, 2023 at 1:19 AM

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ELI5: What is the difference between espresso beans and regular coffee beans?

Submitted by Nebraskabychoice t3_11dibhr on February 27, 2023 at 6:04 PM

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ELI5: Why do people give the advice that you shouldn't quit your job without another one lined up?

Submitted by tradice9 t3_11dh77l on February 27, 2023 at 5:18 PM

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eli5 What happens to muscles when you stop exercising and is it hard to get them back?

Submitted by sercetuser t3_11cz9xy on February 27, 2023 at 1:40 AM

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ELI5 why cancer is a dangerous disease

Submitted by MRJ20043102 t3_11dfkce on February 27, 2023 at 4:11 PM

6 comments

ELI5 Why do doctors wait for cancer to progress to a further stage before prescribing certain treatments like immunotherapy?

Submitted by JustMe182 t3_11cnjnt on February 26, 2023 at 5:44 PM

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Eli5 - what is the impact on your credit/finance if you cosign a lease with someone?

Submitted by Financial-Boot3317 t3_11dc03o on February 27, 2023 at 1:35 PM

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ELI5 What is cognitive dissonance?

Submitted by dreamingonastar1 t3_11bo4ar on February 25, 2023 at 3:50 PM

31 comments

eli5: Why gold is so precious

Submitted by sokomokodos t3_11dba1l on February 27, 2023 at 1:00 PM

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Eli5: how do circuit board works

Submitted by ots125 t3_11c7txp on February 26, 2023 at 6:59 AM

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ELI5: Why does water have an best by date?

Submitted by notsurewhereinfrom t3_11dat5e on February 27, 2023 at 12:35 PM

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ELI5: in MS-DOS there were not-interchangeable audio cards and we had to manually select it to get sound, otherwise there was none at all. When and why this stopped being a problem?

Submitted by 3RBlank t3_11ces64 on February 26, 2023 at 11:44 AM

25 comments

ELI5, Why do foster parents have to go through training to adopt a child but there’s no such mandatory training for couples trying for their own kids?

Submitted by defaultplayer00 t3_11d8dtz on February 27, 2023 at 10:13 AM

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ELI5 If our brains are so incredibly powerful why is it so limited?

Submitted by FrozenKyrie t3_11d21ca on February 27, 2023 at 3:56 AM

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Eli5 why certain internal combustion engines (like those on American muscle cars) make wildly different sounds than most other engines?

Submitted by Daftworks t3_11ce6mt on February 26, 2023 at 11:30 AM

7 comments

eli5 why does metal melt and wood burn/char

Submitted by cheese_grater_man69 t3_11d010c on February 27, 2023 at 2:15 AM

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ELI5 if one nuclear bomb is 100’s or 1000’s times as powerful as the ones used to end WW2 wouldn’t just 1 or 2 wipe out most the world?

Submitted by lsarge442 t3_11d1y3a on February 27, 2023 at 3:51 AM

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