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ELi5: why is WOMAN not pronounced as war man?

Submitted by RealNewsMatter t3_10j5zlt on January 23, 2023 at 6:36 AM

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Eli5: what is the difference between a generic drug to the original drug, and why do some doctors will swear by the original drug?

Submitted by ultraman71 t3_10j4l85 on January 23, 2023 at 5:13 AM

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ELI5: How did early hominids get sleep when its so hard for people in modern times to sleep.

Submitted by SpoonKitty-chan t3_10j2xk6 on January 23, 2023 at 3:45 AM

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ELI5: If I type a wrong password more than three times, I get locked out of the app. How come hackers can try thousands of different passwords and still get in?

Submitted by itsbankheadkali t3_10j26l7 on January 23, 2023 at 3:06 AM

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Eli5: Why does the English alphabet have the letter “C”?

Submitted by AmishRocket t3_10ir693 on January 22, 2023 at 6:59 PM

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ELI5: Why do some animals like spiders and lizards seem to do nothing a lot? What are they doing and why?

Submitted by gunn521arianna t3_10if04y on January 22, 2023 at 8:37 AM

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ELI5 What is asbestos and why do you need to wait 10 years before you can knock down buildings that have it

Submitted by fivedotsdaryll t3_10iepav on January 22, 2023 at 8:17 AM

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ELI5: Why did they make planes that go really, really fast like the SR-71, and why has nobody gone faster than it for 50 years?

Submitted by amora521hayes t3_10ie5aq on January 22, 2023 at 7:41 AM

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ELI5: why do English speakers often sing a “ch” sound in between t and y? (i.e “want you”)

Submitted by katastrophe_7719 t3_10ia3gg on January 22, 2023 at 3:41 AM

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[ELI5] If someone says they have a friend or are attracted to someone of the race people are accusing them to be racist to, how does it still make them racist?

Submitted by [deleted] t3_10i0xby on January 21, 2023 at 8:34 PM

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ELI5: why can't we get a helicopter and drop a few people on top of mount Everest and clean all the garbage on top?

Submitted by balls_deep_inyourmom t3_10hyvdl on January 21, 2023 at 7:08 PM

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ELI5: How does your body use 2000 calories each day, but you need to run an extra mile to use up an additional 100 calories?

Submitted by corahayes521 t3_10hqg8j on January 21, 2023 at 12:45 PM

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ELI5: Why do so many people now have trouble eating bread even though people have been eating it for thousands of years?

Submitted by corahayes521 t3_10hq70s on January 21, 2023 at 12:30 PM

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ELI5: Why were female nipples banned in the first place? Why do people today still find them so offensive?

Submitted by GoAwayGreene t3_10hinll on January 21, 2023 at 4:30 AM

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ELI5: Why do people across the world mostly only eat a few of the same types of meat (like chicken, beef, pork) when there are thousands of other animals to choose from?

Submitted by LahLahLesbian t3_10gzl6b on January 20, 2023 at 3:21 PM

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eli5 Why are glass bottles not used more for soft drinks if plastic is such a nightmare for the planet?

Submitted by Second-handBonding t3_10gsmah on January 20, 2023 at 9:30 AM

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ELI5: How do French words like “cul-de-sac” and “hors d'oeuvres“ end up part of the English language without being translated to English words?

Submitted by fergi20020 t3_10g65h1 on January 19, 2023 at 4:32 PM

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ELI5 What is the difference between the side of aluminum foil that is shiny and the side that is dull? Why are they different?

Submitted by claraice424queen t3_10ftvup on January 19, 2023 at 5:46 AM

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eli5: Why are radiators in houses often situated under a window- surely this is the worst place and the easiest way to lose all the heat?

Submitted by amusedfridaygoat t3_10fgqap on January 18, 2023 at 7:47 PM

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ELI5: Why is Bluetooth so much flakier than USB, WiFi, etc?

Submitted by BoredomFestival t3_10fd04e on January 18, 2023 at 5:22 PM

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ELI5 Why is 12 hour time even taught? Wouldn’t it just be easier to remember 13:00 instead of 1:00pm?

Submitted by itsmeariamayhew t3_10f8o63 on January 18, 2023 at 2:27 PM

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ELI5: Arch Linux. What makes it different from the other distributions? Why is there some weird elitism paralleled by disgust around it?

Submitted by JuicyCiwa t3_10f5360 on January 18, 2023 at 11:27 AM

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eli5 what was the point of the skull and bones pirate flag? why would you give away that you are a pirate?

Submitted by hairweawekiller t3_10ej8rk on January 17, 2023 at 6:19 PM

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ELI5: How can you get a cut on your anus and not get sepsis?

Submitted by issa_username29 t3_10ehsu1 on January 17, 2023 at 5:23 PM

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ELI5: Can you give me an understandable example of money laundering? So say it’s a storefront that sells food but is actually money laundering. How does that work?

Submitted by Ok-Theme429 t3_10edlig on January 17, 2023 at 2:28 PM

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