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ELI5: Why is playing dead a trend in animal behavior? Wouldn’t pretending to be dead just allow the predator to eat you?

Submitted by TurmUrk t3_yjsk94 on November 2, 2022 at 2:09 AM

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ELI5: What is that weird 'milk skin' that forms on top of milk after boiling it?

Submitted by Xora321 t3_yjasws on November 1, 2022 at 2:56 PM

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ELI5: Why do fast food restaurants only have either Coke or Pepsi products in their soda fountains, but gas stations often carry both Coke and Pepsi products in their soda fountains?

Submitted by Nobirdsnobees t3_yjagll on November 1, 2022 at 2:41 PM

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ELI5: Why do advertisements need such specific meta data on individuals? If most don’t engage with the ad why would they pay such a high premium for ever more intrusive details?

Submitted by oaktree46 t3_yj91jv on November 1, 2022 at 1:42 PM

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ELI5 why it can be too cold to start a fire

Submitted by jaywill83 t3_z97unu on November 30, 2022 at 11:59 PM

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ELI5: Why does watching a video at 1.25 speed decrease the time by 20%? And 1.5 speed decreases it by 33%?

Submitted by renoscottsdale t3_yii6u5 on October 31, 2022 at 5:17 PM

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eli5 Sovereign citizenship?

Submitted by Orvitz t3_yidh3u on October 31, 2022 at 2:18 PM

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ELI5: How is it that nearly 20% of all Asians are related to Ghengis Khan? I feel like they mean the mongols, but every article I read says Khan.

Submitted by Buzzs_BigStinger t3_yhsm8i on October 30, 2022 at 10:47 PM

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ELI5: Why do temperature get as high as billion degrees but only as low as -270 degrees?

Submitted by dougggo t3_yhfmp4 on October 30, 2022 at 2:27 PM

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Eli5: Why are horses who break their legs so often euthanized?

Submitted by ZookeepergameWaste94 t3_yheppk on October 30, 2022 at 1:47 PM

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ELI5: what causes a "stampede" situation like what happened in South Korea yesterday?

Submitted by jiujitsucam t3_yhbcwg on October 30, 2022 at 10:49 AM

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ELI5: why have convertible cars fallen?

Submitted by fullmonkeypower t3_yh38o3 on October 30, 2022 at 3:19 AM

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ELI5: why did they stop putting those automatic seatbelt shoulder straps in cars? Did they fall out of fashion or did they cause a lot of accidents or what?

Submitted by Talmadge_Mcgooliger t3_ygvo6m on October 29, 2022 at 9:41 PM

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ELI5: If the Universe is about 13.7 billion years old, and the diameter of the observable universe is 93 billion light years, how can it be that wide if the universe isn't even old enough to let light travel that far that quickly?

Submitted by Boxsteam1279 t3_ygrv7x on October 29, 2022 at 7:04 PM

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Eli5 why did the Bronze Age happen before the Iron Age?

Submitted by Stephenf1234 t3_ygne7p on October 29, 2022 at 4:03 PM

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ELI5: Why people test cocaine on their gum line?

Submitted by Bobisdeadrun t3_yghunk on October 29, 2022 at 12:01 PM

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ELI5: Why are aircraft carriers worth only $0.01 for scrap?

Submitted by Guitar_t-bone t3_yg2utk on October 28, 2022 at 10:43 PM

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ELI5: What do men have in place of a uterus?

Submitted by mommymacbeth t3_yfiu0d on October 28, 2022 at 8:51 AM

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ELI5: If and object heats up due to a lot of movement in the atoms, can you theoretically shake a liquid inside a container so fast it heats up?

Submitted by thisboi1738 t3_yffygy on October 28, 2022 at 6:08 AM

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ELI5: Given that eating is one of the primary needs for survival, why are human babies so reluctant about eating? They will put all kinds of things in their mouths except for the food the parent is trying to feed them.

Submitted by AntarcticaLTE t3_yfdn5v on October 28, 2022 at 4:17 AM

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eli5: Can someone explain the reason why, when writing with a pen and it chokes up and doesn’t write, it still won’t write when you go over the same line again even though it will write just fine off to the margin?

Submitted by millhows t3_yf3v9c on October 27, 2022 at 9:25 PM

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eli5, if cigarettes are so bad for us with all the chemicals that are in them. why are they allowed to put them in there in the first place?

Submitted by hellother73 t3_yepqzb on October 27, 2022 at 11:42 AM

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ELI5 : how does a air-air missile track an aircraft that is constantly changing it’s direction while also traveling supersonic?

Submitted by theconcorde t3_yensor on October 27, 2022 at 9:52 AM

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ELI5: How do ‘Jelly Belly’ Jelly beans (almost) perfectly imitate the flavors of coconut, rotten milk, toothpaste, etc if they’re just pieces of candy?