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eli5: How do veins and arteries work? What's the difference?

Submitted by Enzoid23 t3_z5qd22 on November 27, 2022 at 3:30 AM

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eli5 is there a scientific explanation or reason for intrusive thoughts or call of the void

Submitted by DapperWheel521 t3_z2rlca on November 23, 2022 at 3:11 PM

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ELI5 why do you need to turn of hard drives to unplug them instead of just unplugging them

Submitted by Devil_kin1 t3_z613qc on November 27, 2022 at 1:21 PM

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ELI5 How is the Tether price I pay determined?

Submitted by LGZee t3_z8edeu on November 30, 2022 at 2:26 AM

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ELI5 : How do electric shocks kill you?

Submitted by EaAeEaAe10 t3_z5y04l on November 27, 2022 at 10:33 AM

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ELI5: Whats does compute credits in Google Colab actually do to the code running speed as opposed to normal free Colab

Submitted by blry2468 t3_z480bs on November 25, 2022 at 8:18 AM

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ELI5: How are bats able to hang upside down for a long periods of time without blood pooling to their heads?

Submitted by Hopeful_Anything_257 t3_z5dqje on November 26, 2022 at 6:04 PM

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ELI5: Entropy of the Universe

Submitted by [deleted] t3_z5ldli on November 26, 2022 at 11:33 PM

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eli5: Why is it when scientists are looking for planets with possible alien species they only look at planets that could sustain human life?

Submitted by Jcole_Stan t3_z67mot on November 27, 2022 at 5:51 PM

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ELI5: Why do people say OOP?

Submitted by code_ninjer t3_z42ym3 on November 25, 2022 at 3:43 AM

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ELI5: how effective is bear-safe storage for scented items/food at campsites?

Submitted by togapartywalkofshame t3_z86s49 on November 29, 2022 at 9:28 PM

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ELI5: why fish can’t breathe in air despite air having plenty of oxygen

Submitted by CR1MS4NE t3_z73zne on November 28, 2022 at 6:21 PM

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ELI5: how does fresh water ice forms out of sea water( salty), shouldn't it make salty ice? Does water "purifys" itself during phase conversation or what?

Submitted by UniqueCold3812 t3_z6lkjt on November 28, 2022 at 3:32 AM

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eli5 Does the blood in cow milk evaporate if you boil it long enough or turn it into condensed milk?

Submitted by [deleted] t3_z61wjk on November 27, 2022 at 2:00 PM

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eli5 Why is it not excepted to only have one pair of clothes

Submitted by No-Struggle5102 t3_z6njkd on November 28, 2022 at 5:10 AM

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ELI5 What the fudge is politics?

Submitted by MalePerson21 t3_z3rhl8 on November 24, 2022 at 6:44 PM

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ELI5: Why does water taste horrible after eating an apple?

Submitted by whereami8017 t3_z2jv02 on November 23, 2022 at 8:39 AM

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ELI5: What is a Fast Fourier Transform?

Submitted by edeneb t3_z8wk3r on November 30, 2022 at 4:56 PM

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ELI5 how the illegal trade of human organs works?

Submitted by C20_H26_N2O t3_z8ogqk on November 30, 2022 at 10:51 AM

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ELI5: Why do illnesses kill people

Submitted by [deleted] t3_z90nms on November 30, 2022 at 7:28 PM

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ELI5: Why are pills those specific shapes and sizes? I've noticed ibuprofen is always smaller and tastes sweeter than paracetamol. Codeine is tiny and amoxiclav pills are huge. Is this to make it harder to confuse them, or is it because of the way the active ingredient is released in the stomach?

Submitted by mwclarkson t3_z8rtxi on November 30, 2022 at 1:42 PM

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ELI5 in football, why can't the offense hand the ball to a very light person, and hammer throw them toward the line of scrimmage repeatedly?

Submitted by adunndevster t3_z6monu on November 28, 2022 at 4:27 AM

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ELI5 how did natural selection not beat lgbt

Submitted by AmgdeG t3_z93950 on November 30, 2022 at 9:07 PM

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ELI5: What actually happens when an ambassador is “summoned” by the Foreign Office?