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Eli5: if there are a ton of harmful bacteria in every persons mouth, why is it relatively safe to give/receive oral when genitalia is so sensitive to foreign bacteria?

Submitted by Curious-Nothing6234 t3_z3b1h2 on November 24, 2022 at 5:11 AM

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ELI5 - where does skin in your body stop being skin? Is the roof of the mouth skin? The back of the throat? How does skin attach and transition to non-skin flesh?

Submitted by DangerMacAwesome t3_z31czj on November 23, 2022 at 9:38 PM

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ELI5- Are lithium batteries in electric cars more dangerous or hazardous than a gasoline car? If so, why or why not?

Submitted by Sensate60 t3_z2trzw on November 23, 2022 at 4:38 PM

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ELI5 - What is empathy and how does one feel it?

Submitted by TygerDude93 t3_z2qhnf on November 23, 2022 at 2:26 PM

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ELI5: The other day, i saw a post on here about how harddrives dont get heavier when information is stored on them, which made me think: do our brains get heavier with the accumulation of information?

Submitted by David1192 t3_z2mg21 on November 23, 2022 at 11:13 AM

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Eli5-If a virus isn’t technically alive, I would assume it doesn’t have instinct. Where does it get its instructions/drive to know to infect host cells and multiply?

Submitted by NQtrader4Lyfe t3_z21ezx on November 22, 2022 at 6:47 PM

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ELI5: Why it feels good when we are in hot water while it's uncomfortable when we are in a room where same temperature?

Submitted by SScattered t3_z1qmyp on November 22, 2022 at 10:55 AM

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ELI5 What is the point of typing a digital signature if anybody could type your name?

Submitted by floatable_shark t3_z17w9k on November 21, 2022 at 7:33 PM

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ELI5: is choking to death mainly a human concern or do other mammals also choke to death on a regular basis?

Submitted by pineappleforrent t3_z17ags on November 21, 2022 at 7:10 PM

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eli5 Why is it tradition for only the bride to wear white during a wedding?

Submitted by UnknownSoldier1181 t3_z12dr6 on November 21, 2022 at 3:54 PM

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ELI5: Why do we feel cold when we have fever

Submitted by Kdawg618 t3_z0xztf on November 21, 2022 at 12:39 PM

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eli5: Why is co2 the gas used to pressurize drinks. Why can’t something like nitrogen or atmosphere air be used.

Submitted by Careful-Day7125 t3_z0niw8 on November 21, 2022 at 2:58 AM

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ELI5: What exactly happened with Game Stop's stocks a few months ago?

Submitted by tieflingisnotamused t3_z09b2z on November 20, 2022 at 5:07 PM

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ELI5: Why do numbers go to infinity? (Asked by my 5 year old!)

Submitted by quizoola t3_z00oe5 on November 20, 2022 at 10:19 AM

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ELI5: Why do humans get colds but our pets don't seem to? Why are cold-like symptoms in animals often an indicator of something serious, when for humans, colds are a mild annoyance at most?

Submitted by ChocolateCake16 t3_yzx8ow on November 20, 2022 at 6:36 AM

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ELI5: If you’re traveling at 50mph and get rear-ended by someone traveling 100mph, is it the same as someone at a standstill being rear ended by someone traveling 50mph?

Submitted by funscripted t3_yzgep5 on November 19, 2022 at 4:56 PM

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ELI5 if cooking food kills bacteria and other pathogens, why can’t you cook and eat meat that’s gone bad?

Submitted by zinky30 t3_yz8vx2 on November 19, 2022 at 10:28 AM

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ELI5: I keep hearing that Australia's population is so low due to uninhibitle land. Yet they have a very generous immigration attitude and there's no child limit that I'm aware of. How can/does geography make any difference?

Submitted by wosdam t3_yz867s on November 19, 2022 at 9:39 AM

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ELI5: How does sexual arousal work? How do humans get aroused by looking at a picture? How does it trigger?

Submitted by AraneoKyojin t3_yz0ka4 on November 19, 2022 at 1:46 AM

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ELI5: If two countries go to war, how can the opposing army know which army is theirs without accidently shooting their own teammates?

Submitted by Honest_Pen_2448 t3_yypz51 on November 18, 2022 at 5:44 PM

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ELI5: How do scalpers actually get all the tickets faster than the average consumer?

Submitted by PepeSilvia123 t3_yypopd on November 18, 2022 at 5:31 PM

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ELI5: Why is a labor shortage bad?

Submitted by aspera1631 t3_yyn72u on November 18, 2022 at 3:47 PM

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ELI5: If those articles about NYC being underwater in 50 years are true, is there anything to stop it or would the US be forced to let their largest city sink into the atlantic

Submitted by NewarkSpotting t3_yycem4 on November 18, 2022 at 5:45 AM

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ELI5: Why do truck drivers in movies honk their horns by pulling on a rope above their heads? Do trucks not have the button to activate the horn inside the steering wheel like normal cars?

Submitted by Karamel43 t3_yxxn7s on November 17, 2022 at 6:30 PM

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ELI5: If I do (for example) 10 squats 5 times over the space of the day, is that just as good as going 50 squats once a day? Why or why not?

Submitted by TheOutlawJosiewhale t3_yxmiym on November 17, 2022 at 10:12 AM

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