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ELI5 how exercise reduces cholesterol in arteries?
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ELI5: Why do people sometimes cry when something really good happens?
Like when someone wins a medal or sees a loved one after a long time, they just start crying, even though it’s a happy moment. What’s going on in the brain or b
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ELI5: Why are many cancers asymptomatic until the later stages?
If your body is producing abnormal cells why wouldn’t you notice the changes before it starts spreading everywhere?
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ELI5: Why does Windows break so much, or feel generally more unoptimized, than not just phone OS's but also things like Linux?
Why does it slow down and why do things like problems with updates, general feeling of slowness and the inevitability of you a lot of the time having to reset/r
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ELI5 why breathing through damp cloth is next to impossible?
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ELI5. What would happen to tides on Earth if the moon disappeared?
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Eli5: Why evolution dictated that certain animals could go longer without food?
I understand that each animals respective environment and food supply contributes to its survival for certain amounts of time without food. But why? Wouldn’t it
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ELI5: Why can't we use any gas in fluorescent lights? Whats special about noble gasses in lights?
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ELI5: What are Bit Planes in Display Driving?
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Eli5: Why it is easier to produce tiny individuals led using organic materials like on OLED than using inorganic materials like MicroLED?
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ELI5: Why did Non-Dinosaurs receive the saurus suffix?
Elasmosaurus has the saurus suffix but it's not a dinosaur. Eurhinosaurus is a fish but it's not a dinosaur.
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ELI5: How did materials mined from Namibia affect the outcome of the South African Border War? How do both companies and rebels make money to fund wars this way?
From what I'm looking up, the whole "blood diamonds" thing didn't play a *massive* role in the outcome of the South African Border War. I find this hard to beli
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ELI5 When I get a forex refund and gain money due to exchange rate changes, where does that “extra” money come from? Is someone else losing it?
Let’s say I buy an online service priced in USD, but I’m paying from another country in my local currency. Suppose I pay for the service when $1 = 84 units of
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ELI5: Why is Speculative Risk not Insurable?
Reading my textbook, supposedly only pure risks — certain losses of uncertain timing — are insurable, while risks with up-side potential are not. Just wondering
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ELI5: Why is there a "pop" feeling when u burst a pimple, what causes it?
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ELI5- What is the Schumann Resonances, and how do you read those graphs?
I read/heard that there was more noticeable activity on 7/4-7/5/25. How does this affect humans and other species?
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Eli5 I'm having a hard time under standing the pros and cons of AWD
Getting into and SUV after 4x4 trucks most of my life and want to know what I'm getting into? How do they fair with ice/snow?
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ELI5: Why can't population stagnate?
I understand that if you decline like Japan, life gets hard economically. But I find that growing like we do in Canada also puts a lot of strain on us. Is ther
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ELI5 Why do turbo engines sometimes feel slower in hot weather?
I’ve been playing around with a little turbo project car, and I swear it pulls way harder on cooler days. But when it’s hot outside, it feels kinda sluggish. I
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ELI5: what is Informatio literacy?
And may can you give me some examples? I couldn't find any source that gives me satisfactory answers.
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ELI5: How does a vacuum work?
Is it that a fan creates its suction by blowing air towards an exhaust, facing opposite from the hose, which causes the dust and such from the nozzle of the hos
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ELI5: How do car speedometers work?
Title. I read that there’s some mechanism with a string attached to the gearbox which measures the rotations, but that means if i suspend a car in midair and re
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ELI5: How does Nmap figure out what ports are open, what services/versions are running, and even what operating system is used?
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ELI5:Why do boredom and impatiens feels straining even though youre not doing a task.
Or distressing even though you are not perceiving negativity.
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