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Popular Themes in r/explainlikeimfive
#1
Advice Requests
: "ELI5: What is the No Child Left Behind Act and its controversy?"
4 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "ELI5: Why do we remember painful moments so much better and longer than happy ones?"
1 post
#3
Money Talk
: "ELI5: If Tesla's stock falls to 135, banks will seize X from Musk."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/explainlikeimfive
#1
Eli5
: "Eli5: why don't professional baseball players use bats made from composite materials or metal? Both hockey players and golfers moved from wooden equipment to carbon fiber, composite or metal. Why doesn't baseball?"
179 posts
#2
El
: "ElI5: How does the US have such amazing diplomacy with Japan when we dropped two nuclear bombs on them? How did we build it back so quickly?"
23 posts
#3
Science
: "ELI5: If the age of the universe if ~13.8 billion years old, how can the event horizon be ~45 billion light years away?"
2 posts
#4
Radiation
: "Even though humanity is producing a lot of artificial Radiation, how long would it take for an advanced civilization to notice?"
2 posts
#5
Money
: "ELI5: How can private equity make Money from collapsing a company?"
2 posts
#6
Light
: "ELI5 Why do I see horizontal and vertical beams of Light when I look at street Lights at night?"
2 posts
#7
Street
: "ELI5 Why do I see horizontal and vertical beams of light when I look at Street lights at night?"
2 posts
#8
Sun
: "ELI5: why do we sometimes sneeze when looking at the Sun?"
1 post
#9
Dna
: "ELI5: Why should we be concerned about genealogy companies having our Dna information?"
1 post
#10
Magnetic
: "ELI5: Why does a changing Magnetic field induce an electric field?"
1 post
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