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Popular Themes in r/explainlikeimfive
#1
Advice Requests
: "ELI5: if there are so many different vitamins and nutrients we need, how do our bodies cope and survive when we eat nothing but trash fast food diets?"
71 posts
Popular Topics in r/explainlikeimfive
#1
Eli5
: "Eli5: Why are the screens in even luxury cars often so laggy? What prevents them from just investing a couple hundred more $ to install a faster chip?"
290 posts
#2
Brain
: "ELI5: Why do we get Brain freeze when we eat ice cream too fast?"
4 posts
#3
Water
: "ELI5 why Water isn’t flammable?"
4 posts
#4
Quantum
: "ELI5 If normal computers have 0s and 1s, what do Quantum computers have?"
3 posts
#5
Computers
: "ELI5: How do they keep managing to make Computers faster every year without hitting a wall? For example, why did we not have RTX 5090 level GPUs 10 years ago? What do we have now that we did not have back then, and why did we not have it back then, and why do we have it now?"
3 posts
#6
Light
: "ELI5 would a Light year long rope's end move faster than the speed of Light?"
2 posts
#7
Nuclear
: "Eli5, why does Nuclear fission and fusion produce energy?"
2 posts
#8
Sweat
: "ELI5: If Sweat cools us down, why do Sweat-wicking clothes (which pull Sweat off our skin) help keep us cool?"
2 posts
#9
Engines
: "Eli5 What prevents sports cars from using diesel Engines?"
2 posts
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Excited
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