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r/explainlikeimfive is a subreddit with 23.2M members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is massive in size, and has crazy activity.
Explain Like I'm Five is the best forum and archive on the internet for layperson-friendly explanations.
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Popular Themes in r/explainlikeimfive
#1
Advice Requests
: "ELI5 How protective are those padded bomb squad suits really?"
69 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "ELI5: When they say “it costs $X to end homelessness”, what solution are they costing out?"
1 post
#3
Pain & Anger
: "ELI5: Why would anyone sell anything with fentanyl if there's a high chance it will kill their client? That is bad business."
1 post
#4
Money Talk
: "ELI5 How do Futures, Puts, Calls Work?"
1 post
#5
News
: "ELI5 The Wall Street crash and the Great Depression"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/explainlikeimfive
#1
Eli5
: "Eli5: Why is milk used to wash people’s faces when they’ve been tear gassed?"
236 posts
#2
Power
: "ELI5 Explain the Power of home field advantage to someone who has never played organized sports."
5 posts
#3
Technology
: "ELI5 how do hackers search through data breaches to find passwords"
4 posts
#4
Aviation
4 posts
#5
Airports
3 posts
#6
Salt
: "ELI5: Why did we lose our ability to drink Salted water?"
2 posts
#7
Health
: "ELI5: why does weight gain cause insulin resistance and diabetes?"
2 posts
#8
Engineering
: "ELI5: why data insertion/deletion usually prioritized linked list over array ?"
2 posts
#9
Biology
: "ELI5: What happens when we have a runny nose and what’s preventing our snot from free falling all the time?"
2 posts
#10
Nuclear
: "ELI5: If a country chooses to detonate, say, 100 Nuclear warheads over international waters, would this be enough to destabilize Earth's environment and cause mass destruction indirectly through Nuclear winter or other environment-related Nuclear damage, effectively resulting in mutual destruction?"
2 posts
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