/r/explainlikeimfive

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ELI5: What actually happens in the brain when a song gets “stuck in your head”? Why can’t we control that one specific part and why can’t we choose which ones get stuck?

65 upvotes • aqvelt

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ELI5:Why Olympic Sprinters still have pieces of paper safety pinned onto them?

65 upvotes • adityadharma

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ELI5: Why do you see individual bees seemingly struggling on the sidewalk?

60 upvotes • ClownfishSoup

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ELI5: Why does car oil have a rainbow-like tint when it is spilled on the ground?

60 upvotes • Spirited-Natural-303

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Eli5:why alcohol withdrawal can kill you while nicotine withdrawal can’t?

59 upvotes • Visual_Discussion112

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ELI5: Why do genital size vary wildly from person to person despite most other body parts being roughly the same proportions as everyone else?

58 upvotes • Whole-Medicine3561

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ELI5: how important was the world's fair to American culture?

57 upvotes • happyfuckincakeday

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Eli5 How repeatedly mating the same domesticated wolves gave us all these different dog breeds?

57 upvotes • OGyuckmouth

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ELI5: How can we survive without gravity?

57 upvotes • mme-margot

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ELI5: Why is the Raptor 3 engine so much simpler looking than Raptor 2 and Raptor 1?

54 upvotes • kualato

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
ELI5: What actually happens in the brain when a song gets “stuck in your head”? Why can’t we control that one specific part and why can’t we choose which ones get stuck?	65	aqvelt
ELI5:Why Olympic Sprinters still have pieces of paper safety pinned onto them?	65	adityadharma
ELI5: Why do you see individual bees seemingly struggling on the sidewalk?	60	ClownfishSoup
ELI5: Why does car oil have a rainbow-like tint when it is spilled on the ground?	60	Spirited-Natural-303
Eli5:why alcohol withdrawal can kill you while nicotine withdrawal can’t?	59	Visual_Discussion112
ELI5: Why do genital size vary wildly from person to person despite most other body parts being roughly the same proportions as everyone else?	58	Whole-Medicine3561
ELI5: how important was the world's fair to American culture?	57	happyfuckincakeday
Eli5 How repeatedly mating the same domesticated wolves gave us all these different dog breeds?	57	OGyuckmouth
ELI5: How can we survive without gravity?	57	mme-margot
ELI5: Why is the Raptor 3 engine so much simpler looking than Raptor 2 and Raptor 1?	54	kualato