/r/explainlikeimfive - top ten submissions for each month of 2024
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explainlikeimfive 2023
2024, September
7157 ELI5: If I were to take a really really really ...
6294 ELI5 Why do so many people need glasses? Like h...
5378 ELI5: If I drink 48oz of water in 1-2 hours, d...
5381 ELI5: If cockroaches we see living in our kitch...
5250 ELI5: How did Michael Jackson become white
5172 ELI5: Why are kids so heavy on their feet?
4960 ELI5: Why do we not feel pain under general ane...
4802 eli5: Why is there 1%, 2%, and whole milk but n...
4582 ELI5- how do rice cookers know how long to cook...
4547 ELI5: American cars have a long-standing histor...
2024, August
9914 ELI5: why can't we get a yearly full body MRI t...
6717 ELI5: During a massage, what are the “knots” th...
6577 ELI5: what does it mean by $2.9 trillion wiped ...
6260 ELI5: Why is human childbirth so dangerous and ...
5798 ELI5: why does only Taiwan have good chip makin...
4765 ELI5: Are humans good at counting with base 10 ...
4531 ELI5 Are the 100+ year old skyscrapers still safe?
4479 ELI5 - Why don’t we put more plants on top of b...
4466 ELI5 Why does American football need so much pr...
4441 ELI5: where does the “F” in Lieutenant come from?
2024, July
5135 ELI5: Is getting 6 hours of sleep one night and...
4911 ELI5 Why do so many mammals enjoy being petted ...
4206 ELI5: Why NYC is only now getting trash bins fo...
4182 ELI5: How do the formal suit uniforms of the Se...
4082 ELI5: Why is it illegal to collect rainwater in...
3235 ELI5: Why do seemingly ALL websites nowadays us...
3188 ELI5: How do people die peacefully in their sleep?
3106 ELI5: why dont we find "wild" vegetables?
2722 ELI5: Why is fibromyalgia syndrome and diagnosi...
2702 ELI5: What does the US Coast Guard do that the ...
2024, June
6072 ELI5: Why are Hiroshima and Nagasaki safe to li...
5848 ELI5: The apparent rise in autistic people in t...
5768 ELI5: what happens to the brain when you're horny
4299 ELI5 Why can’t LLM’s like ChatGPT calculate a c...
4255 ELI5: when they decommission the ISS why not pu...
4054 ELI5: Why do home printers remain so challengin...
3918 ELI5: How are condoms only 98% effective?
3649 ELI5: Why did the antivirus market change so dr...
3629 ELI5 how did they prevent the Nazis figuring ou...
3462 ELI5: Why does switching doors in the Monty Hal...
2024, May
13193 ELI5: How did ancient prostitutes manage not be...
4447 ELI5: Why cook with alcohol?
4127 ELI5: Why is gentrification bad?
3826 ELI5: How bad is for South Korea to have a fert...
3737 Eli5 how is it safe to drink pasteurized milk w...
3553 ELI5: If people make money in stocks and crypto...
3478 ELI5: Why does "the captain go down with the sh...
3291 ELI5 - How did computer scientists develop the ...
3288 ELI5 why does playing dead work to avoid gettin...
3281 ELI5 Why do some surgeries take so long (like u...
2024, April
5394 ELI5: why does only 30-60 minutes of exercise m...
4810 ELI5: The US military is currently the most pow...
4627 ELI5 - why is working a manual labor job (const...
4336 ELI5: Why are motorcycles so loud (especially c...
4124 ELI5:If aerial dogfighting is obselete, why do ...
3990 Eli5 Teachers taught us the 3 states of matter,...
3461 eli5 How do Kegel exercise’s improve erection a...
3444 Eli5 : Why "shellshock" was discovered during t...
3297 Eli5 How do people wake up after 10+ years of b...
3163 ELI5: Why is all the milk in grocery stores "Gr...
2024, March
8244 ELI5: Why do humans need to eat ridiculous amou...
7947 ELI5: Why does direct banking not work in America?
3747 ELI5: why we still have “banking hours”
3689 Eli5: Why can't prisons just use a large quanti...
3037 Eli5 if our bodies can make us full, why does o...
3042 ELI5: Why are the M?ori people, who arrived in ...
2966 Eli5: Would any of the 250 million sperm I outr...
2959 eli5: What is actually causing the "beer belly"...
2837 ELI5:How do prisons handle criminals who weight...
2814 ELI5: How do casino dealers know when somebody ...
2024, February
13001 ELI5: if a morbidly obese person suddenly stopp...
3973 ELI5: how have we not run out of metal yet?
3795 ELI5: what stops countries from secretly develo...
3714 ELI5: Professional ballerinas spend $100 for ea...
3591 ELI5: What does a Chiropractor actually do?
3347 ELI5: If someone goes to bed hungry, what happe...
3173 ELI5 - Why is achohol so potent on breath but n...
2936 eli5 what happens if you drink isopropyl "rubbi...
2619 ELI5: Why are golfers still required to enter a...
2546 ELI5: How did a piece of ice cut through the so...
2024, January
5179 ELi5: Why do cigarettes have so many toxic subs...
5061 ELI5: Why is chiropractor referred to as junk m...
4512 eli5: if an operational cost of an MRI scan is ...
3439 Eli5 Why didn't the indigenous people who lived...
3243 ELI5: Can someone explain the “burnt toast theo...
3231 ELI5 - How did our kitchen sink faintly pick up...
3032 ELI5: Why can't humans decide to sleep, why do ...
2794 eli5: How was Tetris unbeatable until recently?
2780 ELI5: How does your body burn 2000 calories a d...
2693 ELI5: Why is Japan's prosecution rate so absurd...