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Why does eating too much candy make you sick? | [
"it's as simple as too much sugar. your body can't process it."
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"You eat too much refined grain and sugar. Eat more vegetables and lean meat and this won't happen."
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What is the Swiss Bank and why is it so important? | [
"The Swiss used to have a law that made it illegal for a Swiss Bank to disclose the name or any identifying information about the owner of an account. That meant that if you put money into an anonymous Swiss Bank account, no country's police could subpoena that bank to force them to disclose who's money that was. ... | [
"Bankruptcy is not a crime. Can you be more specific?"
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Is it technically possible for countries to 'build' a nuclear bomb, even if not given the technology by another nuclear country? | [
"All the theory is well known, you can search it online right now. Nations are usually limited by the availability of weapons grade fissile material for the bomb itself and the elaborate detonators required, which are much harder to obtain or construct. To make the bomb useful they also need a delivery system, whic... | [
"The US threw an assload of money and resources at the problem. The Manhattan Project budget was over $20 billion (2019 dollars) and employed over 100k people. The US also had the advantage of not having to worry about other countries boycotting or embargoing them for building the bomb. Countries these days can fa... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Can you file a sexual harassment complaint against the “kiss cam” at sports stadiums? | [
"No. There’s no “harassment”. They may be putting you on the spot but they can’t force you to kiss and they’ll move on if you don’t."
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"Because they're not allowed to use chewing tobacco in the dugouts anymore"
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the new qualifications for student loan forgiveness after 20 years. | [
"You have to pay a percent of your paycheck to your loans for a certain number of years (10 for government work and 20 years for private industry) to be eligible for forgiveness. The time starts when you sign up for the program not when you started paying your loans personally. For all we know you could be paying o... | [
"You screw yourself more than you would working within the system. step 1 consolidate all your loans with a william d stafford loan step 2 enroll in an income based, or income contingent repayment plan step 3 pay a minimal amount monthly unless you earn significantly. Most if not all of what you pay ends up bein... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do we celebrate the birth of Jesus on a set date every year but we celebrate his death on different days depending on full moons and the spring equinox? | [
"We don't know what date Jesus was born on. By the time people started using Dec 25th as the date, they were using a modern-ish calendar. Jesus is recorded in the Bible as having died on the Friday near the Jewish Passover feast. The Jews at the time had their own calendar, which was based on the lunar cycle. So P... | [
"Because the Julian Calendar (that we currently use) has been around since 46 BC, and Jan. 1st is the first day on that calendar. The equinox didn't really fall on any significant place, so we acknowledge the equinox on those days, and celebrate the first day of the calendar year as New Years day."
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Why do console games not use 16x Anisotropic Filtering? | [
"> When I turn it up to 16x vs 4x on my PC, there is literally no performance difference. Consoles are built on the budget hardware of the time and are expected to age for 6-8 years. \"Good enough\" rules console development decisions. Console players are expected to sit farther back from the screen too so narrower... | [
"Even though they were simple by today's standards, old console games were programmed *very* efficiently because the hardware wasn't very powerful. With today's modern hardware, most video game designers don't need to be as careful or efficient about how many resources their game uses. This goes for nearly all soft... | eli5_question_answer | {
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During WWII when Jews were being killed overtime, why didn't the remaining Jews pretended not be Jews to save themselves? | [
"Because everyone already knew they were Jews and there was frequently government documentation demonstrating they were Jews."
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"All because something bad happens to someone, or a group of people, it does not mean that people who previously disliked the person/group will immediately come to like them. Now, I don't have any particular dislike for Jewish people. I think the Holocaust was horrible. But if I disliked Jews, why would the Holocau... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How is the "1 in 35 million chance of a shark bite" statistic calculated? | [
"It is based on beach attendance. [The university of Florida has some statistics that get you to a 1 in 11.5 million chance of being attacked by a shark](_URL_0_). Estimated attendance at US beaches is ~264 million. The number of shark attacks is 23. 264 million divided by 23 give you 11.5 million. That is, for ev... | [
"It depends on the source, of course. Impossible to say without you citing a source for a figure. This is the problem with phrases like \"the odds of you ________ are 1 in 500,000\" - it doesn't define the conditions under which those numbers are achieved (population, time frame, etc). There is missing data which m... | eli5_question_answer | {
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I would like to know the name of and discuss the concept in which excellence starts becoming undetectable except to experts. | [
"Perhaps not exactly what you're asking about, but has close parallels, I recommend you take a look at the Wikipedia article for [Dunning-Kruger effect.](_URL_0_) You have to have a certain amount of knowledge first to even appreciate how much you don't know! > Dunning and Kruger proposed that, for a given skill,... | [
"The way he is learning seems simpler to someone else. Perhaps it actually is simpler, and just seems complex to you because you haven't studied it. However, changes to curricula are nearly always ideologically motivated, rather than evidence based."
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How is it that at night I can sleep continuously for eight hours, but if I take a daytime nap I wake after 20 minutes? | [
"Humans have evolved to be diurnal creatures. Our sleep cycles, for the most part, are tied to the sun cycle. When the sun is up, we're up and at 'em -- hunting, foraging, farming, what-have-you. When the sun goes down, we're huddled around our fires and in our caves for warm and safety. It's a legacy of our ancest... | [
"What if you wake up every few hours, but it doesn’t bother you? I can fall asleep in less than 5 minutes, so when I wake up, I look at the clock and go “Nice! I can sleep for 4 more hours” or whatever it is til my alarm goes off."
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why, 25 years later, is there a new inquiry into the Hillsborough disaster? | [
"Documents that were not released at the time of the original inquiry were made public, which have evidence to malpractice and cause the formation of another inquiry."
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"No one knows who did it, so they just stopped discussing it. The media can only ride out a mystery for so long, then it's time to move on to the next thing. Edit: Yes, I know there are exceptions such as a certain airplane."
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Why does coke taste better in glass than in plastic ? | [
"It's likely that the coke in glass is \"mexican coke\" or similarly foreign. Different cokes in different countries have different recipes, so its entirely possible that the coke you had in the glass bottle had real sugar cane while the coke in the plastic had fructose corn syrup"
] | [
"Beer will go flat sooner in plastic bottles, as it is much more porous (microscopically) than glass. By the way, beer is commonly sold in plastic bottles in places like ball parks."
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What would happen if the whole world switched to one universal currency? | [
"The issue is someone has to be in charge of monetary policy. Someone has to set interest rates and decide when to print more money. The monetary policy that benefits a country in recession is different than one in a growth period. What is good for an oil exporter might not be good for a manufacturing country. Ever... | [
"In the real world why would anyone want to be a politician?"
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What do astrophysicists understand with certainty? | [
"Basically the only thing astrophysicists know for sure is the stuff they can directly observe and the stuff they can prove with observations or calculations. For example we know for sure the universe is expanding because we can actually see everything moving away from us. What we don't know is exactly how, becaus... | [
"If you find out, you'll win a Nobel Prize! There are several hypothesized reasons why we need sleep."
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What would happen if you wore metal jewelry while lying down in an MRI? | [
"The machine is a superconducting magnet of 3-ish Tesla strength, 30,000 Gauss. The Earth's magnetic field is 0.5 Gauss. The machine can accelerate a paperclip at 3-4 Gs, fast enough to injure you. They have pulled belly-button ornaments out of young lady's bodies. Depending on the metal, this could be very bad. No... | [
"The little creatures in your blood poke the inside of your arm with tiny forks because they are mad at you for sitting in the same position for too long."
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the Austro-Prussian War | [
"Before the modern nation of Germany developed, Prussia and Austria were the two largest and most powerful German states. There was a certain amount of rivalry between them to lead the other German states, even though they would sometimes cooperate. In one episode of cooperation, they went to war together against D... | [
"This cartoon is not referring to World War 1, as can be seen by the copyright stamp from 1877. It refers to the [Russo-Turkish War](_URL_0_)."
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Why do we see fruits growing in the wild but never any vegetables? | [
"You probably do, but you don't recognise them. Vegetables look like they do because they have been bred to have large edible parts and their wild equivalents look just like random weeds. [Comparison of a crop carrot and a wild carrot](_URL_1_) [Wild cabbage](_URL_0_) Meanwhile fruits evolved naturally to entice an... | [
"Saffron is the dried blooms of the plant. They literally do not exist when the plant is not blooming as they have not formed yet. What you are asking is the equivalent of \"why don't they extract apples from the tree before they grow\"."
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What happens when an Uber Driver gets T-Boned and the passenger dies? | [
"Exactly the same as any other circumstances. The person who caused the collision will hopefully have insurance which would offer some form of compensation to the family. If that person doesn't have insurance, then the Uber driver's insurance will offer compensation. And if the Uber driver doesn't have insurance, w... | [
"Guy threatens suicide, someone tries to help, guy is mad. What?"
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What dictates of the value of currency between countries? | [
"In most cases, supply and demand. No one decides what the dollar/Euro ratio is - it is much better understood as an auction where at 1.5, there is a roughly the same number of people buying as selling Euros. In some other cases, for example the Hong Kong Dollar, the ratio is determined by the Hong Kong government.... | [
"Because it has a smaller percentage of the initial total market compared to IE in windows."
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How do they install plumbing, internet and electricity in old structures and homes that are centuries or millennia old? | [
"We are currently in the process of renovating our 1865 farm house. The structure is made of limestone rocks held together with mortar. There was no insulation in the walls. It's much like building a whole new house... on the skeleton"
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"New York is the oldest, densest city in the US and one of the densest cities in the world. People have been living there for more than a hundred years. When they dig they find all kinds of pipes, cables and wires for water, sewage, electricity and telephones that they need to work around or replace. Also NYC is on... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it recommended to drink lots of milk after swallowing bleach ? | [
"There is a protein in milk, one protein structure called lactase (kind of like a microscopic arm made of legos) is responsible for making bleach less harmful when swallowed. This protein \"lego arm\" binds onto the highly reactive chlorine atom and the highly reactive OH (hydroxide) molecule in the basic bleach, ... | [
"How is drinking water with a slice of lemon different from eating a Lemon?"
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Why do lights for your bicycle have an option to flash/blink? | [
"A Flashing light will get more notice than a solid on one, which is exactly the point of a light on your bike."
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"I wonder if some of the headlight manufacturers use PWM to control their brightness. Basically PWM pulses the power to the LED at a faster or slower rate to make them appear brighter or dimmer. This can be used to produce a daytime-running-light, normal brightness, and high-beam with the same set of LED’s. If used... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is a multireddit exactly? | [
"I don't have Gold but let me explain what I understand from what I read from Admin announcement of this feature. You have one front page and you see hot posts from all sub-reddits that you have subscribed to (that is if you are logged in, else you see posts from default sub-reddits). With multi-reddit, you create... | [
"What the heck is a parcel pick up?"
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What causes my hands to stick to ice when they are wet? | [
"The ice is causing the water on your hands to start freezing. You're actually being frozen to the ice when you touch ice with wet hands."
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"Why do I feel as though my bottles of water don't do this but instead just freeze normally in the freezer?"
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Why are gas cans so expensive? | [
"Long story short, it seems to be caused by different types of plastic being used due to government regulations. _URL_0_ _URL_1_"
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"Why do some parts of the world call gasoline petrol?"
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Why do we intentionally seek out depressing music when we are sad? | [
"Misery loves company. When you're hurting, it helps to know that other people have gone through the same thing and know how you feel. Probably the person who wrote the music was sad or depressed when they wrote it and getting it out helped them feel better. Maybe listening to the music they produced has the same c... | [
"Mirror neurons? The same reason happy movies make us happy, and the same reason we are more likely to yawn when we see others yawn, or feel sad when we see others cry. We empathize with the characters in horror movies."
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If humans are natural predators, why don't most possess a natural desire to hunt? And why do some feel remorse after taking an animals life? | [
"Predators don't hunt because they can. They hunt because they must. Feed a lion every day and it won't go hunting just for the sake of it."
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"Most fish and hunted animals are prey animals - meaning that some other animal eats them for sustenance. No other animal cares that its meal is dispatched in the most pain free way possible. The primary role of prey is to die as food for another, so killing an animal for food isn't cruel. It's fulfilling its ultim... | eli5_question_answer | {
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how does the body regenerate blood after donating? | [
"After you donate blood, the number of red blood cells in your blood decreases. Red blood cells are responsible for carrying oxygen and this decreased oxygen in the blood is a stimulus for the kidney to secrete the hormone erythropoietin. This then travels to the bone marrow and stimulates the production of more re... | [
"Pharmacist - Bone marrow contain a special type of stem cell. These divide and multiply. Under the influence of various hormones, some of them mature into the various cellular components of blood. While there are many types of such cells they are generally referred to as white or red blood cells. One of the treatm... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do radios that tell you what song is on the radio work? | [
"There's a data channel that the station uses to send that info as well as the call letters of the station and whatever else they feel like broadcasting. If your radio is equipped to decode and display it, it pops up. _URL_0_"
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"Satellites are just big radio stations in the sky, its a one-way communication just like when you listen to the radio in your car, and everyone else on the radio does too. Your GPS is just a listening device, pretty much everything any consumer would ever use regarding satellites is just a listening device, you do... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is really happening when I "jump" a dead car battery? | [
"The reason you are not supposed to attach the black connection to a ground* is that batteries sometimes leak hydrogren gas, which is highly flammable, and the last connection usually causes a spark as the circuit is formed. Spark + hydrogen gas = bad. A ground is simply any piece of unpainted, uncovered metal that... | [
"I want to know that too. Maybe i can add a question to that ELI5 topic: Why do i see lightning like things when closing my eyes and pushing/rolling them with my finger?"
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When an artist releases a new album, one or two songs may become popular. How is it that in a couple of weeks or months, another song in the same album suddenly gets really popular? | [
"Let's take Taylor Swift's new album as an example. All the songs (except the version of Bad Blood with Kendrick) were available since the album was released. Radio stations don't know which song they should pick, so instead, songs the artists/record company likes are released as singles, and then the radio plays i... | [
"Pop Music stands for popular music. So that would be the music that is popular at a given time. After a few weeks or months there are new songs that become popular and the ones that came out earlier songs are considered old."
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If I got a head transplant and my immune system was not cool with it, would my immune system reject my head or my body? | [
"The body would reject the head. Immune cells are produced in the bone marrow, and would match the previous owner's immune phenotype. These cells would attack the cells in the new head, which would be perceived as foreign."
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"Nothing. The DNA in the liver retains Bob's DNA, while the rest of the body retains Alice's DNA. Which is why Alice will need to take immune system suppressing drugs for the rest of her life - to keep her body from attacking and destroying her/Bob's liver."
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How the stock market affects someone who has no money in it | [
"Stock market is allocation of resources. People with money give their money to companies making money in return for ownership. When stock market is up that means people with money believe a lot of companies are making money. When a lot of companies are making money that mean they will need to expend, hiring more p... | [
"If they never existed it would be much harder for people to purchase stock in companies, and much harder for companies to get the money needed for expansion and employment. What would happen if grocery stores never existed? It's a market too. But modern life pretty much requires it."
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why is a 4k or ultrawide monitor considerably more expensive than a much larger 4k tv? | [
"Monitors have low input lag. This is why you should always buy a monitor if you're a competitive gamer and play games where lag matters. A tv typically has 100ms-300ms of input lag (meaning it takes a tenth to a third of a second for the signal sent to the TV to produce the image on the screen), while computer mon... | [
"Resolution isn't everything. Color accuracy, refresh rate, response time etc are all other factors that can affect how sharp or how good a screen looks. Otherwise the cheapest 1080p tv out there would look just as good as the nicest ones and thats not true at all."
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Why do seemingly all of the pigeons I see have a foot injury of some sort? | [
"It's usually from those spikes that people put on things to stop birds from pooping everywhere, pigeons are pretty heavy and stupid, and there are a lot of them, so in urban areas you often see them with foot injuries from trying to land on the spikes."
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"It's not just their face. It progresses to the rest of their head, and their legs and stomachs get grey, too. Occasionally there's a bit of grey in other areas, too. I figure if they lived long enough it might progress further."
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Why do doctors not amputate the paralyzed limbs of paraplegics? | [
"I would think this mostly is the patients choice. I don't think I would like to chop off my legs even if they were useless. One tends to get a little *attached* to them over the years... (:"
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"They don't. They often wear a bag which collects the feces for later disposal called a colostomy bag. Losing control of your bowls is one of the problems with being paralyzed."
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Why do companies like Intel and Lockheed Martin advertise on tv? | [
"Its a mix of getting the attention of those few people that may actually be interested in buying their products, as well as advertising to those who would consider working for their companies (engineers, scientists, sometimes business majors or economists)."
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"Is the United States the only country in the world allowed to advertise prescription drugs on TV?"
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The difference between RAM, ROM, and System memory. | [
"Hello, five year old. Ok, so you're drawing a picture on your desk when you decide that you want to go pet your dog. You come back and continue drawing your picture. So, the next day you decide to keep working on your picture, when mom comes in and says she wants to take you to the playground. You put your picture... | [
"Motherboard: Connects everything together. RAM: Stores information for the processor, reads and writes REALLY fast Processor: Makes decisions, runs programs. The 'heart' of your computer. Hard Disk/SSD: Stores stuff when computer is off. Slower then RAM. GPU: Renders 3d graphics and does parallel computing type st... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do snails get their shells without being near the ocean? | [
"Shells don't simply come from the sea, they're grown by secreting their material. Snails grow their own shells."
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"Shellfish. Some animals use calcium and other minerals to build themselves protective shells. When they die those shells get washed up on the beach."
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Why do we put apostrophes on possessive words like something's thing but we don't put one on "its thing"? | [
"He - > his She - > hers They - > theirs It - > its \"Its\" is a possessive pronoun, and follows the rules of other possessive pronouns. You only use apostrophe S with nouns and proper nouns, not pronouns. With the others it's obvious because they are so different (\"his\" and \"hers\" look nothing like \"he's\" or... | [
"While we're explaining things: their - ownership, like \"Why do balloons deflate on *their* own over time?\" there - location, like \"Do you see that deflated balloon over *there*?\" they're - shortened form of they are, like \"*They're* balloons, they are not perfect.\""
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Why are there seat belt laws? | [
"If you get into an accident and are paralyzed for life, how much will society have to contribute to your health, housing, food, rehabilitation for the rest of your life? Insurance won't pay for it all."
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"Well, that depends. We need more information. Which vehicle broke the traffic laws?"
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How does lactic acid form and just disappear? Also how does it not harm any parts of our body? | [
"Lactic acid is produced in your muscles as a byproduct of prolonged anaerobic exercise. The amounts produced are typically so small it can easily be removed through the bloodstream and processed in the kidneys, and do not present any danger. Certain disorders can cause lactic acid to build up faster than the body... | [
"Anatomy student here. The energy from food is stored in the liver and the skeletal muscles. When all that runs out the body turns to fat stores, then to ketosis, and each process uses different organics for fuel from the others. Basically, eat every day and you'll be fine."
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Why do married couples, civil unions, etcetera get benefits that legally separate couples don't get? | [
"Because the government needs some way to determine who gets those benefits and who doesn't. Civil marriage is a legal status change, analogous in some ways to legally adopting a child; it creates a legally-recognized family bond that otherwise does not exist."
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"Did you mean opposite sex couple? They are a man and a woman. Some people don't like the connotations of word \"marriage\". Some people see it as a religious thing (even though secular marriages have existed for a long time) or at least an outdated institution which implies an unequal relationship. So they prefer ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What creates that odd "burnt electronics"-smell? | [
"Depends on exactly what you mean. The characteristic smell of an electric motor is ozone gas. It's produced by the motor making tiny sparks. The smell (and smoke) produced by failing electronics comes from burning plastic."
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"Instead of the unpleasant smells, you smell the very strong smell of (whatever matches are made of) burning. The burnt smell overpowers the poop."
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Why do we feel so exhausted after a long flight even though we basically did nothing. | [
"Our muscles are tired of sitting in one place, with no ability to stretch or move comfortably, for a very long period of time. Our bodies like to move! They like to lift things and stretch and sprawl out. Confining us to tight constrictions with little to do and less room to do it in is a recipe for soreness and e... | [
"You only choose to take a nap during the day if you're already tired. But you always go to bed at night, even when you aren't tired."
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Skyrim/the elder scrolls' story | [
"I think there was an eli5 to this a month or so ago with a great answer, try to search for it. I know it's ok to repost q's but there there was a really good answer in a previous thread."
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"This video by grey goes over the creation as well as other things concerning the us Canada border _URL_0_"
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Why do so many abandoned building photos feature mental hospitals? Why are there so many of these? | [
"We used to have a bunch of mental institutions - partially because we thought that locking up crazy people was the best way to help them, partially because we just didn't know how else to take care of them. Back in the 80s, the government cut funding for them. Unfortunately, we just ended up putting many of these ... | [
"How can you look out your window and still see the interior of your house?"
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Why are there so many celebrities involved in the Church of Scientology? | [
"Basically, Scientology tells you that being wealthy and famous is GOOD, in fact, it shows your spiritual development. Basically, it's a religion that fits most celebrities."
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"Have you been paying attention to the news at all this past year? FIFA is astonishingly corrupt."
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Why does your nose seem to get used to smells? | [
"Humans are meant to detect change. If you were noticing the scent of everything in the area, you would struggle to differentiate what is there and what individual things smell like. It is much more evolutionary prudent to be able to smell something new, like an animal approaching, than to smell everything all the ... | [
"This is probably more likely your taste receptors becoming less sensitized to the flavors in the food, similar to how your nose becomes used to a particular odor after a while and you can no longer smell it."
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Why is wearing a watch on the right hand considered religious? | [
"I have never heard of this before, I've only heard that men were to wear a watch on the left hand and women on the right."
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"Depends upon what culture you belong to in China for example red is considered to be a very positive colour."
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What is Oracle's lawsuit against Google claiming is copyrightable about the Java API? | [
"Copyright does not protect function of a source code. Basically, if you write an algorithm to carry out task A, you can copyright it. However, that only prevents people from copying your code verbatim. If I write a code that runs the same algorithm, I do not infringe your copyright. In the case, Google copied a b... | [
"Absolutely, they can be reverse engineered and implemented into other applications. This, however, would be illegal if said developer's works are protected by copyright. And there are ways to tell if certain source code has been stolen and added to other applications. Microsoft, for instance, sued Samsung for usin... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does nature ensure that humans are born at a (roughly) 50/50 balance between male and female? | [
"This is due to the fact that it takes two parents, one male and one female, and explained by Fisher's Sex Ratio Theory, also called Fisher's Principle. Consider 3 generations. 1st generation has individuals which make more females than males. So the 2nd generation has lots of females, and few males. The second gen... | [
"Yes. A predominant limb has been confirmed to most mammals. Curiously, their frequency rate is aproximately 50% righties and 50% lefties, compared to the 90% righties 10% lefties in humans"
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What is Blue Light and How does it affect our eyes? | [
"Blue light is just light with a wavelength that makes it appear blue. They way our bodies work out time is partle based on light, during daytime there is a lot more light especially blue light than at night. This means looking at blue light (say from a screen) at night can make it harder to get to sleep."
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"* Dehydration from low fluid intake * Slow blink rate, causing dry eyes * Poor body posture * Hey. Hey. Hey Listen. Hey. Look. Hey. Hey. Hey. Look. Hey. Listen. Listen. Hey."
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Why can't felons own guns if the right to bare arms cannot be infringed? | [
"None of the rights put forward in the constitution are absolute. All are conditional. You have a right to free speech, but the state is allowed to arrest you for speech that incites violence and court cases have repeatedly supported this exemption to free speech. You have a right to bear arms, but the state is all... | [
"Define \"work\". Assuming the people would accept such a policy (unlikely), what is the goal? Reduce gun violence? It might do that, but would it reduce overall violence? That's much less certain. And a total ban is all but impossible; too many people use firearms for work or sporting use (to say nothing of the am... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it legal for gas stations to put huge holds on debit or credit cards? How is it legal to charge more money than you agreed to, even if it eventually gets charged for the right amount? | [
"Its not a charge. It's called a preauth. It's to make sure that the cards has enough funds to cover the purchase. Preauths are never charged."
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"I can say a few things on the topic. First, most banks' debit cards can be run as credit cards. This can be very convenient for small purchases so you don't have to sign or put in a pin. Second, there are different fees for the different types of cards. I'll probably get this backwards but for debit it is a set fe... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What I can do to speed up my pc. | [
"There are probably a lot of programs installed and running on your computer that you don't use. These use up resources. If you were five, you can think of it like bringing your toys in the sandbox. The things you need, like a shovel, pale, trucks, maybe a dinosaur or two are like antivirus and other programs you ... | [
"Because you need that much power to complete the boot cycle."
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How do (would) radio communications in real time work in space and / or at high speeds. | [
"Radio waves move at the speed of light. Which is far faster then sound."
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"If all communication systems are broken, you can't transfer the data. And in certain areas (aka middle of the Pacific Ocean for example) it could be very difficult to maintain communication with a land-base."
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Why aren't sites like Kayak and Priceline cheaper than the original airliner's prices anymore? What's their point then? | [
"Airlines and travel agents used to rely on people not having direct access to fare information. They can't do that anymore, so their fares are usually going to match third party sites. Kayak and sites like it are still useful, because it presents fairs from multiple airlines, and it has a better interface for comp... | [
"Yes, they earn commissions. All of these online travel sites, whether for hotels or flights or whatever, are just travel agencies with a web-based storefront. Like traditional travel agencies, they earn a commission from the airline/hotel when they make a booking."
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Why do cats knock things over? | [
"Cats are trying to 'interact' or play with everything. stuff we own tend to be on heights (tables,shelves), so they fall down as soon as cats touch them. There are only a few things on the floor the cats can play with, so they've gotten bored. When the cats knock over things, we go to them running and screaming.... | [
"Why do you stare at your dog when it's taking a shit?"
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What exactly are "Chemtrails" and on what grounds are the conspiracies based on? | [
"Nobody has responded to the question regarding 'what grounds are the conspiracies based on'. The answer is: general stupidity and lack of education."
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"There are claims, allegations and rather dubious \"confessions\" from former workers and witnesses, but never anything solid. These theories and claims are mostly thrown around by conspiracy theorists."
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As a girl who loses TONS of hair in the shower and in brushes, how am I not bald?! | [
"You lose around 100 hairs a day naturally, and of course you start growing around 100 hairs a day. If your hair is long, the hair that falls out naturally probably just gets held in by your other hair until you shower or brush it out, so if you don't shower or brush your hair for a day or two, when you finally do ... | [
"I've suspected this all along. I use moisturizing body wash on my hair and it works great."
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What is the difference between limited liability and unlimited liability in business? | [
"Limited liability means if the company ends up owing an assload of money it can't pay, either because they company had bad luck, was mismanaged, or got sued, or whatever, the owners of the company can't be on the hook for personally paying out more than their share of the value of the company. If it's non limited,... | [
"Pty = Proprietary = shares are privately held, not publicly traded. Ltd = Limited Liability = the shareholders are not personally liable for the company's finances. The general term for this is [private limited company] (_URL_0_). In the USA the closest match would be a LLC."
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Why are MRI's so huge? why didn't they get smaller in size like computers did?. | [
"MRI's require a strong magnetic field around your body. Making a strong magnetic field requires a large magnet. In some cases, the technology has gotten better and there are \"open MRI\" machines where what can be made smaller has been, and you no longer travel through a tunnel to get scanned. At the very least th... | [
"I am in no way an expert, but I believe it has something to do with the types of components used. Back in those days they used a lot of switches and vacuum tubes to determine in/output. This ovviously required a lot of space and with it a lot of weight. Nowadays these components have been replaced by integrated ci... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What happened in Iran since the 70's that caused radical Islam to take control.? | [
"In the 50s, the CIA infiltrated Iran, collapsed their government, and installed the Shah, who instituted some education reforms, but also was a brutal dictator. This isn't a wild conspiracy theory, this is something that our government actually did. Eventually, the Shah made his subjects so angry that a student re... | [
"Saudi Arabia made a deal with the U.S. After discovering oil. The deal was oil for protection and weapons. Since originally making this deal (wanna say it was FDR), every president has kept the relationship going. Iran was an ally of the U.S. Until the Islamic Revolution of 1978. This revolution overthrew a U.S. F... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why aren't subscription services like your ISP, Netflix, Xbox Live, etc. required to reimburse you for downtime? | [
"it's in their terms of service that service isn't guaranteed 100%. you don't have a SLA with them."
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"It impacts everyone's equitable access to content regardless of what country you're in. It's not explicitly what's happening now that's so terrible. It's the rule loosening that would allow ISPs to effectively choose which sites you can and cannot reach for your average monthly charge. If you watch a lot of YouTub... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are computer monitors, TV screens etc. generally in a landscape orientation whilst smartphones are generally in a portrait orientation? | [
"Is it hard to use one hand on landscape orientation? Yea."
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"Resolution is how many pixels there are on the whole screen. Pixel density is how many pixels there are in a square centimetre of screen. So for example if my laptop and my phone both have the same screen resolution, the phone must have higher pixel density because it's got the same number of pixels but a smaller ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are graves dug 6' deep? | [
"it is the approximate depth that prevents wildlife from digging it up. both as a matter of moving 6 feet of earth and because the gasses from the body will not filter up quickly enough to be detected by scavengers. it's also the approximate height of a human being. a digger could easily assess his depth and also g... | [
"Joseph Stalin was often displayed as larger than life and depicted as over 6 feet tall in most occurrences. In reality he was shorter than Napoleon, coming in at only 5'5\" to 5'6\""
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How does one judge have the power to change a law, such as gay marriage, if it is against the will of the majority? | [
"Because a judge must uphold established law, not political opinion."
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"LY5: Life is not always fair. LYNot: A supreme court issue. Same sex marriage is never recognized at a federal level. Six states have legalized it while some others have the (separate but equal) civil unions. In most cases the legal definition of marriage is a man and a women. Legislation is needed to change it. R... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why the U.S. government decided to throw Osama Bin Laden's body into the ocean | [
"They didn't want to bury him on land and create a \"shrine\" for radicalists. Not many nations would have even been willing to accept the remains."
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"They were classified because they undermined a close ally and one the Bush family had close personal ties to. They stayed that way because Saudi Arabia threatened to try to crater the US economy if they were released. But Congressional pressure eventually forced Obama's hand, so he dumped it on a Friday afternoon.... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do we have the technology to see nebulae and other features in our galaxy with some degree of clarity, but not enough to get a clear picture of Pluto? | [
"* most galaxies are brighter * most galaxies are bigger * galaxies don't move, so you can take very long exposures...Pluto rotates, so things get smeary after a few hours"
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"Those pictures are: * an artist's conception * a computer generated simulation base on what we can see from earth * another galaxy we think looks like ours As you point out, it is not possible for us to take a picture of our galaxy from the outside."
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How come some products made with dairy products (like milk in cookies) don't go bad like dairy products do? | [
"The majority of cookie recipes do not contain milk. But cakes do, and cakes do not need to be refrigerated. The baking along with the sugar are enough to preserve it for a few days without refrigeration provided you're storing it properly."
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"They name it that because otherwise it's too easy for people to mistake it for whipped cream, when it is usually mostly soy oil and a little dairy to flavor it. Dairy allergic people can't eat it, obviously. Many margarines have dairy ingredients too."
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How come I can take control of my breathing just by thinking about it but can't do the same with my heartbeat or body temperature? | [
"You can consciously control your heart rate to some extent. As for temperature, it's not a single muscle or process, it's the sum of all your cell's metabolism"
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"Not an answer: Does it? I've never tried this before. When I feel it start to rise, I somehow manage to still the reflex in the same way I can still my diaphragm with hiccups. Doesn't work all the time, but sometimes it does."
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How is it physically possible to get all the bowling pins except the center one? | [
"The 5 pin is a common leave because, usually, the 1,2,3(for righties),4(or 6 for right handers) 5 8(9 for right handers) pins are meant to be taken out by the ball. When the ball hits the pocket (the 1+2 or 1+3 pins) it can deflect because the pins are heavy. It diverts the ball to one side or the other, and the p... | [
"You need to put English in it. That is, you need to nudge the table so the ball doesn't run straight down the lane. The art is in being to do this without bumping the table so hard that you trip the tilt sensor and lose your ball."
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Is being in possession of a hard drive full of torrented media illegal? | [
"Technically no. Distributing it, removing copy protection on it, and downloading it, or anything like that is though. Giving the drive to someone else is illegal, and the ways to fill it are illegal, someone giving it to you is illegal, but actually having it isn't."
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"First thing, copyright infringement rarely carries a prison sentence. The punishment is usually a fine because it is usually a civil offence, not a criminal one. But, to answer your question, uploading unauthorized content to YouTube would carry a similar punishment to seeding the same content."
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Is the research definitive? Does cannabis abuse cause emphysema? Where is this decisive research located? | [
"Chronic smoke inhalation can lead to respiratory problems. We didn't evolve to breathe smoke. Cannabis isn't an exception."
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"It impairs cognitive ability, but only short-term. Any negative effects on cognition appear to dissipate within 25 days. There does not appear to be long-term effects on cognition/memory. For your body, smoking it increases the risk of developing lung cancer. It appears to cause lung cancer about equivalent to smo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it legal for organizations like the MPAA to exist? Isn't that collusion? | [
"Businesses are allowed to work together, as long as it's not about defrauding consumers, price fixing & stuff like that. There's nothing wrong with forming a trade association to promote their collective interests, allow standards to form and stuff that isn't anticompetitive. The MPAA was formed to help the studio... | [
"It is not illegal to have a monopoly. What is illegal is to use your monopoly in certain specific ways to stifle competition. So long as Comcast and AT & T don't do that, they do not violate the anti-trust act."
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Why do suits have a bottom button which you are never supposed to button up? | [
"It is tradition attributed to King Edward VII, who was too fat to button the bottom button. In order to not out-do or offend the kind, people in power started to do the same. Eventually it just became a thing that all people are expected to do."
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"It has to with women having help getting dressed. Back in the day it was common for women to have a servant or two to button their dress for them. So the buttons on women's clothes are positioned to make it easier to button from the front, as opposed to men's clothes that you button while wearing it."
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What happens when someone who's taking antibiotics drinks alcohol and why is it a bad thing? | [
"It's not. This is just a scare story that doctors used to tell servicemen who they were treating for gonorrhoea, in order to prevent them drinking and whoring until they were cured, thereby slowing the spread of the disease. It's one of those ideas that have been repeated so much that they've stuck."
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"•People taking sedative drugs (like diazepam/Valium) or antidepressants (like fluoxetine/Prozac) should avoid alcohol altogether •People taking long-term medications should be careful about drinking, as alcohol can make some drugs less effective, meaning long term conditions get worse. Examples include, people tak... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do they take the caffeine out of tea and coffee to make decaffeinated versions? | [
"Most caffeine free teas are already caffeine free. Herbal teas are usually free from caffeine (like peppermint, green, and chamomile). Black teas usually have caffeine. Coffee on the other hand goes through a chemical treatment process called \"decaffeinating\" (and some teas do have this too). Usually a solvent i... | [
"Sick: the sugar. Jittery: probably a mixture of caffeine and sugar. Look at how much caffeine is in your energy drink, then multiple that number by how many servings there are. There is about 120mg of caffeine in a cup of coffee for you to compare to."
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What's the difference between intolerant and allergy. Why can't it be peanut intolerant or lactose allergy? | [
"Allergy is when your immune system is the issue, intolerance is when it's some other body issue like incorrect digestion or wrong chemical pathway. A milk allergy (which is rare) would be your immune system attacking milk like it was an intruder. lactose intolerance is your body being unable to digest milk sugar w... | [
"Gluten bothers: -Celiac -Allergies -Gluten \"Intolerant\" people (intestinal discomfort, other symptoms) Apparently, from what I see, more people are gluten-intolerant than may realize it."
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- Would meat rot in space? | [
"Some bacteria are anaerobic, i.e. they do not need oxygen to survive. So those would continue to cause the meat to rot in space, yes. However it would be much slower, as all the organisms that need oxygen to live like aerobic bacteria or yeast would not be capable of life."
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"Followup: what happened to the farmers when they did \"forage\"? Starve to death?"
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Why does your brain not mute chronic pain? | [
"Pain serves a purpose, it exists to limit further damage, and anything which 'removes pain' is a very risky proposition. If you're ignorant of damage, you may continue to damage yourself, and that can be anything from inconvenient to deadly. Evolution itself isn't really perfect or anything, it doesn't have a good... | [
"Because your brain expects the feeling. I believe its similar to why you can't tickle yourself."
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What are "whale trades" that JP Morgan did in London and lost $$$? | [
"JP Morgan had a trader in London, Bruno Iskil, that was known for making extremely large bets on the stock market using very complex ways of making trades. Bets so complicated even his bosses had no idea what he was doing. The trades themselves involved something called credit default swaps, which are bets that a ... | [
"> Why am I not hearing of somewhere else making a 2 billion dollar profit? Let's say you bought 1 million shares of Apple on the stock exchange for $500 each and then sold them for $400 each. You just lost $100 million but there is no one in particular who made those $100 million - the profit was spread among thou... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why aren't "Ask..X" Subreddits more famous than the outdated Yahoo answers? | [
"Have you seen the answers on those Yahoo forums? My god it's some of the worst misinformation I've ever seen."
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"Did you try readinng the rules? > Posts must begin with \"ELI5:\" > Posts only > Reported as: 10. Posts must begin with \"ELI5:\" > This is meant to help identify ELI5 posts on the frontpage or /r/all or any other collection."
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Why are concussions in the NFL so frequent with players using advanced helmets vs rugby players using no helmets? | [
"Blocking. It is legal in NFL, it is not legal in Rugby. In NFL and other American Gridiron leagues, every player on the field is a valid target for a hit. Everyone is always running full speed into everyone else. In rugby, only the person who is currently in posession of the ball can be hit. It is a foul to touch... | [
"It has a lot of depth, and is extremely physical, making it a rather exciting watch. A large portion of the game is to physically stop people from tackling who ever has the ball. This makes the game more exciting, but it also makes the game prone to injury. The only way you can block is to use your body as a wall... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The Mexican - American War and what was the role of Texas | [
"The short version: Texas breaks away from Mexico. Mexico isn't happy but got its butt kicked in a lot of big battles. Texas joins America. Texas, as a state has a disputed boarder with Mexico. Neither America, nor Texas, nor Mexico can agree where the boarder is. Some small fighting happens around the boarder, mo... | [
"The main reason is because of the religious background of the United States."
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What makes the TSA worse than the security services that existed in the US before 9/11, or the security services that currently exist in other developed nations? | [
"[Bruce Schneier explains it pretty well, I think.](_URL_0_)"
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"So that US spys can operate in other countries. Good spying helps prevent misunderstandings. This is why the US relationship with adversaries like Russia and China is better than her relationship with closed countries like NK and Iran."
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What happened to Maverick and Goose's F-14 that caused it to go into a spin and lose control in Top Gun? Is it plausible? | [
"When Iceman pulls away to let Maverick take the shot, the jet wash from the engine disrupted the airflow into one of the engines of Maverick's jet. Because of this the engine had a burnout, meaning that it stopped working. Because of this, the plane was not getting an equal amount of thrust. This caused one side o... | [
"It appears to be pilot error. An official report from the NTSB is still forthcoming, but based on the statements of witnesses, the plane was approaching too low, which caused the back landing gear to hit the rocks that are before the runway. The impact caused the airplane to smash into the tarmac, and the forward ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are the bonus features disappearing from DVDs? | [
"Cost cutting and probably user feedback. In an age where people are happy to pay for a stream / rent a stream and you just get the film for a set period, studios realise that the effort in producing such content isn't cost effective and isn't really demanded. Plus they've got to pay people to produce the additiona... | [
"Why are empty threads showing up on the front page? This makes no sense."
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Why are noises like scratching a chalkboard or styrofoam squeaking and others so annoying to alot of people? | [
"An audiologist or a acoustical engineer could explain this better, but basically the human ear is shaped in such a way that it makes higher pitches (between 2 and 4 kilohertz) sound louder and it's literally painful for a human to hear these pitches above a certain volume. The reason our ears evolved to be sensiti... | [
"For me is something known as misophonia. Docs originally thought it was OCD, and I guess it could be related... but basically it's an irrational hatred of certain sounds. Like, even I know it's irrational, and seriously affects my relationship with my wife. But the sound of chewing, I can pick it up across the ro... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do we have to open window shades in an airplane during landing and takeoff? | [
"The cabin crew should know the answers. For emergency purposes: 1) cabin crew can see out the window to better assess the situation should one arise. 2) Your eyes are already somewhat adjusted to ambient light if you have to evacuate following an incident 3) If there is an emergency landing and the emergency light... | [
"Planes are thoroughly inspected before every flight to ensure everything is ok. Do you inspect your car every day before your commute to work?"
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Why is Every Program not Multi-Platform when Programming Languages Are? | [
"Think of a program as giving somebody directions to a restaurant in your city. Say, Chipotle. You tell them that if they're starting from your house, they go down the road, take a left, get on the highway, take exit 42, turn right off the ramp, drive down the road, and they'll see it on the left. These instruction... | [
"Funny you should ask. Roni Jacobson wrote an article that covers a lot of what you ask in this Tuesday's *New York Times*: [\"60: Behind Every Second, Millenniums of History\"] (_URL_0_)."
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Why are people so adamantly against Japanese anime dubs, particularly English, and prefer subs? | [
"From my own experience, dubs usually sound really cheesy. It sounds like some fanboys and fangirls got together in someone's basement and did a recording rather than hire a professional voice actor. No show in particular, just a bunch of different ones that I've heard. Plus, I enjoy the authenticity, if that's the... | [
"Well popular is not equal to not childish. In Asia anime is also viewed as childish. It is popular, but still viewed childish. In the west, the major difference isn't if people think anime is mature. The difference is simply that Japanese anime aren't very popular in the west."
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What would happen if everyone took all of their money out of a bank simultaneously. | [
"[It's called a bank run](_URL_0_). And basically, the bank would have to borrow more from somewhere else, like another bank or from [the federal funds](_URL_1_). Banks don't just let your money sit in a vault; they take it and invest it, or loan it out to people so that the money grows. So they don't have enough c... | [
"Because a large part of the population was fed a string of lies about how much better life would be out of the EU."
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Why are most studio albums between 40-50 minutes long? Is thay an industry standard? | [
"I think it's probably mostly tradition. The LP has a maximum playing time of 45 minutes. _URL_0_ The CD has a maximum playing time of 74 minutes. So it makes sense that most studio albums would be within those ranges. But since vinyl is making a comeback, it would make sense for albums to be in that length."
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"an EP is shorter than an LP. Your 3 basic record types are a: * \"45\"- 7 inch disc which spins at 45rpm and contains just a few minutes per side. This is a \"single\" because you'll usually have one song per side * \"LP\"- typically 12 inch disc which spins at 33.33rpm and is typically an album's length- \"Long P... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do testicles make sperm? | [
"[This diagram can show what I'm talking about better than I can explain it, but I'll give a super basic answer](_URL_0_) Basically, your testicles contain stem cells, which can continuously divide to produce sperm. The stem cell divides, and one of the two new cells is activated to become a sperm, while the other ... | [
"When someone ejaculates, the semen is already produced. The human body produces hundreds of millions of sperm cells a day. If you wait a while, it will build up in your seminal glands, and release more during ejaculation. Source: my high school health class"
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The "Greedo Shot First" Controversy | [
"There's a scene in the first Star Wars (A New Hope, episode IV) where Greedo, a bounty hunter, tracks down Han, who has a price on his head. In the original version, Han shoots Greedo first, which establishes him as kind of a badass. In the special edition released in the 90s, George Lucas felt the need to change ... | [
"Star Wars Episode VII: The Jar Jar Binks Adventures"
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Why is it that after I exercise parts of my body (namely the fat parts, i.e. stomach/butt) are noticeably colder than the other parts of my body? | [
"Blood is being directed more to your muscles, but your whole body is sweating. So the fat parts are being actively cooled by evaporation, but not heated as much by blood circulation."
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"Fat deposits vary from person to person and from source to source. A few of the hormones racing through your body affect the location of fat (cortisol directs it to the abdomen, for example) as well as your sex. (Women tend to have a 'donut' or bigger legs, men tend to have bigger bellies.) I don't know enough on ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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basic computers. How can circuitry help us do math? | [
"[This](_URL_0_) video of basic mechanic binary calculator may help. Understanding of binary numbers is not required, but helps."
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"Cs - writing code and algorithms IT - maintaining hardware and networks Is - design and maintaining data systems - how to collect and process data"
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