ELI5 Explain Like I'm 5: Bite sized answers to stuff you should know about - in a mini podcast 

Explain Like I'm Five, aka ELI5, is the mini-podcast series where we take the questions you always wanted to ask, and talk about them in a way that is easy to understand. Made possible by the amazing reddit community at r/explainlikeimfive. See episode show notes for user credits.

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Title	Date published
ELI5 Black Friday - why is it called Black Friday?	2024-11-29
ELI5 Myopia - why can’t you buy myopia glasses off the shelf like reading glasses?	2024-11-22
ELI5 Volcanoes - can they be used for dumping trash?	2024-11-15
ELI5 Lab Grown Diamonds - why do they have lower resale values?	2024-11-08
ELI5 MRIs - how do they work and why are they so noisy?	2024-11-01
ELI5 Aircraft Engines - why propellers on military planes vs jet engines?	2024-10-25
ELI5 Speed of Light - why can’t we exceed it?	2024-10-18
ELI5 QR Codes - how do they work even with portions covered or obscured?	2024-10-11
ELI5 Dyson Sphere - did aliens already build one?	2024-10-04
ELI5 Skyscrapers - which NYC skyscraper could have fallen over?	2024-09-27
ELI5 Super Mario Bros - how did it fit into 32KB?	2024-09-20
ELI5 Lie Detector Tests - how do polygraph tests work?	2024-09-13
ELI5 Solar Eclipses - how often do they occur?	2024-09-07
ELI5 Donor Organs - do donor organs age according to the donor’s age or the new host’s age?	2024-08-30
ELI5 Prime Numbers - why isn’t 1 a prime number?	2024-08-23
ELI5 Burping - how loud was the world loudest burp?	2024-08-16
ELI5 Yawning - why is it contagious?	2024-08-09
ELI5 Olympics - why the amateur vs professional line blurred?	2024-08-02
ELI5 USB - is it still wrong to remove a thumb drive without first ‘ejecting’?’	2024-07-26
ELI5 Sore Throat - is alcohol or honey a better remedy?	2024-07-19

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