Monday, October 13, 2014

/r/explainlikeimfive report: Monday, October 06, 2014 - Sunday, October 12, 2014 subredditreports


Totals: 7 days, 2,442 posts, 25,546 comments.

Included in this report: The top 400 posts, and 14,097 of the top comments, by 9,678 distinct authors.

No posts were gilded, but 14 comments were gilded.




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ScoreAuthorPost Title
3554/u/bthornsy ELI5: How/why do old games like Ocarina of Time, a seemingly massive game at the time, manage to only take up 32mb of space, while a simple time waster like candy crush saga takes up 43mb?
2941/u/DuceGiharm ELI5:What are the differences between the branches of Communism; Leninism, Marxism, Trotskyism, etc?
2829/u/Hoihe ELI5: If cats are lactose-intolerant, how did we come to the belief that giving cats milk = good? Or asked differently; how is it that cats (seemingly) enjoy - to the level of demanding it - milk?
2748/u/Max_Blanck ELI5: How do Amazon used booksellers stay in business selling many books for $0.01?
2360/u/steelguttey ELI5: What is the high pitch sound that happens when I turn on an older tv?
2235/u/poundcakelover ELI5: Why does breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth work so well during exercise? I know it works well it just seems strange to me that it does.
2080/u/alertnotalarmed ELI5 why do pimples (zits) on the inside of your nostrils hurt so much more than any others?
1298/u/DisgruntledPlebian ELI5: The seemingly spontaneous, super long, pale, thin, weakly-rooted hairs that pop up on the chest/face?
828/u/3ibbor ELI5 If nightmares can be so horrible and upsetting, what allows our minds to produce such (sometimes) nasty thoughts?
727/u/gregsam44 ELI5: Why don't we breed elephants for their ivory to prevent the poaching of wild elephants?
574/u/DogmAttack ELI5: When it's bright, why does closing one eye allow you to open the other fully without squinting?
493/u/Kosmicsavant ELI5: When someone is losing weight in a healthy way, through exercise and eating healthy, where does the extra weight go? How does it leave the body?
490/u/WinTurkey ELI5: The Nvidia Maxwell architecture and why the Geforce 980 is so cheap
489/u/A_J_H ELI5:Why pictures are not allowed to be taken within courtrooms and instead someone is paid to draw pictures of who is inside?
477/u/thatdoodman ELI5: If an airplane cabin is pressurized, why do I have to pop my ears throughout the flight?
449/u/Meatmehalfway ELI5:What would happen if every single American with student loan debt simultaneously defaulted on it?
442/u/Missed_a_beltloop ELI5: Why is widespread use of antibiotics breeding antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but widespread use of refrigerators isn't breeding cold-resistant bacteria?
397/u/connorb93 ELI5: What is the structural difference between a 512MB SD card and say a 64GB SD card?
387/u/Fleckeri ELI5: 196884 = 196883 + 1
353/u/edennov ELI5: why can't we choose to rotate our eyes individually like a chameleon?
307/u/MrNewReno ELI5:How voter ID laws are discriminatory
292/u/95Birdman ELI5: When you're sick and can only breathe out of one nostril, then you turn over and a few minutes later it "falls" and you can breathe out the other.
270/u/AmericanMustache ELI5: How do acetaminophen, ibuprofen, aspirin, and naproxen work differently on the body even though they tend to treat the same conditions?
264/u/TheLilyHammer ELI5: If you bear a resemblance with a stranger, are they more closely related to you than other strangers are?
263/u/ProjectImmortality ELI5: What do pirates gain from uploading torrents?
240/u/imDudekid ELI5: Why does it feel better to curl up in a ball when you have a stomach bug?
218/u/rchrdh05 ELI5: Why is a Cover Band allowed play gigs and make money, but if they upload those same songs to YouTube and try to monetize them they are breaking copyright laws?
184/u/MILES_BY_THE_INCH ELI5: What is turbulence? And how do airplane pilots sometimes know when they are about to hit turbulence?
171/u/legendoflink3 ELI5: What use are our wisdom teeth to us. And why haven't we evolved to not need them?
171/u/valakut_ ELI5: Why is the proof for 1+1=2 over 100 pages long?
168/u/tmac2015 ELI5: Besides being a social issue, why is it a huge problem to pick your nose, and a bigger problem to eat it as well? are there any real negative effects?
163/u/jacobcoleman91 ELI5: Why aren't Sloths extinct?
150/u/SirTechnocracy ELI5: Why does human genitalia differ so much in size between individuals when compared to other body parts?
139/u/TexasFight ELI5: How is it that Vladimir Putin was nominated for the 2014 nobel peace prize?
127/u/Mercurydriver ELI5: How did Tumblr get its current reputation (i.e SJW's, "check your privilege", etc)
126/u/Circle-Jerk-Police ELI5:What Einstein meant when he said, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
124/u/letlive77 ELI5: Why is it that I can feel extremely motivated at one point in the day, and entirely unmotivated hours later?
123/u/459pm ELI5eli5: why is drinking sea water lethal, but soups with massive sodium content are acceptable?
102/u/ThisIsMyFirstTimeHer ELI5: Why does Walmart need to cut health insurance benefits for 30,000 part time workers when it has a net income of $16 Billion in 2014?
99/u/krausyaoj ELI5: Why are cell phones excluded from directory listings?






Submitted October 14, 2014 at 11:32AM by subredditreports http://ift.tt/1yxj1g5 subredditreports

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