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ELI5: Dentists always tell us to floss or use those tiny interdental brushes along with regular brushing, but you rarely hear anyone strongly recommending mouthwash. Does using mouthwash actually make a noticeable difference?

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8389103116 days ago

ELI5: Why is "C" the default Hard Drive letter & not "A"

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790820732 days ago

ELI5: How did the explorers from hundreds of years ago provide drinking water to their crew for months on end?

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64379488 days ago

ELI5 : If em dashes (—) aren’t quite common on the Internet and in social media, then how do LLMs like ChatGPT use a lot of them?

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5677112711 days ago

ELI5: If you think about it, why do teeth need so much care? It feels like they kind of go against natural selection, especially when you compare them to how well the rest of our body maintains itself.

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405049420 days ago

ELI5: I learned that cpr is not, as usually assumed, for bringing people back to life, but for keeping the blood flowing until the medics arrive for reanimating. But now I realized I saw a lot of videos where especially animals where revived by cpr? So what is the chance of reviving someone with cpr

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2880530a month ago

ELI5: Why does ice cream seem soft the first time you open it but it gets really hard the next time you take it out of the freezer?

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283725024 days ago

ELI5 F35 is considered the most advanced fighter jets in the world, why was it allowed to be sold out of the country but F22 isn't allowed to.

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2732736a month ago

ELI5 Why is charcoal still flammable? It's weird how expending the combustible compounds in wood creates a different material that also has fuel left to burn. And by extension, if the answer is "not all the fuel is burned out of the wood", what's the technical difference between charcoal and wood?

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271326410 days ago

ELI5: Why do the symptoms of pregnancy so closely resemble symptoms of being sick with a virus, at least during the first trimester? Is the mother's body "fighting" with itself or something?

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266933915 days ago

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