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Soviet required every working citizen to take at least two weeks a year of government-paid vacations in sanatoriums (health spas with medical checkups). At peak, one sanatorium could handle half a million guests at a time. What was it like?

5366 upvotes • Khilafiah

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While modern culture often portrays men as obsessed with sex and women less so, I had a professor who said that it used to be widely believed that women were ravenously sexual beings and men were often taught to behave as the gatekeepers of sexuality. Is this true and if so, when/why did it change?

5335 upvotes • PieIsFairlyDelicious

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In the US currently, the wealthiest 1% control 38% of wealth. A record high. What did the wealth distribution look like in other periods?

5319 upvotes • MyWifeIsCute

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How did women in the olden days (English, Scottish, etc...) wear those big, long dresses that trailed on the ground when the paths were muddy and also filled with animal poo? Wouldn't they carry disease into their homes from their clothing and wouldn't it rip and cause damage to the garment?

5307 upvotes • petitbeurre11

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The American Medical Association acts a bit like a cartel — limiting the number of medical schools and medical school students, and thus the total doctors. Have doctors always done this in the US? Why and when did they start?

5304 upvotes • RusticBohemian

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Who can we blame for the simIlarity of the uppercase "I" and lowercase "l"?

5298 upvotes • AndaliteBandit-

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Martin Van Buren is remembered as the only US president to speak English as a second language, because he grew up in a Dutch-speaking part of New York. How long did these Dutch-speaking settlements survive, and how did the Anglo government of New York manage administering them?

5294 upvotes • ZnSaucier

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How did the Eagles manage to rescue Frodo and Sam at Mt Doom and still have time to record "Hotel California"?

5291 upvotes • gunslingrburrito

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The Dresden Jews being transferred to Auschwitz via Hellerberg in this film appear to be calm and sometimes smiling. What did they think was happening?

5287 upvotes • irmaluff

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Did the Spanish see the Aztecs as racially inferior or merely religiously and culturally inferior?

5279 upvotes • Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX

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Soviet required every working citizen to take at least two weeks a year of government-paid vacations in sanatoriums (health spas with medical checkups). At peak, one sanatorium could handle half a million guests at a time. What was it like?	5366	Khilafiah
While modern culture often portrays men as obsessed with sex and women less so, I had a professor who said that it used to be widely believed that women were ravenously sexual beings and men were often taught to behave as the gatekeepers of sexuality. Is this true and if so, when/why did it change?	5335	PieIsFairlyDelicious
In the US currently, the wealthiest 1% control 38% of wealth. A record high. What did the wealth distribution look like in other periods?	5319	MyWifeIsCute
How did women in the olden days (English, Scottish, etc...) wear those big, long dresses that trailed on the ground when the paths were muddy and also filled with animal poo? Wouldn't they carry disease into their homes from their clothing and wouldn't it rip and cause damage to the garment?	5307	petitbeurre11
The American Medical Association acts a bit like a cartel — limiting the number of medical schools and medical school students, and thus the total doctors. Have doctors always done this in the US? Why and when did they start?	5304	RusticBohemian
Who can we blame for the simIlarity of the uppercase "I" and lowercase "l"?	5298	AndaliteBandit-
Martin Van Buren is remembered as the only US president to speak English as a second language, because he grew up in a Dutch-speaking part of New York. How long did these Dutch-speaking settlements survive, and how did the Anglo government of New York manage administering them?	5294	ZnSaucier
How did the Eagles manage to rescue Frodo and Sam at Mt Doom and still have time to record "Hotel California"?	5291	gunslingrburrito
The Dresden Jews being transferred to Auschwitz via Hellerberg in this film appear to be calm and sometimes smiling. What did they think was happening?	5287	irmaluff
Did the Spanish see the Aztecs as racially inferior or merely religiously and culturally inferior?	5279	Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX