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In the chaos of Age of Sail naval battles, I imagine that sometimes two enemy ships would sink next to another. Would the surviving sailors keep the fight going in the water, trying to drown one another? Or would they drop the animosity and chat about the battle, while trying to survive together?

4264 upvotes • fan_of_the_pikachu

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Napoleon was 30 years old when George Washington died. Do we know what these men thought of each other?

4264 upvotes • BegottenSpud

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How would I, a man who can't seem to grow facial hair, fare along my peers in late 19th century western Europe?

4263 upvotes • TheGreatLakesAreFake

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The game Red Dead Redemption 2 takes place in the US in 1899. In one area of the map you come across an abandoned Civil War battlefield with old cannons, trenches and barricades strewn about. Were there actually any visible remnants of Civil War battles as late as 1899?

4263 upvotes • travelstar

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Did citizens of the USSR actually do less work because they could get away with it while still meeting their quotas?

4263 upvotes • Zeb1122

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How involved was the CIA in the crack epidemic? Is this primarily an urban legend or grounded in truth? Is there any substance to the charge that they deliberately funneled the drug to inner city neighborhoods in the 1980s?

4259 upvotes • td4999

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Did people fold paper into paper airplanes before the invention of the airplane?

4258 upvotes • watsonj3981

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Why did Russia inherit the Soviet Union's permanent seat on the UN Security Council?

4253 upvotes • stickmaster_flex

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be hit by repeated accusations of socialism or communist during the implementation of the New Deal . But what did actual Communists and Socialists think of the New Deal?

4252 upvotes • nowlan101

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Our current concept of Hell as a blazing inferno is based on Dante’s Inferno from the 14th century. What was the general idea of hell before then?

4251 upvotes • Bountifalauto82

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In the chaos of Age of Sail naval battles, I imagine that sometimes two enemy ships would sink next to another. Would the surviving sailors keep the fight going in the water, trying to drown one another? Or would they drop the animosity and chat about the battle, while trying to survive together?	4264	fan_of_the_pikachu
Napoleon was 30 years old when George Washington died. Do we know what these men thought of each other?	4264	BegottenSpud
How would I, a man who can't seem to grow facial hair, fare along my peers in late 19th century western Europe?	4263	TheGreatLakesAreFake
The game Red Dead Redemption 2 takes place in the US in 1899. In one area of the map you come across an abandoned Civil War battlefield with old cannons, trenches and barricades strewn about. Were there actually any visible remnants of Civil War battles as late as 1899?	4263	travelstar
Did citizens of the USSR actually do less work because they could get away with it while still meeting their quotas?	4263	Zeb1122
How involved was the CIA in the crack epidemic? Is this primarily an urban legend or grounded in truth? Is there any substance to the charge that they deliberately funneled the drug to inner city neighborhoods in the 1980s?	4259	td4999
Did people fold paper into paper airplanes before the invention of the airplane?	4258	watsonj3981
Why did Russia inherit the Soviet Union's permanent seat on the UN Security Council?	4253	stickmaster_flex
Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be hit by repeated accusations of socialism or communist during the implementation of the New Deal . But what did actual Communists and Socialists think of the New Deal?	4252	nowlan101
Our current concept of Hell as a blazing inferno is based on Dante’s Inferno from the 14th century. What was the general idea of hell before then?	4251	Bountifalauto82