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Is there any evidence that Linda Lovelace was forced to act in the pornographic film Deep Throat by being threatened with a gun? NSFW
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Did (or do) Native Americans really use nature-ish metaphors all the time like you see on television or movies?
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In 1963, President Kennedy was met with adoring crowds in Berlin before his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. 24 years later, more than 50,000 people protested President Reagan's presence in Berlin before his "Tear down this wall!" speech. What changed?
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80 years ago 'Reefer Madness' was made - a film decrying the vice of marijuana use. What effects did it have on the culture and perception of pot at the time it was made? Was it representative of public opinion?
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Prior to flight, how often would the US President or leaders of countries visit far away countries' leaders? When did large scale foreign trips become commonplace?
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"Tokyo from 1985 to 1991 saw what some believe was the greatest concentration of wealth in the history of the world," according to the prologue of journalist Karl Taro Greenfield's book 1994 Speed Tribes. What (if any) basis does this have in measurable historical fact?
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How did the pub emerge as a social and political cultural hub in Great Britain? Is pub culture actually distinctly British, or is just a stereotype?
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As of 2010, 81.9% of people in Taiwan spoke Hokkien at home, compared to 83.5% speaking Mandarin and 6.6% speaking Hakka. Why has Hokkien remained so popular despite, presumably, the emigration of mainland Nationalists in the 1940s? In addition, why is it not a national language when Hakka is?
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