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Did Mahatma Gandhi actually sleep with underage girls? NSFW

3357 upvotes • Arc_7

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Did Operation Valkyrie conspirators intend to end the Holocaust after killing Hitler?

3356 upvotes • chivestheconquerer

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It’s the year 363 and the Roman emperor Julian has just died in modern day Iraq. How long does it take for me, a Roman citizen living in modern day Portugal, to hear about it?

3355 upvotes • [deleted]

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When JFK said "We choose to go to the Moon" did he really know it was possible?

3353 upvotes • mmoistmuffins

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Is there any chance we discover evidence of a civilization older than any we currently know? Or are we fairly sure that the mespotamian civilization was the first?

3351 upvotes • Chimerical_Entity

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What did a huge battle smell like?

3351 upvotes • magical_pubes

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What makes Tom Holland unreliable as a historian?

3350 upvotes • CGTM

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I'm a traveler in ad1200 going from Lübeck across the HRE to Rome on secular business; Do I travel alone or in a group? Do we camp every night in the woods or am I in a Tavern/Inn every night?

3350 upvotes • LordCommanderBlack

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It's thought that Ernest Hemingway killed himself because nobody believed him that he was under consant FBI surveillance. This surveillance later turned out to be true. Just how many people was the FBI surveilling during the red scare years?

3349 upvotes • Spaceisveryhard

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With the recent Travis Scott event in mind, how was the 1991 Metallica Moscow show able to keep upwards of 500k people from incident?

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Did Mahatma Gandhi actually sleep with underage girls? NSFW	3357	Arc_7
Did Operation Valkyrie conspirators intend to end the Holocaust after killing Hitler?	3356	chivestheconquerer
It’s the year 363 and the Roman emperor Julian has just died in modern day Iraq. How long does it take for me, a Roman citizen living in modern day Portugal, to hear about it?	3355	[deleted]
When JFK said "We choose to go to the Moon" did he really know it was possible?	3353	mmoistmuffins
Is there any chance we discover evidence of a civilization older than any we currently know? Or are we fairly sure that the mespotamian civilization was the first?	3351	Chimerical_Entity
What did a huge battle smell like?	3351	magical_pubes
What makes Tom Holland unreliable as a historian?	3350	CGTM
I'm a traveler in ad1200 going from Lübeck across the HRE to Rome on secular business; Do I travel alone or in a group? Do we camp every night in the woods or am I in a Tavern/Inn every night?	3350	LordCommanderBlack
It's thought that Ernest Hemingway killed himself because nobody believed him that he was under consant FBI surveillance. This surveillance later turned out to be true. Just how many people was the FBI surveilling during the red scare years?	3349	Spaceisveryhard
With the recent Travis Scott event in mind, how was the 1991 Metallica Moscow show able to keep upwards of 500k people from incident?	3349	[deleted]