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I’m told that Wilson promised that the income tax would only be for the “very wealthy”. If true, how did it creep down to the rest of us?
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In the first half of the twentieth century, hats seem to be totally ubiquitous in every single photograph or video. Was there any reason for this, other than fashion? Was there anything different that would have made hats more useful then than now?
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[NSFW] - Did sexual positions evolve independently across multiple cultures, or can we trace certain positions from one culture to the next? NSFW
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The original USB plug, first specified in 1996, is considered one of the worst mistakes in the history of industrial design, being externally symmetric but internally asymmetric. How did all the institutions involved fail to stop that absurd design from making it into a “universal” standard?
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Ridiculously subjective but I'm curious anyways: What traveling distance was considered beyond the hopes and even imagination of a common person during your specialty?
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A TIL told a story of Stalin liking to play practical jokes. The source though has no reference. Is this story accurate?
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In the movie Django, one of the characters has a page from the bible pinned to his shirt while he whips a slave. What is the significance? Was this a real practice?
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