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My professor says that 100 years ago in the 1910's there was a service similar to Uber called Jitney where individuals would drive you places for a nickel, but that it was regulated out of existence because of the streetcar industry. I would love to know more about this.
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In medieval Europe, people shared bed with family and guests. How did this affect sleep, sex, insomnia etc?
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Who was the first to notice that summer and winter in the northern and southern hemisphere are opposite each other? Was this a surprise or was this already theorized?
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People often talk about the various mistakes of Nazi germany that supposedly cost them the war. But are there any mistakes the Allies made during WWII that are in retrospect obvious and which set them back to a longer conflict ?
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