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It's a running joke that in ice skating competitions, the Eastern European judge will always give an obnoxiously low score compared to other judges. Was this joke based off of something historical?
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Roman-era Jerusalem was a large, well-defended city travelers mistook for a snowcapped mountain, with a massive and ornate Jewish temple at its peak. But I've read that Judea was poor. Where did the money to build and support it come from?
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In Darkest Hour, Churchill exclaims "Our troops were chewing barb wire in Flanders and I saw it! Opening a separate front, outflanking the Turks was a serious military idea that could have damn well worked if the Admirals of the First Sea Lord didn't dither away our element of surprise!" Accurate?
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Louis XV kept a place called Parc-aux-Cerfs (The Deer Park): a harem of young women he could have sex with. What was it like and what kind of life would the women of the deer park have?
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In the 1860 Census, Abraham Lincoln's household reported having two young teenagers, an M. Johnson and Phillip Dinkell, as residents in addition to the Lincoln family. Who were they?
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Did we actually lose the technology/skill to make things like Damascus steel, Ulfberht swords, Greek fire, Stradivari violins, Roman concrete, Antikythera mechanisms, "flexible glass" and so on or is this just the result of inaccurate clickbait articles? Has there been any succes in recreating some?
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