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During WWII, there were Americans who were both disgusted by the Nazi treatment of Jews, and actively supporting Jim Crow. How was this rationalized? It had to have come up
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How did humans work in fields in the heat for thousands of years without easy abundant access to water but avoid dying of heat stroke or exhaustion?
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Wikipedia claims that the Japanese commander at Nanking only found out about the massacre after several days. Is this true or just revisionist history? NSFW
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Did the Native Americans of North America know about the great kingdoms of the Inca's or Maya's to the south of them?
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I'm a first century Judaean pig farmer who's just seen a mystic drown all my pigs in a lake. If I wanted to press charges, could I? If so, how, and how likely would I be to get some sort of compensation?
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Margaret Thatcher criticized the gov of Argentina for being a military junta during the Falklands War, yet she received support from Chile, which was also being run by a military dictatorship at the time. How did that work?
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Why did Switzerland, a landlocked country which never held any colonies let alone one where coco beans grow, become so famous for chocolate?
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The First Haitian Empire banned all white people from the country, except Germans and Poles. Why Germans and Poles?
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