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When I went to Vietnam, my tourguide said her family can't be in government, why?

284 upvotes • Gizmodex

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Is Dracula really inspired by Vlad The Impaler?

284 upvotes • hurtstopurr

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How did Mao Zedong react to the death of Chiang Kai-Shek?

283 upvotes • [deleted]

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How Anti-Semitic was Fascist Italy?

283 upvotes • Elm11

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Was there an international reaction to prohibition?

283 upvotes • bobthecrusher

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There's many stories I've heard about the Nazis experimenting with magic, time travel as well as other science and occult. Also attempting to find ancient technologies. Is this mostly unsubstantiated, or is this for real?

283 upvotes • beaudbyrnes

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Was Joffrey Baratheon REALLY an illegitimate child born out of incest? Or was this just Stark propaganda? Will we ever know for sure?

283 upvotes • Enleat

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During late 19th - early 20th century Western Europe, was behaviour we would now call homosexual generally dismissed as simply 'boys being boys'?

283 upvotes • Elm11

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It's the first Crusade, you're a soldier marching from France to Jerusalem, at what times are you wearing your armor?

283 upvotes • adenoidcystic

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I heard a comedian on a podcast say "Stalin shot a huge percentage of Russian soldiers at the border after WWII because they had seen too much of the western world" this sounds improbable to me, is there any truth to it?

283 upvotes • jambo310

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
When I went to Vietnam, my tourguide said her family can't be in government, why?	284	Gizmodex
Is Dracula really inspired by Vlad The Impaler?	284	hurtstopurr
How did Mao Zedong react to the death of Chiang Kai-Shek?	283	[deleted]
How Anti-Semitic was Fascist Italy?	283	Elm11
Was there an international reaction to prohibition?	283	bobthecrusher
There's many stories I've heard about the Nazis experimenting with magic, time travel as well as other science and occult. Also attempting to find ancient technologies. Is this mostly unsubstantiated, or is this for real?	283	beaudbyrnes
Was Joffrey Baratheon REALLY an illegitimate child born out of incest? Or was this just Stark propaganda? Will we ever know for sure?	283	Enleat
During late 19th - early 20th century Western Europe, was behaviour we would now call homosexual generally dismissed as simply 'boys being boys'?	283	Elm11
It's the first Crusade, you're a soldier marching from France to Jerusalem, at what times are you wearing your armor?	283	adenoidcystic
I heard a comedian on a podcast say "Stalin shot a huge percentage of Russian soldiers at the border after WWII because they had seen too much of the western world" this sounds improbable to me, is there any truth to it?	283	jambo310