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Many of the Nazi elite had drug problems. Did they have these problems before they came to power? Do we know when each person likely started taking drugs? How did they maintain their supplies near the end of the war?
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When Hippocrates said, "Let Food Be Thy Medicine," there wasn't much in the way of processed foods to make unhealthy choices with, so what foods were people making themselves sick with, and what were viewed at the medicinal foods?
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When Vietnam invaded Cambodia and overthrew Pol Pot, where they aware of the level of atrocities he was carrying out and did they have any humanitarian motivations?
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How certain are we that the first civilizations we have evidence of are in fact the first (or relatively close to it)?
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Why do Alabama and Mississippi both have little handles of land that connect them to the Gulf of Mexico and make them look like spatulas? That can't just be a coincidence, can it?
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Was the Byzantine government apparatus really excessively complicated and detailed? "Byzantine" has evolved into a word to mean that and was wondering if it is true.
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How accepted is it among historians that Meyer Lansky and the mob had pictures of President Hoover committing homosexual acts and blackmailed him with it?
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In all the major cities (and suburbs) in the US I've visited/lived in, there are often old large trees whose roots are breaking the apart the sidewalk. When these trees were initially planted were the urban planners not aware this would become an issue 20-50 years down the road?
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