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In traditional Hawaiian culture women would be put to death for eating pork, coconuts, taro, several types of fish, and 67 out of 70 varieties of bananas. What did Hawaiian women subsist off of? Why was there such a drastic limitation on what women could eat?

2500 upvotes • Tatem1961

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I'm a hot blooded young Nahuatl man of the early Aztec Empire hitting the streets of Tenochtitlan for a night out with my mates and I got cocoa beans burning a hole in my purse. What kind of vice and wanton pleasures are still available to me?

2499 upvotes • Boscolt

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Pharaoh Rameses II had ~50 sons by multiple wives. As a result he had many crown princes before he eventually passed. How did they make sense of the succession in these circumstances?

2499 upvotes • Rec0nSl0th

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How did workers during the Industrial Revolution work 16 hour days?

2499 upvotes • frugalgardeners

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Great-grandfather's discharge papers from U.S. Army in California, late 1800s, raise several questions

2499 upvotes • HowLittleIKnow

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Part of the “All in the Family” theme song goes, “Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again!” Hoover is generally regarded as one of the worst US presidents; would Archie Bunker or other conservatives of the time have had good reason to miss him?

2499 upvotes • redooo

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Singapore was founded after it was involuntarily expelled from Malaysia. It was poor and had limited natural resources. How did it rise to become one of the wealthiest countries in the world?

2499 upvotes • No-Recording2937

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It's gonna be negative -30 (factoring windchill) in Boston the next couple of days...how did our ancestors survive this?

2498 upvotes • Gee10

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How did long distance overland travellers (e.g. Marco Polo) fund themselves over the months and years their journeys took?

2498 upvotes • [deleted]

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Why didn't Greece become a Soviet satellite state.

2498 upvotes • Certainly-Not-A-Bot

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In traditional Hawaiian culture women would be put to death for eating pork, coconuts, taro, several types of fish, and 67 out of 70 varieties of bananas. What did Hawaiian women subsist off of? Why was there such a drastic limitation on what women could eat?	2500	Tatem1961
I'm a hot blooded young Nahuatl man of the early Aztec Empire hitting the streets of Tenochtitlan for a night out with my mates and I got cocoa beans burning a hole in my purse. What kind of vice and wanton pleasures are still available to me?	2499	Boscolt
Pharaoh Rameses II had ~50 sons by multiple wives. As a result he had many crown princes before he eventually passed. How did they make sense of the succession in these circumstances?	2499	Rec0nSl0th
How did workers during the Industrial Revolution work 16 hour days?	2499	frugalgardeners
Great-grandfather's discharge papers from U.S. Army in California, late 1800s, raise several questions	2499	HowLittleIKnow
Part of the “All in the Family” theme song goes, “Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again!” Hoover is generally regarded as one of the worst US presidents; would Archie Bunker or other conservatives of the time have had good reason to miss him?	2499	redooo
Singapore was founded after it was involuntarily expelled from Malaysia. It was poor and had limited natural resources. How did it rise to become one of the wealthiest countries in the world?	2499	No-Recording2937
It's gonna be negative -30 (factoring windchill) in Boston the next couple of days...how did our ancestors survive this?	2498	Gee10
How did long distance overland travellers (e.g. Marco Polo) fund themselves over the months and years their journeys took?	2498	[deleted]
Why didn't Greece become a Soviet satellite state.	2498	Certainly-Not-A-Bot