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What caused Western cultures to develop upright sitting toilets while Eastern cultures developed toilets around the natural squatting position?

159 upvotes • IrishRage42

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A common fantasy trope is that whenever a meteorite falls, some blacksmith gets the "star metal" and forges a sword out of it. Are there any records in history of anything like this ever happening? Did European / Asian chronicles ever record a fallen meteorite retrieved by local people?

159 upvotes • Daddy_Yondu

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How was the 13th Amendment enforced in practice? How long did it take until slavery was truly abolished?

159 upvotes • k317hbr0wn

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Why did 1848 see such a rash of revolutions and upheaval across Europe?

159 upvotes • Eli_Freysson

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How did trains become a major component to the Christmas aesthetic?

159 upvotes • TheHondoGod

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Where does the american culture of leaving the parents' house at a very young age come from?

159 upvotes • Rapinha

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New Guinea is considered one of the most remote, unexplored, and linguistically and culturally diverse places on Earth. How heavily did the Axis and Allied powers have to rely on the Indigenous peoples to survive during the Second World War?

159 upvotes • jdmj4

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In Downton Abbey (1922), a character gets an abortion illegally in London. It was advertised in a magazine. How would illegal operations have been advertised, and at the same time hidden from authorities?

159 upvotes • JoshuaCooperPaints

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The US has been known as the "world police" but has the US ever actually engaged in an invasion of a foreign nation on a strictly humanitarian rights effort and not to secure its own business interests?

159 upvotes • Upper-Lawfulness1899

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What caused Western cultures to develop upright sitting toilets while Eastern cultures developed toilets around the natural squatting position?	159	IrishRage42
A common fantasy trope is that whenever a meteorite falls, some blacksmith gets the "star metal" and forges a sword out of it. Are there any records in history of anything like this ever happening? Did European / Asian chronicles ever record a fallen meteorite retrieved by local people?	159	Daddy_Yondu
How was the 13th Amendment enforced in practice? How long did it take until slavery was truly abolished?	159	k317hbr0wn
Why did 1848 see such a rash of revolutions and upheaval across Europe?	159	Eli_Freysson
How did trains become a major component to the Christmas aesthetic?	159	TheHondoGod
Where does the american culture of leaving the parents' house at a very young age come from?	159	Rapinha
New Guinea is considered one of the most remote, unexplored, and linguistically and culturally diverse places on Earth. How heavily did the Axis and Allied powers have to rely on the Indigenous peoples to survive during the Second World War?	159	jdmj4
In Downton Abbey (1922), a character gets an abortion illegally in London. It was advertised in a magazine. How would illegal operations have been advertised, and at the same time hidden from authorities?	159	JoshuaCooperPaints
The US has been known as the "world police" but has the US ever actually engaged in an invasion of a foreign nation on a strictly humanitarian rights effort and not to secure its own business interests?	159	Upper-Lawfulness1899
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