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Has China ever experienced epidemics on the scale of the Black Death, Plague of Justinian or Plague of Galen, all of which wiped out a significant proportion of the European population?

145 upvotes • Udzu

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Why were men and, mainly, women in Victorian Britain prone to what is described as 'madness'? Was this due to a misunderstanding of mental illness at the time? Why does this diagnosis no longer seem as common today?

145 upvotes • ReachCave

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What was the process ancient armies implemented for accommodating bathroom breaks while marching?

145 upvotes • xHomicide24x

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The official residence of the vice president of the United States is the U.S. Naval Observatory. Why there out of all possible locations?

145 upvotes • ArmandoAlvarezWF

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Is the French suppression of minority languages like Occitan an example of cultural genocide?

145 upvotes • [deleted]

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Did a British person who joined the colonial service in the Victorian era have any say in where they would be posted? Or were they completely rolling the dice on ending up in the frozen Yukon or the baking Serengeti?

145 upvotes • George4Mayor86

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Why were swineherds necessary for Roman vineyards and orchards?

145 upvotes • Bisto_Boy

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In the 1960s, South Korea's GDP per capita was smaller than Brazil's; today it's 4x larger. Why could the Asian tigers develop but Latin America couldn't?

145 upvotes • artorijos

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Where does the "don't wear your hat indoors" tradition stem from?

145 upvotes • brnbrn1996

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How did wealthy Antebellum Southern women (or their pastors for that matter) confront - if they did at all - the fact that their husbands, fathers, and most of their sons were regularly committing adultery and sexual assault in their own households?

145 upvotes • screwyoushadowban

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Has China ever experienced epidemics on the scale of the Black Death, Plague of Justinian or Plague of Galen, all of which wiped out a significant proportion of the European population?	145	Udzu
Why were men and, mainly, women in Victorian Britain prone to what is described as 'madness'? Was this due to a misunderstanding of mental illness at the time? Why does this diagnosis no longer seem as common today?	145	ReachCave
What was the process ancient armies implemented for accommodating bathroom breaks while marching?	145	xHomicide24x
The official residence of the vice president of the United States is the U.S. Naval Observatory. Why there out of all possible locations?	145	ArmandoAlvarezWF
Is the French suppression of minority languages like Occitan an example of cultural genocide?	145	[deleted]
Did a British person who joined the colonial service in the Victorian era have any say in where they would be posted? Or were they completely rolling the dice on ending up in the frozen Yukon or the baking Serengeti?	145	George4Mayor86
Why were swineherds necessary for Roman vineyards and orchards?	145	Bisto_Boy
In the 1960s, South Korea's GDP per capita was smaller than Brazil's; today it's 4x larger. Why could the Asian tigers develop but Latin America couldn't?	145	artorijos
Where does the "don't wear your hat indoors" tradition stem from?	145	brnbrn1996
How did wealthy Antebellum Southern women (or their pastors for that matter) confront - if they did at all - the fact that their husbands, fathers, and most of their sons were regularly committing adultery and sexual assault in their own households?	145	screwyoushadowban