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Tuesday Trivia: In the Dark Ages, Gregory of Tours saw the aurora borealis as a natural sign in the sky. In the early modern era, terrified French and English saw in the lights armies and weapons of war, and begged God to spare his wrath. How did people in your era experience the skies and stars?

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Where did vegetarians get vitamin B12

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Was Byzantium a strategic or important city in the Roman Empire before the founding of Constantinople?

143 upvotes • derstherower

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How was Germany able to mobilize so many men?

143 upvotes • JathertonTheBoi

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Was the compass only ever invented once?

143 upvotes • Wacky_Adolf

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Economically speaking, how important was French Algeria to France?

143 upvotes • HenryVIIIcodpiece

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People are getting extremely upset because there are no black people in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. How accurate is this for 16th century Bohemia?

143 upvotes • PM_me_nicetits

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New Zealand became the first country in the developed world to eliminate farm subsidies in late 1980's. How did farmers and the general public react to this?

143 upvotes • Shashank1000

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When and why Hindu deities started to have blue skin?

143 upvotes • enlightendark

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Why did the Nazis propaganda paint Soviets as Jewish when Russia had a history of antisemitism and Bolsheviks followed a policy of Atheism.

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Tuesday Trivia: In the Dark Ages, Gregory of Tours saw the aurora borealis as a natural sign in the sky. In the early modern era, terrified French and English saw in the lights armies and weapons of war, and begged God to spare his wrath. How did people in your era experience the skies and stars?	143	sunagainstgold
Where did vegetarians get vitamin B12	143	Meatbasedlifeform
Was Byzantium a strategic or important city in the Roman Empire before the founding of Constantinople?	143	derstherower
How was Germany able to mobilize so many men?	143	JathertonTheBoi
Was the compass only ever invented once?	143	Wacky_Adolf
Economically speaking, how important was French Algeria to France?	143	HenryVIIIcodpiece
People are getting extremely upset because there are no black people in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. How accurate is this for 16th century Bohemia?	143	PM_me_nicetits
New Zealand became the first country in the developed world to eliminate farm subsidies in late 1980's. How did farmers and the general public react to this?	143	Shashank1000
When and why Hindu deities started to have blue skin?	143	enlightendark
Why did the Nazis propaganda paint Soviets as Jewish when Russia had a history of antisemitism and Bolsheviks followed a policy of Atheism.	143	MagFraggins