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In the movie It's a Wonderful Life, there's a scene with a basketball court that retracts over a swimming pool. Was this a common thing that existed back in the 1940s? Did schools really have the budget for fancy pools like it?

1829 upvotes • KingEuronIIIGreyjoy

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In medieval Europe, was prostitution available to most men or only the emergent middle class? How widespread was prostitution? NSFW

1828 upvotes • Vladith

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AMA: The German Army's Role in the Holocaust

1828 upvotes • waitmanb

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During the punic wars, how did the Romans continue to recruit armies after massive defeats like cannae where 50 to 70 thousand Romans died and why wasn’t Carthage able to do the same while having control over more resources than Rome?

1827 upvotes • BALTIM0RE

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July 14th, 1789, the Bastille was captured. Only a few weeks later in August, slave uprisings in Saint-Domingue proclaimed, “the white slaves have killed their masters, and now we are free.” How did news make it so quickly to the Caribbean, and how did slaves stay informed on political issues?

1827 upvotes • MolotovCollective

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Do we have any non Christian or not European source on witch trials in the Early Modern Europe? For example Muslim or Jewish sources, ambassadors, travellers or traders from other places...

1826 upvotes • domy87

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Where did the myth that Nazi Germany was so effecient, politically and bureaucratically, stem from?

1825 upvotes • cozyduck

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In a TIL thread discussing the significance of fire bombing in Japan vs Atomic bombs in WW2, it was claimed that Kyoto was removed from the list of cities to bomb due to the city's cultural significance. Is it true? Why would cultural significance justify not bombing an enemy city at the time?

1825 upvotes • paralleliverse

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Who built and maintained the roads between city-states in ancient Greece? Did each city only build its own section of the road, or was there some international cooperation?

1825 upvotes • Infogamethrow

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What was pre-Industrial Revolution junk food?

1824 upvotes • apparentus

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In the movie It's a Wonderful Life, there's a scene with a basketball court that retracts over a swimming pool. Was this a common thing that existed back in the 1940s? Did schools really have the budget for fancy pools like it?	1829	KingEuronIIIGreyjoy
In medieval Europe, was prostitution available to most men or only the emergent middle class? How widespread was prostitution? NSFW	1828	Vladith
AMA: The German Army's Role in the Holocaust	1828	waitmanb
During the punic wars, how did the Romans continue to recruit armies after massive defeats like cannae where 50 to 70 thousand Romans died and why wasn’t Carthage able to do the same while having control over more resources than Rome?	1827	BALTIM0RE
July 14th, 1789, the Bastille was captured. Only a few weeks later in August, slave uprisings in Saint-Domingue proclaimed, “the white slaves have killed their masters, and now we are free.” How did news make it so quickly to the Caribbean, and how did slaves stay informed on political issues?	1827	MolotovCollective
Do we have any non Christian or not European source on witch trials in the Early Modern Europe? For example Muslim or Jewish sources, ambassadors, travellers or traders from other places...	1826	domy87
Where did the myth that Nazi Germany was so effecient, politically and bureaucratically, stem from?	1825	cozyduck
In a TIL thread discussing the significance of fire bombing in Japan vs Atomic bombs in WW2, it was claimed that Kyoto was removed from the list of cities to bomb due to the city's cultural significance. Is it true? Why would cultural significance justify not bombing an enemy city at the time?	1825	paralleliverse
Who built and maintained the roads between city-states in ancient Greece? Did each city only build its own section of the road, or was there some international cooperation?	1825	Infogamethrow
What was pre-Industrial Revolution junk food?	1824	apparentus