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From 1924 to 1935, The Eiffel Tower hosted gigantic illuminated advertising signs for the company Citroën, on three of its sides. Has anyone attempted to occupy this advertising space since then? Were any legal boundaries put in, in order to stop anyone from using the site as a gigantic billboard?

596 upvotes • LukeInTheSkyWith

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What happened to King George's copy of the Declaration of Independence?

596 upvotes • G3NOM3

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Richard Nixon became a Representative in 1947, a Senator in 1950, and Vice President in 1953. That seems like a meteoric rise! How did he do it, and was it remarked on by his contemporaries?

596 upvotes • Rob-With-One-B

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How did the American sailors in 1944/45 know to call Japanese suicide attacks "Kamikaze"?

596 upvotes • Washburne221

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Czechia had much in common with neighboring Slovakia in Poland—similar histories, culture, language, etc. With this considered, how has Czechia emerged as a staunchly atheist country while its neighbors are staunchly Catholic?

596 upvotes • tmik9917

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Was stealing a base in baseball a deliberate inclusion in the rules, or something that evolved from a lack of rules preventing it?

596 upvotes • TastyBirdmeat

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Who cleaned up the bodies on D-Day?

595 upvotes • meow-bark

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There are a lot of "[Famous historical figure] actually had [disease]" theories - which ones do historians agree are the most plausible?

595 upvotes • atomicbolt

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During the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1960s, what was going on at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba?

595 upvotes • blueskies21

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Did word of the New World discovered by Leif Ericson ever get to the Western Europeans?

595 upvotes • Flurite

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From 1924 to 1935, The Eiffel Tower hosted gigantic illuminated advertising signs for the company Citroën, on three of its sides. Has anyone attempted to occupy this advertising space since then? Were any legal boundaries put in, in order to stop anyone from using the site as a gigantic billboard?	596	LukeInTheSkyWith
What happened to King George's copy of the Declaration of Independence?	596	G3NOM3
Richard Nixon became a Representative in 1947, a Senator in 1950, and Vice President in 1953. That seems like a meteoric rise! How did he do it, and was it remarked on by his contemporaries?	596	Rob-With-One-B
How did the American sailors in 1944/45 know to call Japanese suicide attacks "Kamikaze"?	596	Washburne221
Czechia had much in common with neighboring Slovakia in Poland—similar histories, culture, language, etc. With this considered, how has Czechia emerged as a staunchly atheist country while its neighbors are staunchly Catholic?	596	tmik9917
Was stealing a base in baseball a deliberate inclusion in the rules, or something that evolved from a lack of rules preventing it?	596	TastyBirdmeat
Who cleaned up the bodies on D-Day?	595	meow-bark
There are a lot of "[Famous historical figure] actually had [disease]" theories - which ones do historians agree are the most plausible?	595	atomicbolt
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1960s, what was going on at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba?	595	blueskies21
Did word of the New World discovered by Leif Ericson ever get to the Western Europeans?	595	Flurite