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How complicit were Colt Firearms and the US military in the disastrous introduction of the M16 rifle during the Vietnam war?

440 upvotes • secretly_a_marmoset

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How did ships in the past (say 1600s-1700s) get drinkable water at sea?

440 upvotes • kreme_au_camel

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Were black American POWs treated any different by the Japanese during WW2?

440 upvotes • J2quared

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How did circumcision start? Did someone just snip a peen to see what would happen??

440 upvotes • emogalxp

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[Review] Don't squander your sesterces on Gladiator (2000). If you do, you will FACE MY WRATH.

440 upvotes • toldinstone

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Japan is considered a full democracy. Yet since 1955, the Liberal Democratic Party has been able to de facto rule Japan (ignoring the few years they weren't). Why?

440 upvotes • Ynwe

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Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary once wrote to his wife suggesting that shirtless Bedouin guides must be the reason why “English women so happily and frequently like to scale the pyramids”. Was this a common stereotype other 19th century Europeans had about English women being "thirsty"?

440 upvotes • Jazz-Cigarettes

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During the age of European exploration, ships would be gone for years and were often lost or years overdue before they returned. How were the sailors paid?

440 upvotes • [deleted]

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In "I, Claudius", Claudius warns Gemellus "it's not good for you to eat all that pastry: that's what clogs the chest." Did Roman doctors in fact know that fatty foods cause arteriosclerosis?

439 upvotes • takatori

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suppose you're a post roman British (pre-Saxon) warrior (not sure if "soldier" is appropriate here) in AD515, what sort of weaponry and armour would you likely have? now Suppose you're an Anglo-Saxon warrior 280 years later in AD795, how different would your weaponry and armour be?

439 upvotes • grapp

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How complicit were Colt Firearms and the US military in the disastrous introduction of the M16 rifle during the Vietnam war?	440	secretly_a_marmoset
How did ships in the past (say 1600s-1700s) get drinkable water at sea?	440	kreme_au_camel
Were black American POWs treated any different by the Japanese during WW2?	440	J2quared
How did circumcision start? Did someone just snip a peen to see what would happen??	440	emogalxp
[Review] Don't squander your sesterces on Gladiator (2000). If you do, you will FACE MY WRATH.	440	toldinstone
Japan is considered a full democracy. Yet since 1955, the Liberal Democratic Party has been able to de facto rule Japan (ignoring the few years they weren't). Why?	440	Ynwe
Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary once wrote to his wife suggesting that shirtless Bedouin guides must be the reason why “English women so happily and frequently like to scale the pyramids”. Was this a common stereotype other 19th century Europeans had about English women being "thirsty"?	440	Jazz-Cigarettes
During the age of European exploration, ships would be gone for years and were often lost or years overdue before they returned. How were the sailors paid?	440	[deleted]
In "I, Claudius", Claudius warns Gemellus "it's not good for you to eat all that pastry: that's what clogs the chest." Did Roman doctors in fact know that fatty foods cause arteriosclerosis?	439	takatori
suppose you're a post roman British (pre-Saxon) warrior (not sure if "soldier" is appropriate here) in AD515, what sort of weaponry and armour would you likely have? now Suppose you're an Anglo-Saxon warrior 280 years later in AD795, how different would your weaponry and armour be?	439	grapp