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Has beer always tasted pretty much how it tastes today, or would early beers be unrecognizable to us? What about wine?
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Legend has it that dummy blueprints for the Concorde, featuring design errors, were created to fool Soviet agents - and that the USSR's supersonic airliner, the TU-144, featured some of these flaws. Is that true?
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The 1988 film "Akira" is often referenced as a landmark in the development and popularization of anime in the West. How was anime viewed in the West like before "Akira," and what made this film a watershed in changing those views?
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Would a normal person living in England in 1415 likely be aware that technology had changed between their own time and 1115?
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