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Aside from the war, what other current affairs were people talking about between 1939-1945?

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Has a large cavalry force ever snuck up undetected and charged on a full sized army like Hollywood has so often lead us to believe?

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Since Europeans and Asians escaped Africa it’s clear that our faces have changed/diverged quite a lot, but how have Africans faces changed in the same time period?

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Where does the idea of a crown for a king come from? Did crowns exist before kings?

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What’s the closest general election result in history? What happened next?

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A criticism of Diamond’s Guns Germs and Steel is that a major flaw is that we can’t prove geopolitics because it’s all hindsight and nothing to compare it to. Is it that we can’t prove geopolitics or is it that we can actually disprove his take on it?

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Aside from the war, what other current affairs were people talking about between 1939-1945?	3
Has a large cavalry force ever snuck up undetected and charged on a full sized army like Hollywood has so often lead us to believe?	2
Since Europeans and Asians escaped Africa it’s clear that our faces have changed/diverged quite a lot, but how have Africans faces changed in the same time period?	1
Where does the idea of a crown for a king come from? Did crowns exist before kings?	1
What’s the closest general election result in history? What happened next?	1
A criticism of Diamond’s Guns Germs and Steel is that a major flaw is that we can’t prove geopolitics because it’s all hindsight and nothing to compare it to. Is it that we can’t prove geopolitics or is it that we can actually disprove his take on it?	0