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How did gamblers in the 1800s determine the ordering of the poker hands? Was probability theory sufficiently well understood at the time that they were able to correctly compute the likelihood of being dealt each hand? Was there any debate about which hands should beat which?

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Is it coincidental that our names for the five largest islands of the North Atlantic (England, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland) all end in "land", or is this the result of a deliberate choice made by some cartographer(s) in the past?

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The internal electrical resistance of the human body is roughly 300-1,000 Ohms, yet the resistance of human skin can be as high as 100,000 Ohms. Is there an evolutionary reason why we developed such strong protection against electrocution, or is it just a chance coincidence?

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How did gamblers in the 1800s determine the ordering of the poker hands? Was probability theory sufficiently well understood at the time that they were able to correctly compute the likelihood of being dealt each hand? Was there any debate about which hands should beat which?	1738	AskHistorians
Is it coincidental that our names for the five largest islands of the North Atlantic (England, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland) all end in "land", or is this the result of a deliberate choice made by some cartographer(s) in the past?	6	AskHistorians
The internal electrical resistance of the human body is roughly 300-1,000 Ohms, yet the resistance of human skin can be as high as 100,000 Ohms. Is there an evolutionary reason why we developed such strong protection against electrocution, or is it just a chance coincidence?	1	askscience