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When Guy Fawkes was arrested in the undercroft of parliament, he said his name was Jon Jonson. Was this name silly and obviously fake back then?

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How did European countries start implementing universal healthcare? Why did the US not take it up?

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I was debating some holocaust deniers and I was reading up on it, and I was wondering to myself "has a historical event of this magnitude been believed in by a society and turned out to be false?" Well............has one?

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Why did Mongolia have a system of inheritance where the youngest son gets the property?

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How much tobacco did smokers 150 years ago smoke?

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Wikipedia claims Tenskwatawa called white Americans "the children of the devil". Did he say this? What did he mean by "the devil"?

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Did advanced native american nations think of some underdeveloped nation as "savage"? Did a similar concept exist at all?

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What was military training like in the early United States?

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How mentally disabled was Charles II of Spain?

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I heard this and I want to verify it here. Is it true, after the trail of tears, that the choctaw indians donated 712 dollars to relief for the irish potato fund?

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When Guy Fawkes was arrested in the undercroft of parliament, he said his name was Jon Jonson. Was this name silly and obviously fake back then?	2226
How did European countries start implementing universal healthcare? Why did the US not take it up?	2075
I was debating some holocaust deniers and I was reading up on it, and I was wondering to myself "has a historical event of this magnitude been believed in by a society and turned out to be false?" Well............has one?	966
Why did Mongolia have a system of inheritance where the youngest son gets the property?	267
How much tobacco did smokers 150 years ago smoke?	228
Wikipedia claims Tenskwatawa called white Americans "the children of the devil". Did he say this? What did he mean by "the devil"?	103
Did advanced native american nations think of some underdeveloped nation as "savage"? Did a similar concept exist at all?	70
What was military training like in the early United States?	66
How mentally disabled was Charles II of Spain?	53
I heard this and I want to verify it here. Is it true, after the trail of tears, that the choctaw indians donated 712 dollars to relief for the irish potato fund?	52