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Did Mario Puzo base the lore in "The Godfather" series on actual mafia contacts? Or did he just make stuff up?

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Legendary pirate Capt William Kidd was the only one to actually bury looted treasure, was convicted and hanged. And yet some scholars claim he was never a pirate, only a legally licensed privateer and was unjustly smeared as a pirate and killed for political reasons. Whats the truth?

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Can anybody recommend a good, accurate, highly readable book on the history of coffee?

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So consuming avocados dates back to 10,000 BC in ancient Mexico. If I time traveled back to that time, would that avocado taste like the avocados we have in the store today?

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Any historical evidence that the Knights Templar actually searched for a religious relic known as the holy Grail during their time in Jerusalem?

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Reading John Lennon's last interview in Playboy and he claims his song "'I Feel Fine" was the first song to ever use feedback intentionally. Is that true?

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During the Plains Wars of the late 19th century, how were the Native American fighters able to obtain rifles and ammunition? Surely they were not fighting modern rifle equipped cavalry with bows, arrows, and tomahawks?

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When cocaine first came on the scene in the 1960s and 70s, did people see it as a relatively harmless party drug?

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Did the Phoenicians (Carthaginians) practice institutionalized, regular (100+ per year) ritual human sacrifice of infants?

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Doris Kearns Goodwin seems to have had a kind of weird relationship with LBJ. What's up with that?

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Did Mario Puzo base the lore in "The Godfather" series on actual mafia contacts? Or did he just make stuff up?	27
Legendary pirate Capt William Kidd was the only one to actually bury looted treasure, was convicted and hanged. And yet some scholars claim he was never a pirate, only a legally licensed privateer and was unjustly smeared as a pirate and killed for political reasons. Whats the truth?	26
Can anybody recommend a good, accurate, highly readable book on the history of coffee?	24
So consuming avocados dates back to 10,000 BC in ancient Mexico. If I time traveled back to that time, would that avocado taste like the avocados we have in the store today?	22
Any historical evidence that the Knights Templar actually searched for a religious relic known as the holy Grail during their time in Jerusalem?	21
Reading John Lennon's last interview in Playboy and he claims his song "'I Feel Fine" was the first song to ever use feedback intentionally. Is that true?	21
During the Plains Wars of the late 19th century, how were the Native American fighters able to obtain rifles and ammunition? Surely they were not fighting modern rifle equipped cavalry with bows, arrows, and tomahawks?	19
When cocaine first came on the scene in the 1960s and 70s, did people see it as a relatively harmless party drug?	18
Did the Phoenicians (Carthaginians) practice institutionalized, regular (100+ per year) ritual human sacrifice of infants?	13
Doris Kearns Goodwin seems to have had a kind of weird relationship with LBJ. What's up with that?	12