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Why did magazines like Playboy and Penthouse do such serious journalism?

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How and why did Golf become the stereotypical "businessman's" sport?

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Why are military training videos from WW2 so humorous in tone, and why are they not like that today?

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Do we have any evidence for the existence of Furries before the advent of comic books/animation?

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Why did sailors in the 18th Century have all of their rations in such huge amounts and split across different days?

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The song Michigan Rag has a line referencing "the fanciest fop with an onion round his neck". Was tying a literal onion to your neck the style at the time, or is this an archaic term for a bolo tie or some similar item?

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Why did Sodom get a sex act named after it while Gomorrah didn't?

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How did attitudes to swearing change over the centuries? Let's say I recited George Carlin's "7 words you can't say on television" on the streets of London in three different eras of history. First Chaucer's day, then Shakespeare and finally Dickens. How much trouble would I be facing in each era?

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I recently watched the new Adam Curtis documentary about the collapse of the Soviet Union. The thing that I found most surprising is that Boris Yeltsin came out looking great. How did this seemingly dynamic man of integrity become the drunken laughing stock he was seen as in the mid-1990s?

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Why are ghosts usually portrayed as being from the Victorian era? Were ghosts always portrayed as being 'old timey'?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why did magazines like Playboy and Penthouse do such serious journalism?	4386
How and why did Golf become the stereotypical "businessman's" sport?	969
Why are military training videos from WW2 so humorous in tone, and why are they not like that today?	778
Do we have any evidence for the existence of Furries before the advent of comic books/animation?	139
Why did sailors in the 18th Century have all of their rations in such huge amounts and split across different days?	124
The song Michigan Rag has a line referencing "the fanciest fop with an onion round his neck". Was tying a literal onion to your neck the style at the time, or is this an archaic term for a bolo tie or some similar item?	100
Why did Sodom get a sex act named after it while Gomorrah didn't?	90
How did attitudes to swearing change over the centuries? Let's say I recited George Carlin's "7 words you can't say on television" on the streets of London in three different eras of history. First Chaucer's day, then Shakespeare and finally Dickens. How much trouble would I be facing in each era?	81
I recently watched the new Adam Curtis documentary about the collapse of the Soviet Union. The thing that I found most surprising is that Boris Yeltsin came out looking great. How did this seemingly dynamic man of integrity become the drunken laughing stock he was seen as in the mid-1990s?	47
Why are ghosts usually portrayed as being from the Victorian era? Were ghosts always portrayed as being 'old timey'?	26