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How did George Washington Carver inventing peanut butter become one of the prototypical "contributions" black people have made to society?

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What was the relationship like between Arabic peoples and dogs pre-1800?

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How far back do quiet policies in libraries go? Was there a time in Western culture when you weren't at risk of getting shushed?

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How did flipping a coin become a publicly recognized way of randomly selecting one of two possibilities?

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How did the post World War 2 popularization of the automobile change American standards of etiquette?

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What exactly did people hate about operatorless elevators?

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Have voter participation rates in the United States always been so dismal? If not, why did they fall?

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Why did 'regime change' work so well in Germany?

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Why do so many of the post-Bill of Rights Constitutional Amendments end with "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation"??

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Why do basketball players dribble?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did George Washington Carver inventing peanut butter become one of the prototypical "contributions" black people have made to society?	77
What was the relationship like between Arabic peoples and dogs pre-1800?	26
How far back do quiet policies in libraries go? Was there a time in Western culture when you weren't at risk of getting shushed?	15
How did flipping a coin become a publicly recognized way of randomly selecting one of two possibilities?	13
How did the post World War 2 popularization of the automobile change American standards of etiquette?	6
What exactly did people hate about operatorless elevators?	6
Have voter participation rates in the United States always been so dismal? If not, why did they fall?	6
Why did 'regime change' work so well in Germany?	5
Why do so many of the post-Bill of Rights Constitutional Amendments end with "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation"??	4
Why do basketball players dribble?	1