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Why do boomers hate their wives?

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How did Mexico go form a heavily armed country to a country with exactly one gun store?

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Mexico used to be a very militaristic nation just 100 years ago, most people had guns and soldiers were idolized in the media, but now almost no mexican knows how to shoot a gun, and soldiers are almost absent in all local media, how and why did this happen?

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Poisoning wells was a common practice in times of war, but then, at which point the well becomes drinkable again?, are there well still poisoned from past wars?

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Was Hans Christian Andersen mentally disabled or just really eccentric?

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Were the Sumerians a "sex positive culture"?

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How were you hired to be an Inquisition torturer?, what is the career path?

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Why are the Faroe Islands special? They are exceptions in nearly all treaties denmark is involved in

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When it came time to compile the Quran, what was the argument to arrange the chapters by length? Why not chronologically?

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I just learned that Siddhartha Gautama was born in the "Republic of Malla" but wikipedia says little about it other than the wars over the Buddha's relics, how democratic was it?, how was it founded?, were there many other republics in India at the time?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why do boomers hate their wives?	13112
How did Mexico go form a heavily armed country to a country with exactly one gun store?	5577
Mexico used to be a very militaristic nation just 100 years ago, most people had guns and soldiers were idolized in the media, but now almost no mexican knows how to shoot a gun, and soldiers are almost absent in all local media, how and why did this happen?	5431
Poisoning wells was a common practice in times of war, but then, at which point the well becomes drinkable again?, are there well still poisoned from past wars?	3793
Was Hans Christian Andersen mentally disabled or just really eccentric?	2625
Were the Sumerians a "sex positive culture"?	2384
How were you hired to be an Inquisition torturer?, what is the career path?	2197
Why are the Faroe Islands special? They are exceptions in nearly all treaties denmark is involved in	2192
When it came time to compile the Quran, what was the argument to arrange the chapters by length? Why not chronologically?	1504
I just learned that Siddhartha Gautama was born in the "Republic of Malla" but wikipedia says little about it other than the wars over the Buddha's relics, how democratic was it?, how was it founded?, were there many other republics in India at the time?	1388