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There have been about 58 PMs of Japan since 1885. 7 of them where Christians (making Christians 10% of all Japanese PMs). Since Christians are only about 1% of Japanese the population how did such a good number of them become leaders of Japan's government ? Is there a correlation ?	100
The fall of Constantinople was a major shock to the Christian world. But was the Muslim world's reaction to the fall of Granada which happened almost 40 years later and had similar yet inverse consequences ?	94
Why did Mexico have the strongest response to Germany annexing Austria in 1938 ? So much that they openly called an affront to international law and filed a formal complaint to the League of Nations ?	86
According to the Bible St.Peter owned a sword that he used to cut a man’s ear off. How common was sword ownership among civilians in the Roman Empire? Was it legal and how much would it cost to buy one ?	78
In the Odyssey it took Odysseus 20 years to get home from the Trojan War. How long would the boat trip (using contemporary at the time, ship types) from the site of Troy (modern Hisarlik, Turkey) to the island of Ithaca, during the Ancient Greek period ?	74
When and/or how did having a "horse phase" become a stereotypical girl thing ? Since the domestication of horses, riding them was associated with kings, warriors and generals, yet now it is now seen a female pastime. Why ?	68
The East German military was called the most effective one of the Warsaw pact, despite never seeing any actual combat. By what standards or measurements was that claim made by analysts ?	65
In Shadow of the Vampire, a fictionalized version of Greta Schröder complains that being a film actress is downgrade from a theater one, as there is no audience to interact with. Was that a common complaint among early movie actors ?	54
In the English dub of Princess Mononoke, Jigo the monk says that a bad bowl of soup "tastes like donkey piss". Would a Japanese person have been aware of donkeys in the the late Muromachi period of Japan (approximately 1336 to 1573) ?	54
How did the East German government portray or justify, Germany losing land east of the Oder to general population of East Germany ?	44

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