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What exactly is the origin of “Government Cheese”?

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Is there any merit to the claim by some Baltic nationalists (🇪🇪🇱🇹🇱🇻) that their countries should not be called “post-soviet,” because they maintained governments-in-exile throughout the decades of Russian occupation?

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Napoleon Bonaparte established a series of client states to help run his empire. We’re the people living under these governments under any illusions about how independent they were, or did everyone pretty much understand they were puppets?

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Harvey Ball is generally credited with inventing the smiley face in the 1970s. HOW???? Is it really possible that for all of human history nobody thought to use two dots and a curved line to represent a smile?

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What happened to the wealth that slave traders paid for captives in west Africa?

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Did late Romans really suffer from chronic lead poisoning?

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When did people first figure out that summer and winter are reversed in opposite hemispheres?

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Why is it very common to name baby boys Jesus in some Christian cultures and taboo in others?

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Why did tiny Belgium end up with a huge chunk of Africa at the Berlin council, when its larger and richer neighbor The Netherlands did not?

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When and why did snuff tobacco fall out of popularity?

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What exactly is the origin of “Government Cheese”?	9
Is there any merit to the claim by some Baltic nationalists (🇪🇪🇱🇹🇱🇻) that their countries should not be called “post-soviet,” because they maintained governments-in-exile throughout the decades of Russian occupation?	8
Napoleon Bonaparte established a series of client states to help run his empire. We’re the people living under these governments under any illusions about how independent they were, or did everyone pretty much understand they were puppets?	8
Harvey Ball is generally credited with inventing the smiley face in the 1970s. HOW???? Is it really possible that for all of human history nobody thought to use two dots and a curved line to represent a smile?	8
What happened to the wealth that slave traders paid for captives in west Africa?	7
Did late Romans really suffer from chronic lead poisoning?	7
When did people first figure out that summer and winter are reversed in opposite hemispheres?	6
Why is it very common to name baby boys Jesus in some Christian cultures and taboo in others?	6
Why did tiny Belgium end up with a huge chunk of Africa at the Berlin council, when its larger and richer neighbor The Netherlands did not?	6
When and why did snuff tobacco fall out of popularity?	6