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Thomas Woodrow Wilson is the only president to ever have a PhD. Did he tout this fact during either of his election campaigns?	94
The nation with the largest Japanese community outside of Japan is...Brazil. What led to Brazil being such a hotspot for Japanese immigrants?	90
How did Israel convince their initial migrant Jewish population to start using Hebrew as the Lingua Franca at a time when the language was pretty much dead?	89
In the entire history of the Ottoman Empire, not a single Sultan made the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. Why was this? Did people criticize the Sultan(s) for not being "real/true" Muslims?	88
'Kilroy' is a famous example of American WW2 graffiti. What is the history of war graffiti? What are other iconic examples?	87
Why is America one of, if not the, only nations that experienced a non-religious Civil War in the past 200 years in which the losing faction is still obsessed with its iconography?	86
At the end of World War Two, why was the USSR granted Kaliningrad?	85
During the Barbary War, William Eaton landed in Ottoman Egypt with a detachment of US marines to overthrow the monarchical government of Tripoli. What was the international reaction to this venture? How did the Ottomans react to the US deploying troops on their soil and overthrowing an ally/puppet?	82
Why did the Ottomans lose the Great Turkish War (1683-1699)? The janissaries were regarded as the best soldiers in the Ottoman army, so why were they so ineffective? What weren't the Ottomans doing that their European counterparts were?	80
The Irish launched their War of Independence in 1916, the middle of WWI. What impact did this have on British effectiveness during the war?	77

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