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It's 1482 and Leonardo da Vinci has just moved to Milan across the street from my house. I'm a simple tradesperson, do I know who Leonardo is? When do I start bragging to my friends that Leonardo used to be my neighbor?	1575
In the Disney film Frozen, the king and queen's ship disappears in a storm (fandom sleuths suggest it was 1840) and Princess Elsa is coronated three years later. In the mid-1800s, how long would a ship need to be "missing" before the passengers were presumed dead?	110
In the 1961 Disney animated film 101 Dalmatians, Roger and Anita live together in a small house in London with their live-in maid, Nanny. Was it common for childless couples to have live-in help in the late 50s or early 60s?	56
How did the protection of trees on your property become so firmly rooted in American law?	11
I'm a mid-level out-of-work finance professional in early 1933. FDR is in the middle of his first 100 days and the daily newspaper is full of stories about banking reform, agriculture price supports, and new public works programs. Did the New Deal appeal to me?	3
New car prototype designs are heavily disguised when undergoing road testing. In the 100+ years of automobile manufacturing, have there been any model designs stolen, quickly manufactured, and released before its original prototype?	2
In English, the ordinal indicators indicators (first, second, third) differ from later places like fourteenth, and one hundred and eighth but periodically switch back to two hundred and third. How did this evolve from Latin with places that followed a base 10 pattern?	2
How did nationstates coordinate their response to the Spanish flu in 1918? Did citizens know about the pandemic through news reporting or government announcements? Were the most afflicted areas poorly prepared or did they not properly understand the threat?	0

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