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Why is the longest day of the year not also the midpoint of the year? Was the correction in 1582 unknowingly off by 10 days, or are those ten days a culmination of systemic timekeeping error through the centuries?

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Why did Hitler hate the Jewish people so much?

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Devil's advocate: Why was holding the US together so great? Why would it have mattered if the South had seceded? (American Civil War)

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Why is the longest day of the year not also the midpoint of the year? Was the correction in 1582 unknowingly off by 10 days, or are those ten days a culmination of systemic timekeeping error through the centuries?	14
Why did Hitler hate the Jewish people so much?	0
Devil's advocate: Why was holding the US together so great? Why would it have mattered if the South had seceded? (American Civil War)	0