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The people who tasted food and drinks for royalty to make sure they weren't poisoned, were these people typically slaves or were they actually paid?	12
How long was it until the US started to implement automobile traffic laws after the first consumer vehicles hit the road, especially in cities?	11
Is there any leading theory on what exactly happened to the Philistines?	10
Is there any non-Quranic evidence that the events tha between the Jewish Banu tribes and Muhammad described in the Quran actually happened? Or is the Quran the only piece of evidence that it happened?	10
How did sunflower seeds become the go-to snack for professional baseball players?	10
Kissinger privately said to Nixon: "If they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern." Did Kissinger say this to just appease Nixon? What was Kissinger's real feelings about Jews as he was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany himself?	10
Considering the Roman and Byzantine nobility and rich were mostly clean shaven and saw facial hair as unclean, when and why did biblical religious figures start to be depicted with beards?	10
Where and when did the architecture style of elves and dwarves we know today start?	10
Was there any kind of study done to see how American soldiers in WWII views on people of other religions and ethnicities changed or didn't change before and after they served together?	10
On Wikipedia, it says the local population of Bedouins, Circassians and Christians in what's now Jordan supported the Hashemite dynasty, from what's now Saudi Arabia, to rule over the new Emirate of Transjordan. Why did this diverse local population support a foreign dynasty to rule over them?	9

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