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I’ve heard that empires can suffer from growing too unmanageably large (such as the Romans splitting into two empires). Why? What made it easy for Rome to control Italy, yet hard to control the entire Mediterranean/Europe with far more people/resources to work with and fewer fronts to fight on?

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I've only known about dinosaurs in a post-Jurassic Park world. Before the film came out, were dinosaurs popular in society? Would the average person know what a Velociraptor or T-Rex were? If so, when did the fascination with dinosaurs start?

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Why are there so few fossils relative to the large number of animals?

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How do storms form in the middle of a large landmass like a continent? Don't they need enormous bodies of water like oceans to form?

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What was the first article of clothing(shoes, underwear, etc.) that early people wore? Was the first article different depending on where the civilization was located?

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The units of Torque are newton meters. A joule is also equal to a newton meter. Does this mean that torque measures energy?

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[EU] You're at a hotel manager's convention, complaining at the bar about a guest that recently wrecked your hotel room. None of the managers take notice, but when you mention his name, everyone looks up: "Bond. James Bond."

6 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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If a television has a faster frame rate than the speed at which the brain processes images, do we see it as any faster than a frame rate equal to our brains?

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What exactly is so wrong about the expression "The Internet is like a series of tubes?"

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You can smell from a distance if someone hasn’t bathed/washed clothes in a week. Did medieval Europe burglars/spies/assassins practice much better hygiene than the average commoner to stay stealthy? Would this be suspicious?

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I’ve heard that empires can suffer from growing too unmanageably large (such as the Romans splitting into two empires). Why? What made it easy for Rome to control Italy, yet hard to control the entire Mediterranean/Europe with far more people/resources to work with and fewer fronts to fight on?	9	AskHistorians
I've only known about dinosaurs in a post-Jurassic Park world. Before the film came out, were dinosaurs popular in society? Would the average person know what a Velociraptor or T-Rex were? If so, when did the fascination with dinosaurs start?	9	AskHistorians
Why are there so few fossils relative to the large number of animals?	8	askscience
How do storms form in the middle of a large landmass like a continent? Don't they need enormous bodies of water like oceans to form?	7	askscience
What was the first article of clothing(shoes, underwear, etc.) that early people wore? Was the first article different depending on where the civilization was located?	7	AskHistorians
The units of Torque are newton meters. A joule is also equal to a newton meter. Does this mean that torque measures energy?	6	askscience
[EU] You're at a hotel manager's convention, complaining at the bar about a guest that recently wrecked your hotel room. None of the managers take notice, but when you mention his name, everyone looks up: "Bond. James Bond."	6	WritingPrompts
If a television has a faster frame rate than the speed at which the brain processes images, do we see it as any faster than a frame rate equal to our brains?	6	askscience
What exactly is so wrong about the expression "The Internet is like a series of tubes?"	5	askscience
You can smell from a distance if someone hasn’t bathed/washed clothes in a week. Did medieval Europe burglars/spies/assassins practice much better hygiene than the average commoner to stay stealthy? Would this be suspicious?	4	AskHistorians