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Is there any evidence that the medieval practice of putting wrongdoers in the stocks and throwing rotten food at them actually worked as a deterrent to crime?

29 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Whenever I have asked a doctor why our joints sometimes 'crack' they dismissively say "it's just air in the joint". So, how on earth does the "air" get IN there, and indeed keep coming back?!

19 upvotes • r/askscience

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Why do brambles have thorns AND delicious fruit? Surely the fruit is there so animals will eat it and spread the seeds, so why guard it and discourage them from eating the fruit with sharp thorns?

17 upvotes • r/askscience

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Flekken: How mental coach helped me rediscover ‘true self’ after difficult Brentford start

16 upvotes • r/Brentford

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How did the Italian army, descended from the mighty Roman legions, become a byword for military incompetence?

15 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How do whales create oil out of a plankton diet? Can't we replicate this process instead of mining our limited fossil fuels?

14 upvotes • r/askscience

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Why did British Foreign Secretary Balfour promise to "establish a national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine? What was in it for the British?

10 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Water is converted into steam at 100 deg. centigrade. Than how does water from water bodies evaporate to form clouds when temperature on earth doesn't cross even 50 deg. centigrade?

7 upvotes • r/askscience

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Churchchill said of the Battle of Britain pilots "never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few". was he right?

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MATCH PREVIEW: BRENTFORD V WOLFSBURG. Friday Aug 9th 7:45pm

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Is there any evidence that the medieval practice of putting wrongdoers in the stocks and throwing rotten food at them actually worked as a deterrent to crime?	29	AskHistorians
Whenever I have asked a doctor why our joints sometimes 'crack' they dismissively say "it's just air in the joint". So, how on earth does the "air" get IN there, and indeed keep coming back?!	19	askscience
Why do brambles have thorns AND delicious fruit? Surely the fruit is there so animals will eat it and spread the seeds, so why guard it and discourage them from eating the fruit with sharp thorns?	17	askscience
Flekken: How mental coach helped me rediscover ‘true self’ after difficult Brentford start	16	Brentford
How did the Italian army, descended from the mighty Roman legions, become a byword for military incompetence?	15	AskHistorians
How do whales create oil out of a plankton diet? Can't we replicate this process instead of mining our limited fossil fuels?	14	askscience
Why did British Foreign Secretary Balfour promise to "establish a national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine? What was in it for the British?	10	AskHistorians
Water is converted into steam at 100 deg. centigrade. Than how does water from water bodies evaporate to form clouds when temperature on earth doesn't cross even 50 deg. centigrade?	7	askscience
Churchchill said of the Battle of Britain pilots "never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few". was he right?	6	AskHistorians
MATCH PREVIEW: BRENTFORD V WOLFSBURG. Friday Aug 9th 7:45pm	6	Brentford