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With its comparable range and much higher rate of fire over smoothbore muskets, why weren't crossbows ever reintroduced in European battlefields after the disappearance of armor?

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Where there ever any significant pre-modern restaurant chains or similar business franchises?

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Since some birds can see in UV light, what sorts of things can they perceive that we humans can't?

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Do Chimps and other great apes urinate in their sleep, like human infants? How much control or selectivity do they seem to exhibit over their bowl movements?

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How does a bullet obtain supersonic speeds when it's propelled by subsonic (deflagrating) porpellants?

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Could the "cognitive revolution" in human evolution be explained as the result of exponential progress in linguistic development (instead of the sudden development of linguistic capacity)?

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Help measuring urban CO2 levels—are they supposed to be this high?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
With its comparable range and much higher rate of fire over smoothbore muskets, why weren't crossbows ever reintroduced in European battlefields after the disappearance of armor?	1802	AskHistorians
Where there ever any significant pre-modern restaurant chains or similar business franchises?	2	AskHistorians
Since some birds can see in UV light, what sorts of things can they perceive that we humans can't?	1	askscience
Do Chimps and other great apes urinate in their sleep, like human infants? How much control or selectivity do they seem to exhibit over their bowl movements?	1	askscience
How does a bullet obtain supersonic speeds when it's propelled by subsonic (deflagrating) porpellants?	1	askscience
Could the "cognitive revolution" in human evolution be explained as the result of exponential progress in linguistic development (instead of the sudden development of linguistic capacity)?	1	askscience
Help measuring urban CO2 levels—are they supposed to be this high?	1	askscience