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In the 1960s, Algeria was the largest wine producer in the world - delivering 1.3b L. By the 1990s, Algeria’s production fell away by over 99%. What happened?

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Singapore was founded after it was involuntarily expelled from Malaysia. It was poor and had limited natural resources. How did it rise to become one of the wealthiest countries in the world?

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Where did the stereotypical French attire of a t-shirt with horizontal stripes come from?

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Australian Aboriginal people were recognised as citizens after the 1967 referendum. Prior to this, could they obtain a passport to travel abroad?

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Russian, like some other European languages, retains a formal and informal form of the second person ‘you’ (ve / te). Following the revolution and transition to a classless society, was there a move to drop the polite form?

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The US is among only three countries with a legislative debt ceiling. How did this measure come to exist and was political gridlock over the debt ceiling foreseen at the time it was introduced?

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China is a big country. How did it come to have a single timezone?

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In an interview, Putin claimed that his grandfather, Spiridon Putin, worked as a chef at Lenin and later Stalin’s dacha. Is there any evidence to support this claim? What do we know about Spiridon?

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In Ancient Greece did unfaithful women ever blame their pregnancy on Zeus?

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Is it true that the Oba of Benin traded enslaved people for the metals used to produce the Benin Bronzes?

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In the 1960s, Algeria was the largest wine producer in the world - delivering 1.3b L. By the 1990s, Algeria’s production fell away by over 99%. What happened?	2630
Singapore was founded after it was involuntarily expelled from Malaysia. It was poor and had limited natural resources. How did it rise to become one of the wealthiest countries in the world?	2499
Where did the stereotypical French attire of a t-shirt with horizontal stripes come from?	2257
Australian Aboriginal people were recognised as citizens after the 1967 referendum. Prior to this, could they obtain a passport to travel abroad?	206
Russian, like some other European languages, retains a formal and informal form of the second person ‘you’ (ve / te). Following the revolution and transition to a classless society, was there a move to drop the polite form?	137
The US is among only three countries with a legislative debt ceiling. How did this measure come to exist and was political gridlock over the debt ceiling foreseen at the time it was introduced?	90
China is a big country. How did it come to have a single timezone?	77
In an interview, Putin claimed that his grandfather, Spiridon Putin, worked as a chef at Lenin and later Stalin’s dacha. Is there any evidence to support this claim? What do we know about Spiridon?	52
In Ancient Greece did unfaithful women ever blame their pregnancy on Zeus?	33
Is it true that the Oba of Benin traded enslaved people for the metals used to produce the Benin Bronzes?	27