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In the USA, there is a widespread (if short of universal) stigma against selling and eating veal, with cruelty to young animals often cited as the reasoning. Why doesn't this stigma/controversy exist the same way for lamb?	2633
John Mulaney told the following joke, about an email he sent was used in court: "Hey, do you want me to kill that guy for you? Because it sounds like he sucks and I will totally kill that guy for you." How have law enforcement and judiciary evolved to accommodate adoption of once-extreme language?	728
Are the actions that Jesus told his followers to perform actually "passive-aggressive actions meant to oppose and resist Jerusalem's Roman occupiers"?	22
What was daily life like for a combat engineer during the Crimean War? Was it different between British Royal sappers and combat engineers of the Ottoman Empire or Russia?	9
Russia is currently being compared to the USSR with regards to censorship. When the USSR collapsed, what was the reaction of the Russian public when they saw what had been hidden from them?	8
By way of a popular, but unsourced, /r/todayilearned post: to what degree was JFK aware of Jupiter missiles in Turkey? Did he really respond to a question of "Why the fuck are we putting Jupiter Missiles in Turkey?" with, "What Jupiter Missiles where?!"? Who made the decision to deploy nukes there?	7
Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung position sons as a threat to the father, who is deemed "too close" to the son to teach him things that the son must instead learn from other men in the tribe. What are some examples where women educate boys, men educate girls, or non-binary nurturing exists?	5
Before modern chemistry, how was food determined to be safe?	4
How do car designs evolve? Why were certain universal decisions made designs? For instance, a chair, pedals, and a steering wheel? Or how all exterior designs seem to blend together over time?	3
People today can imagine a spacefaring humanity, and advanced technology based on real science. At what point in history did this first occur? When, for example, did begin commonplace to imagine vast navies crossing oceans, or even instantaneous connectivity between people? When the tech arrived?	2

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