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How did Utah end up doing their addresses so weird in comparison to every other state?

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What knowledge would a well educated Roman person in the first century have had of Egyptian language? Would they have known that they used hieroglyphs instead of letters? Would they have been able to find a way to translate it?

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How did the Bolshevik leadership react to the killing of the Romanov children?

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Have there been any attempts to rename Salt Lake City something a bit more... Mormon? Why does a place so dominated by a single religion still go by such a secular name?

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How WERE murder cases investigated prior to the advent of forensic evidence?

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How would theatrical credits have worked in a Shakespeare-era production? Would the viewers be able to find out who the production designer was? Would they have even known the actors names?

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When they were first being used, did people object to lighthouses for aesthetic reasons, the way modern people object to having windmills in their backyard?

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When and why did we start measuring hail using random spherical objects like golf balls and grapefruits?

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Apologies if this question is too broad, but has anybody calculated the single deadliest job, per capita, in human history?

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Did Christiaan Barnard and his team, who performed the first human-to-human heart transplant, worry about the legal implications of removing a heart from a technically alive person?

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How did Utah end up doing their addresses so weird in comparison to every other state?	3
What knowledge would a well educated Roman person in the first century have had of Egyptian language? Would they have known that they used hieroglyphs instead of letters? Would they have been able to find a way to translate it?	3
How did the Bolshevik leadership react to the killing of the Romanov children?	3
Have there been any attempts to rename Salt Lake City something a bit more... Mormon? Why does a place so dominated by a single religion still go by such a secular name?	3
How WERE murder cases investigated prior to the advent of forensic evidence?	3
How would theatrical credits have worked in a Shakespeare-era production? Would the viewers be able to find out who the production designer was? Would they have even known the actors names?	3
When they were first being used, did people object to lighthouses for aesthetic reasons, the way modern people object to having windmills in their backyard?	3
When and why did we start measuring hail using random spherical objects like golf balls and grapefruits?	3
Apologies if this question is too broad, but has anybody calculated the single deadliest job, per capita, in human history?	3
Did Christiaan Barnard and his team, who performed the first human-to-human heart transplant, worry about the legal implications of removing a heart from a technically alive person?	3