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Movies and TV have a common trope where every executive will have a guest in their office and offer them some scotch from a fully stocked bar on the wall. How accurate is this?	2
Why does the Prime Minister of Singapore have such a high salary?	2
Given that they had been together for over 15 years, why did Hitler bother getting married to Eva Braun when they both had just 40 hours to live? Was it genuine affection, just something on his bucket list, or was there some legal consequence of dying a married man?	2
In First Corinthians 7:3, when talking about sex, Paul says that "The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise the wife also to her husband." Given the rest of Paul's views on men and women, was there an historical reason this is stated like this, and not the other way around?	2
Were there any prominent secular abolitionists in the antebellum period of the United States?	2
How were children in the former Confederate states taught about the Civil War in its immediate aftermath?	2
During the American Revolutionary era, was there ever a proposal to "split up" the colonies, with Britain retaining control of some colonies and granting independence to others?	2
Why, after 1100 years, was George Sale the first person to translate the Qur'an directly into English? What was his motivation for doing so?	2
Most of the famed abolitionists and abolitionist movements we think of in the pre-American Civil War era were religious in nature. Were there any notable secular abolitionist strains in the time before the American Civil War?	2
How did fireworks become associated with the American Fourth of July, New Years, and no other holidays?	2

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