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Tomorrow, 152 years ago, John Wilkes Booth walked unseen into President Lincoln's personal booth, took out a pistol, shot him, and managed to escape even after breaking his leg. Why did Lincoln have seemingly no personal security and how did it compare to other world leaders at the time?
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Is there something different about the human digestive system that makes fecal matter so dangerous to us, while other mammals use their tongues for hygiene?
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In Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder, a frontier teacher has to defend himself from students who beat their previous teacher to death. Is there any historical backing to this?
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Why do Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and Coulomb's Law of electrostatics look nearly identical?
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[AMA Request] Neal Broffman - Director of "Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi - a documentary about the young man Reddit helped it wrongfully implicate in the Boston Marathon Bombing, and how it affected the lives of his family
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Question about hypothetical accelerating ships traveling at relativistic speeds and effects of time dialation
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What is the current scientific consensus about any possible genetic component to intelligence, and the validity of IQ testing as an objective gauge of intelligence?
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