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In Saving Private Ryan, Wade, the medic, while bleeding out for wounds asks for "More morphine" after he was already given a morphine dose, and everybody became serious when he asked this. Was this second morphine dose considered fatal? Did WWII medics use morphine as euthanasia? NSFW	4512
Is there any reason why "cool" has had such a cultural sticking power while other slang terms have frequently come and gone?	3874
The American Midwest seems filled with beautiful structures, such as court houses and universities, made with marble and intricate craftmanship, in even small towns, all built 1910ish. If these were built today the material and labor would make costs so high. How did these small towns do it?	2703
Who was the poorest person elected US president? How much were they worth in today's standards?	1326
How come in Renaissance style paintings (and even further back with Greco-Roman art) all the women who are nude are hairless? Was it an attempt to just show purity, or did higher class women shave their bodies?	1209
I am an average crewman on a pirate ship during the Golden Age of Piracy and I joined a crew as soon as I could in life. I have been lucky and I am finding that I am now no longer as young as I used to be. What does my life begin to look like as I go into middle age and eventually old age?	973
Did Hitler have any idea how vilified in history he was going to become before he died?	918
Were astronauts ever given training in First Contact scenarios or procedures?	731
When did the White House start to become off limits to the public to just walk up to? How did the security change take place?	631
Did peasants of the middle ages going to war for their nobles know what they were even going to war for? What did the average peasant know about the political climate and why they were fighting in the wars?	552

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