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Why did so many prominent post-War French Philosophers, such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-Paul Sartre sign a petition against age of consent laws?	1543
Why has Western society so wholeheartedly laid claim to classical Greco-Roman tradition, in a way that the Middle East does not, despite the fact that the Middle East has a much stronger connection to classical Greco-Roman tradition?	1475
After World War 2, why didn't the allies restore the Korean royal family to the throne?	1444
In traditional Hawaiian culture women would be put to death for eating pork, coconuts, taro, several types of fish, and 67 out of 70 varieties of bananas. Why was there such a drastic limitation on what women could eat?	1234
When did Irish men stop sucking each other's nipples as a sign of friendship?	957
"the Spaniards had abducted and raped many women in Cuzco, including princesses, noblewomen and priestesses... they left no one single women or sister unviolated". Was this the norm in European warfare at the time, or were the Spanish a uniquely rape obsessed culture? NSFW	902
How did Christian Science Monitor become a well respected source of journalism despite being owned by an anti-science cult?	434
After American schools were racially integrated, how did Black students protect themselves from bullying by the white students and faculty?	399
Hawaii and the Philippines were colonized by America at around the same time. Why were the Filipinos able to assert their independence and Hawaiians not?	272
In the 1970s & 80s Morocco had a reputation in Japan for being the place to go for sexual reassignment surgery. Was Morocco actually performing a lot of SRSs?	252

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