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In Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, a charachter asks why nobody from their neighbourhood opened a grocery shop before Korean immigrants did so. How much harder would it be for an African American to start a small business in late 1980 Brooklyn compared to a Korean?

56 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] 300 million years after creating his masterpiece, the cockroach, the god of evolution returns to find the planet full of humans.

56 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP]An advanced alien species abducts a human to experiment on. By chance get a mad scientist who's crazy inventions defy their understanding of physics.

50 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP] You're lucky to have amazing superpowers. You make a good living, have a great social life, and use your powers to help mankind on the side. But the other supers really judge you for not fighting supervillians.

48 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP] "Does this unit have a soul?" The demon replied "no" before going back to testing the summoning circle. "Can this unit buy a soul?"

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It's 1862 and I'm an Indian cotton farmer. Am I likely to be aware that the boom in demand for my product is related to the American Civil war? If so do I have any strong feelings about the war?

45 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] "You are the chosen one, you must restore the balance between good and evil. For centuries the forces of good have broken the balance, creating a world of peace, prosperity, and happiness. You must fix this!" "Why?"

42 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP] Every year Santa delivers billions of presents but you have a different job. You make the parents believe they brought those gifts, shops believe they sold them, and keep economists from noticing anything amiss.

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[WP] To become a wizard one must make a deal with dark forces that will inevitably destroy you. Except for Merlin, so the whole magical world wants to know his secret path to power. In reality he's an ordinary stage magician who is far too smart to make a dark pact.

35 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP] You've heard too many cooks spoil the broth. Meet too many mad scientists trying to stop an asteroid hitting Earth.

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In Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, a charachter asks why nobody from their neighbourhood opened a grocery shop before Korean immigrants did so. How much harder would it be for an African American to start a small business in late 1980 Brooklyn compared to a Korean?	56	AskHistorians
[WP] 300 million years after creating his masterpiece, the cockroach, the god of evolution returns to find the planet full of humans.	56	WritingPrompts
[WP]An advanced alien species abducts a human to experiment on. By chance get a mad scientist who's crazy inventions defy their understanding of physics.	50	WritingPrompts
[WP] You're lucky to have amazing superpowers. You make a good living, have a great social life, and use your powers to help mankind on the side. But the other supers really judge you for not fighting supervillians.	48	WritingPrompts
[WP] "Does this unit have a soul?" The demon replied "no" before going back to testing the summoning circle. "Can this unit buy a soul?"	48	WritingPrompts
It's 1862 and I'm an Indian cotton farmer. Am I likely to be aware that the boom in demand for my product is related to the American Civil war? If so do I have any strong feelings about the war?	45	AskHistorians
[WP] "You are the chosen one, you must restore the balance between good and evil. For centuries the forces of good have broken the balance, creating a world of peace, prosperity, and happiness. You must fix this!" "Why?"	42	WritingPrompts
[WP] Every year Santa delivers billions of presents but you have a different job. You make the parents believe they brought those gifts, shops believe they sold them, and keep economists from noticing anything amiss.	40	WritingPrompts
[WP] To become a wizard one must make a deal with dark forces that will inevitably destroy you. Except for Merlin, so the whole magical world wants to know his secret path to power. In reality he's an ordinary stage magician who is far too smart to make a dark pact.	35	WritingPrompts
[WP] You've heard too many cooks spoil the broth. Meet too many mad scientists trying to stop an asteroid hitting Earth.	35	WritingPrompts