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Is it true that Koreans use metal chopsticks because Korean royalty needed a method of avoiding poison?

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When the armistice came into effect on Nov 11 at 1100, did combat cease in mid-battle? Would it be conceivable that a trench was being raided at that exact moment, and opposing soldiers would immediately just go about their business upon hearing a horn signaling the time?

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Is it true that zero students died in Tiananmen Square (the actual square itself, not the city as a whole) on June 4th, 1989?

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Did the USSR have a conception of their own "Greatest Generation"? Those who survived the purges, fought the fascists, etc.?

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How widespread was the ritual sacrifice of slaves during Potlatches among Indigenous groups in the Pacific Northwest?

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How widespread was actual tobacco addiction in the pre-modern period? Did indigenous peoples ever become addicted to tobacco?

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Was there widespread resistance to condom-wearing during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic?

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Did James Madison have a son with his half-sister (who was enslaved herself) and then sell his own son into slavery?

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Presumably, Jewish communities in the Muslim world spoke Arabic and worked in Arabic... was the Talmud ever translated into Arabic?

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What was the Soviet Communist perception of Ancient Greece? Did they view themselves as the inheritors of that same "intellectual tradition"? Was it more adversarial?

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Is it true that Koreans use metal chopsticks because Korean royalty needed a method of avoiding poison?	1823	AskHistorians
When the armistice came into effect on Nov 11 at 1100, did combat cease in mid-battle? Would it be conceivable that a trench was being raided at that exact moment, and opposing soldiers would immediately just go about their business upon hearing a horn signaling the time?	115	AskHistorians
Is it true that zero students died in Tiananmen Square (the actual square itself, not the city as a whole) on June 4th, 1989?	57	AskHistorians
Did the USSR have a conception of their own "Greatest Generation"? Those who survived the purges, fought the fascists, etc.?	22	AskHistorians
How widespread was the ritual sacrifice of slaves during Potlatches among Indigenous groups in the Pacific Northwest?	13	AskHistorians
How widespread was actual tobacco addiction in the pre-modern period? Did indigenous peoples ever become addicted to tobacco?	7	AskHistorians
Was there widespread resistance to condom-wearing during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic?	2	AskHistorians
Did James Madison have a son with his half-sister (who was enslaved herself) and then sell his own son into slavery?	1	AskHistorians
Presumably, Jewish communities in the Muslim world spoke Arabic and worked in Arabic... was the Talmud ever translated into Arabic?	1	AskHistorians
What was the Soviet Communist perception of Ancient Greece? Did they view themselves as the inheritors of that same "intellectual tradition"? Was it more adversarial?	1	AskHistorians