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How did haircuts work in Ancient Rome?

256 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Why were so many medieval governments obsessed with getting signed 'confessions' from criminals, when it would have been just as easy to fake a signature?

129 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Does a brain physically change when it gets memories? Does a dead brain still possess the memories it had when it was alive?

89 upvotes • r/askscience

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[WP] You are an ordinary, office cubicle worker, until a disease sweeps the earth reducing everyone's physical strength to 5% of what it originally was, and lowering everyone's IQ by 50 points. You are the only person immune to it

76 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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Phew, I thought I was lost for a second

55 upvotes • r/TwoSentenceHorror

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I’m trying to wrap my head around the actual process the Soviet Union went through when it collapsed, and just I can’t. Did the government need to rewrite all of its laws? Were the same bureaucrats and elected officials in power? How does a massive superpower suddenly just change so... dramatically?

49 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Did ancient children make ‘Finger Swords’ or ‘Finger Bows’?

26 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] You download a Ouija keyboard to your phone. Thinking it's a gimmick, you send some messages to the 'dead.' That night, you hear a buzz from your phone

15 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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In media, a common archetype is the ‘wandering adventurer,’ who travels around, looking for treasure and completing ‘quests.’ Were there ever really people who did this in history?

13 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] Your brother in law is a crook. He sells drugs, cons people, and gambles. Now, he's messed with the wrong people. At a family gathering, the door gets broken open and well dressed men in suits with silenced pistols flood the house. One of them raises his pistol and points it... at you

12 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did haircuts work in Ancient Rome?	256	AskHistorians
Why were so many medieval governments obsessed with getting signed 'confessions' from criminals, when it would have been just as easy to fake a signature?	129	AskHistorians
Does a brain physically change when it gets memories? Does a dead brain still possess the memories it had when it was alive?	89	askscience
[WP] You are an ordinary, office cubicle worker, until a disease sweeps the earth reducing everyone's physical strength to 5% of what it originally was, and lowering everyone's IQ by 50 points. You are the only person immune to it	76	WritingPrompts
Phew, I thought I was lost for a second	55	TwoSentenceHorror
I’m trying to wrap my head around the actual process the Soviet Union went through when it collapsed, and just I can’t. Did the government need to rewrite all of its laws? Were the same bureaucrats and elected officials in power? How does a massive superpower suddenly just change so... dramatically?	49	AskHistorians
Did ancient children make ‘Finger Swords’ or ‘Finger Bows’?	26	AskHistorians
[WP] You download a Ouija keyboard to your phone. Thinking it's a gimmick, you send some messages to the 'dead.' That night, you hear a buzz from your phone	15	WritingPrompts
In media, a common archetype is the ‘wandering adventurer,’ who travels around, looking for treasure and completing ‘quests.’ Were there ever really people who did this in history?	13	AskHistorians
[WP] Your brother in law is a crook. He sells drugs, cons people, and gambles. Now, he's messed with the wrong people. At a family gathering, the door gets broken open and well dressed men in suits with silenced pistols flood the house. One of them raises his pistol and points it... at you	12	WritingPrompts