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Was Aladdin originally set in... China? What was the point of this if the story was culturally Arabic in every single way?
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Are there any famous accounts of Chinese explorers in medieval Europe similar to Marco Polo's travels in medieval China?
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After Japan’s surrender in 1945, what happened to the many Japanese nationals who had settled in China, Taiwan, and Korea? Did they largely integrate into society or leave for Japan?
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Rudolf Höß, the commander of Auschwitz, retold that the gas chamber operators throwing in the Zyklon B often cried while doing it, and barely managed to go through with it. I always assumed that the would be careful to pick ardent antisemites for the task, did they not?
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I just lost a war in a video game because my opponent's capital city suffered from a large flood, killing my occupying forces. Are there real-life examples of natural disasters impacting the outcome of an important battle or even a war like that?
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Why, in the last two centuries, have women become to be considered less sexual than men, if, throughout history, they were believed to have a much higher libido? NSFW
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Why is Jimmy Carter seen as one of the worst presidents in history? Is this a legitimate argument or are their facts to refute it?
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