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When did women first start outnumbering men as teachers?

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NASA's plan in the event of Apollo 11 being stranded on the moon was to end all communications with the astronauts. Do we know whether they planned to tell them anything prior to that, or just cut off communication all of a sudden?

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Why didn’t Europeans try to colonize Africa before the late nineteenth century?

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Is it true the average Japanese person didn't understand the Emperor's message of surrender?

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how did past civilizations deal with mental disorders?

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When tourism in the modern sense begin? Has it always been common for people to go on 'vacations'?

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Did Egyptians consider Augustus (and subsequent emperors) a Pharaoh?

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Is it true that the Stasi used to break into people's homes and move around some random object, not touching anything else in order to make people crazy and paranoid over time?

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Why were gnostic religions very popular at a certain point in human history and not today? Is it just because they "lost" to Catholicism and Islam, or were there broader trends at work?

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When did women first start outnumbering men as teachers?	102
NASA's plan in the event of Apollo 11 being stranded on the moon was to end all communications with the astronauts. Do we know whether they planned to tell them anything prior to that, or just cut off communication all of a sudden?	102
Why didn’t Europeans try to colonize Africa before the late nineteenth century?	102
[deleted by user]	102
Is it true the average Japanese person didn't understand the Emperor's message of surrender?	101
how did past civilizations deal with mental disorders?	101
When tourism in the modern sense begin? Has it always been common for people to go on 'vacations'?	101
Did Egyptians consider Augustus (and subsequent emperors) a Pharaoh?	101
Is it true that the Stasi used to break into people's homes and move around some random object, not touching anything else in order to make people crazy and paranoid over time?	101
Why were gnostic religions very popular at a certain point in human history and not today? Is it just because they "lost" to Catholicism and Islam, or were there broader trends at work?	101