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Were there standardized units of measurement before the Imperial and Metric systems? I'm familiar with units of measurement in the Bible such as cubits, spans, talents, bushels etc. but were things like that standardized at all?
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I heard somewhere that both Reagan and Gorbachev independently decided not to retaliate should the other launch a nuclear strike. Has anyone else heard this before?
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How were the United States Founding Fathers able to educate themselves in the enlightenment and other scientific or political theories when many of the cities they came from were started as religiously intolerant Christian settlements?
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