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Why did Mugabe never imprison or kill Ian Smith?

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In ancient Egypt, what was your average citizens daily interaction with cats like?

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How messed up would the American digestive tract have been c. 1800?

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Was George Washington thought of as a traitor among the British public or was he considered a "patriot" in a sense?

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The lex Julia Municipalis (44BCE) prohibits carts within Rome from midnight to 10 o'clock (56). What was significant about traffic during those hours?

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Why was the American gold standard abandoned?

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In the Princess and the Pea, why is being able to feel a pea through 20 mattresses a sign of royalty? Was this a common image of princesses in the author's time and place?

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I was taught that when Native Americans transitioned to consuming ‘western’ foods like white bread and beer their bodies took it so badly that for generations their teeth came in crooked and bones developed wrong. Is this just racist bullshit? If so, where does this idea come from?

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Who (or what) decided that women should have traditionally longer hair than men?

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Tom Lehrer, a satirist from the 1950s & 1960s, has a lot of anti-German sentiments in his songs. Were these views common in white middle America (his primary audience) during that time?

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Why did Mugabe never imprison or kill Ian Smith?	38
In ancient Egypt, what was your average citizens daily interaction with cats like?	38
How messed up would the American digestive tract have been c. 1800?	38
Was George Washington thought of as a traitor among the British public or was he considered a "patriot" in a sense?	38
The lex Julia Municipalis (44BCE) prohibits carts within Rome from midnight to 10 o'clock (56). What was significant about traffic during those hours?	38
Why was the American gold standard abandoned?	38
In the Princess and the Pea, why is being able to feel a pea through 20 mattresses a sign of royalty? Was this a common image of princesses in the author's time and place?	38
I was taught that when Native Americans transitioned to consuming ‘western’ foods like white bread and beer their bodies took it so badly that for generations their teeth came in crooked and bones developed wrong. Is this just racist bullshit? If so, where does this idea come from?	38
Who (or what) decided that women should have traditionally longer hair than men?	38
Tom Lehrer, a satirist from the 1950s & 1960s, has a lot of anti-German sentiments in his songs. Were these views common in white middle America (his primary audience) during that time?	38