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Why is consuming activated charcoal harmless (and, in fact, encouraged for certain digestive issues), yet eating burnt (blackened) food is obviously bad-tasting and discouraged as harmful to one's health?
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When did sieges stop being a thing in military history? Did a siege always involve some sort of walled fortification or was the definition more liberal than that?
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Why was there no large-scale invasion, let alone colonization, of Korea by the Japanese or Japan by the Koreans, until the 16th century with Hideyoshi?
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Many sources I find place the homeland of the "Proto-Turkic" peoples to be in modern-day Mongolia. How did this region come to be dominated by Mongolic peoples, and where were the Mongolic peoples back when Mongolia was dominated by Turks?
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Throughout history, many fruits have been exchanged from one distant geographical region to another. The best way is to obtain the seeds and grow it in the new place, but did people ever trade/import/export fully developed fruits across vast land areas and oceans pre-refrigeration?
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Are there any internal mechanisms of trees from S. Hemisphere (ex. Australia) that make them go “out of whack” when introduced in the N. Hemisphere?
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Are there any recorded encounters between European soldiers fighting (European-descent) Ottoman janissaries with descriptions of how each side saw the other?
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