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In Genesis 12:10-13, Abram tells Sarai that she should claim to be his sister so that Abram would not be killed for her sake. Was it normal for Egyptian pharaohs to kill the husbands of beautiful women in order to make said women their wives? Or is this simply bragging/exaggerating Sarai's beauty?	6
I know that Cultural Revolution posters have been seen in black rights organizations in the United States during the civil rights era. Did other civil rights groups adopt similar posters in their offices?	6
It's been said before that Carrie from SATC couldn't have afforded her shoe closet, let alone her apartment, under her freelance salary. How much would a freelance journalist of her stature make in the 1990s? What was the cost of living in NYC?	6
Many members of the Hamilton fandom believe that Hamilton was bisexual/pan and that Laurens was gay. Many also hold that Hamilton and Laurens were involved romantically (if not sexually). What is the historical consensus about their relationship?	6
ASMR is a recent phenomenon. Although it's ill-advised to retroactively apply modern concepts to the past, were people reporting similar head-tingling sensations to certain sounds before the Internet? Were there groups creating tapes or records with popular ASMR "triggers" for an audience?	5
Why did it take so long for the Rwanda genocide to be recognized as such by outside governments?	5
How did apples become associated with the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil?	5
I noticed that a number of shows and books feature storylines where a character adopts a baby Asian girl from overseas. How did this become the trope for "adopted a child from overseas" in media?	4
In the US, there are some places where you are expected to tip the service staff. Outside the US, tipping isn't seen as necessary. Where does tipping culture come from? Did the US diverge from other countries, or vice versa?	4
How do historians determine the beginning and the end of the various ages in Middle Earth? What defines, say, the border between the Second Age to the Third (for example)?	4

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