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Humans have been fermenting alcoholic beverages since prehistoric times. When I homebrew, I must painstakingly sterilize, as errant microbes can literally render my beer undrinkable. Prior to the discovery of microbes and sterilization, how was the quality of alcohol maintained/explained?
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Western food culture during a certain period of time seemed obsessed with the idea of "digestion"...things that were hard to digest, things that made digestion easier, etc. Where did this come from, and why did it go away?
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ALRIGHT. No one will ask it, but we've all thought it: Why do we "like" the smell of our own farts, but someone else's is repulsive?
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How difficult would it have been for a Japanese person of relative means to consume land-based meat prior to the erosion of the meat-eating taboo in the late 19th century?
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Can someone provide context into the reported cannibalism of the Guangxi Massacre during China's Cultural Revolution?
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Why is scent so strongly associated with memories, but I can't "remember" a smell in the same way I can a sight or a sound?
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Many nations in the late 20th century had issues with aristocracy and class struggle. Why did communism take root in Russia, and fail in most other European nations?
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What is the earliest recorded instance of humans being able to recognize time zones? In other words, when did humans realize that morning in one part of the world would be evening in another, and what were some of the reactions to this idea?
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