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Cooking: I've often heard that salt "brings out the flavor" of a dish. What does this mean in chemical terms?
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In the 2007 movie "Persepolis," one character says that because it was forbidden to kill a virgin, virgins convicted of capital crimes were raped before execution. Is this true? (1980s Iran)
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"On February 14, 1650, the parliament at Nürnberg decreed that, because so many men were killed during the Thirty Years' War...the decree stated that every man was allowed to marry up to ten women." How many such marriages happened? How long did this legalized polygamy last, and why did it stop?
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"Beef-eating Latins"--so an eyewitness to the 1204 sack of Constantinople calls Western Christians. Did the Byzantines not eat beef?
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In 1972 the Kingdom of Tonga sent troops to squash the nascent micronation of Minerva, which consisted of a small tower and a flag atop a soggy artificial reef, along with some novelty currency. Why did Tonga bother to dignify Minerva with an official response?
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Diodorus said the oracle at Delphi "dressed in the costume of a virgin." How would a virgin have dressed differently from a married woman in classical times?
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US general Smedley Butler said: "In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested." Was he referring to a specific favor?
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