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What were the arguments and how fierce/widespread was the resistance against creating Social Security before it was passed?

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How do ancient languages compare to modern ones in terms of complexity? Roughly the same?

3377 upvotes • r/askscience

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Why do infants lose certain abilities around 6 months old, such as distinguishing between different language sounds and different primates' faces?

930 upvotes • r/askscience

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Just as "red" in hundred meant "count", does the "ter" in close relatives (like father, mother, brother, sister) mean anything in Old(er) English?

372 upvotes • r/askscience

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How does freezing sperm not destroy or damage it?

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What is believed to cause the apparent randomness of "good days" and "bad days" for people who have/have had dementia or stroke?

173 upvotes • r/askscience

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What caused people's opinions regarding slavery to change at such a level that it was banned in most places in/by the 1800's?

112 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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What caused the different branches of Proto-Indo European (PIE) to have different order in grammar (subject verb object etc.)?

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Why was/is atheism the official/preferred religion in the Soviet Union and other communist countries? Is it to be in contrast to the capitalist countries mainly being Christian, to make sure the people don't have some other power they answer to, or other reason(s)?

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How does the force needed to pull quarks apart increase, not decrease, as the distance between them increases?

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What were the arguments and how fierce/widespread was the resistance against creating Social Security before it was passed?	3402	AskHistorians
How do ancient languages compare to modern ones in terms of complexity? Roughly the same?	3377	askscience
Why do infants lose certain abilities around 6 months old, such as distinguishing between different language sounds and different primates' faces?	930	askscience
Just as "red" in hundred meant "count", does the "ter" in close relatives (like father, mother, brother, sister) mean anything in Old(er) English?	372	askscience
How does freezing sperm not destroy or damage it?	371	askscience
What is believed to cause the apparent randomness of "good days" and "bad days" for people who have/have had dementia or stroke?	173	askscience
What caused people's opinions regarding slavery to change at such a level that it was banned in most places in/by the 1800's?	112	AskHistorians
What caused the different branches of Proto-Indo European (PIE) to have different order in grammar (subject verb object etc.)?	41	askscience
Why was/is atheism the official/preferred religion in the Soviet Union and other communist countries? Is it to be in contrast to the capitalist countries mainly being Christian, to make sure the people don't have some other power they answer to, or other reason(s)?	27	AskHistorians
How does the force needed to pull quarks apart increase, not decrease, as the distance between them increases?	26	askscience