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Suppose I live in 1116 and I cut my hand and get an infection. How much bearing (if any) does where I live on Earth, have on my chances of survival?	1368
in 1414 would the Hawaiians have been aware of the existence of either Asia or America?	1357
You know that bit in king kong where the biplanes are flying around him. were there really people on stand by for if New York needed air defence? and if there was would they still have been using biplanes in the 1933?	1309
Imagine a Anglo-Saxon lord's feast table in 1048, imagine a Norman lord's feast table in 1103. Can you tell which is which from the food?	1302
I saw The Revenant today. There’s a bit in it where DiCaprio's character is talking to a Pawnee man about how they've both lost their families to conflict, the Pawnee says "revenge is in the Creator's hands". Does that line make any sense with regard to what the Pawnee actually believed?	1229
suppose I run an inn in London in 1103. can likely I read, write & do basic arithmetic? if not how do I keep track of my business?	1210
Ancient ruins with booby traps in them. is that trope based on anything that actually ever existed, or is it totally the invention of 19th/20th century adventure fiction writers?	1205
You can make wine from pretty wide range of plants, is there a particular reason nothing else did as well as wine made from grapes?	1204
In Unbroken, a movie about America POWs in Japan, they offer the main character more food & comfort in exchange for lying on the radio about how the Japanese are treating prisoners. Did that really happen to people? If "yes" what happened to guys who went along with it?	1110
did the Aztecs understand where the Spanish were from? were they incredulous of the notion of lands and people on the other side of the ocean?	1098

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