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a while back I was reading a Cracked article (I really can't remember what it was called) where somebody said that the Russians rally weren't interested in the Moon, the US just decided is was a race. Is there any truth to that?
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a lot of movies and TV from the 1950s and 1960s depict dinosaurs living alongside people just one or two million years ago (examples: Godzilla, One Million Years B.C., the Flintstones, etc), were the vast majority of people back then (in western countries) really unaware that's totally inaccurate?
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How did the ancient Babylonians view homosexuality (circa Hammurabi time if period makes a difference)?
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Had attitudes to alcohol changed by 1933 or did they just realise prohibition was too hard to enforce?
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in movies about the event life in Hiroshima before the bomb is usually depicted as relatively normal and comfortable. wasn't japan on the verge of famine by the summer of 1945? wouldn't there have already been people in Hiroshima suffering from malnourishment?
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I once saw a TV movie where Norman soldiers were depicted tying Saxon women to trees so they could rape them? Did that sort of thing really happen in 1066? If "yes" was it particularly uncommon (the film gave the impression that it was an especially despicable thing to do) in 11th century warfare?
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Was there a greater degree of wealth disparity between a typical Roman senator and a typical inhabitant of imperial Rome (circa 266), or a typical member of parliament and a typical inhabitant of Victorian London (circa 1866)?
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