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In Peanuts, an unseen adult character is shown to GREATLY overreact to the institution of zip codes. Was this reflective of a real thought process that people had at the time or just something that Charles Schulz thought was funny?	2940
Well, we don't know what Hitler thought of April Fools 2021, but hopefully you all enjoyed!	888
Captain John Smith was captured by the Tatars as a slave and escaped; he then went on to Virginia where his group took Native Americans as slaves, and was presumably aware of the African slave trade. How did he and others in his time contextualize these forms of slavery for themselves?	318
In the TV show Good Omens, Crowley is shown wearing sunglasses in ancient Rome and in Elizabethan England, among other times and places. Are these accurate representations of things worn in the period or just Crowley looking characteristically awesome?	269
APRIL FOOLS ALERT- AskHistoricalFiguresAnything, aka r/HistoricalAMA, is up and running!	261
TUESDAY TRIVIA: “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression 'as pretty as an airport'" (Douglas Adams)- Talk to us about the HISTORY OF TRANSPORTATION!	208
TUESDAY TRIVIA: “The phrase 'someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me" (Terry Pratchett)- let's talk about when something WAS done- and THE MOMENT IT ALL CHANGED!	124
TUESDAY TRIVIA: They say that "no good deed goes unpunished"- I wish it was "no good deed goes unrecorded"! Add some heartwarming goodness to the world by recounting HISTORICAL GOOD DEEDS!	119
TUESDAY TRIVIA: "You are sixteen going on seventeen, baby, it's time to think" up some discussions of TEENAGERS throughout history!	93
TUESDAY TRIVIA: "You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss... the subreddit rules apply as time goes by"- let's talk about the HISTORY (and historiography) of MEMORIES!	84

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