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What are the strategies that rulers use to prevent the strongmen they hire from taking over? Which strategies have been successful and unsuccessful?

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What historical structures that have been destroyed do you most wish you could have seen in person?

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Please explain why a room-temperature glass of beer exploded at my party!

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Why did my friend's lukewarm glass of beer explode in his hand at my party?!

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[Biology] How has the field of genetics changed our understanding of taxonomy since 1990? I recently decided to look up the classifications of a variety of animals to answer my kids' questions (earthworms, jellyfish, snails, octopus, frogs, etc), and everything has changed since I learned it.

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Does all life on earth really descent from a single parent organism? Or did the conditions that gave rise to the first living cells give rise to many of them simultaneously, such that we might have a different parent organism than, say, yeast? (Biology)

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I just googled "whale skeleton," and was surprised to find that whales don't have bones analogous to our foot bones in their flukes. But seals do. Can someone ELI5 why whales lost their foot bones?

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You walk to your car in the dark, and, as is your habit, you say, “Any serial killers hiding in the back, please make yourselves known.”

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Was the full horror of the Holocaust conceived from the beginning? When the Nazis began sending Jews and others to ghettos, was the goal already mass extermination? Were concentration camps always intended to be death camps, or was there some other ostensible purpose at first?

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What are the strategies that rulers use to prevent the strongmen they hire from taking over? Which strategies have been successful and unsuccessful?	1	AskHistorians
What historical structures that have been destroyed do you most wish you could have seen in person?	1	AskHistorians
Please explain why a room-temperature glass of beer exploded at my party!	1	askscience
Why did my friend's lukewarm glass of beer explode in his hand at my party?!	1	askscience
[Biology] How has the field of genetics changed our understanding of taxonomy since 1990? I recently decided to look up the classifications of a variety of animals to answer my kids' questions (earthworms, jellyfish, snails, octopus, frogs, etc), and everything has changed since I learned it.	1	askscience
Does all life on earth really descent from a single parent organism? Or did the conditions that gave rise to the first living cells give rise to many of them simultaneously, such that we might have a different parent organism than, say, yeast? (Biology)	1	askscience
I just googled "whale skeleton," and was surprised to find that whales don't have bones analogous to our foot bones in their flukes. But seals do. Can someone ELI5 why whales lost their foot bones?	1	askscience
You walk to your car in the dark, and, as is your habit, you say, “Any serial killers hiding in the back, please make yourselves known.”	1	WritingPrompts
Was the full horror of the Holocaust conceived from the beginning? When the Nazis began sending Jews and others to ghettos, was the goal already mass extermination? Were concentration camps always intended to be death camps, or was there some other ostensible purpose at first?	1	AskHistorians