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Do we have any proof that Scar actually assassinated King Mufasa? Or was this just a propaganda story created by the Simba Regime to legitimatize Simba's transition back to Lion Apartheid over a racially intergrated kingdom of lions and hyenas (under scar)?

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Was that "young handsome stalin" photo edited at all by the Soviet government?

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In the movie "The Deer Hunter", three friends from the same town go to fight in Vietnam in what seems to be the same unit. How likely or possible was it for friends to go to the same place in war?

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Was there any warning signs or rumblings of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, or was it a complete surprise to the West?

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If the Japanese had not gotten the Yamoto battleship destroyed (the most powerful ship on earth at the time), would the US have taken it and converted it to a US ship? Did something similar ever happen to a captured ship after WW2?

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Do we have any proof that Scar actually assassinated King Mufasa? Or was this just a propaganda story created by the Simba Regime to legitimatize Simba's transition back to Lion Apartheid over a racially intergrated kingdom of lions and hyenas (under scar)?	2439
Was that "young handsome stalin" photo edited at all by the Soviet government?	311
In the movie "The Deer Hunter", three friends from the same town go to fight in Vietnam in what seems to be the same unit. How likely or possible was it for friends to go to the same place in war?	54
Was there any warning signs or rumblings of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, or was it a complete surprise to the West?	12
If the Japanese had not gotten the Yamoto battleship destroyed (the most powerful ship on earth at the time), would the US have taken it and converted it to a US ship? Did something similar ever happen to a captured ship after WW2?	6