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What did Vikings expect to realistically gain from Blót sacrifices aside from vague things like "good luck', "good harvests" or blessings in combat0? Was this sometimes seen as a waste of livestock by Norse people who may not have been as devout as their peers, thus sometimes getting boycotted?
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Alexander the Great has been said to have died from malaria. Why didn't his entire army get infected by mosquitoes carrying it, and why does it seem like the disease is only a recent thing rather than a disease thousands of years old? Do people just catch it more frequently now VS then?
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What prevented a literate "sociopath" in medieval times from conning his way into court by impersonating, or even cause war between two "countries" aside from a seal that could be forged quite easily since the printing press wasn't yet invented to make real, identical copies of documents?
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I walk into a completely average medieval village in modern clothes and I'm holding a smartphone. Is there a realistic chance of me being chased out of the village with pitchforks, or is the "xenophobic peasant" trope a misconception?
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I'm a pleb with almost nothing. But I have dreams. I want to become rich, retire early and live out my life in the most hedonistic ways possible without any responsibility at all. How would I become such a 'self made millionaire' in ancient Rome? Trade?Shady deals? Do I need to become a patrician?
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I have read somewhere that WWII has technically seen not ended yet, due to Japan and Russia not having signed peace treaties. Have there been any tensions because of this? How is it effecting the world today?
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Does the "Stoned Ape Theory" make sense? Would eating (a load of) psilocybin mushrooms rewire the brain or "unlock" some sort of reasoning/logic/... or change the way a brain thinks?
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In the series The Witcher, we see people in the castle of Cintra committing mass suicide because they faced certain defeat. They even had an actual plan to do so, as they had poison ready to be distributed to their inhabitants. Did this happen, or was it planned to at any point throughout history?
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What did firm nazi-idealogy supporters who were also "Aryan" think about Hitler with his dark hair and dark eyes? Did he receive any criticism or heavy opposition because he, as "supreme" leader was not the ideal German while wanting to kill off Germans who didn't conform with the ideal appearance?
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