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During their decade together did The Beatles sleep with groupies left and right? Are they known to have engaged in rockstar-level debauchery? Did they take hard drugs?
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Did "Pooh" mean "poop" when A.A. Milne wrote Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926? If not, what did the word refer to?
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I've heard my whole life that in America in the 1970s sexual swinging and key parties (ones in which partygoers went home with whomever's keys they drew out of a bowl) were popular. Are there any media artifacts from that era that depict these practices? Any films, magazine articles, or TV shows?
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The theory that Piri Reis' 1513 First World Map depicts Antarctica is widely dismissed, but a US seismological survey strongly supported it. Could it be true?
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Let's say the Sphinx predates Khafra and that he only resculpted its head. Are there archaelogically informed drawings of its possible original form(s)?
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When did the first electronics supply shops appear (or was it catalogues at first?) and what types of items did they stock?
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In Western culture it seems as though, at least since WWII, youth culture has been often equated with edginess, recklessness, rule-breaking, boundary-pushing, increasingly liberal, and so on. If I'm correct about this, when did the notion of youth become tinged with such characteristics?
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Did American and European Jews identify with the broader middle east as their region of religious/ethnic origin before the establishment of Israel?
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