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How did soy sauce come to be a staple in seemingly every East and South-East Asian culture's cuisine?

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How and why did Literary Past Tense become the default for English literature?

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How did translation occur between two groups that had previously never had contact with each other?

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When and how did the entire world come to use seconds, minutes and hours as the standard unit for measuring time? Were there any significant systems in place before that?

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When and how was it learned that it wasn't the same solar time all over the world?

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How did soy sauce come to be a staple in seemingly every East and South-East Asian culture's cuisine?	49
How and why did Literary Past Tense become the default for English literature?	30
How did translation occur between two groups that had previously never had contact with each other?	7
When and how did the entire world come to use seconds, minutes and hours as the standard unit for measuring time? Were there any significant systems in place before that?	4
When and how was it learned that it wasn't the same solar time all over the world?	4