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When a child receives an organ transplant (heart, kidneys, etc.), does the transplanted organ grow along with them as they get older? How does it know what speed to grow at?
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Did "to make love" used to mean something other than "to have sex" in the US in 1930's-60's? I've heard it used in places where it would be strange and inappropriate to literally mean "have sex".
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My son wants to get the "interpreter strip" after spending years taking German. Who does he demonstrate his ability to? There's no "strip counselors"
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If you put a wet rag in a dry room slightly above 32 degrees F, will the evaporative cooling drop the rag's temperature below freezing and freeze the remaining water in it?
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In "Don Quixote" (1605), the title character reads so many books of chivalry that he loses his mind. If there were so many books like that available in the real world in 1605 that they made it into fiction, have many (or any) books like that survived to today?
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How much did Americans on the frontier in the 1800's communicate by mail? Was a letter from a relative something that happened once a month, once a year, or almost never?
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Say I'm a farmer, living in rural Illinois in 1830. I have siblings and children in other states. If one of them dies, do I hear about it? How?
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I'm a 17 year old man making the long walk from my mountain home to fight in the battle of Kings Mountain in the American Revolutionary War. What songs are my fellow soldiers and I singing to pass the time?
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AMA Request: Max Martin (pop songwriter who's written "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love", Maroon 5's "One More Night", Bon Jovi's "It's My Life", and about everything Katy Perry, Britney Spears, and Pink have ever done)
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