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When did drinking at the office and in business meetings stop being a thing? In a lot of movies and series, for example Mad Men, if someone came to your office for a meeting you offered them a drink. Was that really something that people did or is it just in the movies?

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How did almost every country in the world end up with a similar system of visas, passports, id systems, etc? Was there a time when each country had a different, incompatible system and then due to international travel pressure they all slowly moved to a single way of doing things?

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When did drinking at the office and in business meetings stop being a thing? In a lot of movies and series, for example Mad Men, if someone came to your office for a meeting you offered them a drink. Was that really something that people did or is it just in the movies?	2188
How did almost every country in the world end up with a similar system of visas, passports, id systems, etc? Was there a time when each country had a different, incompatible system and then due to international travel pressure they all slowly moved to a single way of doing things?	3