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In the Monty Python's Flying Circus episode "You're No Fun Anymore", Scotsmen are portrayed raising their rights fists. Was this ever historically a salute associated with Scotland?

23 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How does a revolver cannon align the chamber with the barrel, and yet spin at a high rate? Won't there be potentially fatal issues with alignment?

22 upvotes • r/askscience

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[SPOILERS] There's a suspiciously familiar bubble floating around the Erinyes (Koshchei In Hell v4).

18 upvotes • r/Mignolaverse

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Left Behind (final chapter)

17 upvotes • r/HFY

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In Doc Watson's "House of the Rising Sun", he sings "don't believe what a bad woman tells you... ...unless she's standing on some old scaffold high, saying 'fellas they won't let me come down'".

16 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Is there a scent that distinguishes all (or most) female mammals from males? Can animals tell the difference between females and males of other species?

15 upvotes • r/askscience

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In Return of the Obra Dinn, the titular ship remains at sea even as she loses her crew. During the Age of Sail, how many crew could a vessel lose and still remain seaworthy?

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The Flight (Chapter 3)

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How is the "power" of dish soap measured? How can a company claim one of its products is "3 times as powerful" as another one?

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Arthur Wellesley once said of von Blücher, "But the Prussians had no experience of blowing up bridges. We, who had blown up so many in Spain, could have done it in five minutes". How were bridges (and other things) blown up in the age of gunpowder?

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In the Monty Python's Flying Circus episode "You're No Fun Anymore", Scotsmen are portrayed raising their rights fists. Was this ever historically a salute associated with Scotland?	23	AskHistorians
How does a revolver cannon align the chamber with the barrel, and yet spin at a high rate? Won't there be potentially fatal issues with alignment?	22	askscience
[SPOILERS] There's a suspiciously familiar bubble floating around the Erinyes (Koshchei In Hell v4).	18	Mignolaverse
Left Behind (final chapter)	17	HFY
In Doc Watson's "House of the Rising Sun", he sings "don't believe what a bad woman tells you... ...unless she's standing on some old scaffold high, saying 'fellas they won't let me come down'".	16	AskHistorians
Is there a scent that distinguishes all (or most) female mammals from males? Can animals tell the difference between females and males of other species?	15	askscience
In Return of the Obra Dinn, the titular ship remains at sea even as she loses her crew. During the Age of Sail, how many crew could a vessel lose and still remain seaworthy?	15	AskHistorians
The Flight (Chapter 3)	14	HFY
How is the "power" of dish soap measured? How can a company claim one of its products is "3 times as powerful" as another one?	10	askscience
Arthur Wellesley once said of von Blücher, "But the Prussians had no experience of blowing up bridges. We, who had blown up so many in Spain, could have done it in five minutes". How were bridges (and other things) blown up in the age of gunpowder?	10	AskHistorians