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Were "Wanted Dead or Alive" posters ever published as real legal notices in the US? If so, was anyone ever killed as a result of acting on such a notice through mistaken identity?

1576 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Have any elephant bones ever turned up in the Alps, where Hannibal lost a few trying to cross into Italy?

1408 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Is there such a thing as mitochondrial "cancer?" I.e., are there any diseases resulting from known or suspected errors in mitochondrial DNA that disrupt the mechanism of mitochondrial replication?

1395 upvotes • r/askscience

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Was there a significant spike in spousal and parental suicides during WWII as a result of war casualties?

182 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Polaris, the North Star, is .7 degrees off the Earth's axis of rotation (at present). Is there another star known to be spot on, but invisible to the naked eye?

151 upvotes • r/askscience

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How well did the forced-migration Native American tribes get along with the indigenous people already living at their final destinations? Do such distinctions between decedents of these groups survive today?

96 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Does the act of questioning have an fMRI signature, and has this signature been observed in other animals?

78 upvotes • r/askscience

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Are there any weather systems, such as arctic cold fronts, that move from west to east all the way around the world? Could a cold front that arrives today be the same front (evolved, obviously) that came through 2-3 weeks prior ?

67 upvotes • r/askscience

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If a person is right-handed, does such dominance include all voluntary muscles? For example, are the muscles in the larynx also somewhat right-dominant?

58 upvotes • r/askscience

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Are there any genes or junk segments of mtDNA that suggest the type of bacteria that was originally incorporated to form the first eukaryote?

31 upvotes • r/askscience

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Were "Wanted Dead or Alive" posters ever published as real legal notices in the US? If so, was anyone ever killed as a result of acting on such a notice through mistaken identity?	1576	AskHistorians
Have any elephant bones ever turned up in the Alps, where Hannibal lost a few trying to cross into Italy?	1408	AskHistorians
Is there such a thing as mitochondrial "cancer?" I.e., are there any diseases resulting from known or suspected errors in mitochondrial DNA that disrupt the mechanism of mitochondrial replication?	1395	askscience
Was there a significant spike in spousal and parental suicides during WWII as a result of war casualties?	182	AskHistorians
Polaris, the North Star, is .7 degrees off the Earth's axis of rotation (at present). Is there another star known to be spot on, but invisible to the naked eye?	151	askscience
How well did the forced-migration Native American tribes get along with the indigenous people already living at their final destinations? Do such distinctions between decedents of these groups survive today?	96	AskHistorians
Does the act of questioning have an fMRI signature, and has this signature been observed in other animals?	78	askscience
Are there any weather systems, such as arctic cold fronts, that move from west to east all the way around the world? Could a cold front that arrives today be the same front (evolved, obviously) that came through 2-3 weeks prior ?	67	askscience
If a person is right-handed, does such dominance include all voluntary muscles? For example, are the muscles in the larynx also somewhat right-dominant?	58	askscience
Are there any genes or junk segments of mtDNA that suggest the type of bacteria that was originally incorporated to form the first eukaryote?	31	askscience