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In Pulp Fiction, the opening/closing scene depicts two low-tier criminals robbing a restaurant, on the basis that no one's expecting it. After the movie was released, was there an increase in similar robberies? Was it common before?
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Paul never met Jesus. So how is it that his letters make up such a significant portion of the New Testament?
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In Starship Troopers, Heinlein makes a claim that all wars in human history are due to population pressures in the aggressor nation. Is this a defensible claim?
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After the American Civil War, the US had a rather sizable number of Civil War Generals serve as President. After WWII, we had only one WWII general get elected president (though a few junior officers got elected). Why the difference?
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I've read that Southern plantation owners in the US frequently held large amounts of debt guaranteed on the value of their slaves. What happened to that debt, and the plantation owners, after emancipation?
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