What would you do if your partner cheats on you with a famous person and justifies it by saying that it was a "once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity" and anyone would have done it? (old.reddit.com)
Anybody else ever had the experience where you feel like you have a booger cornered while picking your nose, but you're having a little trouble getting it out, and you don't want to fully take your finger out of your nose, because if you do, you might lose the booger forever? (old.reddit.com)
Why is it schools haven't devoted a course how to do basic life responsibilities? Doing taxes, building credit, creating a resume, dealing with pressure, etc. I was always under the impression school was to get us ready for life, but it misses the most important lesson of all. How to be an adult (old.reddit.com)
Do we have an idea what the carthaginian architecture was like in Carthage itself and in the colonies (Sicily, Spain etc.)? Was it hellenistic, or more phoenician/middle eastern? (old.reddit.com)
NYC's Book Row had 48 bookstores at its height. What distinguished them and kept them in business? What sort of book culture supported such a density of booksellers? (old.reddit.com)
At the end of "Hamilton: An American Musical", Jefferson says "(Hamilton's) financial system is a work of genius. I couldn’t undo it if I tried... And I tried". Does this refer to specific failed financial reforms during Jefferson's Presidency? (old.reddit.com)
[Serious]Male sex workers, what is something the general population wouldn't consider thinking of, due to sex work being more female-focused? (old.reddit.com)
Why is the inner solar system rocky (inner planets), the outer solar system gas (outer planets), and the far outer solar system rocky (Oort cloud, transNeptunian objects)? (old.reddit.com)
Have you ever struggled so much that you think theres no more pages to turn in your life? And that you are never ever gonna be happy ? What did you do to achieve the opposite? (old.reddit.com)
Who here has gotten so used to wearing face masks now in your country/region you will carry on wearing them after they are no longer necessary? (old.reddit.com)
Modern English is as far as I'm aware the only European language that uses the Latin alphabet without any diacritical marks. Is there a historical reason for this? (old.reddit.com)
FDR had a “gentleman’s agreement” with the press not to photograph him in a wheelchair or comment on his paralysis due to the stigma of the era. Was this upheld by the foreign press during the summits negotiating the post WWII world order? Did the soviets use it in their press against him? (old.reddit.com)
[Serious] People who have been fully vaccinated will you continue to wear a mask even after the CDC told us we don’t have to? Why or why not? (old.reddit.com)
When John Carpenter's The Thing was released in 1982, it was received extremely negatively and even named the most-hated film of all time by some. Today, it's considered one of the greatest horror films of all time. What was the reason for the initial response and why did it change? (old.reddit.com)
Did Medieval European warships ever have mounted ballistas or other siege weapons for ship-to-ship combat, or has Dungeons & Dragons lied to me? (old.reddit.com)
Where there known serial killers before the 1800s and if so, how were those crimes investigated to be able to bring someone to justice? What would have been considered modern evidence for them? (old.reddit.com)
Why did Black Southerners in the 60s form insurgent movements within their state Democratic Parties rather than allying with Republicans? (old.reddit.com)
who else is glad to use mobile ordering to get all the options for customizing their food they were too afraid to ask for before it was made popular? (old.reddit.com)
In Richard Kee's "The Green Flag", he considers the concepts of "Irishness" and Irish nationalim as products of the Enlightenment and the 1798 Rebellion. Was there really no sense of Irish national identity prior to this? (old.reddit.com)
I often hear about trauma causing children to grow up too quickly but I’ve also read about adolescent behavior being extended well into peoples young adult lives. What is a “good” age to leave adolescent behavior behind? (old.reddit.com)
How can I convince my father in law that he, can not, in fact cure his prostate cancer through changing his diet alone. And that while I support his new diet as part of a treatment plan he can not just forgo medical treatment (old.reddit.com)
I have tried multiple times to get into philosophy, but every time I start a new book I can't understand it because the words used are to big for me to understand. What should I do? (old.reddit.com)
Why are so many gas stations (mostly in the USA) even allowing customers to fill up non-approved containers with gasoline? It's literally against the law, and gas station employees are supposed to know this. (old.reddit.com)
The period 1648-1665 was arguably the most calamitous and tragic for the Polish people, only second to the Nazi occupation. Why was the Russo-Swedish Deluge such an incredibly destructive war and how did it lead to the long decline of the once powerful Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth? (old.reddit.com)
In Jane Eyre, the girls at the institute suffer from cold and hunger, to the point of getting sick and dying. How realistic is that historically speaking? (old.reddit.com)
Teddy Roosevelt sent the U.S. Navy to circumnavigate the globe. Was this a technical and logistical achievement for the world? An attempt to win hearts and minds abroad? Intimidation? What did the U.S. get out of it, and how did foreigners react? (old.reddit.com)
Is it true that Nestle used to give impoverished new mother's 2 weeks of free baby formula so their natural milk production dried up and they had to keep buying formula? (old.reddit.com)
Sometimes I feel like I want to socialise but when I actually partake in socialising, I want to get out of that situation as soon as possible. Why is this? (old.reddit.com)
My partner lost his childhood dog this morning and is so distraught. I have never lost a pet so I don't know how to help him through this but I really want to. Does anyone have advice on how I should handle this? (old.reddit.com)
Westerns always seem to have Desperados breaking out windows to shoot at the Marshals, or tavern brawls where someone a quick exit into the street through a large window instead of the door. How hard would actually have been to replace a broken window (large or small) in the Old West? (old.reddit.com)
Today, when I go out for dinner, I can choose to visit an Italian, Indian, or Chinese restaurant. How old is the idea of “ethnic” restaurants that specialize in the food of a particular foreign culture? Could a hungry Roman go out for some Persian takeout? (old.reddit.com)
The plague of frogs from the book of Exodus sounds pretty harmless compared to the other plagues (boils, fire, hail, etc). Is there some reason why Egyptians or Israelites would have been particularly afraid of frogs? (old.reddit.com)
In "Born in the USA," Bruce Springsteen sings about being sent to Vietnam after getting into a "hometown jam." Was there really an "enlist or jail" policy during the Vietnam War? (old.reddit.com)
In English we steal words like “voila” that don’t have an equivalent in our language. Non-english speakers of reddit, what are some stolen words like this in your language? (old.reddit.com)
What’s with all of the panic news stories about declining birth rates and declining fertility? Isn’t this actually a good thing due to overpopulation, famine, etc? (old.reddit.com)
In 2010 series 'Spartacus', in a scene where Spartacus fights as a gladiator while the crowd is dancing and acclaiming him, some women are shown topless. Was it common for women in Ancient Rome to be publicly topless? Otherwise, when and why was Ancient Rome so erotized in the social imaginary? (old.reddit.com)
What was the reaction of the general public in 1924 when Edwin Hubble announced that the spiral nebula Andromeda was actually another galaxy, and that our own galaxy was just one of many? This seems like it would have a profound effect on the world, but did anyone care? (old.reddit.com)
If Elon Musk can tank a cryptocurrency with a lame joke, what does that say about the viability and intrinsic value of cryptocurrencies as a whole? (old.reddit.com)
Ice Cream has been around as early as Persian Empire, circa 500 BCE. Both Chocolate and Vanilla come from New World plants, so their use as ice cream flavorings most likely didn't happen for at least another 2000 years. What were the most popular flavors up until that point? (old.reddit.com)
Why is it acceptable for bags of flour from the grocery store to just casually be spilling/leaking flour all over the place, when this isn’t true of virtually any other food item? (old.reddit.com)
Austria was occupied by the UK, the US, France & the Soviets from '45 to '55. Why did the Soviets choose to withdraw from Austria? Why not create an East Austria? (old.reddit.com)
Are German and Austrian soldiers of WW1 remembered the same way we (British, ANZACS etc) remember ours? Or are they ostracized like those of Nazi Germany? (old.reddit.com)
In 1961, Goa, a colony of Portugal at the time was attacked by India, Portugal was a member of NATO when this happened, yet the USA and NATO didn't help Portugal or invade India, why is this and what was the global reaction to this? (old.reddit.com)
There's a room in your house where time just doesn't flow. You could stay in there for as long as you could possibly want, and not even a second will have passed outside that room. What would you use this room for? (old.reddit.com)
Did anyone from West Africa, I.e Songhai, Mali etc attempt to sail west across the Atlantic before the discovery of the Americas by Columbus? What did West Africans think was beyond the ocean? (old.reddit.com)
Is it okay for your SO to freely read your messages with your friends without asking for permission first and just log into your account/phone whenever they feel like it? (old.reddit.com)
After the fall of the Habsburg Empire, the Czechs and Slovaks were amalgamated into a single state, Czechoslovakia, rather than immediately forming individual nation-states. Why? What was the historical context behind the formation of Czechoslovakia? (old.reddit.com)
Imagine: You have an opportunity to pay $1000 to be able to click a button that prints out a list of every single person whose ever thought about you while masturbating. Would you do it, why/why not? NSFW (old.reddit.com)
When Roald Dahl wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1964, did he come up with the character Augustus Gloop himself, or was he referencing an existing trope? (old.reddit.com)
The top 10% of families own 70% + of the stock market. But we also hear the stock market is where the average person has their retirement funds. Are those "average people"s accounts in that remaining 30%? (old.reddit.com)
When I look at maps of Napoleon’s conquests, it seems he mostly set up a system of puppet states to run Europe for him..... except for modern day Croatia, which he ran directly. Why? (old.reddit.com)