I've read Mein Kampf. It seems like trite racist material that isn't well written or original. Did the book become famous because Hitler wrote it, or because it was considered a powerful work? (old.reddit.com)
Where does the stereotypical image of a robber wearing a black-and-white striped shirt, a black eye-mask, and a beret or beanie and carrying a big bag (in which to store the stolen proceeds) come from? (old.reddit.com)
If you needed to get into a fingerprint protected safe and you killed someone and took their hand, how long would the hand be viable for opening the safe before it decomposes too far? (old.reddit.com)
I often hear that modern Hinduism is fact extremely different from earlier forms and that what is considered today’s mainstream Hinduism did not actually exist until the 20th century. How accurate are these claims and how is recent Hinduism different from its ancient roots? (old.reddit.com)
In Fiddler on the Roof, why is a tailor poor and a butcher rich? Is it just random or meant to depict the actual status or wealth associated with these jobs in old Eastern European Jewish villages? (old.reddit.com)
George Washington Carver said he, his sister and his mother were "Ku Klucked" when he was very young. He says it was a band of outlaws who abducted them, and sold them in Arkansas - though he was found on the road, he never saw his other family again. How common were these acts in the Missouri area? (old.reddit.com)
It's a known fact that Robert McNamara was a huge proponent of using mathematical data analysis and computing to influence his decisions as Secretary of Defense. But is it known what calculations he did in particular, what his formulas and models were and to what extent they influenced his strategy? (old.reddit.com)
Why is everyone in America so opinionated on mundane things? And by everyone I mean from a common person to the government itself? Sorry if it comes out as rude. (old.reddit.com)
[SERIOUS] When you turned 18/moved out of your parents house on your own, what were some life lessons you wish someone told you or warned you about being a grown up or being out on your own, instead of just "figuring it out?" (old.reddit.com)
Women with skin condition (psoriasis, eczema, rosacea, vitiligo, acne..) how has it affected you social life, self esteem and mental helth? (old.reddit.com)
In a TIL thread discussing the significance of fire bombing in Japan vs Atomic bombs in WW2, it was claimed that Kyoto was removed from the list of cities to bomb due to the city's cultural significance. Is it true? Why would cultural significance justify not bombing an enemy city at the time? (old.reddit.com)
How is the ozone layer doing now? About 15 years ago it was always in the media as a concern, holes in the ozone layer, etc. Then it all went silent, nobody talks about it anymore, was it fixed? (old.reddit.com)
Does anybody else talk to people and you think they'll definitely misunderstand you? Every time I say something, I try to repeat my main point like 3 times, I repeat the most important few words. Idk if I express myself badly, but people seem to never understand what I'm saying. (old.reddit.com)
Why do toddlers who fall over and slam their face on the ground sit up and look around with a calm expression on their face for a full 5 seconds before they freak out? (old.reddit.com)
Against the Delta variant, do vaccines still protect against serious illness and complications in breakthrough infection patients with chronic conditions, like asthma or sleep apnea? (old.reddit.com)
What were the mechanics of sex work like in 1st Century Galilee? How would I find a sex worker, proposition them, and pay for it? Were there brothels, procurers, or was everybody freelance? (old.reddit.com)
Queen Elizabeth I of England and Oda Nobunaga were born less than a year apart. What would they have known about each other? Would they have had any interaction at all, even indirect? (old.reddit.com)
How do the mods decide what questions are "GREAT QUESTION!"s? I just had a question flaired that way, after submitting it a second time, when it was not flaired that way the first time. (old.reddit.com)
Who was healthier: a rich city-dweller in 1st century Europe or a rich a city-dweller in 11th century Europe? What about a *poor* city-dweller in 1st century Europe compared to a *poor* a city-dweller in 11th century Europe? (old.reddit.com)
Teotihuacan was the most influential and powerful city state of its time, with control over a large trade network. They worshiped a "spider goddess" but this goddess doesn't seem to show up in later pantheons after the city was abandoned. Why? (old.reddit.com)
Have you ever been genuinely disturbed by a movie scene (horror or otherwise) to the point you can’t watch the movie again and which movie?? (old.reddit.com)
In the movies, when getting into trouble, people always exclaim: "I want to see my lawyer!" Does everyone have "their" lawyer? I never needed one, so how do I get "my" lawyer? (old.reddit.com)
Obesity increases the risk of cancer. If you were obese, but then lost all the weight, do you still have a higher risk than somebody who has always been a healthy weight? (old.reddit.com)
I’m a driver for teenage kids and I select music for them to listen to on their way. I don’t know really what kids that age listen to, and it needs to be somewhat clean. Any ideas? (old.reddit.com)
Mass graves of Indigenous peoples keep getting discovered at the sites of Canadian residential schools. Should I expect mass graves to be found at Aboriginal missions here in Australia? (old.reddit.com)
Am I the only one who instinctively starts walking back and forth and all over the place when I get on the phone with somebody? I never really knew. It's not always that it happens, but often when somebody calls me up when I'm at home for example it does happen. (old.reddit.com)
Marco Polo said he helped the Mongols conquer the Chinese city of Xiangyang by teaching them how to build mangonels. According to Chinese and Mongol records, Xiangyang fell in 1273. Marco Polo did not go to China until 1275. How is this possible? (old.reddit.com)
Ice burns make no sense to me on a molecular level. Your skin cells are damaged because they came in contact with molecules that move too slowly? (old.reddit.com)
How obvious and well-coordinated were volleys of fire in 17th century warfare? Could well-trained troops reliably learn to just duck when the other guys all shot at once? (old.reddit.com)
How are people released from prison expected to go straight and not commit crime again if nobody will give them a job to enable them to survive and provide because they’ve got a criminal record? It’s a no-brainer that they’ll then turn back to the only way they know how to earn money. (old.reddit.com)
Much of the homeless population of the United States has problems with addiction or mental health. Did the US once accommodate these people in asylums and state-run care facilities? Did that system work well? Why was it done away with? (old.reddit.com)
Imagine person is graduating from yale law school with great grades - How do their opportunities for the next 20 years differ if person is white vs black vs asian? (old.reddit.com)
Canadians of reddit: if a new GTA game gets released where it's 'Greater Toronto Area', what are some of the unique quests in the game ? (old.reddit.com)
My understanding is that you have no control in whatever you are attracted to, so its okay to be attracted to a friend, but is it generally "acceptable" to beat the meat thinking about em? (old.reddit.com)
When prophet Muhammad was preaching Islam and introducing its laws and guidelines were there any robust intellectual challenges among the adherents to his edicts e.g. on alcohol consumption, eating pork and drawing portraits. (old.reddit.com)
Say you get kidnapped by someone but instead of killing you they ask you "Duel me in any game it's your choice, If you lose you get killed, if you win I have to let you go." what's your game choice? (old.reddit.com)
Did American children in the 1970s and 1980s actually have more unsupervised play time than children in the 1990s through today? If so, are there any clear causes of the decline in unsupervised play? (old.reddit.com)
Hypothetically, could you take a modern day car back to the 1930’s, 40’s or 50’s and have it run on the gasoline from that era or has fuel changed too much? (old.reddit.com)
How did abolitionist like Frederick Douglass react to the exception within the 13th Amendment allowing for slavery in the prison System? Did they foresee its abuse by white Americans in the Justice System? (old.reddit.com)
In those American states that did not join the Confederacy but still had legal slavery such as Maryland, Delaware and Missouri, what was the practice of slavery like during the war? (old.reddit.com)
In English, we call our planet "Earth" which is just a fancy word for dirt. Is that the same in every language and culture, where the planet is just named one of their words for dirt? (old.reddit.com)
Why is the Japanese Yen so weak in terms of one unit? Did the Japanese economy experience hyperinflation at some point and then stabilize or was the yen designed to trade in the thousands for daily stuff? (old.reddit.com)
Was at a friend's place, she has two cats that like me, but they were sitting on either side of me hissing at one another. This went on for about a minute so I interjected and hissed at both of them, asserting my dominance and they stopped. My friend was shocked at what I did. Did I do wrong? (old.reddit.com)
Are the Indian subcontinent's current religious divisions a construct of intentional British colonial policy during their colonial rule? (old.reddit.com)
Does anybody else keep checking the upvote score on their posts every couple of minutes? And feel depressed when it stays the same or goes down? (old.reddit.com)
In the early days of seafaring exploration, when news/maps travelled more slowly, did places often get "discovered" twice by Europeans? How were disputes handled/resolved? (old.reddit.com)
Much of Mein Kampf apparently involves ranting about the status of the Southern Tirol, which Italy had annexed from Austria at the end of WWI. Why this obsession with a piece of Alpine territory? And how typical were Hitler's views on the matter within Austria and/or Germany? (old.reddit.com)
Does anyone else absolutely HATE working or get depressed at the thought of spending 1/3rd of your life just... working? Do you have advice for how to cope? (old.reddit.com)
If Tesla was on the path of making electricity be conducted through air, like WiFi, how come we can't do it now since technology advanced so much? (old.reddit.com)
Yalta, Tehran, these conferences would not just decide the fate of ww2, but even the world after. But, more importantly, what was the catering like? What did the delegates eat? (old.reddit.com)
People who have worked on infamously bad products/games/apps/films, did you know it was bad when it was being made? Did the company? What happened? (old.reddit.com)
What were the borders of the Incan empire like? Did their leaders practice diplomacy with smaller tribes or were those conquered until there was none around? (old.reddit.com)
Other than influenza cases dramatically decreasing due to lockdown, increased sanitization, mask wearing, and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, have we recorded other dramatic decreases in other diseases such as measles, mono, strep, staph, etc? (old.reddit.com)
If an emergency services vehicle (Ambulance, Fire Truck, Police) witness a bad accident on the way to respond to a another call, what are they supposed to do? (old.reddit.com)
Do any other species have their children go through a rebellious phase like our teenagers do? How unique are humans teenage years compared to other animals? (old.reddit.com)
In "The Right Stuff," Wolfe claims that the stereotypical pilot/ATC voice originated from other pilots mimicking West Virginian Chuck Yeager's distinctive voice. Is this correct? (old.reddit.com)
Before California created the US's first no-fault divorce law, someone wanting a divorce would have to have (or fabricate) a reason why their partner had violated marriage norms. Did divorce involve a lot of slander? Did people make up reasons to get divorced? (old.reddit.com)
Why is the 19th century Russian Empire described as being "autocratic", while other similar 19th century states, such as the Austrian Empire, are not described as such, despite also being very illiberal? Why is "autocratic" a description only used for the Russian Empire? What was unique about it? (old.reddit.com)
In Downton Abbey (1922), a character gets an abortion illegally in London. It was advertised in a magazine. How would illegal operations have been advertised, and at the same time hidden from authorities? (old.reddit.com)
Why did people in the US and UK during the 1800s wear so many layers of clothing – not even switching it up for sports, hiking, or heat? (old.reddit.com)
What conversation or interaction with a physically normal stranger left you wondering if you'd just talked to something non-human or supernatural (like an angel/demon/ghost/alien/time traveller etc.)? (old.reddit.com)
The Russians converted from paganism to Christianity in the 10th century. Is there any in-depth information about the pre-Christian religion(s)? Are there any remains of such places of worship, or any remnants of the earlier religion still present in local tradition in the present? (old.reddit.com)
The Aztec emperor Montezuma welcomed Cortes into his awe-inspiring palace and gave a speech in which he supposedly surrendered to the Spanish. But this speech went through two translators before reaching the ears of the Spaniards. How likely is it that Montezuma was misunderstood? (old.reddit.com)
Almost every new Popular History book has a review blurb from the same 20-30 other popular history writers (Niall Ferguson, Andrew roberts etc…) on the cover. Do these guys read every history book that comes out or are they paid to write good reviews? (old.reddit.com)
If a modern catholic were to be transported to the fourth or fifth century common era, how familiar would the Christian faith be to them? (old.reddit.com)
Reddit, what are your thoughts about having a mandatory high school class that teaches kids about the fundamentals of adulthood including finances, taxes, credit, mortgages, and more? (old.reddit.com)
I am interested in sea-faring Native American nations on the East coast of the Americas. I found an ask on this sub-reddit's faqs about watercraft in the pre-Colombian Americas, but it only mentions examples from the west coast. There must have been seafaring nations on the east coast? (old.reddit.com)
Women who aren't naturally social butterflies, how did you learn to become more comfortable in a large (>20 people) social setting without disappearing into the corner? (old.reddit.com)
Why flux is some finite number even if there are infinite number of electric field lines passing through finite area of cross section? (old.reddit.com)
I never understood why getting up early is seen as superior and staying up late as a bad thing. If I wake up later than you but also stay up later than you, we are both awake for the same amount of time and get just as much done. (old.reddit.com)
Women in successful relationships with a SO from another country & culture, what cultural differences posed challenges and how did you overcome? (old.reddit.com)