Death squads throughout 1980s central america are known to have received money from the US government and counterinsurgency training from its military. Was the US military aware that its training was used on civilians? Was the training designed specifically to be used on civilians? (old.reddit.com)
Is it wrong to go to church with your family if it makes your wife and kids really happy but deep down in my heart you just don’t believe in god? (old.reddit.com)
Women, How do you deal with huge crushes when in a relationship. Those that were crushes before you met your partner and also those that become crushes after and are persistent on you? (old.reddit.com)
If you had the option to know the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth regarding everything in the universes existence would you want to know and what would you want to know first? (old.reddit.com)
My wife told me to be open if I ever felt the urge to want to sleep with someone else… So I was open, and I told her I had the urge to… Now there doesn't seem to be any taking it back, and she hates me… What do I do? (old.reddit.com)
I’ve seen Japanese artwork from the Edo era and before depicting Tigers. Did tigers ever inhabit the islands of Japan? If not, how might a Japanese person encounter a tiger before the Meiji era? (old.reddit.com)
My great grandfather was in the SAS, serving in Norway in WW2. He brought back a polar bear skin coat, which according to family legend came from a U-boat captain. Is this plausible? Can anyone identify it? (Image in text) (old.reddit.com)
What was Stalins's end goal with the ethnic cleansing of Crimean Tatars, Balkars, Chechens, Meskhetian turks etc? Did he fear the connection between these Caucasus groups and Turkey due to the Islamic common ground? (old.reddit.com)
Since the world has obviously given up on Afghanistan, what's to stop a private militia from murdering all of the Taliban and taking over the county (assuming they could accomplish this?)? (old.reddit.com)
I took a shower last night but masturbated this morning. My mom is asking me why I’m taking another shower…..what is the best response? (old.reddit.com)
Gordon Lightfoot released his hit song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" less than a year after the ship sank. Was there any controversy at the time surrounding the quick release? Was the song viewed as exploitative? (old.reddit.com)
AskScience AMA Series: I'm Dr. Rebecca Schwarzlose, a neuroscientist who studies brain organization and development, here to discuss the maps in your brain that give you perception, movement, meaning, and mental imagery - and make it possible for new technologies to decode your thoughts. AMA! (old.reddit.com)
What was America's purpose for occupying Afghanistan for 20 years if the Taliban is on the path to take control of the whole country as soon as they left? (old.reddit.com)
Will a organ that was donated from a younger person to an older person help minimize the aging process? Also, will the organ age faster due to the already aged organs around it? (old.reddit.com)
Does anyone else randomly get sad because you know that people you care about will pass away some day or that there are animals who are living their last days (in animal shelters) without being loved. (old.reddit.com)
Is there somewhere I can buy crystals or gemstones without the mystical markup? I know they aren't magic; I just think they look cool. (old.reddit.com)
How comparable is the European concept of 'Divine Right' in the Early Modern period and the most standard Chinese interpretation of the 'Mandate of Heaven'? If they are not comparable, what differentiates them? (old.reddit.com)
I'm a twentysomething in East Germany in 1978, and I want to see this 'Star Wars' movie that west german TV is so excited about. Do I have any options to do so? What happens when the Stasi finds out about my intentions? (old.reddit.com)
Relatively new to Reddit and still figuring things out. How come sometimes there is an actual up/downvote number and other times it just says “Vote” with arrows but no number? (old.reddit.com)
Afghanistan is being taken again by the Taliban. It appears to be incredibly easy - where have they been hiding for the last 20 years?? How is it happening so quickly? (old.reddit.com)
I often take a coffee into the bathroom when I take a shit. My wife thinks this is gross, since poo particles will get into my coffee. I figure if I'm smelling poo, it's getting into my mouth/nose/lungs anyway. Who's right? (old.reddit.com)
Women of Reddit, have you ever said "No" to your boss/manager to their face/over text because they were being inconsiderate and piling work on you and expected you to get it done? If yes, why and how? (old.reddit.com)
In the book 1984 Orwell describes how the party members wear factory clothes, a practice that would indeed happen in China and North Korea but not the USSR, what’s going on here? (old.reddit.com)
Poisoning wells was a common practice in times of war, but then, at which point the well becomes drinkable again?, are there well still poisoned from past wars? (old.reddit.com)
AskScience AMA Series: I am Dr. Claire McLintock, a clinical and laboratory hematologist specializing in obstetric medicine. I currently serve as Vice Chair of World Thrombosis Day and and I am passionate about all areas of women's health, from pregnancy to hormone replacement therapy. AMA! (old.reddit.com)
What’s your best method for clearing your mind and feel stronger and more resilient emotionally when you’re worried, stressed, or upset? (old.reddit.com)
What recipes/foods that were once commonplace are no longer available or viable because the ingredients no longer exist? What led to their decline? (old.reddit.com)
If we could set up a Truman Show scenario where Trump thinks he’s President again and the public send in scenarios for him to deal with, what would you suggest? (old.reddit.com)
What is the most f*****-up thing you've ever done, and you've never told anyone about it? Confess your darkest secrets, even if they're horrible. (old.reddit.com)
If you raised a heterosexual man for his entire life without ever seeing a woman, what would he sexually fantasize about? And when you finally showed him a woman, would everything snap into place immediately? (old.reddit.com)
Hi! I am an assistant to a political philosophy professor and we're developing a project on political philosophy that falls outside the standard philosophical canon. We're currently looking for suggestions! Do you know any political philosophy works that are generally overlooked? (old.reddit.com)
After the Rape of Nanking, Japanese troops continued to occupy the city for almost eight years. What was life like in the city during the years after the massacre while still under Japanese occupation? (old.reddit.com)
What's stopping continents today from breaking off and forming other continents like it did before? Or is it happening now and we just don't notice it? (old.reddit.com)
Is it true that American Puritans didn't actually flee Britain due to religious persecution, but rather they left because they were zealots that were unhappy that they could push their views on society/The Church of England? (old.reddit.com)
Why the FUCK are we still catering to billionaires and the "elite" class when we're on the cusp of a scorched earth and total societal collapse? The Titanic is sinking and we're serving cucumber sandwiches and playing Vivaldi to 1st class in front of the lifeboats we don't get to use, WHY is this OK (old.reddit.com)
Imagine a wire as long as the universe with a person on each end, could they communicate instantly by pushing and pulling the wire? Could the transmission of a message thus be faster than the speed of light? (old.reddit.com)
We're living in an age where Atheism is slowly becoming mainstream and replacing religiousness, has this ever happened in the past or are the last two centuries' behaviors novelty for history? (old.reddit.com)
How did escaping slaves and Jews during the Holocaust keep their babies quiet when hiding? As a new parent, there seems little that could be done in an emergency situation. (old.reddit.com)
Lee Harvey Oswald applied to work at the Texas School Book Depository over 2 months before Kennedy's assassination. How did he know to do this? Was JFK's motorcade route announced several months in advance? (old.reddit.com)
Not saying I am a saint, but how is it possible for people to do the most immoral stuff like burn people alive/dismember/drown like psychologically i don’t get how it’s possible to be evil like that? (old.reddit.com)
I’m a guy and I’m going to lose my virginity soon and I’m afraid that I’ll only last a minute and not make it pleasurable for my gf. I want to know A: how can I last longer for my first time? (if that’s even possible lol) and B: how can I make sure it’ll also be pleasurable for her too? (old.reddit.com)
Soooooo, I'm in a bit of a pickle and I'm now starting to get concerned. I've never really had diarrhea before, but in past 2 days, I've visited the toilet at least 50 times. I've gone 16 times in the past 2 and a half hours. I don't know what to do? I really don't want to go to the hospital (old.reddit.com)
What is your real life experience with “It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.”? (old.reddit.com)
Someone on an Ask Reddit thread claimed research indicates that prior to Ptolemy VIII exiling academics from the Library of Alexandra, "they were only about ~300 years from full on industrialization." Is this true? If so, where can I learn more about it? (old.reddit.com)
You have been cursed by a witch to say only one short phrase for the rest of your life, but you get to choose what it is. What is your phrase? (old.reddit.com)
Is there any actual evidence to support the idea that foot fetishes are caused by a "cross-wiring" in the brain of genitalia and feet? (old.reddit.com)
When I was a kid, I always remember frozen pizzas needing to go on a tray before going in the oven. Now, they all seem to go straight on the rack. Was there a breakthrough in frozen pizza technology at some point that allowed this to happen? (old.reddit.com)
"Born too late to explore the Earth and born too early to explore the universe." Why don't we explore the oceans? More than 80% of the oceans are undiscovered/unmapped. (old.reddit.com)
In movies/tv they say there are always a percentage of people who are naturally immune to new diseases, is this true and are there people naturally immune to COVID-19 specifically? (old.reddit.com)
During the Hundred Years War, did the English kings really want to rule France, or were they simply looking to secure their continental holdings such as Aquitaine? (old.reddit.com)
Do teachers in the USA really buy school supplies for students? Why? Why don't student buy their own? For how many grades do teachers buy those supplies? (old.reddit.com)
We imagine hunter-gatherer life as unchanging for millennia, but what has actually changed in the lifestyles of various hunter-gatherer groups since the stone age? (old.reddit.com)
Ever since Biden got elected, it seems like news about the White House has just disappeared from mainstream media. Is there any truth to this? (old.reddit.com)
Do people (mostly men) actually go beat their meat during office hours? Bagged a new job at a big firm and a couple of the guys here have admitted to it (old.reddit.com)
Why can't most jobs pay $20+ an hour so anyone who's willing to work 40 hours a week can at least keep a roof over their head and eat everyday? (old.reddit.com)
Why did the French nobles listen to the advice of an illiterate peasant teenage girl who said she received visions from God, and why was it that once Joan of Arc began campaigning with the French they started to win? (old.reddit.com)
During the American Revolution, to what extent were the Founding Fathers motivated by personal financial gain, as opposed to fighting for universal rights? (old.reddit.com)
Humans kill flies because they annoy us, not for food. Do any other animals kill other species for reasons other than food or defense? (old.reddit.com)
I am Soviet party elite in the 1980s with first access to any domestic food products, what exactly am I eating that the general public is not? (old.reddit.com)
When people get surgery to have an organ removed is there just empty space left where the organ was? If yes, how do other organs not move into the space? (old.reddit.com)
In 1872, Victoria Woodhull and her sister Tennie Claflin exposed the rape of two 15-year old girls after a masked ball, saying there was no road left open to them but "the prostitute's road to hell". Was that true? Would they have had other options? (old.reddit.com)
If a boy accidentally pushes his sister down a flight of stairs during an argument and she dies, and the boy's friend hangs the body to try to exonerate him, could they be in any legal trouble? (old.reddit.com)
In Avatar, Firelord(King) Zuko lived as a wanderer/waiter before becoming Firelord. This was a contrast with his privileged childhood as a prince. Is there any real life e.g. of kings who were born into power spending years as peasants before taking the throne? Particularly Absolute or Feudal kings? (old.reddit.com)