I just read a medieval text in which a man claims the human soul does not exist and that there is no afterlife. How common was such atheistic thought in the Middle-Ages? (old.reddit.com)
Do you ever look at houses/apartments online and picture what it would be like to live in them even tho you aren’t even in the position to purchase one? (old.reddit.com)
How did healthcare systems in ancient civilizations (say, the Aztecs for example) function? Who would a sick or injured person go to? How much would they have to pay? What would happen if they couldn't afford it? (old.reddit.com)
I lost a pineapple piece down a crack in my recliner. With no way of getting it out of there, what will happen to it and what are the consequences? (old.reddit.com)
In catch-22, Major Major's father makes a living by not growing alfalfa. He is said to be paid large sums by the government for the Alfalfa he does not grow. Is something real being parodied there? (old.reddit.com)
Have y'all ever experienced Sonder? "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own." if so, what are your thoughts on it? (old.reddit.com)
The "Green Sahara," period ended 5,000 years ago when changes in the West African monsoon season dried out the area. How much of this was driven by expanding agriculture and the resulting deforestation? (old.reddit.com)
Syracuse was settled by Greek colonists in 734 B.C., and quickly became the most powerful city in Sicily and Magna Grecia. It soon rivaled Athens and Sparta, and squared off against the Carthaginians on equal footing. What advantages allowed it grow so large and rich? (old.reddit.com)
The Bible was first translated to Old Church Slavonic by non-native speakers Cyril and Methodius. Can any peculiarities/rough edges in the text be attributed to this? (old.reddit.com)
Roosevelt used the WPA and U.S. Forest Service to plant a wall of trees from the Great Plains to Texas to slow the growth of the dust bowl. How successful was this initiative, and where are these trees today? (old.reddit.com)
If chances of being hospitalized after vaccines are nearly 0, and unvaccinated people chose to be unvaccinated, what’s the purpose of lockdowns? (old.reddit.com)
Marx and Engels had written that in communist societies the categories of capitalism (prices, wages, money etc) would dissapear and replaced by accounting based on labor time. Was there any discussion or attempt in countries of Eastern bloc and USSR to move towards such a system post 50s? (old.reddit.com)
Do black people in the US find it annoying/offensive when someone calls them African Americans when their ancestors very well could be from somewhere other than Africa? (old.reddit.com)
The 1st Amendment of the US Bill of Rights forbids laws that are based on religion, so what secular justification did politicians have for outlawing homosexuality for so long? (old.reddit.com)
W.L.George in 1922: "A sight of the world today would surprise President Jefferson much more, I suspect, than the world of 2022 would surprise the little girl who sells candies at Grand Central Station." Was he correct? Was the change from 1822 to 1922 greater than the change from 1922 to 2022? (old.reddit.com)
For the women that were straight and now are lesbians or bi: what's the biggest difference that you have noticed switching from dating men to dating woman? (old.reddit.com)
On Reddit and other social media, Eisenhower's farewell address where he critiques the military industrial complex was very popular and oft quoted. What was the context behind this critical mention? Was this part considered noteworthy or controversial at that time? (old.reddit.com)
Why was the use of lead and asbestos so widespread in the modern period (and earlier) when their detrimental effects have been known for centuries? (old.reddit.com)
How about instead of college, we just add a couple extra years into public school, since college is basically required for any decent job anyway? (old.reddit.com)
Downloaded WhatsApp on a new phone and after selecting yes to Restore previous Backup, 7,000 or so random photos began downloading. What should I do? (old.reddit.com)
Russia reconquered Chechnya in 2000 and then squashed the local insurgents. Chechnya has been surprisingly quiet since. What did Russia do to so effectively quell guerillas on their (mountainous) home turf? How did it differ from Russia's failed counterinsurgency operation in Afghanistan? (old.reddit.com)
Why do I feel hurt when my best friend says things like "men can never be as good as a kisser as women" "Men can never be good at sex" "men are all creeps" "men can't even last 5 mins" "men can't be sexy" "men are all the same"? (old.reddit.com)
Women with ADD/ADHD primarily inattentive, what are symptoms, challenges or characteristics NOT commonly acknowledged when others think of ADHD, that you have, and what are some ADHD stereotypes that you do not fit? (old.reddit.com)
Recipes in the ancient Roman cookbook "De Re Coquinaria" call for exotic ingredients like ostrige, flamingo, stingray, various fresh seafood, and dozens of fresh herbs and spices — assuming you had the money, how easily could one assemble the ingredients for these complex recipes? (old.reddit.com)
My grandmother once said that, as a young woman in 1930s New York, she would chat with her friends in French when their husbands were around, because all the young ladies in her social circle learned French in school but all the young men learned German or Russian instead. Was this a common split? (old.reddit.com)
In 1973, Led Zeppelin were mysteriously robbed of $200,000 from their New York hotel safe deposit box. Has this strange theft ever been solved? (old.reddit.com)
Pornhub seems to remember me, even though I watch in incognito mode. How do I make it stop recommending videos based on what I've watched previously? (old.reddit.com)
Saladin and Richard the Lionheart had an extremely good relationship. How common was this in Europe, Asia and Africa during this time? (old.reddit.com)
My grandpa told me stories about Congolese rivers from his days as an onion merchant ship crew. Said, no matter how deep into the jungle they sailed, many stopovers were flocked with kinds of mercs just like cantinas in Star Wars. He's a bit rigged in the head so I gotta ask, how true is this? (old.reddit.com)
Is it irresponsible to plan a wedding to be held during the pandemic where an immunocompromised kid and unvaccinated relatives will be invited? (old.reddit.com)
Washington DC had a slave trade that happened inside of the Capitol. I had heard it happened at the mall as well. How did foreign ambassadors and dignitaries react to the slave trade and what was said about it by them? (old.reddit.com)
There is currently a 25 million dollar bounty on al-qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, can you just go out and get him? Or how does that work? How would you even claim the bounty just call a US ambassy or something? (old.reddit.com)
Given taxes to pay for roads are primarily taken from gasoline consumption (in America), what new ways of funding roads should be considered during the transition to electric vehicles? (old.reddit.com)
Why do the German and English wikipedia articles on Bloody Sunday (1939) differ so much and what is the truth? They cite the same historian Jochen Böhler but come to vastly different conclusions on local ethnic Germans helping the nazi invasion. (old.reddit.com)
I'm Canadian visiting USA for the first time. I've noticed Americans are mostly polite but are really lost on the subtleties. Is this common? (example inside) (old.reddit.com)
How prevalent was Nazi sympathizing in Germany in the years immediately after WWII? Was it difficult to de-program/de-nazify the populace? (old.reddit.com)
In the game Return of the Obra Dinn, the titular ship, a trade vessel owned by the English East India Company is manned by dozens of people, hailing from several countries. Would a trade ship from the EIC in this period (1802 to 1807) normally be so diverse in nationalities? (old.reddit.com)
From 1824 to the 1980s, NYC's ticker tape parades mostly celebrated great individual achievement. Since 2000, every ticker-tape parade in NYC has celebrated a group (mostly sports teams). Why did the parades transition away from celebrating individuals? (old.reddit.com)
Teachers of Reddit, after seeing generation after generation of new students coming through your class, what is one thing that never changes? (old.reddit.com)
Many emojis have taken on their own meanings from memes (e.g. 🍆), often entirely unrelated to the picture (🅱️, 💯, 🗿 etc). When reading ancient languages, how do we know their pictographs didn't also have completely unrelated meanings that came from e.g. cultural memes of the time? (old.reddit.com)
What gives predominantly black male music artists the right to refer to women as “bitches” or “females” whereas any other celebrity of a different skin color would get canceled for it? (old.reddit.com)
Is it acceptable to cut ties with siblings because they are your foremost stressor? I just want to forget about them as if they never existed. (old.reddit.com)
I read that coronaviruses are all zoonotic, they come from animals and now infect humans, are there any examples of the reverse, human native viruses that affect animals? (old.reddit.com)
The famous Rumble in the Jungle fight between Ali and Foreman is estimated to have had a viewership of 1 billion, a quarter of the world population... There's no way that's accurate, right? (old.reddit.com)
I recently learned that Sweden was due to invade Norway to oppose its independence but stopped after Swedish soldiers threatened a mutiny and Swedish unions threatened a general strike. Why was there so much popular support for Norwegian independence? (old.reddit.com)
In the "Puttin' on the Ritz" song by Fred Astaire in the 1930s there is a line that says "high hats and colored collars, white spats and 15 dollars". Was 15 dollars actually a lot of money to carry around back then, and what could it buy you? (old.reddit.com)
What would happen if: we start with a large pot of soup. Everyday people eat some, refrigerate what is left. The next morning take the leftover soup and add fresh ingredients and again put it on the stove, heating it to the proper temp? Could that go on forever or would we all get sick? (old.reddit.com)
When you successfully fight off a mutated pathogen via antibodies from a previous infection/vaccination (that have reduced effectiveness, but still get the job done), does your body create updated antibodies for the mutated pathogen? (old.reddit.com)
Is there a point in reading criticism of capitalism or modern society if there isn't much I can do to change it or even my individual conditions? (old.reddit.com)
What allows for the new omicron variant to be so much more successful in terms of effectively spreading in comparison to the previous variants? (old.reddit.com)
“Mayday, Mayday, Mayday” is an internationally recognised distress call. We all know it comes from an English adaption for the French for “help me”, but how did it become so international after first being introduced? Was there any internationally recognised signal which proceeded this such as SOS? (old.reddit.com)
Westerns often depict decently-sized towns out in arid regions with little to no visible farmland. Is this purely a limitation of film budgets, or did settlements in the American west and northern Mexico in the 1800s actually generally import food rather than produce it locally? (old.reddit.com)
Is there any truth to the story that PayPal funded itself through its pre-IPO period primarily by not completing customer's transactions? (old.reddit.com)
When a huge piece of ice calves off a glacier/ice sheet into the sea, once the initial ‘wave’ settles is the sea level rise around the world instant or does it take a long period of time to take effect? (old.reddit.com)
Why do people post the same obvious shit on here about either race-baiting or Covid or politics? Why cant we just keep this reddit fun and stupid? (old.reddit.com)
Why can't porn just have a believable and realistic plot like a boyfriend gifting a girlfriend with something on Valentine's Day and them getting in bed and making out passionately and then fucking, instead of some weird unappealing incest thing? Does anyone actually enjoy these plots? (old.reddit.com)
If I wanted to experiment with prostate stimulation during masturbation as a straight man, what could I use to do the job that aren’t dildos? (old.reddit.com)
Is it a fair assumption to make that the “employee must wash their hands” sign in every bathroom at a store or restaurant is not there as a reminder to employees as much as it is there for customers to see that the company is committed to hygiene? (old.reddit.com)
Why are the changes in the voting laws in the US requiring ID to cast a ballot considered voters suppression? How are those changes mainly targeting racial minorities? (old.reddit.com)
Many Latin American nations once had extensive train networks which no longer exist. Why did they disappear throughout the region while other countries kept their railways? (old.reddit.com)
Apple, pear, grape, orange, cranberry, etc. juices are common and can be found at basically every grocery store. How come pure strawberry juice is more or less nonexistent? (old.reddit.com)