Islamic sources describe the vikings (Rus) as very filthy, while English sources describe them as clean and well groomed. Which one is true? (old.reddit.com)
Assuming the same rate of sea level rise extrapolated to the next century and a half, how high will the water extend and what major American cities would be partially or completely underwater? (old.reddit.com)
How did the Toyota Hilux become the "vehicle of choice" for armed conflicts and/or guerilla warfare in the developing world over the last 40-50 years? (old.reddit.com)
What is the mechanism in which neurons change their connections? How are they able to 'move' their axon terminals to 'undo' a specific connection with neuron A, and create one with neuron B? (old.reddit.com)
The Palaiologos Dynasty was the longest-reigning dynasty in Roman history, lasting nearly 200 years. How did a dynasty that ruled over the most disastrous period in Roman history (ultimately ending in the state's destruction) last so long compared to say, the Julio-Claudians or the Constantinians? (old.reddit.com)
Why do I get mad when I'm upset and someone says uplifting things like "You got this!" or "I promise everything is going to be okay!"? I know they mean well but it infuriates me. (old.reddit.com)
How can some people can kiss, hug and have sex with someone and don’t feel a thing for them? Don’t they feel anything 1 percent for the other person? (old.reddit.com)
There's not a moment that I am around my girlfriend and don't have an erection. My girlfriend used to feel appreciated but now gives me shit for it. Is there something wrong with me? (old.reddit.com)
Am I the only one who is scared of surgery not because ill wake up during it, but because I might accidentally reveal a big secret or say something stupid after coming out of Anesthesia? (old.reddit.com)
Why does adding a single extra oxygen atom to H20, which is something we need to survive and drink daily, suddenly causes it to become extremely toxic to even breathe? (H202) (old.reddit.com)
Was there any special efforts made to automate dangerous jobs to reduce injuries/deaths among the working class in the countries of socialist bloc? Was there any attempt to use technology differently as compared to under capitalism and make factory system and labor process more humane? (old.reddit.com)
How did unicorns go from being thought of as dangerous beasts of the wilderness, to being possibly THE most stereotypical "cutesy thing for little girls" in modern western culture? (old.reddit.com)
Garbed as princes, early Indian sojourners to Britain (e.g. Mirza Abu Taleb Isfahani, Mirza I'tisam ud-Din) were given great respect by the British aristocracy. Yet more than a half-century later, this courtesy has vanished: Sir Syed in 1869 is met with contempt and scrutiny. What explains this? (old.reddit.com)
It seems like boarding houses were incredibly popular in 19th century America. Do we know how much of the population lived in them? Was it the housing option of choice for bachelors? (old.reddit.com)
Leif Erikson is famously the first European to arrive to the New World (5 centuries before Columbus). So how was a viking long boat able to carry supplies to last journey across the North Atlantic ? (old.reddit.com)
Let's say two people speaking two completely different languages find themselves on deserted island. With enough time, could they learn each other's language and communicate freely? (old.reddit.com)
With Russian state TV telling their citizens to “Prepare for nuclear war” justifying it with “We all die someday”, I have to ask, nuclear weapons have been a threat for over 50 years, why hasn’t technology been developed to disarm or destroy nuclear missiles? (old.reddit.com)
The early Seinfeld episode "The Limo" involves a mix-up with a neo-nazi who is to give a big speech at the Paramount Theater (now the Hulu Theater) at Madison Square Garden. Was this a nod to any sort of similar real-life, high-profile neo-nazi activity in the early 90s? (old.reddit.com)
On this Ancient Egyptian ostracon, "burying the god" is given as a reason for being absent from work. What does "burying the god" mean? (old.reddit.com)
Before electricity, there were all these lamplighters in cities. (There's a chapter about them in Saint-Exupery's *Little Prince*.) How fast did they lose their jobs worldwide when electricity came, and what did they work at afterwards? (old.reddit.com)
If a heterosexual male was born and raised without seeing a female until he was 20 (hypothetical, don’t ask), would he still be aroused the second he sees a tit for the first time? (old.reddit.com)
AskScience AMA Series: I'm Dr. Richard Johnson, a professor of medicine, clinician and researcher. I specialize in metabolic syndrome and obesity, and my latest research shows that nature wants us to be fat. AMA! (old.reddit.com)
I was recently struck by the ubiquity of multiple choice questions on undergraduate exams. How and why did this form of evaluation come to predominate in higher education? What forms of evaluation did multiple choice testing replace, and was there tension around its widespread adoption? (old.reddit.com)
Is it true that something an unattractive man does that is perceived as creepy and weird by women, would often times be considered charming and endearing if an attractive man did the exact same thing, or is this a false generalization? (old.reddit.com)
Really odd one, but can humans produce sounds that they cannot hear? So above the Hz that a human can hear but a cat, for example, could? (old.reddit.com)
Does anybody else load up a game on their console or PC, prepared to play and then as soon as you search for a game or click continue, you immediately lose all motivation to play it? (old.reddit.com)
In the Ottoman Empire, there were rulings for or against human marriage with jinns. Were there similar rulings in early modern Japan regarding human marriage with youkais? (old.reddit.com)
Germanic and Celtic tribes occupied much of the same land in Europe. You would assume that the Celtic speaking peoples would have won at least somewhere. Why is it that Germanic languages overpowered Celtic languages to the point where most of them are extinct or barely spoken today? (old.reddit.com)
Do we know how many Scandinavians ended up permanently settling in Britain? I’ve seen that there is still a large genetic presence, but I’ve never seen any hard numbers or guesstimates as to the demographics around say the time between Cnut and the Norman Conquest. (old.reddit.com)
Holy Roman Empire is often made fun of for being essentially a formality with states inside having virtual independence. But France was also very decentralized in 1400s that its own vassal was their rival. How much of a difference was there? (old.reddit.com)
As a kid, I used to hear "If you think teachers suck, just wait till you have a boss" all the time. I'm 25 and never had a boss who'd even make my top 5 worst middle/high school teachers. Have I been lucky, or is that expression a load of bs? (old.reddit.com)
In the modern west, the fruit Adam and Eve ate is often depicted to be an apple. However, the Bible never specifies that it was an apple. Are there any examples of earlier artistic or literary depictions that made it look like something else? (old.reddit.com)
As someone just going into their 40's, when do you start feeling like an adult? I still feel like a kid sometimes.... A lot of the time. (old.reddit.com)
Bread was incredibly labor and energy-intensive to prepare. Why was it a staple for so many poor people in the premodern era when they could save time and energy by directly boiling whole grains or preparing them as part of a potage/porridge/soup? (old.reddit.com)
Will Elon Musk allow the guy who's been tweeting updates about his plane's movements to continue now that Twitter is supposedly a beacon of free speech? (old.reddit.com)
Is this study guide for a college level U.S. Federal Government class politically biased? I’m helping my sister study for her final, but even I’m confused by the wording here. If it’s not biased, could someone give her a hand with what’s being asked here (as much as you can)? (old.reddit.com)
AskScience AMA Series: Been watching "The Dropout" on Hulu about the Theranos scandal? We're experts in the field of medical diagnostics here to answer your questions about how different tests (blood, urine, saliva) are ACTUALLY run, analyzed and regulated. AUA! (old.reddit.com)
If women aren't expected to have sex before marriage, but men are, and if gay sex is bad, then who exactly are the men supposed to be having pre-marital sex with? (old.reddit.com)
Lavrenti Beria is treated as one of the great villains of history, the worst of Stalin's henchmen. How much of that is reality, and how much is it Khrushchev creating a public scapegoat? (old.reddit.com)
At what point in Europe and the Americas did seeing a mouse or a rat in the home go from "oh hi, Jeff" to "we need to deal with this RIGHT NOW" and how closely does that track with awareness of modern germ theory? (old.reddit.com)
What are the earliest known records of people complaining about the decline of "proper" language, such as use of loan words, pronunciation irregularities, or simplified grammar? (old.reddit.com)
What the hell does “based” mean? I’m not even 30 yet and I already feel like I’m super old cuz I don’t understand half the things kids say nowadays. (old.reddit.com)
Why are printers such a nightmare? Out of all the tech gadgets I own, printers are by far the most likely to break down, not do what they're supposed to do, disconnect from the network, need driver reinstall, etc. Why is that? (old.reddit.com)
Reddit is locking posts with/about Amber Heard very fast. Even on some celebrity nsfw subs that basically only publish nude & sex scenes. What's going on ? (old.reddit.com)
what do you think about the new law implemented in nigeria, according to which : Rapists will be surgically castrated and anyone who rapes a child will face the death penalty. do you agree? (old.reddit.com)
AskScience AMA Series: We are human genetics experts here to discuss how research of complex and Mendelian disorders impacts you. Ask us anything! (old.reddit.com)
In depictions of the crucifixion of Jesus, he is usually shown wearing a loin cloth. 1. Would the Romans actually let crucifixion victims keep their underwear? 2. What underwear would a 1st century Jewish man living in Galilee normally wear? (old.reddit.com)
Women of Reddit who have experienced both having sex with someone you are in love with and someone who was more just a casual hook-up/ONS, how do you compare the two experiences? (old.reddit.com)
With respect to Gödel's first incompleteness theorem: given a consistent formal system, what are the cardinalities of the set of true-and-provable theorems and the set of true-but-unprovable theorems? (old.reddit.com)
What is one statistic about your life that you’d want to know? For example, how many steps you’ve taken or what length of hair you’ve grown. (old.reddit.com)
Do you ever pull out your phone to check the time but you have to do it again because you forgot to look at the clock or am I just stupid? (old.reddit.com)